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4 days ago · Mary's mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, gave her the necklace and pendant which she had commissioned from goldsmiths in Lyon and Paris. By the time of Mary's marriage, Mathurin Lussault was known as Mary's goldsmith.
6 days ago · This dual bloodline gave her title to royal heraldry, loads of land and immense wealth — making her extremely desirable as a prospect for an arranged marriage. In 1533, she was wed to Henry of the...
3 days ago · When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family.
5 days ago · The young king, married to Mary, Queen of Scots the year before, was 15 in 1559 when he took the throne. One thing that the young king really liked doing was hunting. He liked taking his new wife with him, and so they went on several hunts together.
4 days ago · After securing Alessandro de' Medici's dukedom, Pope Clement VII married off his first cousin, twice removed, Catherine de' Medici, to the son of Emperor Charles V's arch-enemy, King Francis I of France—the future King Henry II.
3 days ago · Her mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, became regent for the late king's ten-year-old brother Charles IX, who inherited the French throne. Mary returned to Scotland nine months later, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1561.
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Jun 29, 2024 · The recipient of the chest was Francis I of Brittany who received it as a gift from Pope Clement VII in Marseilles in October 1533 on the occasion of the marriage of his niece Catherine de’ Medici to the second son of the sovereign, the future king of France, Henry II.
