To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses?the series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England?were known collectively as a?cousins war." The struggle that ultimately brought into being the Tudor dynasty was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since.
Our noble mother - Epilogue - Acknowledgments - A note on sources - Notes - Selected bibliography - Illustration credits - Index Captivating and original, this is historical writing of the most important kind.Table of contents - A note on names - Glossary of select names - Simplified family tree - Prologue - pt. Sarah Gristwood tells their stories in detail for the first time. Until now, the lives of these women have remained little known to the general public. She examines Cecily Neville, the wife of Richard Duke of York, who was deprived of being queen when her husband died at the Battle of Wakefield Elizabeth Woodville, a widow with several children who married Edward IV in secret and was crowned queen consort Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, whose ambitions centred on her son and whose persuasions are likely to have lead her husband Lord Stanley, previously allied with the Yorkists, to play his part in Henry's victory. In this completely original book, acclaimed author Sarah Gristwood sheds light on a neglected dimension of English history: the impact of Tudor women on the Wars of the Roses. These years were also packed with women's drama and – in the tales of conflicted maternity and monstrous births – alive with female energy. The reality though, argues Sarah Gristwood, was quite different.
The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved Richard, Duke of York, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. It is a fiery history of Queens, the perils of power and of how the Wars of the Roses were ended – not by knights in battle, but the sinewy political skills of women. From best-selling historian, Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa Gregory’s recent novels – the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty.
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