Henry VI: The Last Lancastrian King (The Crown Under Siege) - Softcover

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Henry VI inherited two crowns before he could understand the weight of one.

The son of the great warrior king Henry V, Henry VI was expected to secure England’s conquest of France and preserve the power of the Lancastrian dynasty. Instead, his reign became one of the great disasters of medieval monarchy.

Gentle, devout, and unsuited to the brutal politics of his age, Henry struggled to control his nobles, defend his French inheritance, or impose authority at home. As England lost its empire in France, factional rivalry hardened into civil war. The houses of Lancaster and York moved from suspicion to open conflict, and the Wars of the Roses began.

Henry VI: The Last Lancastrian King follows the collapse of a reign built on impossible inheritance. From child kingship and failed peace to St Albans, Towton, Warwick the Kingmaker, deposition, restoration, and death in the Tower, this book tells the story of a king too gentle for a violent crown.

A clear and accessible account of monarchy, weakness, civil war, and the fall of Lancastrian power.

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