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>Thanks, Dr. Hoffman. I'll be sure to check that out. > >That other Medieval woman I was going to mention >earlier, but my browser at work went haywire before I >could: > >Isabella Capet, wife of Edward II of England, stylized >'The She-Wolf of France' and 'The >Far-More-Objectionable-Term of England' > >In my estimation, one of the most overlooked >personages of the late Middle Ages, her only >contemporary 'media' depiction, that I've ever >witnessed, was in Braveheart, wherein they had the >gall to suggest that Edward III was the illegitimate >son of William Wallace ... but we won't go there. ;) > >The sister of the King of France, an indomitable woman >as hard-hearted and brutally ambitious as any man, >Isabella was perhaps more accurately portrayed in the >movie as being the one who wore the pants in the >Plantagenet family after the death of Edward I. Her >husband something of a timid and reclusive sort, >though, I think, not as given to predelictions of >'alternative lifestyle' as Braveheart suggested, >Isabella nonetheless WAS the real power in England for >over a decade. In fact, she and her lover, Lord >Mortimer, actually murdered the king, and she reigned >as regent until her son, Edward III, came of age. >Even then, the young prince had to fight to gain his >inheritance. In her tenure, though Isabella made some >poor decisions, most of which can be attributed to her >hot-headed and brash paramour, she nonetheless set the >political stage for the Hundred Years' War which would >break out under her son, and perhaps even more than >any of the male Plantagenets, paved the way for the >rise and fall of English fortunes on the Continent. A >truly remarkable woman, and one which I think was >greatly tarnished by contemporary sources who weren't >exactly complimentary to her, both for her French >heritage (something which never went over well in >England), and for the regicide which she committed. >Perhaps most remarkable, though, is that she not only >wrested control of the kingdom from her husband, but >held onto it, a feat which few men in far more secure >positions of power could have ever achieved.

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