Author: Amanda Beam
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2008-05-19
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1788854020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines the political ambitions and influences of the Balliol dynasty in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Scotland, England and France. The generally accepted opinion in previous historiography was that John (II), king of Scots from 1292 to 1296, and Edward Balliol (d. 1364) were politically weak men and unsuccessful kings. In a reassessment of the patriarch of the family, John (I) (d.1268), the Balliols are revealed as committed English lords and loyal servants of the kings of England, underlining how the family has been unfairly judged for centuries by both chroniclers and historians, who have assessed them as Scottish kings rather than as English lords. Despite the forfeiture of the Balliol estates in England and Scotland in 1926, John (II) and Edward retained close relationships with the successive English kings and used these connections to fuel their political ambitions. Their kingships illustrate their desires to recover some influence in English politics which the family had enjoyed in the mid-thirteenth century. This re-evaluation of the Balliols highlights their relationship with the English crown.
Author: Herbert B. Workman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2001-03-06
Total Pages: 872
ISBN-13: 1579106064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Herbert B. Workman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-08-10
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1725232219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. A. Pollock
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 184383992X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the complex network of relationships and identity between England, Scotland and France in the thirteenth century.
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Publisher: Douglas Richardson
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Total Pages: 2635
ISBN-13: 1461045207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Theodore Radford Thomson
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 176
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