Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... Prince for help . This challenge to his chivalry , as well as to the principle of legitimacy , was more than the Prince could resist . He saw himself as the knight - errant of Christendom leading a righteous war . Obtaining his father's ...
... Prince for help . This challenge to his chivalry , as well as to the principle of legitimacy , was more than the Prince could resist . He saw himself as the knight - errant of Christendom leading a righteous war . Obtaining his father's ...
Page 287
... Prince got the estates to impose a five years ' fouage or tax on every hearth in the duchy to meet his war debts . It was bitterly opposed by two of the leading magnates of Guienne . When the Prince ' insisted that , right or wrong ...
... Prince got the estates to impose a five years ' fouage or tax on every hearth in the duchy to meet his war debts . It was bitterly opposed by two of the leading magnates of Guienne . When the Prince ' insisted that , right or wrong ...
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... Prince's subjects were eager to appeal to him , he now announced that his judges had found that , as Edward had ... Prince as a peer of France to appear in person at Paris . The Prince was taken completely by surprise . When he realised ...
... Prince's subjects were eager to appeal to him , he now announced that his judges had found that , as Edward had ... Prince as a peer of France to appear in person at Paris . The Prince was taken completely by surprise . When he realised ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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