Queens of the Conquest

by Alison Weir

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  Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 12 (ed. R. Allen Brown, Woodbridge, 1989)

  Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 13 (ed. Marjorie Chibnall, Woodbridge, 1991)

  Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 19 (ed. Christopher Harper-Bill, Woodbridge, 1997)

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  Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (ed. Theodore Evergates, Philadelphia, 1999)

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  ———Henry Plantagenet (London, 1964)

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  ———William Rufus (Yale, 1983)

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  ———William the Conqueror (Stroud, 2001)

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  ———The Saxon and Norman Kings (London, 1963)

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  ———Adeliza of Louvain: an Understated Heroine (www.freshfiction.com)

  ———Empress Matilda’s Bling (www.livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.co.uk)

  ———The Enigmatic Brian FitzCount (www.livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.co.uk)

  ———Today’s research snippet. Empress Matilda and the Hand of St. James (www.livingthehistoryelizabethchadwick.blogspot.co.uk)

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  ———“The Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin” (in Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 10)

  ———“The Empress Matilda and Church Reform” (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 38, 1988)

  ———The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English (Oxford, 1991)

  ———“The Empress Matilda and Her Sons” (in Medieval Mothering)

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  ———“Between Three Realms: The acts of Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Worcester” (in Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm)

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  ———The Reign of King Stephen (London, 2014)

  ———“Robert of Gloucester’s Mother and Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire” (Historical Research, 72, 1999)

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  ———England under the Normans and Angevins, 1066–1272 (London, 1905)

  ———“Henry of Blois and Brian Fitz Count” (English Historical Review, 25, 1910)

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  ———King Stephen (London, 1967)

  ———“The College of St Martin-le-Grand and the Anarchy, 1135–1154” (in The London Topographical Record, 23, 1974)

  ———“What Happened in Stephen’s Reign” (History, 49, 1964)

  De-La-Noy, Michael: Windsor Castle, Past and Present (London, 1990)

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  Ducarel, A. C.: Anglo-Norman Antiquities: Considered in a Tour Through Part of Normandy (London, 1767)

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  ———William the Conqueror (Cully, 2007)

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  Foulds, Trevor: The Thurgarten Cartulary (Stamford, Lincs., 1994)

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  Freeman, E. A.: History of the Norman Conquest (6 vols., Oxford, 1867–79)

  ———“The Parentage of Gundrada, Wife of William of Warren” (English Historical Review, 3, 1888)

  Freeman, Eric F.: “The Identity of Aelfgyva in the Bayeux Tapestry” (Annales de Normandie, 41, 1991)

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  ———“ ‘Mother of Heroes, Most Beautiful of Mothers’: Mathilda of Flanders and Royal Motherhood in the Eleventh Century” (in Virtuous or Villainess?)

  ———“The Trappings of Power: The Coronation of Mathilda of Flanders” (Haskins Society Journal, 13, 1999)

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  ———“Love, Marriage and Politics in the Twelfth Century” (Forum for Modern Language Studies, 25, 1989)

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  ———Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy (Cambridge, 2009)

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  ———Who’s Who in History, Vol. 1: British Isles, 55 BC to 1485 (Oxford, 1960)

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  ———The Tower of London (London, 19
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  ———Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards (Stroud, 1998)

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  ———Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens (London, 2008)

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  ———“The Echo of the Conquest in the Latin Sources: Duchess Matilda, her daughters and the enigma of the Golden Child” (in The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History)

  ———“The Gesta Normannorum Ducum: a history without an end” (in Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 3)

  ———“Latin Poetry and the Anglo-Norman Court: The Carmen de Haestingae Proelio” (Journal of Medieval History, 15, 1989)

  ———The Normans in Europe (Manchester, 2000)

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  ———“The idea of the perfect princess: The Life of St Margaret in the reign of Matilda II (1100–1118)” (in Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 12)