The #AngloPortugueseAlliance was invoked during World War II, & reiterated in the Bilateral Declaration of 2022, with more celebrations planned in 2023. It is said to be the world's longest-lasting peace treaty - & it got off to a good start when a young woman far from home made a success of her arranged marriage. 🧵 14/14

#Portugal #peacemaking #legacy #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

#EdwardIII #JohnOfGaunt #PhilippaOfLancaster #14thCentury #medieval #history #histodons #medievodons @medievodons

#AnneOfGloucester grew up with the library of #Pleshey Castle, commissioned & collected by the #bibliophile #Bohun family, & catalogued in 1397 when her father was arrested. #WomensHistory prompts reflection on household culture, role models, generational influence - & how both we & kings may struggle with inner demons.

🎨 made for Anne's mother, #EleanorDeBohun. 🧵 13/

#BookOfHours #Psalter #digitised #manuscript #OpenAccess #MedievalWomen #medieval #medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

Thinking about #MedievalWomen also casts new light on the men. #JohnOfGaunt gave lavish tips to messengers bringing news of his brother's babies, & not only for the firstborn son. When #AnneOfGloucester arrived he rode over to #Pleshey, bestowed lavish gifts, & tipped the 'rokestare' who rocked the baby in her cradle.
@ANDictionary notes this use of an old English word in the Anglo-Norman context of Gaunt's register: https://www.anglo-norman.net/entry/rokestare 🧵 12/
#medieval #rockstar #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

The 16 children of #JoanBeaufort included 3 duchesses, 1 earl, 1 countess, 3 barons, 1 baroness, 1 bishop & a nun; grandchildren later included #WarwickTheKingmaker & 2 kings. Joan had been born illegitimate. Despite a lifesize memorial in #Staindrop next to her husband #RalphNeville, she chose to be buried in #LincolnCathedral alongside her mother #KatherineSwynford, long-term mistress & eventually wife of #JohnOfGaunt. 🧵 11/
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#AnneOfGloucester became Countess of Stafford, then married #WilliamBourchier who fought at #Agincourt. They're both buried at #LlanthonySecunda Priory in #Gloucester, of which her maternal #Bohun family were patrons. It's now open to visitors, with a wonderful 45min #documentary on its history, the #LlanthonyCarol & the importance of #Llanthony #manuscripts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahKyk6ApxqM 🧵 10/

#Augustinian #library #CorpusChristi #medieval #medievodons @medievodons
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#ConstanceOfYork was pregnant with her 3rd child when her husband was beheaded by a Bristol mob after participating in the #EpiphanyRising of 1400; she later bore an illegitimate daughter to the Earl of Kent. After she declared the teenage Edmund Mortimer to be the true king & arranged for the Mortimer boys to be abducted from #WindsorCastle, her cousin #HenryIV confiscated her assets & confined her to #KenilworthCastle - but only temporarily. 🧵 9/
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#PhilippaDeCoucy was married in childhood to #RobertDeVere, who became notorious for an 'obscene familiarity' with #RichardII & then for abducting a lady-in-waiting of the Queen: Robert's mother #MaudUfford invited Philippa to live with her at #GreatBentley. Robert fled after the Battle of #RadcotBridge, never to be seen in England again.
📷 the Vere family badge of the boar was a pun: Latin, verres. 🧵 8/
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@ANDictionary
#rocker & #rockstar, most apt! 🤣
I’m curious which baby #JohnOfGaunt would have been celebrating in 1382, or paying for care? since now writing a thread about #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII. #KathrynWarner mentions cash gifts to the nurse & squire who brought news of a son born to his brother #ThomasOfWoodstock & #EleanorDeBohun, but, “fille” - so maybe another baby in the household?

The father & husband of #MarieDeCoucy were both captured at the #BattleOfNicopolis & died in subsequent plague outbreaks: Enguerrand in prison, Henri on the way home after ransom. Marie inherited vast estates, including the mighty castle of #Coucy, then spent years in land disputes with her stepmother & sisters as well as powerful outsiders. When she died suddenly, poisoning was rumoured but unproven. 🧵 7/
One of many evocative images at http://coucy.cpa.free.fr/
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#JohnOfGaunt & his 2nd wife Costanza (Constance) gave up her claim to the throne of #Castile when their daughter Catherine married the heir to King Juan. She was 15; her husband Enrique was 9. Two years later the king died after falling from his horse & she became Queen Catalina, acting as regent during the minority of Enrique. When Enrique died leaving a 1yr-old heir, she was regent for their son. 🧵 6/
#CatherineOfLancaster #medieval #tomb #angels #Toledo #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

An arranged marriage to a younger boy was unconsummated when #JohnOfGaunt arranged a hasty annulment so that his 2nd daughter #ElizabethOfLancaster - already pregnant? - could marry the hot-tempered warrior #JohnHolland. Between overseas trips & crises they equipped #DartingtonHall with a #jousting arena & magnificent Great Hall. Within months of his beheading she married another skilled jouster, briefly imprisoned by her brother #HenryIV... 🧵 5/
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#PhilippaOfLancaster, eldest daughter of #JohnOfGaunt, is remembered as a devoted wife, mother, & Queen of #Portugal. She was buried in the monastery at #Batalha, founded by her husband King João I in thanks for victory there, & they were later reinterred together in a magnificent joint tomb. This reign was the beginning of Portugal’s rise to prosperity & global influence, their children renowned as the #IllustriousGeneration.

#medieval #tomb #15thCentury #medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII

#PhilippaOfClarence inherited #ClareCastle in Suffolk, with its gardens laid out by her stylish great-grandmother Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare. She also inherited #Usk, & it was among those title deeds that her husband's Mortimer family preserved a transcription of Elizabeth's furious indictment of tyranny, dictated in secret in 1326 & rediscovered in the 1950s. She had 4 children by age 21, & died not long after: her descendants include the #HouseOfYork. 🧵 3/
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The name Philippa has been popular in England since the #14thCentury when Philippa of Hainault arrived to marry the young king Edward III. Three of their first four granddaughters were named #Philippa: daughters of Lionel of Antwerp, John of Gaunt, & their sister Isabella of Woodstock. 🧵 2/

#GivenName #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII #PhilippaOfHainault #EdwardIII #LionelOfAntwerp #JohnOfGaunt #IsabellaOfWoodstock #medieval #medievodons

📷 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O121866/model-for-the-proposed-restoration-model-sir-george-gilbert/

I've been enjoying 'The Granddaughters of Edward III' by #KathrynWarner, thanks to a review copy from #NetGalley. Two queens, several scandals, descendants with competing claims leading to the #WarsOfTheRoses. Many history books focus on half the population; examining what we know of the women provides new perspective. 🧵 1/

https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Granddaughters-of-Edward-III-Hardback/p/22445

#NewBook #medieval #biography #prosopography #MedievalWomen #14thCentury #15thCentury #medievodons @medievodons #GranddaughtersOfEdwardIII