Hazel Pierce

Is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences at Bangor University. She gained her PhD under the supervision of Professor David Loades and her first book, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership, was published by Cardiff University Press.

She has provided entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her forthcoming book which will be published in 2025 by Pen & Sword Books focusses on the Courtenay family, Edward IV’s Fatal Legacy: The Restoration and Ruin of the Courtenays, 1479-1558.