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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 York Princesses

Author : Sarah J. Hodder
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789045584
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The York Princesses written by Sarah J. Hodder and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a collective, the lives of the Princesses of York span across seven decades and the rule of five different Kings. The daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, they were born into an England that had been ruled over by the great Plantagenet Kings for almost three hundred years. Their young years were blighted by tragedy: the death of their beloved father, followed by the disappearance and possible murder of their two brothers, Edward and Richard of York, forever now known to history as the infamous Princes in the Tower. With their own futures uncertain during the reign of their uncle, Richard III, and their mother held under house arrest, the Princesses had to navigate their way through the tumultuous years of the 1480s before having to adjust to a new King and a new dynasty in the shape of Henry VII, who would bring about the age of the Tudors. Through her marriage to Henry, Elizabeth of York rebuilt her life, establishing herself as a popular, if not hugely influential Queen. But she did not forget her younger siblings, and even before her own mother’s death, she acted as a surrogate mother to the younger York princesses, supporting them both financially and emotionally. The stories of the York Princesses are entwined into the fabric of the history of England, as they grew up, survived and even thrived in the new Tudor age. Their lives are played out against a backdrop of coronations and jousts, births and deaths, marriages and divorces and loyalties and broken allegiances. From the usurpation of Richard III, to the Battle of Bosworth, the brilliance of the court of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, to the rise of Anne Boleyn, the York Princesses were there to witness events unfold. They were the daughters, sisters and aunts of Kings, and this is their story. The York Princesses is a natural follow-up to Sarah J. Hodder's first book, The Queen's Sisters, which told the stories of the lives of the sisters of Elizabeth Woodville.

Richard III.

Author : Caroline A. Halsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Richard III. written by Caroline A. Halsted and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood Sisters

Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465038689
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Sarah Gristwood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a “cousins' war.” The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. As acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals in Blood Sisters, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the male leads who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. These mothers, wives, and daughters were locked in a web of loyalty and betrayal that would ultimately change the course of English history. In a captivating, multigenerational narrative, Gristwood traces the rise and rule of the seven most critical women in the wars: from Marguerite of Anjou, wife of the Lancastrian Henry VI, who steered the kingdom in her insane husband's stead; to Cecily Neville, matriarch of the rival Yorkist clan, whose son Edward IV murdered his own brother to maintain power; to Margaret Beaufort, who gave up her own claim to the throne in favor of her son, a man who would become the first of a new line of Tudor kings. A richly drawn, absorbing epic, Blood Sisters is a tale of hopeful births alongside bloody deaths, of romance as well as brutal pragmatism. It is a story of how women, and the power that women could wield, helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age—and the creation of modern England.

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.

Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526715600
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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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.

Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters

Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526715597
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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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 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd 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. “Another enjoyable read on women in history that don’t always get the limelight that they deserve. Kathryn Warner has done it once again by providing a well-written, well-researched, informative and engaging read.” —Where There’s Ink There’s Paper

Richard III and His Rivals

Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1852850531
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Richard III and His Rivals written by Michael Hicks and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch, the equal of the great nobility. He is seen here in the company of his fellows: Warwick the Kingmaker, Clarence, Northumberland, Somerset, Hastings a the Wydevilles. His relations with these rivals, all of whom submitted to him or were crushed, show him in different moods and from various vantage points.

Richard III: His Life & Character

Author : Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Richard III: His Life & Character written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kingmaker's Sisters

Author : David Baldwin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479903
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Kingmaker's Sisters written by David Baldwin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period. The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that they played in late fifteenth-century England, as wives, mothers and homemakers, but also as deputies for their absent husbands, and how the struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians affected them and their families. Scholarly but accessible, this is the first history of the Wars of the Roses to be written from this perspective, and will appeal to general readers, historians of the period and those with an interest in feminist history.

The Secret Queen

Author : John Ashdown-Hill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752468952
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Queen written by John Ashdown-Hill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his son, Edward (one of the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. But Richard, too, found himself entangled in the web of uncertainly, since those who believed in the legitimacy of Edward IV's children viewed Richard III's own accession as a usurpation. From the day when Edward IV married Eleanor, or pretended to do so, or allowed it to be whispered that he might have done so, the House of York, previously so secure in its bloodline, confronted a contentious and uncertain future. John Ashdown-Hill argues that Eleanor Talbot was married to Edward IV, and that therefore Edward's subsequent marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous, making her children illegitimate. He thereby offers a solution to one of history's great mysteries.

Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England

Author : Caroline Amelia Halsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England written by Caroline Amelia Halsted and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard III as Duke of Gloucestsr and King of England

Author : Caroline HALSTED
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Richard III as Duke of Gloucestsr and King of England written by Caroline HALSTED and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard III., as Duke of Gloucester and King of England

Author : Caroline Amelia Halsted
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Richard III., as Duke of Gloucester and King of England written by Caroline Amelia Halsted and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jewels of Warwick

Author : Diana Rubino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625261403
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Jewels of Warwick written by Diana Rubino and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewels of Warwick are two very opposite sisters, Topaz and Amethyst Plantagenet. They're grand-nieces of Richard III, who lost his life and kingdom to Henry Tudor, future father of Henry VIII. Amethyst is the love of Henry VIII's life, but each time he proposes marriage, something...or someone...gets in the way. Topaz wants what's rightfully hersthe throne of England. It would have been hers, had her father been crowned as Richard III's heir. But life holds many strange twists of fate...

The Sister Queens

Author : Mary McGrigor
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750967889
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Sister Queens written by Mary McGrigor and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabella de Valois was 3 years old when, on a hot August day in 1392, her father suddenly went mad. Less than four years later, she was married by proxy to the English King Richard II and arrived in England with a French retinue and her doll's house. Richard's humiliating deposition and brutal murder by his cousin, the future Henry IV, forced Isabella's desperate return to France where she found her country fatally divided. Isabella's sister, Catherine de Valois, became the beautiful young bride of Henry V and is unique in history for being the daughter of a king, the wife of a king, the mother of a king and the grandmother of a king. Like her sister, Catherine was viewed as a bargaining chip in times of political turmoil, yet her passionate love affair with the young Owain Tudor established the entire Tudor dynasty and set in motion one of the most fascinating periods of British history. The Sister Queens is a gripping tale of love, exile and conflict in a time when even royal women had to fight for survival.

Richard III

Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526727986
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Richard III written by Matthew Lewis and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bust[s] some commonly held myths that have built up about Richard III over the centuries, most coming from Shakespeare’s famous play . . . eye-opening.” —Sarah Bryson, author of La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, a Life in Letters King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined with the workings of five centuries of rumor and gossip, has created two opposing versions of Richard. In fiction he is the evil, scheming murderer who revels in his plots, but many of the facts point towards a very different man. Dissecting a real Richard III from the fictional versions that have taken hold is made difficult by the inability to discern motives in many instances, leaving a wide gap for interpretation that can be favorable or damning in varying degrees. It is the facts that will act as the scalpel to begin the operation of finding a truth obscured by fiction. Richard III may have been a monster, a saint, or just a man trying to survive, but any view of him should be based in the realities of his life, not the myths built on rumor and theater. How much of what we think we know about England’s most controversial monarch will remain when the facts are sifted from the fictions? “He’s been portrayed as one of history’s biggest baddies—and Shakespeare shares the blame for that.But now historian and author Matt Lewis is out to right the wrong done to Richard III.” —Shropshire Star