Plantagenet Queens & Consorts
Plantagenet Queens & Consorts What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? It is the influence on events of the royal women; in particular, the queens. What thread runs…
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Plantagenet Queens & Consorts
What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? It is the influence on events of the royal women; in particular, the queens. What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the 'cadet' houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485?
Plantagenet Queens and Consorts examines the lives and influence of ten figures, comparing their different approaches to the maintenance of political power in what is always described as a man's world. Without children, there is no dynasty, no 'house'. On the contrary, there is strong evidence to suggest that these women had more political impact than those who came later - with the exception of Elizabeth I - right up to the present day.
Beginning with Eleanor of Provence, loyal spouse of Henry III, the author follows the thread of queenship: Philippa of Hainault, Joan of