The Royal Bastards of Medieval England

ISBN-13: 9781032635217 / Twarda / 2023 / 218 str.

Alice Curteis

Opis

First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements 1. The English royal family in the Middle Ages 2. Marriage and divorce 3. Sex, love and illegitimacy 4. Henry I’s bastards 5. Robert of Gloucester 6. Gervais of Blois 7. Henry II’s bastards 8. Geoffrey ‘Plantagent’ 9. The bastards of Richard I and King John 10. Sir John de Southeray 11. Sir Roger de Clarendon 12. Katherine Swynford and the Beauforts 13. Allegations of bastardy in the fifteenth-century royal family 14. Yorkist royal bastards 15. Arthur Plantagent Postscript Appendix Note on sources Index of names and places Subject index

O autorze

Chris Given-Wilson and Alice Curteis