Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle

by Jordan Fantosme

Jordan Fantosme was a twelfth-century cleric, teacher and poet, possibly a member of the royal or baronial court, writing for King Henry II. HisChronicle describes some of the events and actions of the civil war between Henry II and his eldest son Henry, the 'Young King', during 1173 and 1174. The main focus of the text, including most of Fantosme's explicitly eyewitness accounts, is on the fighting in Northumberland, where King William I of Scotland,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910900265
• ISBN13: 9781910900260
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: John Donald Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages