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3 giorni fa · Mary of Burgundy (French: Marie de Bourgogne; Dutch: Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 ...
4 giorni fa · What is perhaps even more startling is with so many female sovereigns in this age of the ‘Monstrous Regiment’, figures such as Elizabeth’s sister Mary Tudor, Mary Stuart, Mary of Guise, Marie de Medici, Christina of Sweden etc. are entirely missing.
3 giorni fa · The queen dowager of Scotland (Mary of Guise) embarked at Edinburgh to visit her daughter in France, Sept. 7, 1550. On her return she landed at Portsmouth on the 2d Nov. 1551. (Lettres de Marie Stuart, edited by the Prince Alexandre Labanoff, 8vo. 1844, vol. i. 5.)
5 giorni fa · Fanny Ardant takes on the role of Mary of Guise, a formidable political figure involved in the complex European power struggles of the time.
5 giorni fa · With Henry II, however, the Guise influence soon became most powerful, and as Mary of Guise was Queen-Dowager of Scotland, and her one child Queen, the Guises cared for nothing else while Scotland was threatened with annexation by England.
2 giorni fa · The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1] .
5 giorni fa · Answer: Mary Stuart King James V of Scotland and his French wife Mary of Guise only had one child, a daughter called Mary. King James died when she was six days old effectively making her Queen of Scotland, though the country was ruled, initially by her mother and then by regents.
