John Ashdown-Hill

Broschiertes Buch

Cecily Neville

Mother of Richard III

Beschreibung

Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous 'Kingmaker', Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England.

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: 12. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781399078382
• ISBN-10: 1399078380
• Artikelnr.: 72801022