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Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen - Softcover

Cockerill, Sara

 
9781445660264: Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1445660261 ISBN 13: 9781445660264
Verlag: Amberley Publishing, 2016

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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 war in which her husband’s life was in acute danger. Devoted to Edward, she accompanied him everywhere. All in all, she was to live for extended periods in five different countries.Eleanor was a highly dynamic, forceful personality who acted as part of Edward’s innermost circle of advisers, and successfully accumulated a vast property empire for the English Crown. In cultural terms her influence in architecture and design – and even gardening – can be discerned to this day, while her idealised image still speaks to us from Edward’s beautiful memorials to her, the Eleanor crosses. This book reveals her untold story.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 cat, and divides her time between London and the seaside. For more information, see www.saracockerill.com

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Verlag
Amberley Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1445660261
ISBN 13 
9781445660264
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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