This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly
formidable king - a man born to rule England, who believed that it
was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most
dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war
and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and leaving a legacy of
division between the peoples of Britain that has lasted from his
day to our own.
Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of
Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Yet
this story forms only the final chapter of the king's astonishingly
action-packed life. Earlier Edward had defeated and killed the
famous Simon de Montfort in battle; travelled across Europe to the
Holy Land on crusade; conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its
native rulers, and constructing - at Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and
Caernarfon - the most magnificent chain of castles ever created. He
raised the greatest armies of the English Middle Ages, and summoned
the largest parliaments; notoriously, he expelled all the Jews from
his kingdom. The longest-lived of all England's medieval kings, he
fathered no fewer than fifteen children with his first wife,
Eleanor of Castile, and after her death he erected the Eleanor
Crosses - the grandest funeral monuments ever fashioned for an
English monarch.
In this book, Marc Morris examines afresh the forces that drove
Edward throughout his relentless career: his character, his
Christian faith, and his sense of England's destiny - a sense
shaped in particular by the tales of the legendary King Arthur. He
also explores the competing reasons that led Edward's opponents
(including Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Robert Bruce) to resist him,
and the very different societies that then existed in Scotland,
Wales and Ireland. The result is a sweeping story, immaculately
researched yet compellingly told, and a vivid picture of medieval
Britain at the moment when its future was decided.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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