Maria de Molina, Queen and Regent (eBook)

Life and Rule in Castile-Leon, 1259-1321

Paulette Lynn Pepin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
200 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0590-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This biography of Queen María de Molina explores her life and demonstrates the collective exercise of her power and authority as a monarchical queen. The author details her resilient determination as queen and later as regent, her partnership with King Sancho IV, and her struggle to provide peace and stability in the Kingdom of Castile-León.

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This biography of Queen Maria de Molina thematically explores her life and demonstrates her collective exercise of power and authority as queen. Throughout her public life, Maria de Molina's resilient determination, as queen and later as regent, enabled her to not only work tirelessly to establish an effective governing partnership with her husband King Sancho IV, which never occurred, but also to establish the legitimacy of her children and their heirs and their right to rule. Such legitimacy enabled Queen Maria de Molina's son and grandson, under her tutelage, to fend off other monarchs and belligerent nobles. The author demonstrates the queen's ability to govern the Kingdom of Castile-Leon as a partner with her husband King Sancho IV, a partnership that can be described as an official union. A major theme of this study is Maria de Molina's role as dowager queen and regent as she continued to exercise her queenly power and authority to protect the throne of her son Fernando IV and, later, of her grandson Alfonso XI, and to provide peace and stability for the Kingdom of Castile-Leon.

Autor

Paulette Lynn Pepin is associate professor of history at the University of New Haven.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The MarriageChapter 2: Queen María de Molina (1284–1295)Chapter 3: María de Molina, Dowager Queen and Regent (1295–1312)Chapter 4: María de Molina, Dowager Queen and Regent Again (1312–1321)Chapter 5: Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 10 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Biography • María de Molina • Medieval History • queenship • Spanish History
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0590-2 / 1498505902
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0590-1 / 9781498505901