![]() ![]() As Henry's power and influence spreads, however, his relationships suffer, most especially with his wife Eleanor and his newly appointed archbishop, Thomas Becket. Over the span of 15 years, he restores peace to England, brings his unruly barons to heel, and expands his borders in Europe. ![]() Time and Chance, the second novel, picks up two years after Henry's triumphant succession to the English throne and four years after his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine. Among Maude's loyal supporters is her ambitious son and heir, Henry, who covets both the English crown and the beautiful Queen of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Over the next 19 years, Maude and Stephen fight one another bitterly, plunging the country into a bloody civil war. Unable to accept a woman on the throne, England's barons, along with Maude's cousin Stephen, conspire to steal her crown. He leaves only one legitimate child - a strong-willed daughter named Maude. The first book in the trilogy, When Christ and His Saints Slept, opens in 1135 AD, soon after the death of King Henry I. Devil's Brood is the long-awaited final novel in Sharon Kay Penman's Henry II trilogy, which chronicles the turbulent life of the medieval king whose empire stretched from the shores of Britain to the Pyrenees Mountains. ![]()
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