Hazel Pierce is a historian and taught at Bangor University where she gained her PhD, and where she is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences. Her first book, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership, was published by Cardiff University Press and she has provided entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of AGRA (Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives) and a contributor to the pan-Wales HistoryPoints project. This is her second book.