Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II - Kathryn Warner

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of ‘the greatest villain of the fourteenth centuryÂ’, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of EnglandÂ’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 wifeÂ’s uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most powerful man in the country in the 1320s.... Zobrazit více