Katherine Swynford
10 best books like Katherine Swynford (Jeannette Lucraft): Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty, In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II, The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne, Queen Emma: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England, William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens
| Author | Lisa Hilton |
| ISBN | 0297852612 |
Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, England’s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation. Lisa Hilton’s meticulously researched new work explores the lives of the 20 women crowned between 1066...
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 1445601427 |
Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudors. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying...
| Author | Julia P. Gelardi |
| ISBN | 0312371055 |
The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters.
Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and Queen Victoria of England were respected and admired rulers whose legacies continue to be felt today. Their...
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
| Author | Marc Morris |
| ISBN | 0091796849 |
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king – a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale, and...
| Author | Wilfred Lewis Warren |
| ISBN | 0520034945 |
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgments ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists,...
| Author | Amy Kelly |
| ISBN | 0674242548 |
The story of that amazingly influential and still somewhat mysterious woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has the dramatic interest of a novel. She was at the very center of the rich culture and clashing politics of the twelfth century. Richest marriage prize of the Middle Ages, she was Queen of France as the...
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
| Author | Paul Doherty |
| ISBN | 0786711930 |
For good reason, the queen in chess inherits its fearsome power on the game board from the reputedly murderous maneuvers of the fourteenth-century Queen Isabella of England, as historian and biographer Paul Doherty shows in his engaging account of a savage chapter in medieval English history. What...
The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor Throne
| Author | Derek Wilson |
| ISBN | 0786714697 |
In the political ferment of 16th-century England, one family above all others was at the troubled center of court and council. Throughout the Tudor Age the Dudley family was never far from controversy. They were universally condemned as scheming, ruthless, overly ambitious charmers, with three...
| Author | Harriet O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1596911190 |
"A lively account of the harsh realities of war and politics in this era, the vagaries of political marriage and the thin line between invaders and settlers."—Publishers Weekly
Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the...
William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219
| Author | David Crouch |
| ISBN | 0582772222 |
Ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and brutal, efficient soldier: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his widely acclaimed biography of 'the Marshal'. With the new translation of the contemporary epic poem, Histoire de Giuillaume de Mareschal,...
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
| Author | Katie Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0393060799 |
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy ”a history worthy of Shakespeare.
It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage...
Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn...
Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500
| Author | Henrietta Leyser |
| ISBN | 1842126210 |
Medieval Women looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.
Henrietta Leyser considers the problems and attitudes fundamental to every woman of the time: medieval views on sex, marriage and motherhood; the world of work and the experience of widowhood...
The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors
Putting to rest the idea that Yorkist resistance ended at Stoke Field, Seward reveals the decades of animosity between the Tudors and the Plantagenet remnant. Both Henry VII and VIII lived in almost constant suspicion of those with any trace of royal blood, leading to the "legal murders" of dozens of...
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses
| Author | David Santiuste |
| ISBN | 1848845499 |
Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses, Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet Edward has not achieved the martial reputation of other warrior kings such as Henry V - perhaps because he fought battles against his own people in a civil war. It has also been suggested...
Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes
| Author | Bertram Fields |
| ISBN | 0060987383 |
Notoriously immortalied by Shakespeare and historians, he is history's most infamous royal villian: Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485. Crazed with power and paranoia, he is generally supposed to have killed the youthful Prince of Wales and the aged Henry VI, drowned his brother in a vat...
Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen
| Author | Arlene Naylor Okerlund |
| ISBN | 0752433849 |
Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. But was she a cunning vixen or a tragic wife and mother? As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a life of tragedy, love, and loss that no other...
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess
| Author | Christine Weightman |
| ISBN | 1848680996 |
The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'The menace of the Tudors'. This alluring and resourceful woman was Henry...
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, Ruler of England 1327-1330
| Author | Ian Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0224062492 |
When one thinks of a scandalous love affair in English monarchial history; the immediate response is Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. Believe it or not, a century prior, a similar indignity played out in medieval England but with a queen taking the lead. The queen – Queen Isabella, consort to King Edward...
| Author | Paul Murray Kendall |
| ISBN | 0393007855 |
I took a long time to read this, more so as I got through it, because I was delaying reaching the end, even though I know what happens. I didn't want Richard to die. I'm a die-hard Ricardian, always have been, always will be. I don't believe Richard was evil, I don't believe he murdered the Princes in the Tower,...
Blood & Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
| Author | Helen Castor |
| ISBN | 0571216714 |
The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. As they made their way...
| Author | Joanna Denny |
| ISBN | 0749951206 |
Joanna Denny, author of Anne Boleyn, reveals another sensational episode in Tudor history - illuminating the true character of Katherine Howard, the young girl caught up in a maelstrom of ambition and conspiracy which led to her execution for high treason while still only seventeen years old. Who...
