Archives Mensuelles: mai 2015

Une nouvelle « biographie » sur Marie de Guise en 2016

mai 31, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, 21th century, Angleterre, Écosse, Bar-le-Duc, Charles de Guise, cardinal de Lorraine, culture, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, François Ier, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Marie Stuart, Mary of Guise, Nancy, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 3 Commentaires

22 May 1540: A prince is born to Scotland

mai 22, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Angleterre, Écosse, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, France, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Lorraine, Marie de Guise, Marie Stuart, Mary of Guise, Renaissance, Scotland · 3 Commentaires

In early May 1540, king James V decided to move the Scottish Court to the palace of St. Andrews. Queen Marie, who was heavily pregnant, was lodged with her ladies in confortable chambers containing two beds, one hung with curtains of white damask fringed with white silk, and the second with curtains of yellow damask […]

Philippa of Guelders, Marie of Guise’s prickly grandmother

mai 11, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, 21th century, Art, arts décoratifs, Écosse, culture, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, Histoire de l'art, history, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Nancy, Renaissance, Scotland · 8 Commentaires

Much like her granddaughter Marie of Lorraine-Guise, Philippa of Guelders did not receive much attention from French historians. Only the final part of her life, spent in a convent at Pont-à-Mousson in the Lorraine region, inspired some rare biographers. The first was Hilarion de Coste (1595-1661), member of the Order of the Minimes de Saint […]