Catégorie Lorraine
22 May 1540: A prince is born to Scotland
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
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 […]
Modern scholarship on Mary of Guise
Throughout the Middle Ages into the sixteenth century, France and Scotland were closely allied under the banner of « my enemies’ enemy is my friend », and both were enemies of England. Mary, a woman from the powerful Guise family in France, became queen consort of Scotland when she married James V, and was the mother to […]
Juillet 2015 : Marie de Guise retourne à Joinville
Voici la preuve que la fille aînée des Guise n’est pas oubliée partout en France. Début juillet 2015, l’association ‘Sauvegarde du patrimoine’ fêtait Marie de Lorraine-Guise. Pour les 500 ans de la reine et régente d’Écosse qui a vécu au château de Joinville, il ne fallait « pas laisser passer pareille occasion de célébrer à la […]
Marie and Louis of Orleans : A princely wedding in the summer of 1534
There are no pictures of the event, neither of the young woman of eighteen called Marie, nor of her husband Louis of Orleans, duke of Longueville, born in 1510 and Great Chamberlain of France. Marie of Guise, eldest daughter of duke Claude of Guise and Antoinette of Bourbon, was introduced to the French Court three […]
Charles de Lorraine, le cardinal bibliophile
Charles de Lorraine, second fils de la maison de Guise, depuis la mort de son oncle Jean en 1550 cardinal de Lorraine, commandait et collectionnait les ouvrages de prestige. De grands noms de la reliure, de l’enluminure et de la calligraphie travaillèrent pour lui. Plusieurs exemplaires somptueux de cet ensemble éclectique sont visibles dans une […]
