Stay ConnectedToo often when we think about the history of a country we think only of kings, lords, castles, and battles. When we think of queens we think of rulers like Elizabeth I and Victoria, but what about the queens who sat beside their warrior husbands? This podcast is an alternative history of Medieval and Early Modern England, seen through the lives of its queens
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After returning from crusade and being crowned queen, Eleanor of Castile rejected the usual life of a queen to become a hard-nosed woman of business. This did not endear her to her tenants, but does make her a very unusual and fascinating queen.
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Walter of Guisborough (wikipedia)
Edward I's wars in Wales (History Net)
Counties of England (Put Learning First)
Alfonso X of Castile (wikipedia)
Sancho IV of Castile (wikipedia)
Margaret Maid of Norway (wikipedia)
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Another queen from Southern Europe, Eleanor of Castile's had quite a time before she became queen, including some birthing a bunch of kids and helping her husband through war, war and more war.
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Ferdinand III of Castile (wikipedia)
Abbey of Las Huelgas (wikipedia)
Dante's Divine Comedy (wikipedia)
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Eleanor of Provence was yet another foreign queen parachuted into England at a very young age, but she would end up wielding more power and being more controversial than the previous two queens combined.
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List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign (wikipedia)
Ramon IV of Provence (wikipedia)
Provisions of Oxford (wikipedia)
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Isabelle was yet another French queen to marry an Angevin, and John wasn't about to treat his wife any better than his forebears had.
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Norman Invasion of Ireland (wikipedia)
Robert of Gloucester (wikipedia)
Aymer of Angoulême (wikipedia)
Hugh IX of Luisgnan (wikipedia)
Battle of Bouvines (wikipedia)
Battle of Taillebourg (wikipedia)
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The wife of Richard the Lionheart, Berengaria is barely known today, and barely noticed while she was alive.
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The Kingdom of Navarre (wikipedia)
Emperor Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (wikipedia)
Sodom and Gomorrah (wikipedia)
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After years in captivity where her husband and sons warred for control of the kingdom, Eleanor of Aquitaine was finally released from prison on the death of her husband. Her new task: bail out her sons when they got into trouble. And boy did they!
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The Lion in Winter (wikipedia)
William Longchamps (wikipedia)
The Capture and Imprisonment of Richard I (www.angus-donald.com)
The Letters of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Pope Celestine III (Medieval Women's Latin Letters)
Abbey of Fontevrault (wikipedia)
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After getting her annulment from Louis, Eleanor waited about two seconds before becoming Henry II's wife and Queen of England. At first she was content to squeeze out babies, but not for long...
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Map of the Angevin Empire (Fordham University, Intenet History Sourcebook Project)
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Court of Love (abouteducation)
De Amore or About Love (wikipedia)
The Children of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (wikipedia)
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When her father died, Eleanor of Aquitaine became the richest heiress in Europe, and was quickly married to the French king. The king was quiet, pious and meek. Eleanor was... none of those things. Cue chaos.
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The Lion in Winter (wikipedia)
President Bartlet's endorsement of The Lion in Winter in The West Wing (youtube)
History of Aquitaine (wikipedia)
Troubador Poems by William IX of Aquitaine (go to www.queensofenglandpodcast.com for the audio links)
Map of France in 1154 - The Aquitaine of Eleanor's birth comprised of the the Duchies of Aquitaine, Gascony and County of Poitou (also known as Poitiers)
The Occitan language (wikipedia)
Adela of Blois, also known as Adela of Normandy (wikipedia)
History of the Crusades Podcast (iTunes)
Map of the Crusader States (wikipedia)
Battle of Mount Cadmus (wikipedia)
Raymond, Prince of Antioch (wikipedia)
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Henry I was dead and anarchy ensues when Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda fight for the throne. Yet Stephen's cause would have collapsed into nothing without the efforts of his remarkable wife Matilda of Boulogne - a woman who was peerless in the art of diplomacy and not to be messed with.
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White Ship Disaster (wikipedia)
Empress Matilda (History in an Hour)
County of Boulogne (wikipedia)
Eustace of Boulogne - Matilda's father (wikipedia)
Robert of Gloucester - (englishmonarchs.co.uk)
Battle of the Standard, also known as the Battle of Northallerton (UK Battlefields Trust)
The Rout of Winchester (wikipedia)
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After the White Ship sank taking the cream of England's nobility with it, Henry needed to find a new wife so that he could replace his dead son. He chose a woman nearly half his age, but surely that meant she'd be fertile... right?
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William Adelin - only legitimate son of Henry I (wikipedia)
Godfrey I of Louvain (wikipedia)
Voyage of St Brendan (wikipedia)
Reading Abbey (official website)
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