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The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness, and the game of courtly love between aristocratic men and women. It was also a period of high drama in English history, which included the toppling of two kings, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, and the Peasants Revolt. Feudalism was breaking down, resulting in social and political turmoil.
Against this dramatic milieu, Alison Weir describes the lives and reigns of five queen consorts: Marguerite of France was seventeen when she became the second wife of sixty-year-old King Edward I. Isabella of France, later known as the She-Wolf, dethroned her husband, Edward II, and ruled England with her lover. In contrast, Philippa of Hainault was a popular queen to the deposed kings son Edward III. Anne of Bohemia was queen to Richard II, but she died young and childless. Isabella of Valois became Richards second wife when she was only six years old, but was caught up in events when he was violently overthrown.
This was a turbulent and brutal age, despite its chivalric color and ethos, and it stands as a vivid backdrop to the extraordinary stories of these queens lives.
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Copyright 2022 by Alison Weir
Maps copyright 2022 by John Gilkes
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Ballantine is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022.
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Names: Weir, Alison, author.
Title: Queens of the age of chivalry, 12991409 / Alison Weir.
Description: New York: Ballantine Books, [2022] | Series: Englands medieval queens; Book three | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022038992 (print) | LCCN 2022038993 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101966723 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101966730 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: QueensEnglandBiography. | Great BritainHistoryPlantagenets, 11541399Biography. | Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 12921358. | Margaret, Queen, consort of Edward I, King of England, 1279?1318. | Philippa, Queen, consort of Edward III, King of England, 1369. | Anne, Queen, consort of Richard II, King of England, 13661394. | Isabella, of Valois, Queen, consort of Richard II, King of England. | Plantagenet, House of.
Classification: LCC DA28.2 .W449 2022 (print) | LCC DA28.2 (ebook) | DDC 941.03092/2 [B]dc23/eng/20220822
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022038992
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022038993
Ebook ISBN9781101966730
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Marguerite of France, second queen of Edward I. (Stone head in St. Thomass Church, Winchelsea; Historic England Archive)
Edward I. (Wall painting in Westminster Abbey; Angelo Hornak/Alamy Stock Photo)
Canterbury Cathedral. (Rafa Esteve/Wikimedia Commons/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)
Philip IV of France and his children. (Bibliothque nationale de France, MS. Latin 8504, f.IV; Photo Photo Josse/Bridgeman Images)
The wedding of Edward II and Isabella of France at Boulogne Cathedral, 1308. (Chroniques dAngleterre, Jean de Waurin, The British Library, MS. Royal 15, E. 4, f. 295v; British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images)
Isabella of France. (Stone head in Beverley Minster; Holmes Garden Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)
Edward II and Piers Gaveston. (Painting by Marcus Stone, 1872; Private Collection; Tibbut Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)
Eltham Palace. (Illustration by Peter Urmston; Historic England Archive)
Isabella of France. (Stone head on the Oxenbridge tomb, St. Thomass Church, Winchelsea; Historic England Archive)
Woodstock Palace. (The History Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Isabellas daughters, Eleanor of Woodstock and Joan of the Tower. (Weepers on the tomb of John of Eltham in Westminster Abbey; Historic England Archive)
John of Eltham, Isabellas second son. (Tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey; Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
Charles IV welcomes Isabella to Paris, 1325. (Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Bibliothque nationale de France, MS. FR 2643, f.1; Mithra-Index/Bridgeman Images)
Isabella and Roger Mortimer riding to Oxford. (Collection of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall; Bridgeman Images)
Isabella and her army before Hereford, 1326. (Jean de Waurin, Chroniques dAngleterre, British Library; Bridgeman Images)
Despenser died in agony with crowds baying for his blood. (Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo)
The marriage contract of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. (Bonhams)
The cell in Berkeley Castle in which Edward II is said to have been imprisoned. (Christopher Nicholson/Alamy Stock Photo)
Isabella with her son Edward III. (Illuminated treatise by Walter de Milemete, 92, f. 4v; The Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford)
The tomb of Edward II in Gloucester Cathedral. (Maurice Savage/Alamy Stock Photo)
The coronation of Philippa of Hainault, 1330 (Jean Froissart, Chroniques, Bibliothque nationale de France MS. Franais 2675, f. 27r; Bibliothque nationale de France)
Castle Rising, Norfolk. (Double Helix Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
Philippa of Hainault at the Battle of Nevilles Cross, 1346. (Jean Froissart: Chroniques; Bibliothque municipale de Besanon, MS. 864-865, fol. 145 v)
Windsor Castle. (Andrew Michael/Alamy Stock Photo)
Philippa of Hainault intercedes with Edward III for the lives of the burghers of Calais, 1347. (Painting by J. D. Penrose; Classic Image/Alamy Stock Photo)
Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales: the Black Prince. (Tomb effigy in Canterbury Cathedral; Hornak/Alamy Stock Photo)
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. (Portrait in the collection of the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton; Bridgeman Images)
Joan of Woodstock. (Weeper on the tomb of Edward III in Westminster Abbey; Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
The Abbey of St. Bavon, Ghent. (Hum Images/Alamy Stock Photo)
William of Windsor and Blanche of the Tower. (Tomb in Westminster Abbey; Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence. (Weeper on the tomb of Edward III in Westminster Abbey; Dean and Chapter of Westminster)
Philippa of Hainault with her daughter Isabella. (Reconstruction of a medieval mural painting of the kneeling figures of Queen Philippa and one of her daughters. Tempera easel painting by Ernest William Tristram Parliamentary Art Collection, WOA 2913 https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/ )
Edward III. (Tomb effigy, Westminster Abbey; Angelo Hornak/Alamy Stock Photo)
Philippa of Hainault. (Tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey; Angelo Hornak/Alamy Stock Photo)
Richard II. (Detail from the Wilton Diptych, National Gallery, London; Bridgeman Images)
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