Blood Sisters
The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Washington : Basic Books, 2013.
Format: Ebook
Description: 1 online resource (433 pages)
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.
Contents:
Table of Contents; A Note on Names; Glossary of Select Names; Simplified Family Tree; Prologue; PART I: 1445-1460, LANCASTER; 1. Fatal Marriage; 2. ""The Red Rose and the White""; 3. ""A Woman's Fear""; 4. ""No Women's Matters""; 5. ""Captain Margaret""; 6. ""Mightiness Meets Misery""; PART II: 1460-1471; 7. ""To Love a King""; 8. ""Fortune's Pageant""; 9. ""Domestic Broils""; 10. ""That Was a Queen""; PART III: 1471-1483; 11. ""My Lovely Queen""; 12. ""Fortune's Womb""; 13. Mother of Griefs; 14. ""A Golden Sorrow""; PART IV: 1483-1485; 15. ""Weeping Queens""; 16. ""Innocent Blood""
17. ""Look to Your Wife""18. ""Anne My Wife""; 19. ""In Bosworth Field""; PART V: 1485-1509; 20. ""True Succeeders""; 21. ""Golden Sovereignty""; 22. ""The Edge of Traitors""; 23. ""Civil Wounds""; 24. Like a Queen Inter Me; 25. ""Our Noble Mother""; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index
17. ""Look to Your Wife""18. ""Anne My Wife""; 19. ""In Bosworth Field""; PART V: 1485-1509; 20. ""True Succeeders""; 21. ""Golden Sovereignty""; 22. ""The Edge of Traitors""; 23. ""Civil Wounds""; 24. Like a Queen Inter Me; 25. ""Our Noble Mother""; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index
Subjects:
Plantagenet, House of.
Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482.
York, Cecily, Duchess of, 1415-1495.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492.
Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485.
Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503.
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509.
Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509.
Plantagenet, House of.
Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482.
York, Cecily, Duchess of, 1415-1495.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492.
Anne, Queen, consort of Richard III, King of England, 1456-1485.
Margaret, of York, Duchess, consort of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1446-1503.
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Henry VII, King of England, 1465-1503.
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, 1443-1509.
Great Britain -- History -- Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VII, 1485-1509.
ISBN:
9780465065981
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