Books written by Kathryn Warner

  • Edward II's Nieces, The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns of the Crown

    Pugh, R. B., 'A Fragment of an Account of Isabel of Lancaster, Nun of Amesbury, 1333–4', in ed. L. Santifaller, Festschrift zur Feier des Zweihundertjährigen Bestandes des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs, vol. 1 (1949), 487–98.

  • Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II: Downfall of a King’s Favourite

    T.B. Pugh, 'The Marcher Lords of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, 1317–1485', in T. B. Pugh (ed.), Glamorgan County History, III: The Middle Ages (1971), 603; CFR 1319–27, 69; CCR 1318–23, 543-4. Morris, Bigod Earls, 125. CCR 1288–96, 134.

  • Edward II

    Pugh, T. B., 'The Marcher Lords of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, 1317– 1485', Glamorgan County History, III: The Middle Ages, ed. T. B. Pugh (1971). Rastall, Richard, 'Secular Musicians in Late Medieval England', Univ. of Manchester PhD ...

  • Daughters of Edward I

    41–52 Pugh, R.B., 'A Fragment of an Account of Isabel of Lancaster, Nun of Amesbury, 1333–4', Festschrift zur Feier des zweihundertjährigen Bestandes des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs, vol. 1, ed. L. Santifaller (1949), pp.

  • Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen

    T. B. Pugh (1971) Rastall, Richard, 'Secular Musicians in Late Medieval England' Univ. of Manchester PhD thesis, 1968 Redstone, V. B., 'Some Mercenaries of Henry of Lancaster, 13271330', TRHS, 3rd series, 7 (1913) Saul, Nigel, ...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers

    T. Rymer (1816–20) 'A Fragment of an Account of Isabel of Lancaster, Nun of Amesbury, 1333–4', ed. R.B. Pugh, in Festschrift zur Feier des zweihundertjährigen Bestandes des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs, vol.

  • Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326

    On 29 March 1326, Peter, abbot of Beaulieu, and fifteen of his monks and lay brothers were accused of complicity in the deaths of William and John Crul and John Daneman at Exbury in the New Forest 3 miles from Beaulieu Abbey.

  • Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II

    Woodstock, Earl of Kent, the younger of Edward II's half-brothers (as well as being the youngest son of Edward I, Kent was Isabella's first cousin via his mother Marguerite of France); and Roger Mortimer and other English exiles who had ...

  • Edward II's Nieces: The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns of the Crown

    Several of Joan's relatives lived at Amesbury, which had been fashionable among royal ladies since Edward's grandmother Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's widow, had retired there in the 1280s. Edward's sister Mary and their niece Joan ...

  • Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation

    Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.

  • Daughters of Edward I

    The women's stories span the decades from the 1260s to the 1330s, through the long reign of their father, the turbulent reign of their brother Edward II, and into the reign of their nephew, the child-king Edward III.

  • Blood Roses: The Houses of Lancaster and York before the Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses didn’t start on the battlefield: Blood Roses traces it back to the beginning.

  • Following in the Footsteps of Edward II: A Historical Guide to the Medieval King

    Edward II's parents, Edward I and Leonor of Castile, spent much time at Windsor; two of Edward II's sisters, ... when Edward attended the weddings of his nieces Margaret Gaveston, née de Clare, and her younger sister Elizabeth de Burgh ...

  • Following in the Footsteps of Edward II: A Historical Guide to the Medieval King

    Following in the Footsteps of Edward II presents a new take on this most unconventional and puzzling of kings, from the magnificent Caernarfon Castle where he was born in 1284 shortly after his father conquered North Wales, to his favorite ...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Medieval Family: The Despensers

    The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger became the king's chamberlain, favorite, and perhaps, lover.

  • Richard II

    A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.

  • John of Gaunt: Son of One King, Father of Another

    100, and Stella Mary Newton, Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340–1365 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1980), p. 34, for Philippa and her sons' clothes; Register of Edward the Black Prince, Vol. 4, p.

  • John of Gaunt: Son of One King, Father of Another

    The first biography to tell the personal story of the wealthiest, most powerful, and most hated man in medieval England.

  • Richard II: A True King's Fall

    A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.

  • Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326

    Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326 tells the true and fascinating stories of the men and women alive in England in this most eventful year, narrated chronologically with a chapter devoted to each month.