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Can anyone tell me what the best biography of John of Gaunt is?

John of Gaunt : The Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe by Anthony Goodman.

Melisende wrote: "John of Gaunt : The Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe by Anthony Goodman."

Thanks, Melisende. I'm going to try your suggestion. The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era by Norman F. Cantor was even worse than the reviews it got on Amazon. Cantor is a big name, so I thought surely someone just hadn't "gotten it." I realize it is not a biography of Gaunt as much as it is a social history of his times (with him in the role of a marionette who wanders across the stage from time to time), but it seems to have been written when Cantor was high on nippsy-doodles or something when he wrote it. Gag! Paragraphs with no two sentences on the same subject--and the weirdest interpretation of Wyclif I have ever seen. (You'll be happy to know his followers at Oxford were "scurvy graduate students"--whatever that means!) Anyway, I'll try Goodman.
Farewell from a bygone scurvy graduate student!

Cantor is usually good - so I am surprised this was so bad. Hope the Goodman book is better. Keep us posted.