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

Category: History
Language: English
Keywords: History Nonfiction

Written by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
Read by Christine Rendel
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealised - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I. The lives of these sisters - Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth - ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Living as they did in a courtly culture founded on romantic longing and brilliant pageantry, they knew that a princess was to be chaste yet a mother to many children, preferably sons, meek yet able to influence a recalcitrant husband or even command a host of men-at-arms