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I, Richard Plantagenet: the Prequel Part Two: A Vous Me Lie: I, Richard Plantagenet Prequel Book 2 Kindle Edition
Young Richard of Gloucester has returned to his brother King Edward’s court after training in the household of the Earl of Warwick. Quickly the young man finds himself caught up in court intrigues: the famous Smithfield Joust, the Woodvilles’ theft of Thomas Cook’s tapestries, the killing of the Earl of Desmond in dubious circumstances. He also is befriended by the older John Howard, and experiences his first tastes of love –which results in the births of his two natural children, John and Katherine.
Duty soon beckons, however, when Warwick’s friendship with Edward is irrevocably broken and George of Clarence, Richard’s other brother, takes Warwick’s side. Rebellion now threatens the stability of England and even Edward’s throne. Young Richard, not yet eighteen, must retrieve Welsh castles, sit in judgment on traitors to the crown…and even stamp on the toes of the side-swapping Lord Stanley. He meets some loyal friends along the way but, unwittingly, he makes enemies too, who will one day return to haunt him.
As the clouds of war darken, Richard is finally driven into exile in Burgundy with the King. Butas the ship leaves the harbour, he swears he will return…
Part 2 of I, Richard Plantagenet: The Prequel.
All five of the I, Richard Plantagenet novels, both the two prequels and three main books of the series can be read as independent, self-contained stories of the life of Richard III.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 22, 2021
- File size2.5 MB
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- ASIN : B09MG3HF6B
- Publisher : Herne's Cave (November 22, 2021)
- Publication date : November 22, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 2.5 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 397 pages
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About the author

J.P. Reedman was born in Canada but has lived in the U.K. for nearly 30 years.
Interests include folklore & anthropology, prehistoric archaeology (neolithic/bronze age Europe; ritual,burial & material culture), as well as The Wars of the Roses and the rest of the medieval era.
Books Include:
WARS OF THE ROSES/RICHARD III
I Richard Plantagenet parts 1 and 2 (also available as an omnibus)
I RICHARD PLANTAGENET the Prequel, Part 1 (new for 2020)
A Man Who Would Be King (Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham)
Sacred King (historical fantasy)
BLOOD OF ROSES (Edward IV and Towton)
SECRET MARRIAGES (Edward IV, Eleanor Talbot and Elizabeth Woodville)
WHITE ROSES, GOLDEN SUNNES--Collection of short stories about Richard III and his family
FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS. Novella about Richard III's son Edward
THE MISTLETOE BRIDE OF MINSTER LOVELL. Novella about Francis Lovell based on local folklore.
THE MEDIEVAL BABES series about little-known medieval women:
MY FAIR LADY- Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III.
MISTRESS OF THE MAZE-Fair Rosamund, mistress of Henry II
THE CAPTIVE PRINCESS--Eleanor of Brittany, victim of King John
THE WHITE ROSE RENT- Katherine, illegitimate daughter of Richard III (long novella)
THE PRINCESS NUN-Mary, daughter of Edward I
MY FATHER, MY ENEMY-Juliane, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, who tried to assassinate her father.
THE HOOD GAME (series about a mystical, magical Robin Hood)
RISE OF THE GREENWOOD KING BOOK 1
SHADOW OF THE BRAZEN HEAD BOOK 2
STONEHENGE
THE STONEHENGE SAGA. Omnibus edition containing the two novels Stone Lord and Moon Lord. The Arthurian legends retold in an early Bronze Age setting.
DUE OUT THIS YEAR-- I, RICHARD PLANTAGENET THE SEQUEL PART 2--A VOUS ME LIE
LONGSWORD'S WIFE--Ela of Salisbury
THE HOOD GAME-part 3. BLOOD OF THE DIVINE KING
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- Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2021This is the second installment of the author’s prequel to her I, Richard Plantagenet series. Richard has just entered his teenage years and has come to his brother’s court after finishing his knightly training with his Cousin Dick (Earl of Warwick). He is a serious-minded, idealistic youth who is uneasy because of the conflict between his mentor, Cousin Dick, and his brother and king, Edward IV. He is searching for some worthy person to emulate. Richard finds that person when talking to his sister Meg who describes their father as kingly in bearing, stern but just, and one who loved all his family. Richard promises himself that he will be like his father—although without the trust in others that proved fatal. He vows to follow his brother Edward as the inheritor of their father’s mantle, adopting the motto A Vous me lie (“I bind myself to you”). Expressing his desire to be a perfect knight, he also finds appealing the motto Tante le Desiree (“I desire it so much”), writing it in the chivalric romance Ipoedmon.
