What Is Better Than a Good Woman?: Alice Chaucer, Commoner and Yorkist Matriarch

by Michèle Schindler

Granddaughter of Jeoffrey and grandmother to three Yorkist claimants to the throne, Alice Chaucer is one of the most important female figures of the 15th century. It is remarkable that there has not been a biography of her to-date.

Alice Chaucer, Countess of Salisbury and Duchess of Suffolk, is one of the very rare people, and the only woman, not born to nobility who became an important political player in the upheaval of 15th-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139810969X
• ISBN13: 9781398109698
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.6"