Margaret of Anjou

ALSO BY CONN IGGULDEN

T
HE
W
ARS OF THE
R
OSES
S
E
RIES

Stormbird

T
HE
E
MPEROR
S
E
RIES

The Gates of Rome

The Death of Kings

The Field of Swords

The Gods of War

The Blood of Gods

T
HE
C
ONQUEROR
S
ERIES

Wolf of the Plains

Lords of the Bow

Bones of the Hills

Empire of Silver

Conqueror

Blackwater

Quantum of Tweed

B
Y
C
ONN
I
GGULDEN
AND
H
AL
I
GGULDEN

The Dangerous Book for Boys

The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do

The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know

The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook

B
Y
C
ONN
I
GGULDEN AND
D
AVID
I
GGULDEN

The Dangerous Book of Heroes

B
Y
C
ONN
I
GG
ULDEN AND
I
LLUSTRATE
D BY
L
IZZY
D
UNCAN

Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children

Tollins 2: Dynamite Tales

G. P. P
UTNAM’S
S
ONS

Publishers Since 1838

An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

375 Hudson Street

New York, New York 10014

Copyright © 2015 by Conn Iggulden

Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, Penguin Group UK,

A Penguin Random House Company.

ISBN 978-1-101-62295-7

Endpaper map and battle plan copyright © Andrew Farmer, 2014

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

To Victoria Hobbs, who tilts at windmills—and knocks them down

I am intensely grateful to the staff at Penguin Random House for producing such beautiful books—and then persuading people to “try a bit of medieval.” If you have picked this up to read, or, for that matter, downloaded it, I thank you too. Much has changed. Much remains the same. Finally, I must mention my son Cameron, who came up with the title at the eleventh hour.

M
APS

England at the time of the Wars of the Roses

London

First Battle of St. Albans, 1455

F
AMILY
T
REES

Royal Lines of England

House of Lancaster

House of York

House of Neville

House of Percy

House of Tudor

L
IST OF
C
HARACTERS

Visit
http://bit.ly/1KRAXFr
for a larger version of this map.

Visit
http://bit.ly/1EV2jZs
for a larger version of this map.

Visit
http://bit.ly/1GTCAia
for a larger version of this map.

Visit
http://bit.ly/1Jw5l7k
for a larger version of this family tree.

Visit
http://bit.ly/1PuTuZ8
for a larger version of this family tree.

Visit
http://bit.ly/1cfDzkE
for a larger version of this family tree.