Queens of the conquest
Subtitle: England's medieval queens
By: Alison Weir
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9781101966662
Subjects: Queens; Monarchy; Biography; History
Other titles: England's medieval queens.
Description: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women, including Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as the common mother of all England; and Empress Maud, England's first female ruler, whose son King Henry II would go on to found the Plantagenet dynasty"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Also published in Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, a division of Penguin, Random House London, in 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-532) and index.
Table of contents: title: Matilda of Flanders; title: Matilda of Scotland; title: Adeliza of Louvain; title: Matilda of Boulogne and the Empress Maud; title: The Empress Maud.