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Kingmaker

by Paul Bannister Book 5 in the Crusader series.

First published 2017

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Thurstan de Banastre, Baron of Waleton, joins other magnates resisting Henry III’s taxation and refusal to honour the principles associated with Magna Carta. His family possesses a more dangerous weapon than a private army: royal jewels stolen from King John’s lost baggage train and preserved as proof that another claimant might be crowned.

The regalia’s history reaches through the fallen Cathar stronghold of Montségur and into the baronial movement led by Simon de Montfort. Thurstan must decide whether using the treasure can reform the monarchy or merely replace one violent ruler with another as England moves towards the Second Barons’ War.

Historical Periods

Magna Carta1215 CE Albigensian Crusade1209–1229 CE Second Barons’ War1264–1267 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Dynastic & Royal Fiction Historical Sagas Historical Thriller War Fiction

Historical people

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester1208–1265

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