The Granddaughters of Edward III

So here is the latest of Kathryn Warner‘s series about Edward II’s family. As the title suggests, it is focussed on the lives of Edward III’s eleven grandaughters, nine of whom were paternally descended including four by John of Gaunt. The first, Philippa of Clarence, was born in 1355 and the last to die was Joan Beaufort, in 1440. Ten of them married and the other, Isabel of Gloucester, became a nun and then an abbess in the Minoresses’ convent. Their descendants include Maximilian I, Phillip II and Catherine of Aragon, Edward IV and Richard III, Isabel and Anne Neville, Henri IV, Mary Stuart and noble families such as the Staffords, Percies and Poles.

This is an excellent book, adding several other pieces to the Edward of Caernarvon jigsaw.