Author Self-Published
June 2007
On Sale: June 7, 2007
Featuring: Piers Gaveston; Edward II
190 pages ISBN: 0595455239 EAN: 9780595455232 Kindle: B006U1DRZ8 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The history books tell us that Piers Gaveston was many
things: arrogant, ambitious, avaricious, flamboyant,
extravagant, reckless, brave, and daring, indiscreet,
handsome, witty, vivacious, vain, and peacock-proud, a
soldier and champion jouster, the son of a condemned
witch, who used witchcraft, his own wicked wiles, and
forbidden sex to entice and enslave King Edward II,
alienate him from his nobles and advisors, and keep him
from the bed of his beautiful bride Isabelle. Edward's
infatuation with Gaveston, and the deluge of riches he
showered on him, nearly plunged England into civil war.
Now the object of that scandalous and legendary obsession
tells his side of the story in The Confession of Piers
Gaveston:"Mayhap even now, when I have only just begun,
it is already too late to set the story straight. My
infamy, I fear, is too well entrenched. Whenever they
tell the story of Edward's reign I will always be the
villain and Edward, the poor, weak-willed, pliant king
who fell under my spell, the golden victim of a dark
enchantment. There are two sides to every coin; but when
the bards and chroniclers, the men who write the
histories, tell this story, will anyone remember that?"
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