Medieval Royal Mistresses
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Medieval Royal Mistresses

Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes

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eBook - ePub

Medieval Royal Mistresses

Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes

About this book

Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world that included kidnap, poison, murder, violation, public shaming and accusations of witchcraft. Ambition and quick wits as well as beauty were essential attributes for any royal mistress. Infamy, assassination and imprisonment awaited some royal mistresses who tumbled from favour while others disappeared into obscurity or respectable lives as married women and were quickly forgotten. Meet Nest of Wales, born in turbulent times, whose abduction started a war; Alice Perrers and Jane Shore labelled 'whores' and 'wantons'; Katherine Swynford who turned the medieval world upside down with a royal happy-ever-after and Rosamund Clifford who left history and stepped into legend. Discover how serial royal womanisers married off their discarded mistresses to bind their allies close. Explore the semi-official roles of some mistresses; the illegitimate children who became kings; secret marriage ceremonies; Edith Forne Sigulfson and Lady Eleanor Talbot who sought atonement through religion as well as the aristocratic women who became the victims of royal lust. Most of the shameful women who shared the beds of medieval kings were silenced, besmirched or consigned to the footnotes of a patriarchal worldview but they negotiated paths between the private and public spheres of medieval court life - changing history as they went.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword History
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781399081955
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. FM
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Queen Emma and Ælfgifu of Northampton
  11. Chapter 2 Edith Swanneck and her Daughter Gunnhild
  12. Chapter 3 Herleva of Falaise
  13. Chapter 4 Maud Peverel
  14. Chapter 5 Robert of Gloucester’s Mother and Ansfride of Seacourt
  15. Chapter 6 Nest of Wales
  16. Chapter 7 Sybilla Corbet
  17. Chapter 8 Edith Forne Sigulfson and the Unknown Mothers of King Henry I’s Illegitimate Children
  18. Chapter 9 Elizabeth de Vermondois and her Daughter Isabel de Beaumont
  19. Chapter 10 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ykenai, Annabel de Baliol and the Count of Brittany’s Daughter
  20. Chapter 11 Rosamund Clifford, Ida de Tosny, Alys of France, Nesta and BelleBelle
  21. Chapter 12 Ela de Warenne, Constance, Clemencia and Agatha de Ferrers and Isabella of AngoulĂȘme
  22. Chapter 13 Magna Carta Mistresses
  23. Chapter 14 Piers Gaveston, the Tour de Nesle Affair and the Consequences of Adultery
  24. Chapter 15 Hugh Despenser, Roger Mortimer, Unhappy Marriages and the Further Consequences of Adultery
  25. Chapter 16 Katherine Mortimer and Margaret Drummond
  26. Chapter 17 Alice Perrers
  27. Chapter 18 Katherine Swynford
  28. Chapter 19 Elizabeth Wayte
  29. Chapter 20 Lady Eleanor Talbot Butler and Elizabeth Woodville
  30. Chapter 21 Jane Shore
  31. Glossary
  32. Appendices: English Kings, their Mistresses and Children Listed in Chronological Order
  33. Notes
  34. Bibliography
  35. Acknowledgements
  36. Plates Section