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内容简介：
Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old
daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to
England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between
the two countries, and in the years that followed, she would become
an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence
would come to last centuries. But Queen Isabella’s political
machinations led generations of historians to malign her, earning
her a reputation as a ruthless schemer and an odious nickname, “the
She-Wolf of France.”
Now the acclaimed author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir,
reexamines the life of Isabella of England, history’s other
notorious and charismatic medieval queen. Praised for her fair
looks, the newly wed Isabella was denied the attentions of Edward
II, a weak, sexually ambiguous monarch with scant taste for his
royal duties. As their marriage progressed, Isabella was neglected
by her dissolute husband and slighted by his favored male
courtiers. Humiliated and deprived of her income, her children, and
her liberty, Isabella escaped to France, where she entered into a
passionate affair with Edward II’s mortal enemy, Roger Mortimer.
Together, Isabella and Mortimer led the only successful invasion of
English soil since the Norman Conquest of 1066, deposing Edward and
ruling in his stead as co-regents for Isabella’s young son, Edward
III. Fate, however, was soon to catch up with Isabella and her
lover.
Many mysteries and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story.
She was long condemned as an accessory to Edward II’s brutal murder
in 1327, but recent research has cast doubt on whether that murder
even took place.
Isabella’s reputation, then, rests largely on the prejudices of
monkish chroniclers and prudish Victorian scholars. Here Alison
Weir gives a startling, groundbreaking new perspective on Isabella,
in this first full biography in more than 150 years. In a work of
extraordinary original research, Weir effectively strips away
centuries of propaganda, legend, and romantic myth, and reveals a
truly remarkable woman who had a profound influence upon the age in
which she lived and the history of western Europe.
Engaging, vibrant, alive with breathtaking detail and unforgettable
characters, Queen Isabella is biographical history at its
finest.
From the Hardcover edition.
书籍目录：
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
ldaps
INTRODHCTION The She-Wolf of France
PART ONE
Isabella and Edward
PART TWO
Isabella and Mortimer
Genealoqtical Tables
Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References
Notes and References
Notes on the Chief Sources
Select Biblioqtraphy
Illustration Credits
Index
A Reader's Guide
作者介绍：
Alison Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor
of Aquitaine; Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley;
and several other historical biographies. She lives in Surrey with
her husband and two children.
From the Hardcover edition.
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书籍摘录：
Chapter One
On 20 May 1303, a solemn betrothal took place in Paris. The bride
was seven years old, the groom, who was not present, nineteen. She
was Isabella, the daughter of Philip IV, King of France; he, Edward
of Caernarvon, Prince of Wales, the son and heir of Edward I, King
of England.
The Prince had sent the Earl of Lincoln and the Count of Savoy as
his proxies, and during the ceremony, they formally asked the King
and Queen of France for the hand of their daughter, the Lady
Isabella, in marriage for the Prince of Wales. Consent was duly
given, then Gilles, Archbishop of Narbonne, the presiding priest,
required Isabella to plight her troth. Placing her hand in that of
the Archbishop, she duly did so, giving her assent to the betrothal
on condition that all the articles of the marriage treaty were
fulfilled.
This union had been arranged after tortuous negotiations to cement
a lasting peace between those old warring enemies, England and
France. Isabella’s father, Philip IV, known as Philip the Fair, was
the most powerful ruler in Christendom at that time and also the
most controversial. Not only had he been engaged in territorial
wars with both England and Flanders for the past seven years, he
had also, despite boasting the title of “Most Christian King,”
become involved in a bitter conflict with the Papacy after imposing
limitations on the Pope’s authority in France. This was to lead to
his excommunication only months after his daughter’s
betrothal.
Philip’s war with Edward I was the result of a long-standing feud
over England’s possessions in France. In the twelfth century,
through the marriage of Henry II to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the
empire of the Plantagenets, the dynasty that Henry founded, had
extended from Normandy to the Pyrenees, while the royal demesne of
France had been limited to the regions around Paris. By 1204,
Henry’s son, King John, had lost most of the English territories,
including Normandy, to the ambitious Philip II “Augustus” of
France, and there were further French encroachments under John’s
son Henry III, as successive French monarchs sought to broaden
their domain. By the time of Edward I, all that remained of
England’s lands in France was the prosperous wine-producing duchy
of Gascony, the southern part of the former duchy of Aquitaine,
along with the counties of Ponthieu and Montreuil, which had come
to the English Crown through the marriage of Edward I to Eleanor of
Castile in 1254.
Philip IV, who was vigorously carrying on his predecessors’
expansionist policy, not surprisingly had his eye on Gascony, and
in 1296, he invaded and took possession of it. There were two ways
to settle a conflict: by military force or by diplomacy. Edward I
wanted Gascony back, and Philip wanted to drive a wedge between
Edward and the Flemings, who were uniting against him. By 1298, the
two Kings were engaged in secret negotiations for a peace. Then
Pope Boniface VIII intervened. In the spring of 1298, he suggested
a double marriage alliance between France and England: his plan was
that Edward I, a widower since the death of Eleanor of Castile in
1290, marry Philip’s sister Marguerite, while Edward’s son and
heir, the Prince of Wales, be betrothed to Philip’s daughter
Isabella, then two years old. Once this peace had been sealed,
Gascony could be returned to Edward I.
Boniface’s suggestion appealed to both parties; it conjured up for
Philip the tantalizing prospect of French influence being extended
into England and his grandson eventually occupying the throne of
that realm; and for Edward I, it promised the return of Gascony and
a brilliant match for his son. As the daughter of the King of
France and the Queen of Navarre, Isabella was a great prize in the
marriage market: no Queen of England before her had boasted such a
pedigree.
