Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies
10 best books like Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies (Ian Mortimer): The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History, The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217, Edward II: The Unconventional King, Katherine Swynford, Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day, A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, A Medieval Home Companion, William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, Edward IV, Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England
The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
| Author | Chris Skidmore |
| ISBN | 0312541392 |
On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a twenty–eight year old Welshman who had just arrived back...
| Author | Richard Brooks |
| ISBN | 1849085501 |
This is the fascinating story: William Marshal who negotiated the brutal realities of medieval warfare and the conflicting demands of chivalric ideals, and who against the odds defeated the joint French and rebel forces in arguably the most important battle in mideeval English history - overshadowing...
| Author | Kathryn Warner |
| ISBN | 1445641208 |
He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his...
| Author | Jeannette Lucraft |
| ISBN | 0750932619 |
Wife to the son of a king, mother of numerous important people and the ancestress of many of the royal houses of Europe, Katherine Swynford is someone whose importance to history is not reflected in the documents and written record of the time she lived. No letters written by her survive and not even her...
| Author | Nigel Cawthorne |
| ISBN | 1853755362 |
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The headlines of...
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 0571217338 |
Let me put down a couple of cards and begin, Jenny Uglow's book is about Charles II and the first ten years of his reign from 1660 to 1670 (view spoiler)[ although if you are a strict and particular monarchist you might count his reign as beginning from the point of his father's execution for crimes against...
Nowadays, if a man penned a manual directed to women providing instruction on how to conduct personal and household affairs; one can bet that feminist groups would have a field day. However, in 1393 this was accepted behavior as women were expected to be submissive (sadly) to their husbands. During...
Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagents, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical...
| Author | Charles Derek Ross |
| ISBN | 0300073720 |
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as...
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 1445614863 |
Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at Bath in 973. The couple made a love match, with...
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
| Author | Paul Doherty |
| ISBN | 0786711930 |
For good reason, the queen in chess inherits its fearsome power on the game board from the reputedly murderous maneuvers of the fourteenth-century Queen Isabella of England, as historian and biographer Paul Doherty shows in his engaging account of a savage chapter in medieval English history. What...
| Author | Juliet Barker |
| ISBN | 1408700832 |
In her best-selling Agincourt, Juliet Barker gave us the definitive narrative of Henry V’s extraordinary victory over the French. Now, in Conquest, she tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.
Henry...
William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219
| Author | David Crouch |
| ISBN | 0582772222 |
Ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and brutal, efficient soldier: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his widely acclaimed biography of 'the Marshal'. With the new translation of the contemporary epic poem, Histoire de Giuillaume de Mareschal,...
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
| Author | Robert Hutchinson |
| ISBN | 0297845640 |
If you think your family is a mess, you should probably read this book.
After all, how many generations of your family have been imprisoned or beheaded?
The Howard family was the power family in Tudor England. In each generation, the head of the Howard family was the Duke of Norfolk and...
Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn...
The Last Days of Richard III
| Author | John Ashdown-Hill |
| ISBN | 0752454048 |
What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada
A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard’s last 150 days explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding...
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500
| Author | Henrietta Leyser |
| ISBN | 1842126210 |
Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood...
Richard and John: Kings at War
| Author | Frank McLynn |
| ISBN | 0306815796 |
Legend and lore surround the history of kings Richard and John, from the ballads of Robin Hood and the novels of Sir Walter Scott to Hollywood movies and television. In the myth-making, King Richard, defender of Christendom in the Holy Land, was the “good king,” and his younger brother John was the...
The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors
Putting to rest the idea that Yorkist resistance ended at Stoke Field, Seward reveals the decades of animosity between the Tudors and the Plantagenet remnant. Both Henry VII and VIII lived in almost constant suspicion of those with any trace of royal blood, leading to the "legal murders" of dozens of...
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses
| Author | David Santiuste |
| ISBN | 1848845499 |
Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet Edward has not achieved the martial reputation of other warrior kings such as Henry V - perhaps because he fought battles against his own people in a civil war. It has also been suggested...
Richard III and the Murder in the Tower
| Author | Peter A. Hancock |
| ISBN | 0752451480 |
Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews—the "Princes in the Tower"—in order to usurp the throne of England. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the "black legend," the murderous uncle. However, the truth is much more complicated and interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings...
The Plantagenet Chronicles 1154-1485: Richard the Lionheart, Richard II, Henry V, Richard III
| Author | Derek Wilson |
| ISBN | 1435127188 |
Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. The name derived from Geoffrey's nickname, which came from the sprig of broom (planta genet) which he wore in his hat. The Plantagenets ruled England...
