Gives four generations of issue of each king and queen of England from 1066 to 1399. Genealogical information is given on 11 kings and their queens from William the Conqueror through Edward III (d. 1377). Included are three generations of the legitimate issue as well as the illegitimate Beaufort issue of Edward III's prolific son, John of Gaunt (d. 1399), through whom most Americans enter the royal family tree. Other genealogical data includes that on Harold, king of England (d. 1066), Louis VII of France, Isabelle of Angouleme and Hugh de Lusignan, queens Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, poet Geoffrey Chaucer, various Beaufort women and the Sureties for the Magna Charta.
T. Anna Leese
(1996), 2007, 5½x8½, paper, index, 494 pp.
ISBN: 9780788405259
101-L0525
