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Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II : downfall of a king's favourite
- Title
- Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II : downfall of a king's favourite / Kathryn Warner.
- Author
- Warner, Kathryn
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xiii, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, genealogical tables; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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; he had made the horrible mistake of alienating and insulting Edward's queen Isabella of France, who loathed him, and who had him slowly and grotesquely executed in her presence in November 1326"--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Downfall of a king's favourite
- Subject
- Le Despenser, Hugh, Baron, -1326
- Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327 > Relations with men
- Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327
- Nobility > England > Biography
- Favorites, Royal > England > Biography
- Courts and courtiers
- Favorites, Royal
- Fourteenth century
- Man-woman relationships
- Nobility
- Great Britain > Court and courtiers > Biography
- Great Britain > History > 14th century
- England
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2924
- ISBN
- 1526715619
- 9781526715616
- 1526751755
- 9781526751751
- OCLC
- 1041538603
- Author
- Warner, Kathryn, author.
- Title
- Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II : downfall of a king's favourite / Kathryn Warner.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Warner, Kathryn. Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen and Sword History, 2018 9781526715623 (OCoLC)1066115050
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2924