She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth / Helen Castor.
Castor, Helen.
2011
DA28.2 .C37 2011 (Mapit)
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Title She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth / Helen Castor.
Author Castor, Helen.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780061430763
0061430765
9780061430770 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
0061430773 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint New York : HarperCollins, c2011.
Language English
Description xv, 480 p. : col. ill., maps, geneal. tables ; 24 cm.
Call Number DA28.2 .C37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 942.009/9
Summary When Edward VI died in 1553, the extraordinary fact was that there was no one left to claim the title of king of England. For the first time, England would have a reigning queen, but the question was which one: Katherine of Aragon's daughter, Mary; Anne Boleyn's daughter, Elizabeth; or one of their cousins, Lady Jane Grey or Mary, Queen of Scots. But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edward's death, Matilda, daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conqueror, came tantalizingly close to securing the crown for herself. And between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries three more exceptional women -- Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou -- discovered how much was possible if presumptions of male rule were not confronted so explicitly, and just how quickly they might be vilified as "she-wolves" for their pains. The stories of these women, told here in all their vivid detail, expose the paradox that female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman, and the king was the head of all. How, then, could royal power lie in female hands?-- From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Beginnings. July 6, 1553 : the king is dead
Long live the queen?
Matilda : Lady of England. This land grew dark
Mathilda imperatrix
Lady of England
Greatest in her offspring
Eleanor : an incomparable woman. An incomparable woman
The war without love
By the wrath of God, queen of England
Surpassing almost all the queens of this world
Isabella : iron lady. One man so loved another
Dearest and most powerful
"Someone has come between my husband and myself"
Iron lady
Margaret : a great and strong laboured woman. Our lady sovereign
A great and strong laboured woman
Might and power
The queen sustains us
New beginnings. July 6, 1553 : Long live the queen
Not of ladies' capacity
A queen and by the same title a king also.

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