Katherine Swynford

Weir, Alison

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Alison Weir recounts one of the greatest and most remarkable love stories of medieval England. It is the extraordinary tale of an exceptional woman, Katherine Swynford, who became first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

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Publish Date: 07/08/2008

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Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book’ Scotland on Sunday

The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman.

Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries.

In this impressive book, Alison Weir has triumphantly rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. She was the mother of the Beaufort, then the ancestress of the Yorkist kings, the Tudors, the Stuarts and every other sovereign since – a prodigious legacy that has shaped the history of Britain.

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Weight 364 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 32 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

366

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.037092 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K