Medieval England, 500-1500 by Amt Emilie Smith Katherine Allen

Author:Amt, Emilie,Smith, Katherine Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Chapter Four

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The Thirteenth Century, 1216–1299

Fig. 32. Conwy Castle and Town. Built in northwest Wales by Edward I (r. 1272–1307) on the site of a monastery favored by the native Welsh princes, the complex at Conwy included a walled town and a formidable curtain-walled castle. The project cost £15,000, a sum equal to over half of the English crown’s annual tax revenues at that time.

51. Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême

King John died shortly after issuing Magna Carta, to be succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Henry III (r. 1216–72). The young king’s widowed mother was a southern French noblewoman who had been betrothed to a neighboring Frenchman, Hugh de Lusignan the Elder, before King John managed to marry her instead. She was unpopular at the English royal court and was excluded from her son’s regency government, to her chagrin. At the time she wrote these letters, she had returned to France, where her young daughter Joanna, sister of the little king, was betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan the Younger, son of Isabella’s former fiancé.

Source: trans. A. Crawford, Letters of the Queens of England, 1100–1547 (Dover, NH: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994), pp. 51–53.

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