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What is Better than a Good Woman?

- Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch
Af: Michele Schindler Engelsk Hardback

What is Better than a Good Woman?

- Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch
Af: Michele Schindler Engelsk Hardback
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Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of fifteenth-century England. Widowed, remarkably enough, at the age of 11, that ‘marriage’ nevertheless set her on the road to power and riches. Her second husband, the Earl of Salisbury, would die at the Siege of Orléans during the Hundred Years War. Her third husband, William de la Pole, was Henry VI’s Chief Minister ‒ and paid for that allegiance with his life, murdered and thrown into the English Channel.Alice survived all this and more – including a state trial in 1451 – and at the same time was a patron of the arts, commissioning artworks depicting empowered historical female characters, notably St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Alice possessed a large library. As late as 1472, Alice became custodian of Margaret of Anjou, her former friend and patron. She ruthlessly protected the inheritance of her son John de la Pole, and three of his four sons would pursue the Yorkist claim to the throne against Henry VII: they would all die in the attempt. Is it going too far to call Alice Chaucer a proto-feminist? If one considers her choices of subject matter as an art patron, it might not be.
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Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of fifteenth-century England. Widowed, remarkably enough, at the age of 11, that ‘marriage’ nevertheless set her on the road to power and riches. Her second husband, the Earl of Salisbury, would die at the Siege of Orléans during the Hundred Years War. Her third husband, William de la Pole, was Henry VI’s Chief Minister ‒ and paid for that allegiance with his life, murdered and thrown into the English Channel.Alice survived all this and more – including a state trial in 1451 – and at the same time was a patron of the arts, commissioning artworks depicting empowered historical female characters, notably St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Alice possessed a large library. As late as 1472, Alice became custodian of Margaret of Anjou, her former friend and patron. She ruthlessly protected the inheritance of her son John de la Pole, and three of his four sons would pursue the Yorkist claim to the throne against Henry VII: they would all die in the attempt. Is it going too far to call Alice Chaucer a proto-feminist? If one considers her choices of subject matter as an art patron, it might not be.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781398109698
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 139810969X
Kategori: Wars of the Roses
Udg. Dato: 15 jul 2024
Længde: 37mm
Bredde: 164mm
Højde: 242mm
Forlag: Amberley Publishing
Oplagsdato: 15 jul 2024
Forfatter(e): Michele Schindler
Forfatter(e) Michele Schindler

Kategori Wars of the Roses

ISBN-13 9781398109698

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 37mm

Bredde 164mm

Højde 242mm

Udg. Dato 15 jul 2024

Oplagsdato 15 jul 2024

Forlag Amberley Publishing

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