Archives de Tag: biography

The ambitious Lorraine family

septembre 9, 2016 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, femmes, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, livre, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Renaissance, Scotland · Poster un commentaire

Back in January 2013, when I started writing this blog, everybody in Great Britain called Marie of Lorraine Mary of Guise, or in France, Marie de Guise. However, I always felt (and have good arguments for it) that the name Mary of Guise was anachronistic. Therefore, I kept repeating to whoever was listening or reading […]

Mary’s birth in 1515, by Rosalind K. Marshall

novembre 18, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, Bar-le-Duc, Claude de Guise, femmes, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 3 Commentaires

November 2015. The 500th birthday of Marie of Lorraine, or Mary of Guise, has arrived. To celebrate this historical event now follows an extract of the book that has pulled her out of oblivion. The first modern work on the eldest daughter of Claude duke of Guise and Antoinette of Bourbon, Mary of Guise-Lorraine, queen […]

Madeleine of Valois, king James V’s first wife

octobre 24, 2015 · par · dans 16th century, 19th century, France, history, Holyrood Abbey, Mary of Guise, Renaissance, Scotland, Stewart, tomb · Poster un commentaire

In the first half of the XVIth century, France and Scotland were not only bound by the Auld Alliance, a treaty of mutual military assistance between the two kingdoms dating from the end of the XIIIth century. Many Scots were also permanently living on the Continent: Scottish merchants living in the cities of Rouen and […]

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

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 […]

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 […]