Richard soon learns that Edward’s court can be a treacherous place as he becomes implicated (quite innocently) in brother George’s traitorous schemes, and Edward decides to teach both his brothers a lesson by imprisoning them for a night in the Tower. Richard is also repelled by the licentiousness at court. Concerned that his Richard is far too monkish, Edward recruits John “Jockey” Howard to take the lad to a Southbank brothel to gain some experience with women. Jockey assures Richard that he frequents a “clean establishment, free of disease.” What follows is an entertaining episode that does not turn out exactly as Edward and Jockey might have expected.
We know from history Richard fathered two illegitimate children most probably when he was a teenager. Many writers believe that Alice Brugh was the mother of his son John of Pontefract and Katherine Haute bore his daughter Katherine. This writer follows this convention, and Richard’s relationships are not idealized but seem realistic. Alice is practical and intelligent while Kate is, well, beautiful. His feelings for Kate are more romantic and passionate, but by the end of the novel when he is about to go into exile in Burgundy, a certain cooling has taken place as both people realize that they could never be together “beyond the occasional grappling in secret.” Throughout the novel, Richard’s thoughts occasionally wander to Anne Neville. When he learns of her betrothal to Edward of Lancaster, he is sickened to think of that vicious lad pawing at her, the girl who had once been his intended bride. He tells himself that he does not love her, but he has always felt affection for her. They shared a connection as two quiet children “like little brown starlings huddled in the shadow of bright-plumed peacocks. That drew me to her, along with her steady, practical nature.”
As tensions between Edward and Cousin Dick mount and eventually erupt into open warfare, the maturing Richard becomes an active participant. From this point, the book becomes episodic: retaking the castles in Wales; the confrontation with Lord Stanley over Hornsby Castle; and, even the horrific executions at Southampton ordered by John Tiptoft, the “Butcher of England.” While the pace of the book seemed to drag a bit in the second half, I appreciated that the author detailed the events that are usually glossed over in other works. After all, Richard’s encounters with Rhys Ap Thomas in Wales and Stanley may have been significant factors in Richard’s ultimate fate.
The weakness of the book may be the failure to show that Richard was in any way conflicted during the struggle between his brother Edward and Cousin Dick, who had been in mentor. In fact, Cousin Dick makes only a fleeting appearance. (In the first prequel, Cousin Dick remembered Richard’s name day and gave him a dagger. Richard’s father apparently did not remember his son’s birthday, but after he was shown the dagger, he gave his son a jeweled sheath for it. In this book, Richard refers to the dagger his father gave him at Ludlow. Why the discrepancy? Could be a different knife, I suppose. Or, maybe, Richard’s memory was faulty?) Certainly, Edward is not portrayed as someone that Richard would want to emulate, but on the eve of their flight to Burgundy he sees Richard as their noble father’s inheritor. Edward’s action then ultimately justifies Richard’s faith. While this prequel seems to complete the I, Richard Plantagenet series, readers like me will still want to hear Richard’s first-hand account of the events during his second exile in Burgundy.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2021A Vous Me Lie: I, Richard Plantagenet, the Prequel part 2
By J P Reedman
Reviewed November 24, 2021
A Vous Me Lie is the fourth installment in J. P. Reedman’s I, Richard Plantagenet series, although chronologically speaking it would be second, coming after The Road From Fotheringhay, which told us the story of Richard’s childhood.
This is Richard of Gloucester’s coming of age story. It covers his teens, and starts out with him as a youthful and somewhat innocent 14-year-old and ends with him a mature 18-year-old young man.
The title comes from an early version of the motto Richard eventually chose (Loyaultie me lie) and means “I am bound to you.” It shows how loyalty was an important part of his life from a young age.
As the story starts, King Edward has recalled his youngest brother from Middleham where Richard had been under the Earl of Warwick’s tutelage. Now at court, young Richard finds himself learning to deal with the various factions and conflicts that are part of court life, including dealing with his older brother George who is never satisfied and always wants more, and the queen’s avaricious family. Though only 14, Richard is considered on the verge of adulthood, and the king gives him more and more responsibilities, part of his training to be his brother’s right hand man.
