Daughters of Chivalry
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14. Eleanor of Provence and Mary depicted as nuns, carved into the underside of Henry Ill’s tomb at Westminster Abbey.
15. The great hall at Winchester Castle, site of the fabulous round table tournament in celebration of Joanna and Margaret’s weddings, with Edward’s Round Table now mounted on the wall.
16. View of later medieval London, with the Tower of London in the foreground and London Bridge and the City in the background, from a collection of poetry of Charles, Duke of Orléans.
17. Joanna’s husband Gilbert de Clare depicted in glass alongside Clare ancestors and descendants at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire.
18. Margaret and her ladies watching the festivities at her wedding from a scaffold, from the later Brabantsche Yeesten.
19. A morse (clasp for a mantle) showing the heraldry of Eleanor of Castile and Edward I, enamel on gilded copper with semi-precious stones, French.
20. Engraving of the Eleanor Cross at Waltham, 1842.
21. Scene from a medieval birthing chamber, showing the mother attended by ladies and midwives with medicines, from John Lydgate’s Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund.
22. Map of Bar by Georg Braun, 1617, showing Eleanora’s castle at the top.
23. Depiction of a knightly tournament from the chronicles of Jean Froissart.
24. Elizabeth as Countess of Holland. The illustrator mistakenly places her next to an earlier Count of Holland, William II, at his coronation in a later copy of the Brabantsche Yeesten.
25. The Ridderzaal (Knight’s Hall), the great hall of the palace in The Hague, Elizabeth’s principal residence in Holland, shown as it appeared in the seventeenth century.
26. Ivory mirror case showing lovers playing chess, Paris, c.1300.
27. Lady being attended in dressing by her maid, from the Luttrell Psalter.
28. Contemporary horse-trapper embroidered with the royal arms of England, interwoven with images of noble ladies.
29. Crown of Blanche of Lancaster, the earliest surviving English royal crown, similar to those that would have been worn by the royal sisters. Gold, enamel, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and pearls, Paris, c. 1370–80.
30. The Bermondsey Mazer, depicting a lady placing a helmet on a kneeling knight, similar to dishes that would have been owned by the sisters. Silver, English, c.1335–45.
31. Lady’s seal, gold with jasper intaglio, showing fashionable noblewoman with inscription CLAVSA. SECRETO TECO (‘I cover enclosed secrets’), English, fourteenth century.
32. View of the castle Margaret built at Tervuren, by Denijs van Alsloot, 1608.
33. Contemporary English depiction of the funeral of a king.
34. Wedding of Edward II and Isabella of France at Boulogne, from the later chronicle of Jean de Wavrin.
35. The Nine Worthy Women, female counterparts of the chivalric heroes the Nine Worthies, from Tommaso III di Saluzzo, Le Chevalier Errant, c.1404.
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