Kings in the North
Subtitle: the House of Percy in British history
By: Alexander Rose.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
Subjects: Percy family; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485; England, Northern -- History; Great Britain -- Genealogy
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-554) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: i. The First Northerner; title: 2. When Christ and his Saints Slept; title: 3. The End of the Line?; title: 4. Sir Richard Percy, the Northerners and Magna Carta; title: 5. Sir Henry Percy and the Barons' War; title: 6. Great Captain; title: 7. The Border Baron; title: 8. Henry Percy IV and the Outbreak of Peace; title: 9. Henry Percy IV and the Conquest of Scotland; title: 10. The Closing Years of Henry Percy; title: 11. Adventures Abroad; title: 12. Inexorable Ascent; title: 13. The Fall of the Percys, I 377-1408; title: 14. A Good and Faithful Servant; title: 15. A Safe Pair of Hands; title: 16. Mutual Assured Destruction; title: 17. Recovery and Disaster; title: 18. Bird in the Bosom; title: 19. Percy Restored; title: 20. Kings in the North; title: 21. The Rise and Fall of the North; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index.