The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings Who Invented England
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Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. The name derived from Geoffrey's nickname, which came from the sprig of broom (planta genet) which he wore in his hat. The Plantagenets ruled England for more than three hundred years, from the accession of reign of the dynasty's founder, Matilda and Geoffrey's son, Henry II, in 1154, to the death of the last Plantagenet, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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A very enjoyable popular history and hard to be too critical. As the cover blub says “action packed...” Be that as it may there are a couple of spelling mistakes, hardly the authors fault, and the lack of footnotes make me find this style of history less enjoyable than it might have been.
A pity really as there is a magnificent Further Reading chapter at the end and the Conclusion was also a good read. In the end though I just find it hard to go past a chapter starting with a sentence that starts with “Coventry buzzed with excitement” Really? Who said? How do you know?
