Archives de Tag: Scotland
Le couronnement de Marie de Lorraine, reine consort d’Écosse
Les 7 et 8 novembre 2019 a eu lieu à Nancy le colloque « Sacres et couronnements dans l’Occident chrétien : rite, état et société, du Moyen Age à nos jours », organisé par le CRULH et l’Institut François Gény de l’Université de Lorraine. Parmi de nombreuses interventions (voir le programme), cinq historiennes se sont penchées sur […]
Madeleine of Valois, king James V’s first wife
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 […]
June 1538: Marie de Guise discovers Scottish fashion
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
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 […]
