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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... head the gleaming , gilded coronet of Aquitaine , her grandpaternal bequest ; while , to show she was also queen of the Angevin empire she wore a scarlet cloak on which were picked out three golden leopards of Anjou . In either hand she ...
... head of the column , surrounded by bodyguards so that he could come to no harm , was his beloved John . It is said that , two miles out of Le Mans , Henry mounted a hilltop to look back on his favourite city . When he saw it in flames ...
... head and hands before crowning him ; Richard , anticipating Napoleon , picked up the Crown himself and handed it to ... heads that this was a blasphemous insult to the newly crowned king ; this was , after all , an era in which Jews were ...