Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of ConquestJonathan Cape, 2006 - 578페이지 Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering, almost psychopathic Henry II, commander of the slaughter of Thomas a Becket, at war with both his wife, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book, Richard and John). And readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the type-casting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But how much do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality?
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... Eleanor and Henry had laid contingency plans and the fortuitous death of Henry's father Geoffrey ( he developed a fever after swimming in the Loire ) removed another obstacle . When a synod of bishops formally annulled Eleanor's ...
... Eleanor announced that she was preg- nant again , in October Stephen died , and in December Henry and Eleanor were crowned king and queen of England in Westminster Abbey . Henry's family was soon expanding . In 1155 Eleanor gave birth ...
... Eleanor of Aquitaine and her children : an inquiry into medieval family attachment ' , JMH 14 ( 1988 ) , pp . 32-35 ; Martindale , ' Eleanor ' , loc . cit . p.37 ; cf. Kibler , ed . , Eleanor of Aquitaine , op . cit . 36. Martindale , ' ...