Henry I (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry I (Penguin Monarchs) write by Edmund King. This book was released on 2018-07-26. Henry I (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '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.
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) write by John Guy. This book was released on 2014-12-04. Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome; a talented, towering figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them. In this revealing new account, John Guy looks behind the mask into Henry's mind to explore how he understood the world and his place in it - from his isolated upbringing and the blazing glory of his accession, to his desperate quest for fame and an heir and the terrifying paranoia of his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years.
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) write by Anne Curry. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs)
Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs) write by Catherine Nall. This book was released on 2026-01-08. Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman conquest, Henry seemed to embody the ideals of chivalric kingship: mercy, piety, military prowess and learning. Yet deposing a crowned monarch was not a stable foundation on which to build a reign. Henry IV found himself challenged from all sides, plagued by conspiracies, rebellions, assassination attempts and crippling debts, while his tense relationships with Parliament and with his own son, Shakespeare's Prince Hal, saw his grip on power falter. Nevertheless, he was the first king and founder of a Lancastrian dynasty which would go on to shape England for centuries to come. In this lively study, Catherine Nall reappraises a monarch who weathered upheaval and uncertainty and held on to the throne through sheer force of will.
Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs)
Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs) write by James Ross. This book was released on 2016-12-29. Henry VI (Penguin Monarchs) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry VI, son of the all-conquering Henry V, was one of the least able and least successful of English kings. His long reign, which started when he was only nine months old, ended in catastrophe, with the loss of England's territories in France and a bankrupt England's long decline into civil war: the wars of the Roses. Yet, failure though Henry undoubtedly was, he remains an enigma. Was he always, as he became in the last disastrous years of his rule, a holy fool, simple-minded to the point of insanity and prey to the ambitions of others? Or was he more active and, as some have suggested, actively malign? In this groundbreaking new portrait, James Ross shows a king whose priorities diverged sharply from what England expected of its monarchs, and whose fitful engagement with government was directly, though not solely, responsible for the disasters that engulfed the kingdom during his reign.
