| Personal Name |
Weir, Alison, 1951- author.
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| Title Statement |
Queens of the crusades : 1154-1291 / Alison Weir.
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| Edition Statement |
First US edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]
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| Physical Description |
xxi, 533 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Series Statement |
England's medieval queens ; Book two
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| General Note |
Book one titled Queens of the conquest.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-484) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II -- Berengaria of Navarre, Queen of Richard I -- Isabella of Angoule^me, Queen of King John -- Alienor of Provence, Queen of Henry III -- Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout the bloody 1200s, a particularly dramatic and violent period of European history. Wars, crusades, treachery, murder, passion, and the interplay between rival monarchs of Britain and France provide a surprising picture of these five ambitious women and their struggle for power. The queens covered in the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angoule^me, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile. One of these queens became legendary when, accompanying her husband on crusade, she saved his life by sucking the blood from his poisoned-arrow wound. Equally intriguing are the descriptions of their marriages, including one that was extremely tempestuous, and one that was a love match turned sour when the jealous husband discovered his queen's infidelity and retaliated by killing her lovers and hanging their bodies from the canopy of her bed. This second volume of historian Alison Weir's critically acclaimed Medieval Queens series brings these unfamiliar, fascinating royals to life, demonstrating how very much they resemble self-determining women of our own time"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Plantagenet, House of.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Berengaria, Queen, consort of Richard I, King of England, approximately 1163-approximately 1230.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Isabella, Queen, consort of John, King of England, -1246.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Eleanor, of Provence, Queen, consort of Henry III, King of England, 1223 or 1224-1291.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Eleanor, Queen, consort of Edward I, King of England, -1290.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Monarchy France History To 1500.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Monarchy Great Britain History To 1500.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Queens Great Britain Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain History Plantagenets, 1154-1399 Biography.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Weir, Alison, 1951- Queens of the conquest.
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| Other Edition Entry |
Weir, Alison, 1951- Queens of the crusades London : Jonathan Cape, 2020 9781910702093
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