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Kate Norgate
1853–1935
A pioneering British historian, she helped shape how readers understand the medieval Plantagenet world and is especially remembered for popularizing the term "Angevin Empire." Writing outside the traditional university system, she built a reputation for serious, respected scholarship in an era when women faced steep barriers to academic life.
6 Audiobooks
John Lackland
by Kate Norgate
England under the Angevin Kings, Volume I
by Kate Norgate
England under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and II
by Kate Norgate
England under the Angevin Kings, Volume II
by Kate Norgate
Richard the Lion Heart
by Kate Norgate
The Minority of Henry the Third
by Kate Norgate
About the author
Born in London on December 8, 1853, Kate Norgate became one of the first British women to win wide recognition as a historian. She was the daughter of publisher Frederick Norgate, and her historical interests were encouraged early; despite the limits placed on women's formal education in Victorian Britain, she made her name through independent scholarship.
She is best known for England under the Angevin Kings (1887), a major study of medieval England, and for introducing the term "Angevin Empire," which later became a standard label for the far-reaching dominions of Henry II and his successors. She also wrote The Minority of Henry the Third, John Lackland, and many biographical entries for the Dictionary of National Biography.
Norgate died on April 17, 1935, at Gorleston-on-Sea. Later writers and memorials have described her as one of the best-known and most learned women historians of her generation, and her work still matters to readers interested in medieval England and the early history of historical writing by women.