TY - CHAP
T1 - A Queen’s Education and Upbringing
T2 - Catherine of Lancaster’s Life as a Lancastrian Princess
AU - Twomey, Lesley
PY - 2024/7/19
Y1 - 2024/7/19
N2 - Catherine of Lancaster’s betrothal to the ten-year-old heir to the throne of Castile, the future Enrique III, was negotiated between Juan I, king of Castile, and Catherine’s parents, Constanza de Castilla and Gaunt, in 1388. By the time the marriage took place in 1393, Catherine was twenty years old. Catherine of Lancaster was educated in England. Several Mirrors of Princes and conduct books were available to her parents, including Walter of Milemete’s to guide how they prepared her from infancy to be queen of Castile. As reading matter, books like the legends of saints were owned by her guardian, Joan Burghersh, Lady de Mohun. Court games, like chess, were no doubt played and there is evidence for hunting among the female members of the Lancaster household. Devotion to the Virgin, including pilgrimage, could have been learned both from John of Gaunt and Joan Burghersh.
AB - Catherine of Lancaster’s betrothal to the ten-year-old heir to the throne of Castile, the future Enrique III, was negotiated between Juan I, king of Castile, and Catherine’s parents, Constanza de Castilla and Gaunt, in 1388. By the time the marriage took place in 1393, Catherine was twenty years old. Catherine of Lancaster was educated in England. Several Mirrors of Princes and conduct books were available to her parents, including Walter of Milemete’s to guide how they prepared her from infancy to be queen of Castile. As reading matter, books like the legends of saints were owned by her guardian, Joan Burghersh, Lady de Mohun. Court games, like chess, were no doubt played and there is evidence for hunting among the female members of the Lancaster household. Devotion to the Virgin, including pilgrimage, could have been learned both from John of Gaunt and Joan Burghersh.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-58480-0_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-58480-0_2
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031584794
SN - 9783031584824
T3 - Queenship and Power
SP - 39
EP - 101
BT - Catherine of Lancaster and her Religious Court Poets
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -