Who's Who in Late Medieval England

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Among the 200 or so biographies in this volume are those of the intriguingly named Edmund Crouchback, younger son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence; the notorious Piers Gaveston, Edward II's favorite, about whose death "the country rejoiced and all its inhabitants were glad"; the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer; and Walter Stapledon, the learned Bishop of Exeter who was murdered by the mob in London in 1326.