New paperback edition - The first biography to tell the personal story of the wealthiest, most powerful and most hated man in medieval England. "Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster" John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a Spanish kingdom via his wife, daughter of King Pedro the Cruel. He was the wealthiest, most powerful and most hated man in England for decades. He had...