Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre

Author: A. Mary F. Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-06

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9781976822018

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Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoul�me, Marguerite d'Alen�on; 11 April 1492 - 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoul�me and Margaret of Navarre, was the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alen�on and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France.Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king.As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman".

Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre

Author: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020094965

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This biography of Margaret of Angoulême, a prominent figure in 16th-century France, offers a detailed account of her life and legacy. With a focus on her literary output and her role in the Renaissance movement, this book provides a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating periods in European history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Margaret of Angoulême
Margaret of Angoulême

Author: A. Mary F. Robinson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-23

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780365466567

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Excerpt from Margaret of Angoulème: Queen of Navarre The student Of character may find another interest In the sweet, dense, Simple spirit of Margaret, - a comparatively trifling and unreal nature by the side of the vehement and auda cions personages of her time, but which, none the less, directed them, Influenced them, and checked their headlong course, in the same manner as the youthful character of Raphael maintained an unceasing authority over the wilder spirits Of his school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.