Claudia Gold - King of the North Wind - The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Maps Family Trees Cast of Characters Prologue Act I – The Bargain Act II – Triumph Act III – Pariah Act IV – Rebellion Act V – Nemesis Epilogue Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Picture Section Index Also by Claudia Gold About the Author About the Publisher

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Copyright © Claudia Gold 2018

Maps and family trees by Martin Brown

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Claudia Gold asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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For Phil, Asher and Jake

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Title Page CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Maps Family Trees Cast of Characters Prologue Act I – The Bargain Act II – Triumph Act III – Pariah Act IV – Rebellion Act V – Nemesis Epilogue Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Picture Section Index Also by Claudia Gold About the Author About the Publisher

Copyright COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Maps Family Trees Cast of Characters Prologue Act I – The Bargain Act II – Triumph Act III – Pariah Act IV – Rebellion Act V – Nemesis Epilogue Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Picture Section Index Also by Claudia Gold About the Author About the Publisher William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.WilliamCollinsBooks.com This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018 Copyright © Claudia Gold 2018 Maps and family trees by Martin Brown Cover design by Jack Smyth Claudia Gold asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007554782 Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780007554799 Version: 2018-06-25

Dedication DEDICATION CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Maps Family Trees Cast of Characters Prologue Act I – The Bargain Act II – Triumph Act III – Pariah Act IV – Rebellion Act V – Nemesis Epilogue Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Picture Section Index Also by Claudia Gold About the Author About the Publisher For Phil, Asher and Jake

Maps MAPS

Family Trees FAMILY TREES

Cast of Characters

Prologue

Act I – The Bargain

Act II – Triumph

Act III – Pariah

Act IV – Rebellion

Act V – Nemesis

Epilogue

Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Picture Section

Index

Also by Claudia Gold

About the Author

About the Publisher

Henry FitzEmpress : King Henry II of England, eldest son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Matilda of England.

Family

Henry I: Henry’s maternal grandfather; king of England and duke of Normandy.

Matilda: Henry’s mother; the widowed empress of Germany, married by her father to her second husband, Geoffrey count of Anjou.

Geoffrey of Anjou: Henry’s father; husband of the much older Matilda. From the age of fourteen, Count of Anjou, a principality in northern France.

Geoffrey FitzEmpress: Henry’s younger brother, who rebels against Henry as soon as he is able.

William FitzEmpress: Henry’s youngest brother; he remains staunchly loyal.

Fulk of Anjou: Henry’s paternal grandfather; leaves Anjou to marry Queen Melisende of Jerusalem. Through this second marriage, becomes king of the Latin Kingdom.