The White Queen's Mother, Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Accused of Witchcraft | History for Sleep

Few women in the history of England rose as high, fell as low, and left as quiet a mark as Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Born into one of the proudest noble families in Europe around 1416, she married a prince of England at seventeen, and after his death made a second marriage that shocked an entire court. She would go on to become one of the most powerful women in the land, standing at the centre of the Wars of the Roses, mother to a queen of England, and ancestress of every English king and queen since. And yet at her most vulnerable moment, she was accused of witchcraft, with small broken figures of lead brought forward as the evidence against her. This is her story, told slowly and without hurry, from a stone castle in northern France to the quiet end of a remarkable life. Settle in, let the day go, and travel back into the candlelit world of the medieval court.