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Dan Jones

The Plantagenets

The Kings Who Made England

Dedication

For JJ, VJ and IJ

Epigraph

For a sensible man ought to consider that Fortune’s favour is
variable and her wheel is ever turning … the Prince must take
care, and always have imprinted on his mind the fact that
although the merciful Creator … is long-suffering and patient
… He is likewise severe in executing punishment and
vengeance upon the stubborn and wilful, and usually begins to
exact that punishment here on earth.

GERALD OF WALES,
THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND

Contents

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Maps
List of Genealogical Tables
French Kings, 1060–1422
Preface

Part I
– Age of Shipwreck (1120–1154)

The White Ship
Hunt for an Heir
The Shipwreck
Ambition
A Scandalous Wife
Henry the Conqueror
Peace Process

Part II
– Age of Empire (1154–1204)

Births and Rebirth
L’Espace Plantagenet
Unholy War
Succession Planning
The Eagle’s Nest
Henry Triumphant
A World on Fire
New Horizons
Hero of the East
Treachery
At the Emperor’s Pleasure
Return of the Lionheart
Lackland Supreme
John Softsword
Triumph and Catastrophe
Lackland Undone

Part III
– Age of Opposition (1204–1263)

Salvaging the Wreck
A Stay-at-Home King
A Cruel Master
Beginning of the End
To Bouvines
Magna Carta
Securing the Inheritance
From Marshal to Magna Carta
Kingship at Last
Marriage and Family
Holy Kingship
The Road to War
The Provisions of Oxford

Part IV
– Age of Arthur (1263–1307)

Lewes
From Imprisonment to Evesham
The Leopard
King at Last
A New Arthur
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
Crisis Point
Relapse
Part V
– Age of Violence (1307–1330)
The King and his Brother
Coronation
Emergency
The Ordinances
Manhunt
Summer of Promise
Bannockburn
New Favourites
Civil War
The King’s Tyranny
Mortimer, Isabella and Prince Edward
Endgame
Abdication
False Dawn

Part VI
– Age of Glory (1330–1360)

Royal Coup
Glorious King of a Beggared Kingdom
New Earls, New Enemies
The Hundred Years War Begins
Edward at Sea
The Crisis of 1341
Dominance
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
Richard Undone
Richard Alone
Picture Section
Conclusion
Further Reading
Searchable Terms
Other Books by Dan Jones
Copyright
About the Publisher

MAPS

England during the war between Stephen and Matilda,
c
.1135–54
The Plantagenet Empire at its peak,
c
.1187
The Plantagenet Empire after John’s reign,
c
.1216
The Welsh castles of Edward I
Plantagenet battles in Scotland
France under Edward III, 1360

GENEALOGICAL TABLES

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