Plantagnets. Kings and queens who created England. Jones D.

The first kings of the Plantagenet dynasty inherited from their Norman ancestors a blood-filled kingdom and turned it into an empire, stretching from Scotland to Palestine. In this epic chronicle of courage, betrayal, ambitions and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the rebellious royal dynasty, each representative of which was a wonderful and memorable figure. The reader’s eyes will be held: Henry II and his wife Alienora Aquitaine, twice the queen and the most famous woman in the Christian world; Their son Richard Lion's Heart, who fought with Saladin in the third crusad; And his insidious brother King John, forced to sign the great charter of liberties, which became the first example of the restriction of royal arbitrariness in Europe. Combining the latest academic research with the gift of the narrator, Jones brightly recreates the great battles under Bannokburn, Khreye and Sleys and shows how the kings of Edward II and Richard II met their last days. This is the era of chivalry and black death, the Templars, the foundations of parliament and the centenary war, when the National Self -Consciousness of England was forged by a sword and a judicial hammer.