Catégorie Guise
Scots ou Français – comment parlait Marie Stuart à sa mère ?
Une semaine après la naissance de sa fille au palais de Linlithgow le 8 décembre 1542, le roi d’Écosse meurt. Jacques V Stuart n’aura jamais vu sa fille Marie Stuart, seule héritière désormais, après la mort de ses deux frères en bas âge un an plus tôt. De sa famille ne reste à la petite […]
Mary of Guise’s Book of Hours
Every noblewoman had hers, from the thirteenth century onwards, and depending on her wealth, it was more or less decorated and illuminated with more or less art. Mary of Guise’s Book of Hours, a XVth century manuscript, comes from St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus, and is kept now in the National Library of Scotland. « Of […]
« The First Blast of the Trumpet » : John Knox by Marie Macpherson
Scottish writer Marie Macpherson published in march this year the first volume of a trilogy about John Knox (1513-1572), the protestant reformer who saw – as it is commonly written – queen Mary of Guise as an example of « the monstrous regiment of women« . In fact, John Knox’s « First Blast of the trumpet » was principally […]
Marie de Guise-Lorraine 1515-2025 