IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1121: Queenly and Comital Networks and Households in the High and Later Middle Ages

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Medieval Studies Research Group, University of Lincoln
Organiser:	Louise J. Wilkinson, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University
Moderator/Chair:	Louise J. Wilkinson, School of Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University
Paper 1121-a	How to Secure the Throne: A Survey of the Political Networks of the Medieval Royal Heiress, 1109-1328 (Language: English) Anaïs Waag, Department of History, King's College London Index terms: Gender Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies
Paper 1121-b	'Till death (or other inconvenience) do us part': A Consideration of the Multiple Marriages of the Medieval Monarchies of England, Scotland, and France, c. 1200-c. 1330 (Language: English) Francesca Cannon, School of Humanities & Heritage, University of Lincoln Index terms: Gender Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies
Paper 1121-c	Connecting the Queen, Connecting the Kingdom: Eleanor of Provence's Networks through Her Household and Wardrobe Accounts (Language: English) Paula Del Val Vales, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 1121-d	Extracts from the Household Roll of the Earl and Countess Warenne: 1286-1287 (Language: English) Katherine Delaney, School of Humanities & Heritage, University of Lincoln Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Social History
Abstract	This four-paper session explores queenly and comital networks of influence within families, households, courts, and kingdoms. Waag discusses the political networks available to seventeen royal heiresses across Western Europe and the Mediterranean (c. 1109-1328). Cannon considers the 'second marriage' strategies of English, French, and Scottish kings. Drawing upon Eleanor of Provence's household and wardrobe accounts, Del Val Vales examines this English queens gift-giving, epistolary exchange, almsgiving, and expenditure, and the insights these offer into her relationships with her personnel and wider connections. Finally, Delaney analyses the 1286-1287 household roll of the earl and countess Warenne and this comital family's household management.