Edward II The Terrors of Kingship - Penguin Monarchs

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Publisher's Synopsis

'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.'

The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supporters of the crown. Hoping to lay the ghost of his soldierly father, Edward I, he invaded Scotland and suffered catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. After twenty ruinous years, betrayed and abandoned by most of his nobles and by his wife and her lover, Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and murdered - the first English king since the Norman Conquest to be deposed.

Book information

ISBN: 9780141977966
Publisher: Penguin UK
Imprint: Penguin Monarchs
Pub date:
DEWEY: 942.036092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: x, 127 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 202g
Height: 182mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 16mm