Queens of the Crusades

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The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe. Through the story of the first five Plantagenet queens (Eleanor of Aquitaine, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angoulême, Alienor of Provence, Eleanor of Castile), Weir provides a new perspective on a dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics, with determined women at its heart