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Mccarthy Michael - Citizen Of London Richard Whittington The Boy Who Would Be Mayor - Hardcover
Mccarthy Michael - Citizen Of London Richard Whittington The Boy Who Would Be Mayor - Hardcover
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Description: A vivid richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur social reformer and influencer at court. The extraordinary story of Richard Whittington from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague politics and war; turbulence between Crown City and Commons; and the unrelenting financial demands of Richard II Henry IV and Henry V to whom Whittington was mercer lender and fixer. A man determined to follow his own path Whittington was a significant figure in London's ceaseless development. As a banker Collector of the Wool Custom King's Council member and four - time mayor Whittington featured prominently in the rise of the capital's merchant class and powerful livery companies. Civic reformer enemy of corruption and author of an extraordinary social legacy he contributed to Henry V's victory at Agincourt and oversaw building works at Westminster Abbey. In London Whittington found his second family: a mentor Sir Ivo Fitzwarin and an inspirational wife in Fitzwarin's daughter Alice. Today's Dick Whittington pantomimes enjoyed by millions have a grain of truth in them but the real story is far more compelling minus that sadly mythical cat.
Title: Citizen Of London Richard Whittington The Boy Who Would Be Mayor
Author(s): Mccarthy Michael
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787387911
Pages: 424 Pages
Publication Date: 12/15/2022
Category: British & Irish History
Description: A vivid richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur social reformer and influencer at court. The extraordinary story of Richard Whittington from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague politics and war; turbulence between Crown City and Commons; and the unrelenting financial demands of Richard II Henry IV and Henry V to whom Whittington was mercer lender and fixer. A man determined to follow his own path Whittington was a significant figure in London's ceaseless development. As a banker Collector of the Wool Custom King's Council member and four - time mayor Whittington featured prominently in the rise of the capital's merchant class and powerful livery companies. Civic reformer enemy of corruption and author of an extraordinary social legacy he contributed to Henry V's victory at Agincourt and oversaw building works at Westminster Abbey. In London Whittington found his second family: a mentor Sir Ivo Fitzwarin and an inspirational wife in Fitzwarin's daughter Alice. Today's Dick Whittington pantomimes enjoyed by millions have a grain of truth in them but the real story is far more compelling minus that sadly mythical cat.
Title: Citizen Of London Richard Whittington The Boy Who Would Be Mayor
Author(s): Mccarthy Michael
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787387911
Pages: 424 Pages
Publication Date: 12/15/2022
Category: British & Irish History
