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Book Warwick the Kingmaker

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by A. J. Pollard and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh study of Warwick the Kingmaker a fifteenth-century celebrity and military hero who held enormous sway over English politics in his day aims to reveal a more accurate account of this fascinating and multi-faceted character.

Book Warwick the Kingmaker

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by Paul Murray Kendall and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive biography of Warwick. Its surface color and excitement will carry the reader happily to the end.”—Saturday Review. During the Wars of the Roses, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, exercised more than regal power. His death, in battle with a king he put in power and then tried to overthrow, ended an important era in English history. “Kendall, who wrote an excellent biography of Richard III, now gives us an even more convincing portrait of Warwick.” —New York Times.

Book The Sunne In Splendour

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  • Author : Sharon Kay Penman
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2008-01-22
  • ISBN : 1429930098
  • Pages : 945 pages

Download or read book The Sunne In Splendour written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author In this triumphant combination of scholarship and storytelling, 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. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. With revisions throughout and a new author's preface discussing the astonishing discovery of Richard's remains five centuries after his death, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant classic is more powerful and glorious than ever.

Book Warwick the Kingmaker

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  • Author : Michael Hicks
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 0470751932
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by Michael Hicks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates Warwick's character and motivation, showing that he was an emotional, charming, and popular man with a strong sense of family loyalty. It is the first full study of this compelling figure within the context of political life in late medieval England.

Book Warwick  the Kingmaker

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warwick the Kingmaker

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by Paul Murray Kendall and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Women of the Cousins  War

Download or read book The Women of the Cousins War written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on original documents, archaeology, and other sources to share the stories of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.

Book The Kingmaker s Sisters

Download or read book The Kingmaker s Sisters written by David Baldwin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period. The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that they played in late fifteenth-century England, as wives, mothers and homemakers, but also as deputies for their absent husbands, and how the struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians affected them and their families. Scholarly but accessible, this is the first history of the Wars of the Roses to be written from this perspective, and will appeal to general readers, historians of the period and those with an interest in feminist history.

Book The Kingmaker s Daughter

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  • Author : Philippa Gregory
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-08-14
  • ISBN : 1451626142
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Kingmaker s Daughter written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game. The Kingmaker’s Daughter—Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl—is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family.

Book The White Queen

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  • Author : Philippa Gregory
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-07-09
  • ISBN : 1476735484
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The White Queen written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Book Paranormal Warwickshire

Download or read book Paranormal Warwickshire written by S. C. Skillman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader into the world of ghosts and spirits in Warwickshire, following their footsteps into the unknown.

Book King Richard II

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1868
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book King Richard II written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Chronicle of England  B C  55 A D  1485

Download or read book A Chronicle of England B C 55 A D 1485 written by and published by London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. This book was released on 1864 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warwick the Kingmaker  Didactic Press Paperbacks

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker Didactic Press Paperbacks written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF all the great men of action who since the Conquest have guided the course of English policy, it is probable that none is less known to the reader of history than Richard Neville Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. The only man of anything approaching his eminence who has been treated with an equal neglect is Thomas Cromwell, and of late years the great minister of Henry the Eighth is beginning to receive some of the attention that is his due. But for the Kingmaker, the man who for ten years was the first subject of the English Crown, and whose figure looms out with a vague grandeur even through the misty annals of the Wars of the Roses, no writer has spared a monograph. Every one, it is true, knows his name, but his personal identity is quite ungrasped. Nine persons out of ten if asked to sketch his character would find, to their own surprise, that they were falling back for their information to Lord Lytton Last of the Barons or Shakespeare Henry the Sixth...

Book Warwick  the Kingmaker

Download or read book Warwick the Kingmaker written by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of the Neville Family in England  1166 1400

Download or read book The Making of the Neville Family in England 1166 1400 written by Charles Robert Young and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of power in the middle ages: the Nevilles of Raby, who included among their members Warwick the Kingmaker, was one of the major baronial families in England.

Book Elizabeth Widville  Lady Grey

Download or read book Elizabeth Widville Lady Grey written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Mythology of the “Princes in the Tower” separates fact from fiction in this biography of an influential former queen of England. Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War of the Roses. Much of her life is shrouded in speculation and myth—even her name, commonly spelled “Woodville,” is a hotly contested issue. In this fascinating and insightful biography, Dr. John Ashdown-Hill sheds light on the truth of her life. Born in the turbulent fifteenth century, she was famed for her beauty and controversial second marriage to Edward IV, who she married just three years after he had displaced the Lancastrian Henry VI and claimed the English throne. As Queen Consort, Elizabeth’s rise from commoner to royalty continues to capture modern imagination. Undoubtedly, it enriched the position of her family. Her elevated position and influence invoked hostility from Richard Neville, the “Kingmaker,” which later led to open discord and rebellion. Throughout her life and even after the death of her husband, Elizabeth remained politically influential: briefly proclaiming her son King Edward V of England before he was deposed by her brother-in-law, the infamous Richard III, she would later play an important role in securing the succession of Henry Tudor in 1485 and his marriage to her daughter Elizabeth of York, thus and ending the War of the Roses. An endlessly enigmatic, historical figure, Elizabeth Widville has been obscured by dramatizations and misconceptions. In Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey, Ashdown-Hill attempts to set the record straight.