Queen Isabella Quotes

“of the household to replace William de Montacute, who had been given a post in”
― Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

“Woman is the confusion of man, an insatiable beast, a continuous anxiety, an incessant warfare, a daily ruin, a house of tempest and a hindrance to devotion,” fulminated the misogynistic Vincent de Beauvais in the thirteenth century.”
― Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

“Isabella was every bit as vigorous and capable as Eleanor of Aquitaine, and in many ways, their experiences were similar. Both were spirited and cultivated Frenchwomen; both faced hardship and adversity; both were highly sexed and trapped in frustrating marriages; both had to cope with their spouses’ infidelities, and both took lovers; more seriously, both led rebellions against their royal husbands, and both spent time under house arrest; both were adept at statecraft; and both were controversial in their own day.”
― Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

“but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately “let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes.”47”
― Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

“7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales”
― Alison Weir, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England