William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)

William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs)
Title William III & Mary II (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Keates
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 107
Release 2015-04-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0141976888

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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)

William I (Penguin Monarchs)
Title William I (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author Marc Morris
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 116
Release 2016-08-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 014197785X

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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.

The Gardens of William and Mary

The Gardens of William and Mary
Title The Gardens of William and Mary PDF eBook
Author David Jacques
Publisher Christopher Helm Publishing Company
Pages 262
Release 1988
Genre Gardening
ISBN

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The publication of this book marks the tercentenary of the revolution which swept King James VII and II off the thrones of Scotland and England and saw his sister Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange appointed co-monarchs in his stead.

William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs)

William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs)
Title William and Mary (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Keates
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2015-06-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 014197687X

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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 II (Penguin Monarchs)

William II (Penguin Monarchs)
Title William II (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author John Gillingham
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 192
Release 2015-08-27
Genre History
ISBN 0141978562

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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.

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)
Title Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author Anne Curry
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 128
Release 2015-08-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0141978724

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Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid rumours that he planned to depose his father. Despite a complete change of character as king - founding monasteries, persecuting heretics, and enforcing the law to its extremes - little had gone right since. He was insecure in his kingdom, his reputation low. On the eve of his departure for France, he uncovered a plot by some of his closest associates to remove him from power. Agincourt was a battle that Henry should not have won - but he did, and the rest is history. Within five years, he was heir to the throne of France. In this vivid new interpretation, Anne Curry explores how Henry's hyperactive efforts to expunge his past failures, and his experience of crisis - which threatened to ruin everything he had struggled to achieve - defined his kingship, and how his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and of all generations to come.

John (Penguin Monarchs)

John (Penguin Monarchs)
Title John (Penguin Monarchs) PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Vincent
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 121
Release 2020-07-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0141977701

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King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be seen as an archetypal tyrant. But how evil was he? In this perceptive short account, Nicholas Vincent unpicks John's life through his deeds and his personality. The youngest of four brothers, overlooked and given a distinctly unroyal name, John seemed doomed to failure. As king, he was reputedly cruel and treacherous, pursuing his own interests at the expense of his country, losing the continental empire bequeathed to him by his father Henry and his brother Richard and eventually plunging England into civil war. Only his lordship of Ireland showed some success. Yet, as this fascinating biography asks, were his crimes necessarily greater than those of his ancestors - or was he judged more harshly because, ultimately, he failed as a warlord?