The deal was agreed in principle, and two weeks later, on 15 May,
King Edward appointed Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, to negotiate
both marriages. In March 1299, Parliament accepted the terms
negotiated by Lincoln, and on 12 May following, plans were set in
hand for the proxy betrothals. Three days later, the Earl of
Lincoln, Amadeus, Count of Savoy, and the Earl of Warwick were
appointed to act for Edward I and his son, and soon afterward, they
departed for France. Edward I privately instructed the Count to
find out as much as he could about the personal attributes of
Marguerite of France, including the size of her foot and the width
of her waist. The Count reported back that she was “a fair and
marvellously virtuous lady,” pious and charitable.
The Treaty of Montreuil, which provided for Isabella’s future
betrothal to Edward of Caernarvon, was drawn up on 19 June,
ratified by Edward I and the Prince of Wales on 4 July, and
amplified by the Treaty of Chartres on 3 August. Under its terms,
Philip was to give Isabella a dowry of ?18,000, and once she became
Queen of England, she was to have in dower all the lands formerly
held by Eleanor of Castile, which were in the interim to be settled
by Edward I on Marguerite; these amounted to ?4,500 per annum.
Should Edward I default on the treaties, he would forfeit Gascony;
if Philip defaulted, he would pay Edward a fine of ?100,000. On 29
August, at the instance of Edward I, the King and Queen of France
gave solemn guarantees that the marriages would take place, and in
September, Marguerite of France, then aged twenty at most, arrived
in England and was married to the sixty-year-old Edward I in
Canterbury Cathedral. Against the odds, this proved to be a
successful and happy union, and produced three children. In October
1299, Philip IV finally ratified the Treaty of Montreuil. “When
love buds between great princes, it drives away bitter sobs from
their subjects,” commented a contemporary.
In 1300, the French occupied Flanders, but two years later, they
were humiliatingly defeated and massacred by the Flemings at
Courtrai. Throughout this time, Edward I had continued to press for
the immediate restoration of Gascony, but Philip would not agree to
this until after the Prince of Wales had fulfilled his promise to
marry Isabella, who was still too young to wed.
By April 1303, Edward I was losing interest in the alliance and was
beginning to look elsewhere for a bride for his son. At this
crucial point, fearing a war on two fronts, Philip IV played his
trump card and agreed to restore the duchy of Gascony to Edward
without further delay; his intention was, as he reminded Edward II
in 1308, that it should in time become the inheritance of his
grandchildren, the heirs of Edward and Isabella. Edward I was now
satisfied, and the Treaty of Paris, which officially restored the
duchy, was signed on the same day that young Isabella and Edward of
Caernarvon were betrothed. There would be further conflict between
Edward I and Philip IV, but nothing serious enough to break this
new alliance. Isabella was now destined to be Queen of
England.
Isabella was probably born in 1295. There is conflicting evidence
as to the year. Piers of Langtoft says she was “only seven years of
age” in 1299, which places her birth in 1292, the date given in the
Annals of Wigmore. Yet she is described by both the French
chronicler Guillaume de Nangis and Thomas Walsingham as being
twelve years old at the time of her marriage in January 1308, which
suggests she was born between January 1295 and January 1296. Given
that twelve was the canonical age for marriage, and that in 1298,
the Pope had stipulated that she should marry Prince Edward as soon
as she reached that age, these dates are viable. In the same
document of June 1298, the Pope describes Isabella as being “under
seven years,” which places her birth at any time from 1291 onward.
Furthermore, the Treaty of Montreuil (June 1299) provided for
Isabella’s betrothal and marriage to take place when she reached
the respective canonical ages of seven and twelve. So she must have
reached seven before May 1303, and twelve before January
1308.
It has been suggested that Isabella had already reached the
canonical age for marriage in 1305, when she and the Prince of
Wales nominated representatives for a marriage by proxy. This did
not take place because of continued squabbles over Guienne, but the
fact that these nominations were made has been held as evidence
that Isabella had then reached, or was soon to reach, the age of
twelve, which would place her date of birth around 1293. Yet this
theory is contradicted by a papal dispensation issued by Clement V
in November 1305, giving the young couple permission to marry at
once even though Isabella had not yet reached her twelfth year and
was at present in her tenth year. This suggests a birth date
between November 1294 and November 1295. The waters are muddied
still further by a decree issued by Philip IV in 1310, in which
Isabella is referred to as his “primogenita,” or “firstborn,” which
suggests that she was born in 1288 at the latest, as her eldest
brother Louis was born in October 1289. This date conflicts with
all the other evidence and is probably the result of an error on
the part of the official drawing up the document.
In conclusion, the evidence in the papal dispensations and
documents and the Treaty of Montreuil is likely to be more
reliable, and taken together, it supports a birth date between May
and November 1295, which in turn is supported by the statements of
Guillaume de Nangis and Thomas Walsingham. This would make Isabella
seven years old at the time of her betrothal and twelve years old
at the time of her marriage.
Isabella grew up in a period when society regarded women as
inferior bei...
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
“The finest historian of English monarchical succession writing now
is Alison Weir. . . . Her assiduousness and informed judgment are
precisely what make her a writer to trust.”
–The Boston Globe
“Conspiracy, treason, perjury, and forgery, along with . . .
political assassination, and several deadly sins . . . While Ms.
Weir does not stint on the sensational details, she is above all a
historian and dogged researcher. She sifts through sources, which
were often compromised, and thinks like a forensics expert.”
–The Wall Street Journal
Eleanor of Aquitaine
“Evocative . . . a rich tapestry of a bygone age and a judicious
assessment of her subject’s place within it.”
–Newsday
“Extraordinary . . . as delicately textured as a twelfth-century
tapestry . . . exhilarating in its color, ambition, and human
warmth. The author exhibits a breathtaking grasp of the physical
and cultural context of Queen Eleanor’s life.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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