TY - BOOK AU - Carr, Helen TI - The red prince : the life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster SN - 9780861540822 U1 - ARCH FRBC 943.6 C311R PY - 2021/// CY - London, PB - Oneworld Publications, KW - Biographies KW - Great Britain.-- Politics and government.-- 1327-1377 KW - John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399 KW - Politics and Government N1 - "Son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all the Tudors. Always close to the English throne, John of Gaunt left a complex legacy. Too rich, too powerful, too haughty--did he have his eye on his nephew's throne? Why was he such a focus of hate in the Peasants' Revolt? In examining the life of a pivotal medieval figure, Helen Carr paints a revealing portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage" ER -