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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... father . Shortly after the second coronation and before Henry II's great conference at Limoges , where he made the incautious promise to give John the three castles , Henry the Young King had a meeting with King Louis ( November 1172 ) ...
... father's law and left the old traditions and folkways of Britanny alone and gave his easy - going minister Roland de Dinan a free hand . In 1181 Henry II allowed him to marry Constance , heiress of the late Conan IV of Britanny . Since ...
... father's careful diplomacy . He refused the proferred conditions because the new terms of homage conflicted with the secret assurances he had already given de Born and the Aquitaine rebels . On 1 January 1183 the Young King came clean ...