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3 days ago · Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen. Giles Tremlett. London, Bloomsbury, 2017, ISBN: 9781408853955; 624pp.; Price: £25.00. Reviewer: Elena Woodacre. Winchester University. Citation: Elena Woodacre, review of Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen, (review no. 2125) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2125. Date accessed: 28 April, 2024.
2 days ago · One comes down to Blanche de Castile — the second daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine — and a supposed crusading knight who built a chapel in honor of Saint Christopher on a hill in the Rhône ...
4 days ago · Juana was the daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348) and his third wife Blanca Núñez de Lara de La Cerda. [1] Her mother Blanca (d. 1347) was a descendant of the lords of Biscay and of Lara and of Alfonso X's eldest son, Fernando de la Cerda. She was the last undisputably legitimate member of the House of Ivrea .
4 days ago · Bradbury believes that no other Capetian took his coronation oath more faithfully than Louis: he kept the faith, protected the Church, dispensed good justice and maintained peace at home (p. 202). His mother Blanche of Castile and his wife Margaret of Provence influenced him strongly but never dominated him (p. 203).
5 days ago · Shakespeare’s take on medieval history and John’s tumultuous reign features a number of familiar figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche of Castile, Philip Augustus of France, and William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, alongside a variety of fictional people and events.
1 day ago · This paper, by one of the editors, Anne J. Cruz, emphasizes the lineage of female rule in Early Modern Spain, from Isabel of Castile and her daughter Juana to Isabel of Portugal, wife of Charles V. However, Cruz notes that Juana of Austria’s position was unusual since it was not directly linked to a joint rule with a husband or son.
3 days ago · By Vincenzo De Meulenaere. On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a limp shuffled into the room to deliver a speech that would change the course of the land. The man was Emperor Charles V.
