The Plantagenets

Contents

List of Genealogical Tables

French Kings, 1060–1422

Part I – Age of Shipwreck (1120–1154)

Hunt for an Heir

A Scandalous Wife

Henry the Conqueror

Part II – Age of Empire (1154–1204)

Births and Rebirth

L’Espace Plantagenet

Succession Planning

The Eagle’s Nest

Henry Triumphant

A World on Fire

Hero of the East

At the Emperor’s Pleasure

Return of the Lionheart

Lackland Supreme

Triumph and Catastrophe

Lackland Undone

Part III – Age of Opposition (1204–1263)

Salvaging the Wreck

A Stay-at-Home King

Beginning of the End

Securing the Inheritance

From Marshal to Magna Carta

Kingship at Last

Marriage and Family

The Road to War

The Provisions of Oxford

Part IV – Age of Arthur (1263–1307)

From Imprisonment to Evesham

The Final Stand

The King’s Castles

The Price of Conquest

The Expulsion of the Jews

The Great Cause

War on All Fronts

The Conquest of Scotland

Part V – Age of Violence (1307–1330)

The King and his Brother

Summer of Promise

The King’s Tyranny

Mortimer, Isabella and Prince Edward

Part VI – Age of Glory (1330–1360)

Glorious King of a Beggared Kingdom

New Earls, New Enemies

The Hundred Years War Begins

The Crisis of 1341

The Death of a Princess

Chivalry Reborn

Decade of Triumph

Part VII – Age of Revolution (1360–1399)

The Family Business

Unravelling Fortunes

The Good Parliament

New King, Old Problems

England in Uproar

Return to Crisis

Treason and Trauma

The Reinvention of Kingship

Richard Revenged

Picture Section

Further Reading

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