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John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the throne of Castile, was son to Edward III, uncle to the ill-starred Richard III and father to Henry IV and the Lancastrian line. The richest and most powerful subject in England, a key actor on the international stage, patron of Wycliffe and Chaucer, he was deeply involved in the Peasant's revolt and the Hundred Years War. He is also one of the most hated men of his time. This splendid study, the first since 1904, vividly portrays the political life of the age, with the controversial figure of Gaunt at the heart of it.
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The Red Prince
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 ‘The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.’ Dan Jones Son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty… did he have his eye on his nephew’s throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants’ Revolt? In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronised the arts, ran huge risks to pursue the woman he loved… and, according to Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful of all speeches on England.
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Excerpt from John of Gaunt: King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, Seneschal of England Finally, i have to thank the Duke of Beaufort for permission to reproduce the picture of John of Gaunt inhispossession;thesocietyoiantiquariesandtheir Assistant Secretary, Mr. St. John Hope, for lending me acast Oi thegreat Seal of Castile, and the Duke of Nor thumberland for his courtesy in placing at my disposal themanuscript in thelibraryof Alnwick Castle, an extract fromwhichisprintedintheappendix. Whichihavemadeoutoithemovementsofjohnoi Gaunt, a valuable corrective to the inaccuracies of the Chronicles, but this I hope to publish separately. ...
Katherine
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
