The Wedding Of Charles I And Henrietta Maria 1625

Author : Marie-Claude Canova-Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503585321
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta Maria 1625 written by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 May 1625 Charles I married Henrietta Maria, the youngest sister of Louis XIII of France. The match signalled Britain's firm alignment with France against Habsburg Spain and promised well for future relations between the two countries. However, the union between a Protestant king and a Catholic princess was controversial from the start and the marriage celebrations were fraught with tensions. They were further disrupted by the sudden death of James I and an outbreak of the plague, which prevented large-scale public celebrations in London. The British weather also played its part. In fact, unlike other state occasions, the celebrations exposed weaknesses in the display of royal grandeur and national superiority. To a large extent they also failed to hide the tensions in the Stuart-Bourbon alliance. Instead they revealed the conflicting expectations of the two countries, each convinced of its own superiority and intent on furthering its own national interests. Less than two years later Britain was effectively in a state of war against France. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore for the first time the marriage celebrations of 1625, with a view to uncovering the differences and misunderstandings beneath the outward celebration of union and concord. By taking into account the ceremonial, political, religious and international dimensions of the event, the collection paints a rounded portrait of a union that would become personally successful, but complicated by the various tensions played out in the marriage celebrations and discussed here.

Author : Marie-Claude Canova-Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472443823
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Celebrations for the Wedding of Charles I and Henrietta-Maria 1625 written by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the 1625 marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, this volume reveals the differences and misunderstandings beneath the outward celebration of union and concord, showing how an alliance which promised well for future relations between Britain and France could soon turn to tensions and acts of hostility. A relatively low-key affair by early modern standards, the controversial union between a Protestant king and a Catholic princess was nonetheless celebrated in a variety of events in Paris and London, and in the small towns along the route between. There were triumphal entries; masques and court ballets were planned (if not actually performed) and there were banquets, balls and fireworks. Henrietta Maria was met by Charles at Dover and they entered London in a river procession up the Thames to Whitehall. In the following days the wedding festivities continued with banquets, dancing and jousting until the spread of the plague forced Charles and Henrietta Maria to flee London. Whilst there have been recent studies of Stuart court culture, this is the first volume to deal specifically with the 1625 wedding. The fifteen chapters in the collection analyse the various celebrations in both England and France from an interdisciplinary perspective, putting them into their intellectual, cultural and political contexts. As well as filling an important gap in the scholarship of this period, the book also complements recent publications on other comparable dynastic marriages, such as the 1613 Palatine wedding celebrations, 1615 Hapsburgâe"Bourbon union and the failed Spanish match of 1623. As such it will be of interest to students and scholars working in the field of early modern festivals, as well as historians, art and theatre historians, literature and material culture specialists, and musicologists.

Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henrietta Maria written by Alison Plowden and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henrietta Maria, youngest child of Henry IV of France, married Charles I in 1625, but her French attendants and Roman Catholic beliefs made her unpopular in England.

Author : Katie Whitaker
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297860208
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Royal Passion written by Katie Whitaker and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From quarrels, passion, treason to execution, discover one of the great overlooked love stories of history. King Charles I was a Protestant. Henrietta Maria, a 15-year-old French princess, was a Catholic. Arranged for political gain, their marriage was a dangerous experiment, yet against the odds they fell in love. However Henrietta's Catholicism fuelled rumours of improper influence over a supposedly helpless king. Unable to trust his Parliament, Charles's fear for the queen's safety plummeted the country into civil war and forced her to flee abroad, never to see her husband again. They kept up a poignant correspondence but in 1649, the king was condemned as a traitor and publicly executed, thus ending an extraordinary partnership that influenced the course of history. 'Bright, subtle and astute' The Spectator 'In her lively portrait of the ill-fated marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Katie Whitaker has brought their tragedy and the English Civil War vividly to life' David Starkey

Author : Leanda de Lisle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639362819
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henrietta Maria written by Leanda de Lisle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling the myths around this legendary queen, this biography of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I, retells the dramatic story of the English Civil War from the perspective of this dynamic woman. Henrietta Maria is British history’s most reviled queen consort. Condemned in her lifetime as the "Popish brat of France,” an adulteress, and a traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches in her marriage, the woman who turned her husband Catholic (and so caused the English Civil War), and a cruel and bigoted mother. This clear-eyed biography unpicks the myths and considers the story from Henrietta Maria's point of view. A portrait emerges of a woman whose closest friends included Puritans as well as Catholics, who crossed swords with Cardinal Richelieu, and led the anti-Spanish faction at the English court. A witty conversationalist, Henrietta Maria was a patron of the arts and a champion of the female voice, as well as a mediatrix for her persecuted fellow Catholics. During the civil war, the queen's enemies agreed that Charles would never have survived as long as he did without the "She Generalissimo." Seeing events through her gaze reveals the truth behind the claims that she caused the war, explains her estrangement from her son Henry, and diminishes the image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone. In fact, Henrietta Maria rose from the ashes of her husband's failures—a "phoenix queen”—presiding over a court judged to have had "more mirth” even than that of the Merry Monarch, Charles II. It is time to look again at this often-criticized queen and determine if she is not, in fact, one of British history's most remarkable women.

Author : Bram van Leuveren
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004537813
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572–1615 written by Bram van Leuveren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.

Author : Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030951979
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tudor and Stuart Consorts written by Aidan Norrie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.

Author : Katie Whitaker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393060799
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France written by Katie Whitaker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of how the Protestant English King Charles I, and his young, French, Catholic wife, Henrietta, found unexpected love and helped reign over an era of peace and prosperity until a war with Puritan Scotland risked their lives.

Author : Charles I (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Charles the First: an historical tragedy. Written in imitation of Shakespear, etc. [By William Havard.] written by Charles I (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Doelman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526144204
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy written by James Doelman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration. This book engages in a broad reading of the period’s rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, and by poets ranging from the canonical to the anonymous. The book stands apart from earlier studies by its greater focus upon the subjects of funeral elegies (rather than the poets), and how the particular circumstances of death and the immediate contexts affected the poetic response. Individual deaths are understood in relation to each other and other prominent events of the time. While the book covers the period 1603 to 1640, the 1620s stand out as a tumultuous decade in which the genre most fully engaged in matters of political controversy and satire.