Before Richard III: Author Interview with Dan Jones, The Plantagenets

If the recent identification of King Richard III, buried ignominiously in Leicester, awakens interest in the pre-Tudor British monarchy, and gives readers an appetite for understanding the armored world that led to the Wars of the Roses, culminating in Richard III’s 1485 death in battle, they must turn to Dan Jones and his rousing history, The [...]

Plantagenets 197x300 Before Richard III: Author Interview with Dan Jones, The PlantagenetsIf the recent identification of King Richard III, buried ignominiously in Leicester, awakens interest in the pre-Tudor British monarchy, and gives readers an appetite for understanding the armored world that led to the Wars of the Roses, culminating in Richard III’s 1485 death in battle, they must turn to Dan Jones and his rousing history, The Plantagenets. His book, a bestseller in the UK, gets stateside publication in April. He tells the story of the main line of Plantagenet kings, ending in 1399 when they split into the Houses of York and Lancaster. I caught up with the author for an email chat.

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