Jones's followup book, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors, was published in 2014. The Plantagenets has been adapted as a 2014 BBC documentary series. It will appeal as much to readers of Tudor history as to fans of Game of Thrones. ( From the publisher.) This is the era of chivalry, of Robin Hood and the Knights Templar, the Black Death, the founding of Parliament, the Black Prince, and the Hundred Year’s War. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights.
In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword.The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Joines vividly re-creates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crecy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned king Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom their sonRichard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights.
In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem.
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