Archives de Tag: History of Scotland

Marie of Lorraine, the other Scottish Queen

septembre 22, 2025 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, femmes et pouvoir, Histoire, James V, Lorraine, Marie de Guise, Marie Stuart, Mary of Guise, Renaissance, Scotland, Stewart · Poster un commentaire

Everyone knows of Mary, Queen of Scots: her tragic death, her real and imaginary lovers, the letters to her English cousin Queen Elizabeth I, her physical beauty and splendid black dowager gowns, her staunch catholicism. But there is another Mary, Queen of Scots, who also lived in the Sixteeenth century and who also greatly impacted […]

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 […]