Archives de Tag: anniversary

Edinburgh’s Institut Français celebrates Marie de Guise’s 500th birthday

novembre 29, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, Bar-le-Duc, femmes, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Réforme, Reformation, Renaissance, Scotland · Poster un commentaire

On Tuesday December 8, 2015, the Institut Français at 13 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Marie de Guise with the conference Marie de Guise, ’the other Mary’: Dr Julian Goodare, Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh, presents The political and diplomatic situation of Scotland in Europe in […]

Marie of Guise, Queen of Scotland

novembre 24, 2014 · par · dans 16e siècle, Antoine de Lorraine, Bar-le-Duc, Claude de Guise, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire · Poster un commentaire

Happy 499th birthday, Marie de Lorraine ! Here is a guest biography by Susan Abernethy. I’d like to precise that Marie’s father Claude wasn’t yet duke of Guise at the time of her birth, only a younger son to duke René II of Lorraine. The town of Bar was called just Bar, capital to the […]

1314-2014 : News of the Battle of Bannockburn

février 6, 2014 · par · dans 14e siècle, Écosse, exposition, Histoire, Marie de Guise, Moyen Age, Patrimoine, Scotland, Stirling castle, tourisme · 1 commentaire

In early summer of the year 1314,  by a small river named Bannock Burn in Scotland, took place one of the most famous battles in European history. The battle of Bannockburn was fought on june 23th and june 24th between the armies of king Edward II of England (1284-1327) and king Robert the Bruce of Scotland […]