News of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henry's position is precarious: punished at the Pope's insistence for his part in Becket's death, he now also has an enemy in his Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance, so, with King Philip of France, she encourages her sons to conspire, both against their father and each other.
Much embattled, the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring...
- ISBN10 0399124950
- ISBN13 9780399124952
- Publish Date 10 July 1980 (first published 10 March 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Putnam Publishing Group
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 330
- Language English