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Katherine
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
Katherine Swynford
'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman. Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries. In this impressive book, Alison Weir has triumphantly rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. She was the mother of the Beaufort, then the ancestress of the Yorkist kings, the Tudors, the Stuarts and every other sovereign since - a prodigious legacy that has shaped the history of Britain.
The Adventures of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster Volume 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1790 edition. Excerpt: ... VISIT XII. BUT the next day the duke thus resumed the narration: My father, said the first uflier, was an armourer in the city of Coventry. Observing that. I discovered no genius for the anvil, he sent me to a free school, where I was put into Latin grammar long before I could even tolerably read my native tongue. At length, having made some little progress in literature, my father took me home, in order to keep accounts for him, and to assist in collecting his debts, ...
