Queens of the Crusades

Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years.

This remarkable recreation of the action-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout the bloody 1200s, a particularly dramatic and violent period of European history. Wars, crusades, treachery, murder, passion, and the interplay between rival monarchs of Britain and France provide a surprising picture of these five ambitious women and their struggle for power.

The queens covered in the book are Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme, Alienor of Provence and Eleanor of Castile. One of these queens became legendary when, accompanying her husband on crusade, she saved his life by sucking the blood from his poisoned-arrow wound. Equally intriguing are the descriptions of their marriages, including one that was extremely tempestuous, and one that was a love match turned sour when the jealous husband discovered his queen's infidelity and retaliated by killing her lovers and hanging their bodies from the canopy of her bed.

This second volume of historian Alison Weir's critically acclaimed Medieval Queens series brings these unfamiliar, fascinating royals to life, demonstrating how very much they resemble self-determining women of our own time.

Plina de povesti adevarate incredibile si legendare intrigi medievale, aceasta istorie narationala epica relateaza primele cinci regine din puternica familie regala care a condus Anglia si Franta timp de peste trei sute de ani. Aceasta recreere remarcabila a secolului plin de actiune care a vazut uciderea lui Thomas Becket si semnarea Magna Carta acopera viata si domnia primelor cinci regine Plantagenet, care au condus Anglia si Franta de-a lungul sangeroaselor 1200, o perioada deosebit de dramatica si violenta a istoriei europene.