Eleanor Countess of Bar
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Book Review: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
Abbesses, Agnes Strickland, Amesbury, Daughters of Chivalry, Edmund Earl of Kent, Edward I, Edward II, Eleanor Countess of Bar, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, Fontevrault, France, Gilbert de Clare, Helen Castor, Henri de Bar, Henry III, Humphrey de Bohun, Joan of Acre, John Count of Holland, John II of Brabant, Kelcey Wilson-Lee, Lincoln Castle, Margaret of Brabant, Mary of Woodstock, mediaeval women, Nicola de la Haie, nuns, Sarah Gristwood, sieges, Thomas of Brotherton
Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having enjoyed ‘Blood Sisters’ and ‘Game of Queens’ by Sarah Gristwood and Helen Castor’s ‘She-Wolves’, I was interested to read this book on the daughters of Edward I and it is very much in-line with their re-evaluations of the lives of aristocratic medieval and renaissance women and their too-often…
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