Also known as Isabelle or Isabella of Valois. The youngest queen on our list, Isabelle became queen when aged 7, and it took quite some propaganda to get Richard to agree to it. Apparently the best way to get a grown man to marry a primary school age kid is to compare her to an elephant... Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audib...
Apr 17, 2016•26 min
Married for her connections to the Holy Roman Empire, Anne of Bohemia was bought for a high price and some may argue they didn't get their money's worth... Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Joan of Kent (wikipedia) T...
Apr 03, 2016•34 min
After the death of Philippa of Hainault, Edward III began to rely on a new woman. But not a queen, and certainly not someone as squeaky clean as his former wife. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Thomas Walsingham (w...
Mar 20, 2016•23 min
Coming off the heels of England's most controversial queen, Philippa of Hainault had a lot to do to rehabilitate the role in the eyes of the English nobility. That she did, thanks to how perfectly matched she and her husband were. Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Children of Philippa of Hainault and Edward III (wikipedia) Jean Froissart (The Online Froissart) Second Scottish War of Independence (wikipedia) Hundred Years War (Lectures in Me...
Mar 13, 2016•34 min
Isabella was now holding the hot potato that was the reigns of power, but England was to find out that her saviour could be corrupted just as easily as her predecessors Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! "All of this ...
Feb 28, 2016•38 min
After Edward's victory in the Despenser War, he was at the high point of his entire reign. Everything was going swimmingly - but these good times would not last forever. His regime had defeated every source of opposition bar one: his wife Isabella. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more info...
Feb 14, 2016•35 min
Isabella of France was the highest-born queen that England had ever had, but her King was hardly the success that her pedigree deserved. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (wikipedia) B...
Jan 31, 2016•37 min
Stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have proliferated for centuries, and so too have tales of his beautiful wife Guinevere. Portrayed as a damsel in distress and adulterous harpie, her portrayal tells us a lot about what medieval writers thought about contemporary queens. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.a...
Jan 17, 2016•25 min
A remarkable woman of Medieval Englandwho was in order a princess, an empress, a countess, a king, a rebel and a Queen Mother. Although she was never crowned, she was the only female king in the history of Medieval England. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics dis...
Jan 03, 2016•35 min
Marrying a man 40 years your senior is not often a portent of domestic harmony, but somehow it seemed to work for Margaret of France. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Philip the Bold of France (wikipedia) Margaret o...
Dec 20, 2015•23 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more informa...
Dec 06, 2015•24 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on t...
Nov 22, 2015•25 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, ...
Nov 08, 2015•28 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Bibliography Norman Invasion of Ireland (wikiped...
Oct 25, 2015•28 min
The wife of Richard the Lionheart, Berengaria is barely known today, and barely noticed while she was alive. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Bibliography The Kingdom of Navarre (wikipedia) Tancred of Sicily (wikipe...
Oct 11, 2015•20 min
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! Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more infor...
Sep 27, 2015•30 min
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... Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on ...
Sep 17, 2015•25 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the topics discussed in the s...
Aug 23, 2015•36 min
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. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to w...
Aug 09, 2015•34 min
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? Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainment. To get a free book when you sign up for a trial membership go to www.audibletrial.com/queens Shownotes For more information on the to...
Jul 26, 2015•19 min
In 1100, Henry I became King of England after the suspicious death of William Rufus, but his accession was contested. To help placate his Anglo-Saxon subjects, he chose as his queen one of their own, the Scottish princess Matilda. She would prove to be far more than just dynastic window-dressing, becoming one of the most powerful queens in English mediaeval history. Sponsor This episode of the Queens of England Podcast is sponsored by Audible, the internet's leading provider of audio entertainme...
Jul 12, 2015•35 min
Following the Norman Conquest, Matilda became the first Norman Queen of England, and while her husband secured his new Kingdom, she kept things ticking over in the Duchy. Things were going pretty well, until her favourite son and her husband's relationship fell apart, putting her in the middle of a war that ripped the family apart, and threatened to destroy everything she had built. Show Notes For more information on the topics discussed in the show, click on these links! Harold swears the oath ...
Jun 28, 2015•27 min
Matilda of Flanders was born to a family that counted as branches of it's family tree practically every important noble house in Northern Europe and so life was expected to be breeze. But as we'll find out, Matilda rarely did things the easy way. This episode looks at some of her immediate predecessors as Queen of England, before covering at the great controversy surrounding her marriage to William the Bastard of Normandy, finally looking at some of her actions as Duchess before the Norman invas...
Jun 14, 2015•26 min
What did it mean to be a queen in Mediaeval England? This seems at first to be a really easy question to answer: you had to marry a King. Simple right? But when you dig deeper this turns out to be a very superficial answer because it doesn't really answer the fundamental aspect of the question. In this episode we discover the traits and qualities that a queen was supposed to have in Mediaeval England, and examine what kinds of power they could wield Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
May 30, 2015•13 min
So this is my first episode! I'm so excited to get started on the show. This episode is just a brief introduction to me and what the show is about. Permalink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 30, 2015•4 min
