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Author
Series
[Welsh trilogy] volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
In thirteenth-century England, King Henry III's sister Nell breaks tradition and marries Simon de Montfort, an outspoken nobleman who risks death in battle to preserve honor. This is Simon de Montfort's story--and the story of King Henry III, as weak and changeable as Montfort was brash and unbending. It is a saga of two opposing wills that would later clash in a storm of violence and betrayal, a story straight from the pages of history that brings...
Author
Series
[Plantagenets series] volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A novel about the English king Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Author
Series
[Plantagenets series] volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of a trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine traces the collapse of the royal family in the aftermath of Henry's self-imposed exile to Ireland, as Eleanor and Henry's three eldest sons enter into a rebellion against him.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century...
Author
Series
Queen's man mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When her son Richard is held for ransom in an Austrian dungeon and Prince John plots with the French king to prevent Richard's return, Queen Eleanor sends Justin de Quincy into Wales to recover a ransom payment that has gone missing.
Author
Series
Queen's man mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 12th century England, Justin de Quincy, special agent for Eleanor of Aquitaine, investigates the murder of a peddler's daughter. Two men are suspected, but they are rich and the rich are difficult to bring to justice.
Author
Series
Queen's man mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Author
Series
Queen's man mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In England in 1193, a dying man gives Justin de Quincy a letter that reveals if Richard Lionheart is living or dead.
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