The Women of the Cousins' War : : the Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother

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Call Number: 942.04 Gr
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Family tree: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother -- Battles in the Cousins' War: timeline and map -- Introduction ; Jacquetta of Luxembourg / Philippa Gregory -- Elizabeth Woodville / David Baldwin -- Margaret Beaufort / Michael Jones.
In this unique illustrated presentation, Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.

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The history behind the novels submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 26, 2017, 2:52pm Although the books lists "New York Times" best selling author Philippa Gregory as its author, historians David Baldwin and Michael Jones actually wrote most of the content. This non-fiction account of three of the women who were key players in the War of the Roses (or Cousins' War, as it was called at the time) describes the lives of three narrators in various Gregory novels: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford (an ancestor of Henry VIII), English Queen Elizabeth Woodville, and Henry VIII's mother Margaret Beaufort.
The book includes much of the graphic violence that really was common in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, so readers should take care. It also includes a very helpful family tree as the relationships between the various players in the war and the re-use of names can become quite confusing.
I found it quite interesting to learn just how much of Gregory's stories was verifiably true, how much was based on contemporary rumors and how much she invented (relatively little).
Note: this book is about the War of the Roses or Cousins' War, not the English Civil War, which took place in the 17th century.