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Cecily Bonville-Grey - Marchioness of Dorset

Author : Sarah J. Hodder
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789049032
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cecily Bonville-Grey - Marchioness of Dorset written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecily Bonville-Grey was one of the richest women of her time, inheriting the Harington and Bonville fortunes as a young child. In 1474, at the age of fifteen, she married Thomas Grey, the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville from her first marriage to Sir John Grey. When Thomas was created Marquis of Dorset a year later, Cecily became the Marchioness of Dorset alongside him. During her lifetime she was connected to many of the fifteenth and sixteenth century personalities that we read about today. Her stepfather was William, Lord Hastings, her mother-in-law Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. Her mother was a daughter of the great Neville family and her uncle was the Earl of Warwick, also known as the ‘kingmaker’ having assisted his cousin, Edward IV, in his path to the throne. Her second husband was a son of the ancient Stafford family and Lady Jane Grey was a direct descendant of hers. During the Wars of the Roses and the emergence of the new Tudor dynasty, Cecily was witness to many of the events that unfolded and her own story is intertwined with many of these events. Yet she remains relatively unknown. This is Cecily’s story.

The Queen's Sisters

Author : Sarah J. Hodder
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789043646
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Queen's Sisters written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether Queen or commoner, the lives of women throughout history is a fascinating study. Elizabeth Woodville, 'The White Queen', managed to make the transition from commoner to Queen and became the epitome of medieval heroines – the commoner who married a King. When she became the wife of Edward IV her actions changed the life of her entire family. Vilified both by their contemporaries and by many historians since, the Woodville family were centre stage during the reigns of Edward IV and Richard III. Elizabeth Woodville became the ancestress of future Kings and Queens. This book takes a fresh look at the lives of Elizabeth's sisters. Although information on them is scarce, by looking at the men they married, their families, the places they lived and the events that they lived through we can catch a glimpse of their lives. Each sister has their own story to tell and they may not have achieved the dizzying heights that their sister did, but they are all fascinating women.

The York Princesses

Author : Sarah J. Hodder
Publisher : Chronos Books
ISBN 13 : 9781789045574
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The York Princesses written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by Chronos Books. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters of the infamous 'Princes in the Tower', the daughters of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV survived the reign of Richard III and even thrived into the Tudor Age. This is their story.

Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011

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Publisher : Douglas Richardson
ISBN 13 : 1461045134
Total Pages : 2352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 written by and published by Douglas Richardson. This book was released on with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Author : Barbara J. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019028157X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550 written by Barbara J. Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women, Harris demonstrates, were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create, sustain, and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and, finally, manage the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed, as well as those who became favorites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families, Harris paints a collective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognizing the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers, this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521.

Hermine: An Empress in Exile

Author : Moniek Bloks
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789044790
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Hermine: An Empress in Exile written by Moniek Bloks and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermine Reuss of Greiz is perhaps better known as the second wife of the Kaiser (Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany) whom she married shortly after the death of his first wife Auguste Viktoria and while he was in exile in the Netherlands. She was by then a widow herself with young children. She was known to be ambitious about wanting to return to power, and her husband insisted on her being called 'Empress'. To achieve her goal, she turned to the most powerful man in Germany at the time, Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, her dream was not realised as Hitler refused to restore the monarchy and with the death of Wilhelm in 1941, Hermine was forced to return to her first husband's lands. She was arrested shortly after the end of the Second World War and would die under mysterious circumstances while under house arrest by the Red Army.

The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon

Author : William Henry Hamilton Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon written by William Henry Hamilton Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woodville Women

Author : Sarah J. Hodder
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399094599
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Woodville Women written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Woodville, queen to Edward IV and mother of the Princes in the Tower. Elizabeth of York, daughter of Elizabeth Woodville and the first Tudor queen of England. Elizabeth Grey, granddaughter of Elizabeth Woodville and Countess of Kildare, whose life both in England and across the Irish sea was closely entwined with the Tudor Court. This is the tale of three generations of women, linked by their name, Elizabeth, and by their family relationship. The story begins in the reign of the great Plantagenet Kings with the life of Elizabeth Woodville and ends in the reign of perhaps England’s most famous dynasty, that of the Tudor kings and queens. Through the life of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen and Elizabeth Grey, cousin to Henry VIII and Mary Tudor, we explore the Tudor court and its dealings with the Earls of Kildare. From the birth of our first Elizabeth to the death of our last, these three women lived through wars and coronations, births and deaths, celebration and tragedy and between them they experienced some of the most exciting and troubled times in English history. Mother, daughter and granddaughter: individually they each have their own fascinating story to tell; together their combined stories take us on a journey through a century of English life.

The Kingmaker's Women

Author : Julia A Hickey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1399064894
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Kingmaker's Women written by Julia A Hickey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Earl of Warwick's wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville. They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were forced to navigate their lives around the unpredictable clashes of the Cousins’ War. Were they pawns or did they exert an influence of their own? The twists and turns of Fate as well as the dynastic ambitions of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick saw Isabel married without royal permission to the Yorkist heir presumptive, George Duke of Clarence. Anne Neville was married to Edward of Lancaster, the only son of King Henry VI when her father turned his coat. One or the other was destined to become queen. Even so, the Countess of Warwick, heiress to one of the richest titles in England, could not avoid being declared legally dead so that her sons-in-law could take control of her titles and estates. Tragic Isabel, beloved by her husband, would experience the dangers of childbirth and on her death, her midwife was accused of witchcraft and murder. Her children both faced a traitor’s death because of their Plantagenet blood. Anne Neville became the wife of Richard, Duke of Gloucester having survived a forced march, widowhood and the ambitions of Isabel’s husband. When Gloucester took the throne as Richard III, she would become Shakespeare’s tragic queen. The women behind the myth suffered misfortune and loss but fulfilled their domestic duties in the brutal world they inhabited and fought by the means available to them for what they believed to be rightfully their own. The lives of Countess Anne and her daughters have much to say about marriage, childbirth and survival of aristocratic women in the fifteenth century.

