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Queens at War
First published 2025
The final volume of England’s Medieval Queens follows the consorts and female claimants of the fifteenth century through Lancastrian collapse, Yorkist rule and the rise of the Tudors. Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth of York confront civil war, exile, disputed succession and the disappearance of heirs. Their lives reveal how women sustained dynastic claims and exercised power during the Wars of the Roses.
The women’s careers demonstrate how dynastic warfare extended beyond the battlefield. Marriage, guardianship, household patronage and the custody of children could preserve a claim when an army was defeated, while exile created networks that crossed national borders. Their stories show the Wars of the Roses as a conflict sustained through families and inheritance as much as through male military leadership.
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