But it’s not all work and no play. Aware that his young brother is beginning to experience those hormonal changes that turn a boy into a man, the king puts Richard into the care of John “Jocky” Howard, whose task is to teach the boy the ways of the world. Looking upon Jocky as a kind of uncle figure, they two visit the Southwark Stews where Richard has his first up close and awkward experience at a brothel.
Richard isn’t interested in having one night stands with whores, though. Instead, he’s drawn to chivalry and courtly love, and these feelings eventually lead to affairs with the two women who will be the mothers of his natural born children, John and Katherine.
But life is never simple for Richard, and while he would love to spend more time being a father and a lover, the king has other tasks for his brother. These include some of Richard’s earliest conflicts, events often glossed over (if mentioned at all) in a lot of Ricardian literature.
Richard finds himself entering into the dispute over Hornby Castle and making an enemy of the powerful northern magnate, Thomas, Lord Stanley. He also makes a foray into Wales with orders from the king to retake a couple castles that are illegally occupied by a Welshman by the name of Rhys ap Thomas and his brothers. Both of these events foreshadow tragic events that will take place in August of 1485, suggesting that its eventual betrayals had more to do with paybacks than anything else.
It is also during this time that Cousin Dick (because it seems they were all related in some way or another) aka Warwick the Kingmaker has fallen out of favor with Edward. Always loyal to his brother, Richard finds himself aiding in the putting down of rebellions and meting out the king’s justice, which is often bloody and brutal. In conjunction with this, Richard has to work alongside John Tiptoft, the Earl of Worcester and Lord High Constable of England. Known as “The Butcher of England,” Tiptoft was a blend of intellect and brutality, whose forms of punishment included impaling the corpses of executed prisoners.
A Vous Me Lie is another great story by Ms. Reedman. While few details are known of this period in Richard’s life, the author has used her extensive research and imagination to fill in the blanks in a believable and plausible way, giving us a story filled with equal measures of romance and adventure.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2022As good as the first book in the series. Though fictional, this continues the story of the brother of King Edward IV. His trials, tribulations and Responsibilities are well covered. Other books written about Richard III vary in depth and perspective. The book is told from his point of view and is more sympathetic to it than some others. I think what is lacking is the feeling of emotional depth, though described in the telling, one does not Feel it...just a description of how he must have felt. I miss the element of Feeling what the characters felt, understanding the depth of the turmoil often described. I dis appreciate J. P. Freeman's depth of knowledge and the seamless telling of the story as if it had truly happened just the way she describes it in every detail. I am to read the third book about Her Richard just to fins out where she will go with her interpretation of his story as it unfolds. I would highly recommend these books to anyone interested in the subject. I do love her descriptions of the settings...All the settings and terrain, the weather, the atmosphere and the places...Kings and their families, friends, soldiers, sailors, retainers and servants, horses and carts, and etc. ...had to travel...how often and the vast preparations for this travel took! She writes clearly ,understandably, and well. Her characters real and imaginary are well drawn and accessible. Look forward to the rest of Richard's life story...so tragically short.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023I liked these two books on young Richard III, but there were so many typos, names spelled two different ways, words missing a letter (may being written as my, for example) and grammatical errors. If this author needs an editor, I am available.
Top reviews from other countries
- Amazon Customer Pat HReviewed in Canada on November 23, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting perspective of Richad Plantagenet
Great read. It pulled me into seeing Edward as an older brother and king. Made me think of currant king as a brother.
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AnaReviewed in Mexico on December 9, 2021
4.0 out of 5 stars Entretenido
Es la segunda parte de la saga en orden cronológico, y lo que la hace única es que Ricardo III la cuenta en primera persona, con vocabulario moderno y con humor, no es mi libro favorito pero es bastante decente.
- Helen MussonReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Brilliant!
- arthurReviewed in Canada on February 13, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars well written book. lots of great detail.
Written with an eye to more recent discoveries . The skeleton of King Richard the third found under a car park sparking new interest.
- Jon Craig HareReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2024
4.0 out of 5 stars One more of many
I have enjoyed the first 2 in this series, after a glut of WOTR novels, few hold the interest as sure and steady, his style rolls easy and keeps your concentration, no time wasters or uninteresting filling or padding, the historic facts and detail are tight and sharp sticking to realism as much as fiction from a colourful age allows, this is historically so famous, but so unfamiliar to modern readers, my imagination grasps the lines JPR twists so skillfully, bring on more.