Queen of conquests. Wair E.

The life of the medieval queens of England was saturated with events - love, intrigues, betrayals, marital treason and wars. But after many centuries, the details of their biographies were erased from historical memory, and the actually occurred in the interpretation of biographers of subsequent centuries has become overgrown with legendary details. The recognized master of the biographical genre Alison Wayr offers to touch the most reliable sources in order to separate the true life of several of these outstanding women from the centuries -old raid of romantic traditions and return their legal place in history.

This monumental royal saga covers the years from the Norman conquest of 1066 to 1154, when Henry II and his wife Alienora Aquitaine became the first queen of plantageneta. Other heroines of this documentary epic: Wilhelm’s wife, conqueror Matilda Flanders, Matilda Scottish, revered as “Mother of all the British”, and Empress Mod, the first woman-ruler of England, whose son, King Henry II, later founded the Plantagenet dynasty.