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William Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : John Gillingham
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-08-27
William Ii Penguin Monarchs written by John Gillingham and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with History categories.
William II (1087-1100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John Gillingham makes clear in this elegant book, as the son and successor to William the Conqueror it was William Rufus who had to establish permanent Norman rule. A ruthless, irascible man, he frequently argued acrimoniously with his older brother Robert over their father's inheritance - but he also handed out effective justice, leaving as his legacy one of the most extraordinary of all medieval buildings, Westminster Hall.
William Iii Mary Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Jonathan Keates
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-04-30
William Iii Mary Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Jonathan Keates and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.
William And Mary Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Jonathan Keates
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-06-30
William And Mary Penguin Monarchs written by Jonathan Keates and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting France, initiating an immensely long period of warfare and colonial expansion. Jonathan Keates' wonderful book makes both monarchs vivid, the cold, shrewd 'Dutch' William and the shortlived Mary, whose life and death inspired Purcell to write some of his greatest music.
William I Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Marc Morris
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-08-25
William I Penguin Monarchs written by Marc Morris and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come. During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at any point before or since. Marc Morris's concise and gripping biography sifts through the sources of the time to give a fresh view of the man who changed England more than any other, as old ruling elites were swept away, enemies at home and abroad (including those in his closest family) were crushed, swathes of the country were devastated and the map of the nation itself was redrawn, giving greater power than ever to the king. When, towards the end of his reign, William undertook a great survey of his new lands, his subjects compared it to the last judgement of God, the Domesday Book. England had been transformed forever.
Henry Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Richard Barber
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Henry Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Richard Barber and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with History categories.
Henry II (1154-89) through a series of astonishing dynastic coups became the ruler of an enormous European empire. One of the most dynamic, restless and clever men ever to rule England, he was brought down both by his catastrophic relationship with his archbishop Thomas Becket and his debilitating arguments with his sons, most importantly the future Richard I and King John. His empire may have ultimately collapsed, but in Richard Barber's vivid and sympathetic account the reader can see why Henry II left such a compelling impression on his contemporaries.
King Rufus
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Author : Emma Mason
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
King Rufus written by Emma Mason and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The future William II was born in the late 1050s the third son of William the Conqueror. The younger William, - nicknamed Rufus because of his ruddy cheeks - at first had no great expectations of succeeding to the throne. This biography tells the story of William Rufus, King of England from 1087-1100 and reveals the truth behind his death.
James Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : David Womersley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-04-30
James Ii Penguin Monarchs written by David Womersley and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The short, action-packed reign of James II (1685-88) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserves of good will and deference, to so alienate his supporters that he had to flee for his life. And yet, most of that life was spent not as king but first as heir to Charles II, as Duke of York (after whom New York is named) and then in the last part of his life as the first Jacobite 'Pretender', starting a problem that would haunt Britain's rulers for generations.
Henry I Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Edmund King
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-07-26
Henry I Penguin Monarchs written by Edmund King and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'To be a medieval king was a job of work ... This was a man who knew how to run a complex organization. He was England's CEO' The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I came to unchallenged power only after two of his brothers died in strange hunting accidents and he had imprisoned the other. He was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness, and through his dynastic legacy. Edmund King's engrossing portrait shows a strikingly charismatic, intelligent and fortunate man, whose rule was looked back on as the real post-conquest founding of England as a new realm: wealthy, stable, bureaucratised and self-confident.
Charles Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Clare Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Charles Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Clare Jackson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his own many years of exile made him a guarded, curious, unusually self-conscious ruler. He lived through some of the most striking events in the national history - from the Civil Wars to the Great Plague, from the Fire of London to the wars with the Dutch. Clare Jackson's marvellous book takes full advantage of its irrepressible subject.
George Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Norman Davies
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-05-27
George Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Norman Davies and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his father, George I, which was later paralleled by his relationship to his own son. He was short-tempered and uncultivated, but in his twenty-three-year reign he presided over a great flourishing in his adoptive country - economic, military and cultural - all described with characteristic wit and elegance by Norman Davies. (George II so admired the Hallelujah chorus in Handel's Messiah that he stood while it was being performed - as modern audiences still do.) Much of his attention remained in Hanover and on continental politics, as a result of which he was the last British monarch to lead his troops into battle, at Dettingen in 1744.