Archives de Tag: Scotland

Crowning a Queen of Scots: the case of Marie of Lorraine (1540)

avril 17, 2023 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, femmes et pouvoir, James V, Marie de Guise, Renaissance · Poster un commentaire

Mid-June 1538. Marie, a young princess of 22 and mother of a small son, embarked without her child on a vessel, left the French coast, crossed the North sea and arrived with her retinue on the east coast of Scotland. The previous month, this eldest daughter of the duke of Guise and dowager duchess of […]

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 […]

Le premier colloque français sur Marie de Lorraine-Guise à Bar-le-Duc

août 23, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, Écosse, Bar-le-Duc, Claude de Guise, culture, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Lorraine, Lothringen, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Nancy, Patrimoine, Renaissance, Scotland, Stirling castle · 3 Commentaires

500 ans après la naissance de Marie de Lorraine à Bar, aujourd’hui Bar-le-Duc en Lorraine, la capitale du Barrois se souvient à son tour de la fille aînée des Guise. Début juillet 2015, l’association régionale Sauvegarde du patrimoine l’avait honoré par une fête Renaissance à Joinville, lieu de son enfance. Le 9 octobre 2015, Bar-le-Duc accueilit […]

June 1538: Marie de Guise discovers Scottish fashion

juillet 12, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, arts décoratifs, Écosse, culture, femmes, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, history, James V, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Renaissance, Scotland · 2 Commentaires

After an exhausting sea crossing from France, Marie arrived on a sandy beach on the Scottish East coast near Crail. She was accompanied by the duke of Guise her father, her sister Louise, her ladies in waiting and many Frenchmen. All disembarked the galleys and moved towards castle Balcomie, probably passing fishermen, villagers and townspeople. […]

‘And Yet It Stands’. Mary of Guise’s emblem pictured by Scottish artist Iona Leishman

juin 18, 2015 · par · dans 21th century, Art, arts décoratifs, Ausstellung, Écosse, culture, exposition, femmes, femmes et pouvoir, Guise, Marie de Guise, Mary of Guise, Personnalité, Scotland, Stirling castle, tourisme · 1 commentaire

ADHUC STAT – ‘And yet it stands’ – was the motto of Marie de Guise‘s personal emblem, accompanied by the pictura or image representing, according to French historian Gabriel de Pimodan, a crown set above a rock beaten by winds and waves. It is also the title of this summer’s exhibition of new paintings from […]

Mary of Guise’s Coat of Arms

avril 3, 2015 · par · dans 16e siècle, 16th century, arts décoratifs, Bar-le-Duc, Claude de Guise, coat of arms, femmes et pouvoir, France, Frankreich, heraldry, Histoire, history, Marie de Guise, Scotland · Poster un commentaire

The Mary of Guise-Lorraine article from this blog, recently republished on Celebrate Scotland, features amongst its illustrations the Queen regent’s Coat of Arms on stained glass. These Arms are situated in the middle window in the south wall of the Magdalen Chapel in Edinburgh. The Magdalen Chapel website states that it « was built [more likely […]

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

Initialement publié sur The Freelance History Writer :
Marie of Guise, c. 1537, by Corneille de Lyon Marie of Guise was born on November 22, 1515 in the castle of Bar-le-Duc in northeast France. Her father was Claude, Duke of Guise and her mother was Antoinette of Bourbon. The Guises were one of the most powerful…

Portraits of James V of Scotland and the celebration of dynasty

octobre 17, 2014 · par · dans 16e siècle, Angleterre, Art, Écosse, femmes, France, Frankreich, Guise, Histoire, Histoire de l'art, Marie de Guise, Patrimoine, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 2 Commentaires

« There is evidence to suggest that the Stewart kings were keenly aware of the need both to circulate an official likeness and to assemble a gallery of dynastic forebears. Portrait artists were seemingly employed at the Scottish court from the reign of James I. When Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in […]

16th century cloaks: Lord Seton’s red golden ‘mante’

août 4, 2014 · par · dans 16e siècle, Art, Écosse, France, Frankreich, Histoire de l'art, Marie Stuart, Personnalité, Renaissance, Scotland · 15 Commentaires

George Seton was born in 1531 in Tranent, East Lothian. The Latin inscription from the wall of the Seton Collegiate Church in the Lothians states, that George had been living in France as a boy. After his father’s death in 1549, he returned to Scotland to become 5th Lord Seton. Soon afterwards, he was appointed […]

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 […]

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