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The story of Henry IIs turbulent relationship with Thomas ? Beckett, Queen Eleanor, and his sons Richard and John. A tie-in with the BBC2 mini-series.
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The Devil's Crown : A History of Henry II and His Sons
author
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Barber, Richard W.
publisher
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Combined Publishing
isbn10 | asin
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0938289780
print isbn13
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9780938289784
ebook isbn13
:
9780585100098
language
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English
subject
Great Britain--History--Angevin period, 1154-1216, Henry--II,--King of England,--1133-1189, Richard--I,--King of England,--1157-1199, John,--King of England,--1167?-1216, Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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DA206.B34 1996eb
ddc
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941.03/1/092
subject
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Great Britain--History--Angevin period, 1154-1216, Henry--II,--King of England,--1133-1189, Richard--I,--King of England,--1157-1199, John,--King of England,--1167?-1216, Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
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The Devil's Crown
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Henry II and his sons, from a drawing after Matthew Paris. (British Library)
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The Devil's Crown
A History of Henry II and His Sons
Richard Barber
COMBINED BOOKS Pennsylvania
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1978, 1997 by Richard Barber.
Originally published in 1978 by British Broadcasting Corporation. First published in the United States of America in 1996 by Combined Books by arrangement with Richard Barber.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electrical, mechanical, or otherwise without first seeking the written permission of the publisher.
For information, address: COMBINED BOOKS 151 East 10th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barber, Richard W. The devil's crown: a history of Henry II and his sons / Richard Barber. p. cm. Originally published: London: British Broadcasting Corp., 1978. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-938289-78-0 1. Great BritainHistoryAngevin period, 1154-1216. 2. Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189. 3. Richard I, King of England, 1157-1199. 4. John, King of England, 1167-1216. 5. Great BritianKings and rulersBiography. I. Title. DA206.B34 1996 941.03'03'1092 [B]DC20 96-19308
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Chapter 1 A Royal Inheritance
7
Chapter 2 King of England
25
Chapter 3 The Devil's Brood
49
Chapter 4 The Crusading King
79
Chapter 5 Richard's Homecoming
107
Chapter 6 Lackland
129
Chapter 7 The King and the Barons
141
Epilogue
163
Index of Main Characters
167
Further Reading
183
Index
185
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Maps/Charts
Maps
1. England under the Angevins
176
2. France Showing the Angevin Domains
177
3. Palestine During the Third Crusade
178
4. Richard's Journey Home Through the Adriatic, Austria and Germany
179
Geneological Charts
1. The Norman and Angevin Kings
180
2. The Kings of France
181
3. The House of Anjou and the Kings of Jerusalem
183
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Chapter 1 A Royal Inheritance.
Twenty miles south of the river Loire and its chteaux, in the wooded hills of Touraine, stands the abbey of Fontvrault. Here, beneath the echoing grey stone domes of the abbey church, lie the effigies that mark the graves of Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard I, alone between bare walls. How did these three great figures from England's history come to be buried in a remote French abbey?
The story of Henry and his sons, the 'Angevin' kings of England, begins in the confused politics of France in the tenth century. France was ruled by a number of local lords, and the king in Paris had only the most shadowy control over what his barons did on their own lands. Two of the most energetic of these noble families were the dukes of Normandy and the counts of Anjou. The Norman dukes had been Viking seafarers only a century earlier, and had won their lands by conquest, exchanging their swords for ploughs and their longboats for farms, after their leader Rollo had been bought off by King Charles the Simple in 911 with the grant of rich lands along the Channel coast. Rollo or Hrolf, called the Walker by his Viking comrades because he was so huge that no horse could carry him, founded the dynasty of the Norman dukes.
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