The Conquering Family is a history book which begins with the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 and closes with the end of the reign of John in 1216, when the full merging of Norman and Saxon had taken place and the conquest was complete. In this volume the author brings fascinating stories of William the Conqueror, Henry I and his Good Queen Maude, Henry II, Thomas à Becket, John, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard Coeur de Lion and many other. He also doesn't forget to include and gives a thorough analysis of the most important documents of the epoch, such are the Domesday Book, the Treaty of Wallingford, the Charter of Henry I, the Constitutions of Clarendon, and the Magna Charta.