Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II : downfall of a king's favourite
Warner, Kathryn2018
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'Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II' tells the story of 'the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the king and his disastrous fall. Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of England's eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wife's uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most powerful man in the country in the 1320s. For years he dominated the English government and foreign policy, and took whatever lands he felt like by both quasi-legal and illegal methods, with the king's connivance. His actions were to bring both himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly responsible for the first forced abdication of a king in English history.
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Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
Collation:
xiii, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781526715616 (hbk)
Dewey class:
942'.036'0922B LE942.036092B/LED
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English
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2717586
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