num_pages: 430
description: News of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet King of England. Two years later with Becket canonised Henry's position is precarious: punished at the Pope's insistence for his part in Becket's death he now also has an enemy in his Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine after her discovery of his longstanding infidelity with Rosamund Clifford. Eleanor is determined to seek vengeance so with King Philip of France she encourages her sons to conspire both against their father and each other. Much embattled the old eagle Henry struggles to fend off both rebellion and the plots of his aggressively circling offspring...
language: English
title: The Revolt of the Eaglets
publisher: Arrow Books