Medieval Leaders and Queens: Aethelfled, Hildegard & Jadwiga.
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Athel Flard and the Unification of England
The reason that England looks the way it does day is a large part down to Athel Flard. Michael Wood said in his book on this period that England wouldn't look like without her. She's single-handedly responsible for clawing back what her nephew, of course, will go on to secure. So she dies before she can conquer York, but it's just a steady progress. And if she had secured that victory, she would be the one we declare the unifier of England because she was so close.
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