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Edward II
The dramatic life and mysterious death of the reviled Edward II, focusing on the vivid personality of the erratic and contradictory king, his unorthodox lifestyle and his passionate relationships with his male favourites, including Piers Gaveston
Richard II
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
Philippa of Hainault
Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.
Isabella of France
The fascinating story of the exceptional woman who wrested power from Edward II and changed the course of English history
The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family
The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps lover.
John of Gaunt
The first biography to tell the personal story of the wealthiest, most powerful and most hated man in medieval England.
The Granddaughters of Edward III
Edward III may be known for his restoration of English kingly authority after the disastrous and mysterious fall of his father, Edward II, and eventual demise of his mother, Queen Isabella. It was Edward III who arguably put England on the map as a military might. This show of power and strength was not simply through developments in government, success in warfare or the establishment of the Order of the Garter, which fused ideals of chivalry and national identity to form camaraderie between king and peerage. The expansion of England as a formidable European powerhouse was also achieved through the traditional lines of political marriages, particularly those of the king of England’s own gr...
Long Live the King
Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable document, an alternative narrative has presented itself: that Edward escaped from Berkeley Castle and made his way to an Italian hermitage. In Long Live the King, medieval historian Kathryn Warner explores in detail Edward's downfall and forced abdication in 1326/27, the role possibly played by his wife Isabella of France, the wide variation in chronicle accounts of his murder at Berkeley Castle and the fascinating possibility that Edward lived on in Italy for many years after his official funeral was held in Gloucester in December 1327.
Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters
“A great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd The de Clare sisters Eleanor, Margaret and Elizabeth were born in the 1290s as the eldest granddaughters of King Edward I of England and his Spanish queen Eleanor of Castile, and were the daughters of the greatest nobleman in England, Gilbert “the Red” de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. They grew to adulthood during the turbulent reign of their uncle Edward II, and all three of them were married to men involved in intense, probably romantic or sexual, relationships with their uncle. When their elder brother Gilbert de Cl...
Kathryn Kuhlman
Kathryn Kuhlman was a woman worth knowing. Wherever she went, both miracles and controversy followed. She mesmerized her audiences, who watched as cripples skipped across platforms and men and women fell over "under the power of the Spirit." Here is the engaging, true story, complete with photos, of this elusive, enigmatic, and energetic woman who would stop at nothing in her tenacious struggle to serve God and respond to his call. .
