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Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen
Sara Cockerill
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Description for Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen
Paperback. The untold story of the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I. Num Pages: 432 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 302.
Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her prodigiously clever brother (King Alfonso X the Learned). Married at the age of twelve and a mother at thirteen, she gave birth to at least sixteen children, most of whom died young. She was a prisoner for a year amid a civil ... Read more
Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her prodigiously clever brother (King Alfonso X the Learned). Married at the age of twelve and a mother at thirteen, she gave birth to at least sixteen children, most of whom died young. She was a prisoner for a year amid a civil ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445660264
SKU
V9781445660264
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Ref
99-2
About Sara Cockerill
Sara Cockerill studied Law at the University of Oxford. She is a practising QC specialising in commercial law, and the author of a leading specialist legal text. She has had a lifelong interest in English history and has devoted her spare time over the past ten years to researching the life of Eleanor of Castile. She is married with one ... Read more
Reviews for Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen
`A brilliant new life of one of the most surprising powers behind England's medieval throne'
DAN JONES, bestselling author of The Plantagenets Tracy Borman's Book of the Year 2014: `A compelling and intricately researched biography that brings one of history's most fascinating, influential yet neglected queens out of the shadows.'
Tracy Borman, Joint Chief Curator for Historic Royal ... Read more
DAN JONES, bestselling author of The Plantagenets Tracy Borman's Book of the Year 2014: `A compelling and intricately researched biography that brings one of history's most fascinating, influential yet neglected queens out of the shadows.'
Tracy Borman, Joint Chief Curator for Historic Royal ... Read more