John Ashdown-Hill

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Cecily Neville

Mother of Richard III

Beschreibung

Allegedly born in the year of Agincourt and still alive for the birth of Henry VIII, Cecily Neville's life spanned most of the tumultuous fifteenth century. In this original work, renowned historian John Ashdown-Hill takes previously overlooked contemporary sources to correct mis-held beliefs of her life.

Autor

Dr John Ashdown-Hill is a well-known medieval historian, having published extensively on a variety of topics within that period but focussing mainly on the Yorkist era. He is best-known for his pivotal role in uncovering the burial place of King Richard III for and for tracing collateral female-line descendants of Richard's elder sister to establish his mtDNA haplogroup, which matched the mtDNA of the bones found in the Leicester car park. He continues to write about this period of history, and in 2015 he was awarded an MBE 'for services to historical research and the exhumation and identification of Richard III'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 974g
• ISBN-13: 9781526706324
• ISBN-10: 1526706326
• Artikelnr.: 50691705