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Book Synopsis Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters by : Kathryn Warner
Download or read book Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters written by Kathryn Warner and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in England, Gilbert ‘the Red’ de Clare, earl of Gloucester. They grew to adulthood during the turbulent reign of their uncle Edward II, and all three of them were married to men involved in intense, probably romantic or sexual, relationships with their uncle. When their elder brother Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, was killed during their uncle’s catastrophic defeat at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, the three sisters inherited and shared his vast wealth and lands in three countries, but their inheritance proved a poisoned chalice. Eleanor and Elizabeth, and Margaret’s daughter and heir, were all abducted and forcibly married by men desperate for a share of their riches, and all three sisters were imprisoned at some point either by their uncle Edward II or his queen Isabella of France during the tumultuous decade of the 1320s. Elizabeth was widowed for the third time at twenty-six, lived as a widow for just under forty years, and founded Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
Book Synopsis EDWARD II'S NIECES by : KATHRYN. WARNER
Download or read book EDWARD II'S NIECES written by KATHRYN. WARNER and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward II written by Kathryn Warner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his kingdom, and he ended his reign wandering around Wales with a handful of followers, pursued by an army. He was the first king of England forced to abdicate his throne. Popular legend has it that he died screaming impaled on a red-hot poker, but in fact the time and place of his death are shrouded in mystery. His life reads like an Elizabethan tragedy, full of passionate doomed love, bloody revenge, jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness and obsession. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. The focus here is on his relationships with his male 'favourites' and his disaffected wife, on his unorthodox lifestyle and hobbies, and on the mystery surrounding his death. Using almost exclusively fourteenth-century sources and Edward s own letters and speeches wherever possible, Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.
Book Synopsis Estoire de Seint Aedward Le Rei by : Henry Richards Luard
Download or read book Estoire de Seint Aedward Le Rei written by Henry Richards Luard and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, by : Robert Thoroton
Download or read book The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, written by Robert Thoroton and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by : William Stubbs
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development written by William Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 by : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of the 'Blue Nuns', Or, Order of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, at Paris, 1658-1810 by : Joseph Gillow
Download or read book The Diary of the 'Blue Nuns', Or, Order of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, at Paris, 1658-1810 written by Joseph Gillow and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating diary offers a rare glimpse into the life of a convent of blue nuns in Paris during the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes detailed descriptions of the daily routine, religious practices, and social activities of the nuns, as well as their interactions with the outside world. The book also includes a detailed introduction and annotations by the historians Joseph Gillow and Richard Trappes-Lomax. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by : Virgil M. Harris
Download or read book Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills written by Virgil M. Harris and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills" by Virgil M. Harris. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II by : Kathryn Warner
Download or read book Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II written by Kathryn Warner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of Englands eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wifes uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most powerful man in the country in the 1320s. For years he dominated the English government and foreign policy, and took whatever lands he felt like by both quasi-legal and illegal methods, with the kings connivance. His actions were to bring both himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly responsible for the first forced abdication of a king in English history; he had made the horrible mistake of alienating and insulting Edwards queen Isabella of France, who loathed him, and who had him slowly and grotesquely executed in her presence in November 1326.
Book Synopsis The Story of an Old Town--Glen Ellyn by : Audrie Alspaugh Chase
Download or read book The Story of an Old Town--Glen Ellyn written by Audrie Alspaugh Chase and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death by : James Runcie
Download or read book Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death written by James Runcie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective. It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clerical detective. He can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend, inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewelry theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a jazz promoter's daughter, and a shocking art forgery that puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty, but he nonetheless manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket, warm beer, and hot jazz-as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior. With a whiff of Agatha Christie and a touch of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, The Grantchester Mysteries introduces a wonderful new hero into the world of detective fiction.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Duffs by : Alistair Norwich Tayler
Download or read book The Book of the Duffs written by Alistair Norwich Tayler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Traitor's Wife by : Susan Higginbotham
Download or read book The Traitor's Wife written by Susan Higginbotham and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bedchamber to the battlefield, through treachery and fidelity, one woman is imprisoned by the secrets of the crown. It is an age where passion reigns and treachery runs as thick as blood. Young Eleanor has two men in her life: her uncle King Edward II, and her husband Hugh le Despenser, a mere knight but the newfound favorite of the king. She has no desire to meddle in royal affairs-she wishes for a serene, simple life with her family. But as political unrest sweeps the land, Eleanor, sharply intelligent yet blindly naïve, becomes the only woman each man can trust. Fiercely devoted to both her husband and her king, Eleanor holds the secret that could destroy all of England-and discovers the choices no woman should have to make. At its heart, The Traitor's Wife is a unique love story that every reader will connect with. Gold Medalist, historical / military fiction, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards • Includes bonus reading group guide PRAISE FOR THE TRAITOR'S WIFE: "Conveys emotions and relationships quite poignantly... entertaining historical fiction." — Kirkus Discoveries "Higginbotham's talents lie not only in her capacity for detailed genealogical research of the period, but also in her skill in bringing these historical figures to life with passion, a wonderful sense of humor, honor, and love." — Historical Novels Review Online
Book Synopsis Philippa of Hainault by : Kathryn Warner
Download or read book Philippa of Hainault written by Kathryn Warner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.
Book Synopsis Feudal England by : John Horace Round
Download or read book Feudal England written by John Horace Round and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
