{"product_id":"the-beaumonts-9781526776334","title":"The Beaumonts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Brienne\/Beaumonts, a noble family originally from Champagne, spread across Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Their story begins with John de Brienne (c. 1175\/78-1237), who was the emperor of Constantinople, became king of Jerusalem by marriage, and claimed the throne of a kingdom in modern-day Turkey called Armenian Cilicia. His life, his children and his grandchildren's lives were remarkably international.His daughters were born in Italy and what is now Lebanon; one of his sons, who grew up in Constantinople, France and Spain, was the stepfather of the king of Scotland; one of his grandchildren was the king of Germany, Italy and Sicily; and several other grandchildren settled in England, where one married a Scottish heiress and was the great-grandfather of a king of England and an English-born queen of Portugal.The Beaumonts tells the story of the places where the Brienne\/Beaumont family settled and held influence between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries","brand":"Pen \u0026 Sword Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50066995118423,"sku":"9781526776334","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526776334.jpg?v=1740544288","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-beaumonts-9781526776334","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}