Edward IV's Fatal Legacy: The Restoration and Ruin of the Courtenays 1479-1558

The Courtenays emerge as a pivotal Tudor-era force, revealing love, betrayal, and ruin across four monarchs.

One of the most overlooked families of the early modern period, the Courtenays played a critical role, and their story of love and loss, loyalty and betrayal, survival and ruin is played out at the courts of four Tudor monarchs.

Katharine, Countess of Devon, was Edward IV's daughter. Her first proposed marriage would have made her Queen of Spain, but she was declared a bastard on the a...