Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe

Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights and monarchs, Four Queens is the story of four provocative sisters—Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice of Provence—who rose from near obscurity to become the most coveted and powerful women in Europe.  Each sister in this extraordinary family was beautiful, cultured, and accomplished but what made these women so remarkable was that each became queen of a principal European power—France, England, Germany and Sicily. During their reigns, they exercised considerable political authority, raised armies, intervened diplomatically and helped redraw the map of Europe.  Theirs is a drama of courage, sagacity and ambition that re-examines the concept of leadership in the Middle Ages.

• The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
• Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
• The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
• The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
• The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
• Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
• A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
• Life in a Medieval Village
• The Worlds of Medieval Europe
• Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)