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Book Review: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Jun 17, 2021

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, genealogy, religion

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…
Joan Plantagenet Queen of Sicily

Feb 13, 2019

anniversaries, buildings, genealogy

Anjou, Berengaria, Commenus, Crusades, Cyprus, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fontevrault, Henry II, Holy Land, Italy, Joan Plantagenet, Les Casses, Messina, Palermo Cathedral, Plantagenets, Poitiers, Raymond VI of Toulouse, Richard I, Roen, Saladin, Sicily, Tancred, Toulouse, Winchester

Being a Sicilian living in the UK, I am fond of both countries’ history. I have often wondered if there was a link between these two islands and I soon found one: Joan Plantagenet Queen of Sicily. The story of this woman is so interesting and compelling especially because Joan was a very strong and…
THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY

Dec 2, 2016

buildings

Amesbury Abbey, Arthur Plantagenet, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edmund Crouchback, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Castile, Eleanor of Provence, Fontevrault, Henry II, Henry III, Hexham, Isabel of Lancaster, John, John de Warenne, John Lord Wenlock, Margaret lady Hungerford, Mary of Woodstock, Plantagenets, Reformation, Richard I, Richard III, Robert Baron hungerford, ruins, Stonehenge

The palatial 17thc mansion called Amesbury Abbey (now a private nursing home) stands in beautiful landscaped gardens near the curve of the Avon and on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage Landscape. The original monastic building from which it takes its name, the Fontrevraudine Priory of Amesbury, is long gone, a victim of Henry…

Fontevrault

Book Review: Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Joan Plantagenet Queen of Sicily

THE LOST PRIORY OF AMESBURY