The Plantagenets

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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights This is the era of chivalry, of Robin Hood and the Knights Templar, the Black Death, the founding of Parliament, the Black Prince, and the Hundred Year s War It will appeal as much to readers of Tudor history as to fans of Game of Thrones. Free Read The Plantagenets [ Author ] Dan Jones [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr A king who fights to defend his right has a better claim on his inheritance Struggle and largesse allow a king to gain glory and territory Bertran de Born Empress MatildaIt all begins with a shipwreck 200 of the most beautiful and powerful men and women of England and Normandy board The White Ship to travel from Normandy to England They are exuberantly drunk, and the crew of the ship is also three sheets to the wind Out of all of these important people, there is one who is head and s...Full disclosure I undoubtedly read this book too soon after finishing The Tudors While the overlapping content is minimal, and the authors differ somewhat stylistically, both books are broad sweeping histories featuring lots of kings and queens many of whom shared the same names Given that this was my first time encountering much of this material since high school, characters and events inevitably began to blur together So, my take on Dan Jones and The Plantagenets The Warrior King Full disclosure I undoubtedly read this book too soon after finishing The Tudors While the overlapping content is minimal, and the authors differ somewhat stylistically, both books are broad sweeping histories featuring lots of kings and queens many of whom shared the same names Given that this was my first time encountering much of this material since high school, characters and events inevitably began to blur together So, my take on Dan Jones and The Plantagenets The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England is likely suffering a bit from sequential bias Onward ho What a hot mess life could be in the Plantagenet empire The best one can hope for is that we learn from the mistakes of the past So, should anyone find themselves in any of the following situation...It began with a ship wreck The year is 1120 The vessel in question is the White Ship, leaving France for England, setting sail in the dark on a late November night All on board were in a party mood, including, according to some accounts, the crew The wine and ale has been flowing with liberality No sooner had the vessel left harbour than it hit a submerged rock All but one of the passengers and crew died Norman England might be said to have died that night also for the drowned included W It began with a ship wreck The year is 1120 The vessel in question is the White Ship, leaving France for England, setting sail in the dark on a late November night All on board were in a party mood, including, according to some accounts, the crew The wine and ale has been flowing with liberality No sooner had the vessel left harbour than it hit a submerged rock All but one of the passengers and crew died Norma...In writing this volume, Mr Jones has done an excellent job of recounting the events that both led to the House of Plantagenet and the events that occurred in the approximately 250 years that they ruled England He has a very reader friendly writing style and this book is written for a general audience He does not footnote, but has a fairly extensive bibliography recommended reading list following the text.Mr Jones starts out with the sinking of the White Ship and the resulting death of Henry In writing this volume, Mr Jones has done an excellent job of recounting the events that both...It has been a week of competitive reading in the de Lisle household Bed time, back to back he reading George RR Martin s hugely popular Game of Thrones fantasy series me reading Dan Jones s The Plantagenets We both read into the night But I was the one unable to stop myself reading passages out loud Jones covers an enormous amount of ground eight generations of Kings and Queens from 1120 to 1399 The risk with a long dynastic history is that it becomes just one damn thing after another, a It has been a week of competitive reading in the de Lisle household Bed time, back to back he reading George RR Martin s hugely popular Game of Thrones fantasy series me reading Dan Jones s The Plantagenets We...Dan Jones has done something with this book that is not usually achieved He has taken almost three centuries of history and made them accessible and understandable to the non historian His style of narrative nonfiction was at times as captivating as any novel with brilliant analysis of what drove people to the roles that they played.Beginning with the loss of the White Ship in 1120, Jones details the rise of the Plantagenets to power through Matilda, daughter of Henry I Covering the war for s Dan Jones has done something with this book that is not usually achieved He has taken almost three centurie...I really enjoyed this book and learned a lot from it, which is surprising since my eyes usually glaze over at any hint of English history There were dry parts but mostly the author s writing style iscasual and he really seems to be enjoying his topic and that made meinterested I listened to the audiobook so I didn t get to see any bibliography or footnotes That was unfortunate since there were lots of people and subjects on which I would like to haveinformation I will just I really enjoyed ...I have been reading this book for over three years It covers a huge amount of English history, far too much to fairly condense into a review I read it in conjunction with Shakespeare s history plays, and I found those particular monarchsinteresting as a result The knowledge of the actual events surrounding these characters really helped me when approaching the plays It s really interesting to see how Shakespeare presented these events, changing people and merging figures together accor I have been reading this book for over three years It covers a huge amount of English history, far too much to fairly condense into a review I read it in conjunction with Shakespeare s history plays, and I found those particular monarchsinteresting as a result The knowledge of the actual events surrounding these characters really helped me when approaching the plays It s really interesting to see how Shakespeare presented these events, changing people an... The Plantagenets By Dan Jones tells the story of the first eight Plantagenet monarchs that ruled England between 1154 and 1399, beginning with Henry I and ending at the fall of Richard II Each monarch in turn has his story told which wars he fought in, the land he gained and lost, who he married and who his children were.In his prologue, Jones tells us his intention with The Plantagenets is to tell the story in an entertaining way In this I think he is successful I liked some of the writing, The Plantagenets By Dan Jones tells the story of the...It s often been observed that Americans have a fascination with royalty and many are prone to fawning over the royals from the mother countrythan their own subjects do Probably modern British citizens have become jaded and cynical about their living relics in Buckingham, while we Yanks still find the idea of an absolute ruler by birthright foreign and exotic And let s be honest, lots of Americans would probably be happy to live under a monarchy if they thought the monarch shared their It s often been observed that Americans have a fascination with royalty and many are prone to fawning over the royals from the mother countrythan their own subjects do Probably modern British citizens have become jaded and cynical about their living relics in Buckingham, while we Yanks still find the idea of an absolute ruler by birthright foreign and exotic And let s be honest, lots of Americans would pr...

The Plantagenets
  • English
  • 13 October 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 534 pages
  • 0670026654
  • Dan Jones
  • The Plantagenets