Sisters of Richard III

Author : Sarah J Hodder
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399063901
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Sisters of Richard III written by Sarah J Hodder and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the daughters of Richard, Duke of York and his wife, Cecily Neville, and therefore sisters to Edward IV and Richard III. These women watched from the sidelines as their father challenged England’s anointed king and lost his life, as their brothers fought together for the throne of England and then amongst themselves and as the Plantagenet dynasty fell, making way for the reign of the Tudors. But they were not just bystanders; they had their own stories to tell. Anne of York was married to the Lancastrian Duke of Exeter who sided against her father and brother, before finding later happiness, albeit briefly, with her second husband. Elizabeth of York married John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk and became the mother of eleven children who would become thorns in the side of the Tudor kings and Margaret of York became Duchess of Burgundy, a hugely influential woman in her adopted kingdom although she never stopped supporting her family back in England. Between them, they witnessed and contributed to one of the most turbulent times in English history yet they have naturally been overshadowed by their more famous brothers. This is their story.

The Record Interpreter

Author : Charles Trice Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Record Interpreter written by Charles Trice Martin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal

Author : Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal by : Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval

Download or read book The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal written by Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey

Author : John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526745046
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wife to Edward IV and mother to the Princes in the Tower and later Queen Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Widville was a central figure during the War of the Roses. Much of her life is shrouded in speculation and myth – even her name, commonly spelled as ‘Woodville’, is a hotly contested issue. Born in the turbulent fifteenth century, she was famed for her beauty and controversial second marriage to Edward IV, who she married just three years after he had displaced the Lancastrian Henry VI and claimed the English throne. As Queen Consort, Elizabeth’s rise from commoner to royalty continues to capture modern imagination. Undoubtedly, it enriched the position of her family. Her elevated position and influence invoked hostility from Richard Neville, the ‘Kingmaker’, which later led to open discord and rebellion. Throughout her life and even after the death of her husband, Elizabeth remained politically influential: briefly proclaiming her son King Edward V of England before he was deposed by her brother-in-law, the infamous Richard III, she would later play an important role in securing the succession of Henry Tudor in 1485 and his marriage to her daughter Elizabeth of York, thus and ending the War of the Roses. Elizabeth Widville was an endlessly enigmatic historical figure, who has been obscured by dramatizations and misconceptions. In this fascinating and insightful biography, Dr John Ashdown-Hill brings shines a light on the truth of her life.

The Nevills of Middleham

Author : K.L. Clark
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969555
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Nevills of Middleham written by K.L. Clark and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1465, the Nevills must have thought they'd reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. Richard Nevill was the king's right-hand man and married to the richest woman in the kingdom; John Nevill was an accomplished soldier who'd done much to stabilise the new dynasty; and George Nevill was not only chancellor but newly enthroned as Archbishop of York. The Nevill women were as active as their male counterparts. As sisters and wives, daughters and daughters-in-laws, they had the ears of the elite in England and were not afraid of wielding their influence. And they were not always on the same side. Cracks in the stability of the most powerful family in England began to show. Rivalries led to serious conflict that worsened when King Edward IV impulsively married Elizabeth Wydeville, a choice of bride that did not please everyone. The Nevills had already lost a great deal for the Yorkist cause. Within six years, as the Wars of the Roses turned into one of the bloodiest periods of English history, they'd lose even more for the Lancastrians.

A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex

Author : Dudley George Cary Elwes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Castles, Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex written by Dudley George Cary Elwes and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Herald and Genealogist

Author : John Gough Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book The Herald and Genealogist written by John Gough Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Life of Thomas Cromwell

Author : Caroline Angus
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 139909582X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Private Life of Thomas Cromwell written by Caroline Angus and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography revealing the personal story of the powerful, doomed minister to Henry VIII. Thomas Cromwell was King Henry VIII’s most faithful servant, the only man the king ever openly regretted executing. But Cromwell came to royal prominence late in life, and had forty-five years of family, friends, and experiences behind him before catching Henry’s eye. Born a commoner at a time of significant change in England, Cromwell grew up in a happy, close-knit family before heading to Europe for dramatic adventures. Returning a decade later, he emerged with the skills of a lawyer and merchant, with the European language skills and connections to match. Marriage, children, friends, family, and manor homes all furnished Cromwell’s life, a man happy and settled in London. But more beckoned for the Italian-Englishman when a special friendship with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey grew, along with the attention of the king. This book delves into the life beyond the historic role in Reformation England—a life marked by tragic personal loss; by friendships that endured through changes in allegiance and even religion; and of aspirations for his son Gregory. Far from the seemingly dour, black-clad, serious man, Cromwell lavished those around him with gifts, parties, extravagant games, entertainments, animals, and outfits. But the glamour and beauty of Cromwell’s life would come to a sudden end, leaving a trail of devastated men and women, and an extraordinary manor home, Austin Friars, scattered to the wind. Using a wide variety of primary material, this exciting biography weaves a new narrative on the indefatigable Thomas Cromwell, illustrating him more vividly than we’ve known him before.