tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post4074738113931776794..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: The Myth of the Good DictatorDebra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-35681588119450409002015-12-21T12:13:32.517-08:002015-12-21T12:13:32.517-08:00Thank you - can't think of a finer accolade :)...Thank you - can't think of a finer accolade :)Anna Belfragehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159728310623757488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-25778234714201140022015-12-21T12:12:56.599-08:002015-12-21T12:12:56.599-08:00I am not so sure about that... Isabella does not s...I am not so sure about that... Isabella does not seem like a mother who would set up her illegitimate child against her trueborn son. While there is speculation about Isabella being pregnant - a fair supposition, seeing as both she and Mortimer were parents several times over in their respective marriages - there is no record of a love child ever having been born, beyond a vague reference to an unnamed "Earl of Lincoln". I think Edward III was prompted to act because of another child: his own eldest son, born in the summer of 1330Anna Belfragehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159728310623757488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-77687098639453154262015-12-19T10:26:01.086-08:002015-12-19T10:26:01.086-08:00They should teach history like this in school ... ...They should teach history like this in school ... our children would be so much more interested than they are in dry lists of battles lost and won. Congratulations ... I want to know more now!Sally Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11287628255330281037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-36265148573488930282015-12-19T02:46:08.360-08:002015-12-19T02:46:08.360-08:00Yes, Ian Mortimer is good, though I haven't re...Yes, Ian Mortimer is good, though I haven't read that one. Okay, we'll have to wait and see how your series pans out, then. :-)Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-66270596839607321982015-12-19T00:58:18.433-08:002015-12-19T00:58:18.433-08:00I read that it was the fact that Isabella was preg...I read that it was the fact that Isabella was pregnant by Mortimer and Edward III's fear that he meant to put this child on the throne that drove Edward III to act. What is your view on that?Helena P. Schraderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06535398166485310212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-16238087105645234562015-12-18T13:55:58.633-08:002015-12-18T13:55:58.633-08:00Other alternatives are Ian Mortimer's book abo...Other alternatives are Ian Mortimer's book about Roger Mortimer, The Greatest Traitor (and no, they're not related) or Kathryn Warner's bio on Edward II :) I have my own little theory that will be revealed as my series developsAnna Belfragehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159728310623757488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-51315512318743120492015-12-18T13:15:32.080-08:002015-12-18T13:15:32.080-08:00Always interesting to read, thanks for sharing! Fo...Always interesting to read, thanks for sharing! For an interesting suggestion of what might have happened to Edward(or at least, a novelist's idea seeing that we don't really know) I recommend Colin Falconer's Isabella Braveheart Of France. A bit strange, but hey, why not? Better than the gruesome ending of Marlowe's play, for example!Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-42790124057169914362015-12-18T12:30:36.879-08:002015-12-18T12:30:36.879-08:00No, this lady was French - daughter to Philippe le...No, this lady was French - daughter to Philippe le Bel (the French king who destroyed the Templars, burning their leaders as heretics) and sister to three consecutive French kings, none of whom left a male heir. It is through Isabella that Edward III claimed the French crownAnna Belfragehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159728310623757488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-24473250497597288662015-12-18T08:07:10.778-08:002015-12-18T08:07:10.778-08:00Great post! I do have to wonder why anyone in joll...Great post! I do have to wonder why anyone in jolly old England wanted to rise to the top. It seems the safest location would have been midway, with just enough money to take care of what one had. But . . . that never would have been exciting, I suppose. Question: there were a lot of Queen Isabella's in European history. Was this one Spanish? Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.com