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Amberley Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
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John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a Spanish kingdom via his wife, daughter of King Pedro the Cruel. He was the wealthiest, most powerful and most hated man in England for decades. He had a famous and enduring love affair with his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married. He was sometimes the ally and sometimes the enemy of his capricious nephew Richard II. His descendants battled for...
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1372, Widow Lady Katherine de Swynford presents herself for a role in the household of royal prince, John Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, hoping to end her destitution. But the Duke's scandalous proposition leaves her life of pious integrity reeling. Seduced by the glare of royal adoration, Katherine becomes John's mistress. She will leave behind everything she has stood for to play second fiddle to his young wife and ruthless ambition. She will live...
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Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2008
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Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest and most remarkable love stories of medieval England. It is the extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
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Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2021
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Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all those Tudors. He's had a pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II's crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants' Revolt (they torched his home, the Savoy Palace). Helen Carr will paint a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated...
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Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014
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February, 1381. A ruthless killer is known as the Ignifer - Fire Bringer - is rampaging through London, bringing agonizing death and destruction in his wake. He appears to be targeting all those involved in the recent trial and conviction of the beautiful Lady Isolda Beaumont, burned at the stake for the murder of her husband. As the late Sir Walter Beaumont was a close friend of the Regent, John of Gaunt orders Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan...
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