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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... Young King had a meeting with King Louis ( November 1172 ) , who mischievously urged him to assert himself as a king in fact as well as name now that he had been crowned . " Perhaps an even more salient influence on the Young King were ...
... Young King . Becket's heavy - handed excommunication of all three clerics ( with the authority of a papal bull ) just before he crossed the Channel was one of the precipitants towards his murder at the end of the same year , but what ...
King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest Frank McLynn. provided the Young King made a solemn pronouncement that Richard and his heirs would possess Aquitaine forever . At this point the Young King drew back and upset all his ...