Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen

Eleanor, the Firebrand Queen

Helen Rayson-Hill

26,60 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Biografía: realeza
ISBN:
9781922332370
26,60 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Eleanor of Aquitaine is intelligent and beautiful, her immense wealth desired by kings. Her father’s dying wish places the young heiress under the guardianship of King Louis VI of France, who marries her to his monkish son. The pious French Court considers her education and intellect shameful. She is accused of emulating men, regarded as her betters. It is emphasised she is there to breed, look decorative, and keep her eloquent mouth shut.Eleanor longs to break free. The opportunity arises to lead an army on the Second Crusade. Eleanor grasps the chance and rides to the Holy Land accompanying Louis, now king. In Antioch, the young Queen discovers unexpected love and a prophesy. Her disastrous marriage to Louis is annulled at her request. Single, Eleanor attracts unwanted adventurers. Ambushed, she evades capture realising she must remarry. She weds young Henry Plantagenet, attractive and no monk, beginning a mighty dynasty.Eleanor could be regarded as an early feminist.This is Book 1 in a series about Eleanor.

Artículos relacionados

  • Edward VII
    Christopher Hibbert
    To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was 'poor Bertie,' to his wife he was 'my dear little man,' while the President of France called him 'a great English king,' and the German Kaiser condemned him as 'an old peacock.' King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert ...
    Disponible

    20,70 €

  • A Brief History of Queen Elizabeth II - Duty, Diplomacy, and Decades on the Throne
    Scott Matthews
    Curious about how a young princess navigated her path to become a global symbol of strength and stability? Eager to delve into the illustrious reign of one of the world’s most iconic monarchs? Ready to explore the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II?A Brief History of Queen Elizabeth II unravels the captivating story of the longest-reigning British monarch. This book isn’t jus...
    Disponible

    12,51 €

  • A Brief History of Queen Elizabeth II - Duty, Diplomacy, and Decades on the Throne
    Scott Matthews
    Curious about how a young princess navigated her path to become a global symbol of strength and stability? Eager to delve into the illustrious reign of one of the world’s most iconic monarchs? Ready to explore the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II?A Brief History of Queen Elizabeth II unravels the captivating story of the longest-reigning British monarch. This book isn’t jus...
  • A Vida E O Ilustre Martírio De Sir Thomas More
    Thomas Stapleton
    No final do século XV, nascia na Inglaterra aquele que seria uma de suas maiores mentes, uma luz para a formação intelectual, moral e espiritual de todos de seu tempo e dos tempos que viriam após sua morte: Thomas More, hoje Santo. Ou melhor, Santo desde tenra idade, seguiu com grande sucesso a carreira de advogado, galgando os mais elevados degraus da vida pública, indo desde ...
    Disponible

    23,87 €

  • The King’s Wife
    Valerie Irvine
    ...
  • Olonana ole Mbatian
    Peter Ndege
    Olonana ole Mbatian, popularly known as Lenana, was one of the most outstanding Masai and Kenyan leaders, African chief and Laibon (prophet/visionary), whose life spanned the second half of the nineteenth, and the first decade of the twentieth centuries. He lived through and influenced a crucial period in Kenya’s history: when the Masai were engaged in nation building, the...
    Disponible

    52,74 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Tigress Caged
    Helen Rayson-Hill
    In the third volume of the Eleanor of Acquitaine novels, Eleanor finds herself torn between her early love for Henry II of England and resistance to his constant bullying of her and her sons in his fear of being superceded by his ambitious offspring.His paranoia leads him to imprison her to curtail her powers, but this makes her only more determined to resist him and defend her...
    Disponible

    27,62 €

  • The Lion and the Tigress
    Helen Rayson-Hill
    In the second book from the Eleanor of Aquitaine Series, as the blind seer from Antioch predicted, Eleanor marries the love of her life, Henry II of England. Passion rules the marriage as alpha male and alpha female compete for dominance. Meanwhile, to drag his war-torn kingdom back from the brink of anarchy, Henry must rely on the resources of the Eleanor’s Aquitaine. Marriage...
    Disponible

    27,55 €