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A series of miscarriages disenchanted the king and served to chill their relations. On 14 March 1622, while playing with her ladies, Anne fell and suffered her second stillbirth. Louis blamed her for the incident and was angry with Marie de Rohan, now the Dowager Duchess of Luynes, for having encouraged the queen in what was seen as negligence ...
"The Devils of Loudun" (1952). The trial of Urbain Grandier, priest of the town who was tortured and burned at the stake in 1634; Knecht, Robert, Renaissance France, genealogies, Baumgartner, genealogical tables; Malettke, Klaus. The Crown, Ministeriat and Nobility at the court of Louis XIII (German Historical Institute London, 1991) online.
Maria Theresa despised her husband's prolonged infidelity with Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. [46] Louis reprimanded Madame de Montespan when her behaviour at court too flagrantly disrespected the queen's position, [47] yet often displayed a level of indulgence toward her that surpassed his treatment of the queen. [48]
A letter sent on 13 June 1685, by the Secretary of the King's Household to M. De Bezons, general agent of the clergy, and the pension of 300 pounds granted by King Louis XIV to the nun Louise Marie-Thérèse on 15 October 1695, "to be paid to her all her life in this convent or everywhere she could be, by the guards of the Royal treasure ...
The marriage was arranged as a part of a series of Franco-Sardinian dynastic marriages taking place in a time span of eight years: after the wedding between her first cousin the Princesse de Lamballe and Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe, [3]: 7 and the wedding between Marie Joséphine and Louis Stanislas, her younger sister Maria ...
Fleeing England with her mother as an infant in the midst of the English Civil War, Henrietta moved to the court of her first cousin King Louis XIV of France, where she was known as Minette. [1] She married her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and became a fille de France , [ 2 ] but their relationship was marked by frequent tensions over ...
France, Aquitaine and Poitiers in 1154 with the expansion of the Plantagenet lands. Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence (1124–1137), marriage to Louis VII and Queen of France (1137–1152), marriage to Henry II and Queen of England (1152–1173), imprisonment to Henry's death (1173–1189) and as a widow until her ...
The title had been held by her grandfather's brother, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine. It was then sold to Louis XV of France then to her father. The title of Princess of Carignan was sold to her father by the Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy in 1751 because the Duke needed money to pay his debts.