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Author: Olivia Gates Publisher: Silhouette ISBN: 1426835647 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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Once, she'd scorned him. And illegitimate secret prince Ferruccio Selvaggio had sworn he would make her pay. Now, Princess Clarissa D'Agostino was in his power. It was time to teach her a lesson…. The future of the kingdom rested on her. Clarissa knew she had to do whatever it took to convince Ferruccio to accept the crown and save them all. Even if it meant marrying a man who believed the worst of her. Even if it meant giving him her heart.
Author: Olivia Gates Publisher: Silhouette ISBN: 1426835647 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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Once, she'd scorned him. And illegitimate secret prince Ferruccio Selvaggio had sworn he would make her pay. Now, Princess Clarissa D'Agostino was in his power. It was time to teach her a lesson…. The future of the kingdom rested on her. Clarissa knew she had to do whatever it took to convince Ferruccio to accept the crown and save them all. Even if it meant marrying a man who believed the worst of her. Even if it meant giving him her heart.
Author: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752473166 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 367
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Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowedged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. In the twentieth century this trend for royals to father illegitimate children continued, but the parentage, while highly probably, has not been officially recognised. This book - split into four sections: Tudor, Stuart, Henoverian and, perhaps most fascinating, Royal Loose Ends - is a genuinely fresh approach to British kings and queens, examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children.
Author: Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar Publisher: History PressLtd ISBN: 9780752446684 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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Sex, power, mystery and blood - this fresh approach to the British monarchy recounts gripping, untold stories about their unofficial offspring.
Author: Jean Plaidy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages :
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In 1066, William the illegitimate son of the Duke of Normandy and a tanner's daughter, feels cheated when the is denied the throne of England promised to him by Edward the Confessor. So, he launches an invasion that makes him king. He falls in love with Matilda of Flanders, whose ready wit, fearlessness, and determination to have her way, make her his equal in every respect.
Author: Beverley A Murphy Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752468898 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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It took Henry VIII 28 years, three wives, and a break with Rome before he secured a legitimate male heir. Yet he already had the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy. Fitzroy was born in 1519 after the King's affair with Elizabeth Blount. He was the only illegitimate offspring ever acknowledged by Henry VIII, and Cardinal Wolsey was even one of his Godparents. So just how close did he come to being Henry IX?
Author: Dan Chernenko Publisher: ROC Hardcover ISBN: 9780451459671 Category : Illegitimate children of royalty Languages : en Pages : 516
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Since the loss of the Scepter of Mercy, the kingdom of Avornis has been threatened by its magic-wielding neighbors, until King Lanius and King Grus risk everything to bring the missing scepter home.
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“I will become king under one condition?if you marry me.” At the declaration by maritime tycoon Ferruccio Selvaggio, Princess Clarissa feels her heart freeze. Six years ago, the two met at a party held at the royal palace. Welcomed with kindness, an ignorant Clarissa fell in love in the blink of an eye. However, moments after stealing her lips, he struck her with his words: "While royal blood may be intriguing, women so easily seduced are boring." with my father, the king, bedridden, must I really be betrothed to such a cruel man?
Author: Sara McDougall Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198785828 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
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The stigmatization as 'bastards' of children born outside of wedlock is commonly thought to have emerged early in Medieval European history. Christian ideas about legitimate marriage, it is assumed, set the standard for legitimate birth. Children born to anything other than marriage had fewer rights or opportunities. They certainly could not become king or queen. As this volume demonstrates, however, well into the late twelfth century, ideas of what made a child a legitimate heir had little to do with the validity of his or her parents' union according to the dictates of Christian marriage law. Instead a child's prospects depended upon the social status, and above all the lineage, of both parents. To inherit a royal or noble title, being born to the right father mattered immensely, but also being born to the right kind of mother. Such parents could provide the most promising futures for their children, even if doubt was cast on the validity of the parents' marriage. Only in the late twelfth century did children born to illegal marriages begin to suffer the same disadvantages as the children born to parents of mixed social status. Even once this change took place we cannot point to 'the Church' as instigator. Instead, exclusion of illegitimate children from inheritance and succession was the work of individual litigants who made strategic use of Christian marriage law. This new history of illegitimacy rethinks many long-held notions of medieval social, political, and legal history.
Author: Chris Given-Wilson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003813445 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
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First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period. The authors describe how gradually the church began to formulate more definite views on sexual and marital customs, with a consequent decline in the status of illegitimate children. By early sixteenth century, however, royal bastards were once again making their way into the peerage. The book charts the lives of these men and women against the background not only of contemporary political developments, but also of changing ideas about morality and family. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and literature.
Author: Owen Egerton Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1593764383 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
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The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him. Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.
Author: Olivia Gates
Author: Olivia Gates
Author: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar
Author: Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
Author: Jean Plaidy
Author: Beverley A Murphy
Author: Dan Chernenko
Author: Olivia Gates
Author: Sara McDougall
Author: Chris Given-Wilson
Author: Owen Egerton