02995cam a2200337 a 4500 5463158 OSt 20151008155747.0 050418s2005 nyuab b 001 0beng 2005045383 0345453190 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm60373641 (NNC)5463158 DLC DLC BAKER C#P NNC OrLoB-B e-uk--- DA231.I83 W45 2005 942.03/6/092 B 22 Weir, Alison, 1951- Queen Isabella : treachery, adultery, and murder in medieval England / Alison Weir. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2005. xxi, 487 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-466) and index. "Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England's throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed she became an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella's political machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, "the She-Wolf of France."" "Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, history's other notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a passionate affair with Edward II's mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer. Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and ruling in his stead as co-regent's for Isabella's young son, Edward III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her lover." "Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabella's story. She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward II's brutal murder in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder even took place. Isabella's reputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison Weir gives a new perspective on Isabella, in this first full biography in more than 150 years."--BOOK JACKET. Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 1292-1358. Queens Great Britain Biography. Great Britain History Edward II, 1307-1327 Biography. TOC lcc BK 20051130 a rad1 MPS 250347 250347 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2015-10-08 3 DA231.I83 W45 2005 20154392 2019-10-22 2019-10-08 2015-10-08 BK