The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones Read Free Book Online

List of Illustrations
    Henry V. Oil on panel portrait by an unknown artist, fifteenth century. (
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK/Bridgeman Images
)
     
    Catherine de Valois funeral effigy. Painted wood, 1437.
(©
Dean and Chapter of Westminster
)
     
    Henry VI. Oil on panel portrait by an unknown English artist, sixteenth century.
(
Society of Antiquaries of London, UK/Bridgeman Images
)
     
    Margaret of Anjou. Illumination (detail) from the ‘Shrewsbury Book’,
c
.1445, British Library MS Royal 15 E.VI f. 2v.
(©
The British Library Board
)
     
    Richard duke of York. Stained-glass, Trinity College, Cambridge,
c
.1425. (
Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
)
     
    Edward IV. Oil on panel by an unknown English artist,
c
.1540.
(
Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images
)
     
    Elizabeth Woodville. Oil on panel portrait by an unknown artist,
c
.1480. (
Print Collector/Getty Images
)
     
    Edward V. Painted panel by an unknown artist, St George’s Chapel, Windsor, sixteenth century. (
A. F. Kersting/akg-images
)
     
    Facial reconstruction of Richard III, commissioned by the Richard III Society, 2013. (
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
)
     
    Henry VII. Funeral effigy, Westminster Abbey, 1509.
(©
Dean and Chapter of Westminster
)
     
    Perkin Warbeck. Sanguine on paper,
c
.1495.
(
Bibliothèque municipale, Arras
)
     
    Margaret Beaufort. Oil on panel portrait, sixteenth century. (
Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2014/Bridgeman Images
)
     
    Battle of Barnet. Illumination from
Histoire de la rentrée victorieuse du roi Edouard IV et son royaume d’Angleterre,
Ghent University Library, MS 236 f. 2r. (
De Agostini/Getty Images
)
     
    Execution of Somerset at Tewkesbury. Illumination from
Histoire de la rentrée victorieuse du roi Edouard IV et son royaume d’Angleterre,
Ghent University Library, MS 236 f. 7. (©
Ghent University Library
)
     
    ‘Towton 25’. Skull recovered from the site of the battle of Towton. (©
BARC, Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford
)
     
    Knight being dressed for battle. Illumination from
Ordinances of Armoury, Jousting, Sword and Axe Combat, and Chivalry,
Pierpont Morgan Library, MS 775 f. 2v.
(©
2014. Photo Pierpont Morgan Library/Art Resource/Scala, Florence
)
     
    Bosworth crucifix. Bronze crucifix, fifteenth century.
(
Society of Antiquaries of London, UK/Bridgeman Images
)
     
    Edward IV. Tempera on vellum, illumination from
Chronicle of the History of the World from Creation to Woden, with a Genealogy of Edward IV,
Philadephia Free Library, MS Lewis E201 f. 1.
(
Free Library of Philadelphia/Bridgeman Images
)
     
    Genealogy of Henry VI. Illumination from the ‘Shrewsbury Book’,
c
.1445, British Library MS Royal 15 E.VI f. 3.
(
British Library/Robana via Getty Images
)
     
    Genealogy with Tudor symbols. Illumination from
Motets
, Flanders,
c
.1516, British Library MS Royal 11 E.XI f. 2. (
British Library/Robana via Getty Images
)
     
    Title page of
The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke
… by Edward Hall, 1550. (
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles
)
     
    Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. The publishers would be pleased to rectify at the earliest opportunity any omissions or errors brought to their notice.

1. France and the Low Countries

2. England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century

3. Noble Landholdings in England and Wales

Note on Names, Money and Distances
    The names of principal characters in this book have generally been modernised for the sake of familiarity and consistency. Thus Nevill becomes Neville, Wydeville becomes Woodville, Tudur becomes Tudor, and so on. Latin, French and archaic English sources have been translated or rendered into modern English except in a very few cases where original spellings have been maintained to illustrate a historical point.
    Where particularly pertinent, sums of money have been