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Showing posts with label Mary Tudor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mary Tudor. Show all posts
Friday, November 22, 2019

Marie de Guise, Queen and Regent of Scotland

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Marie de Guise, queen and regent of Scotland (born 22 November 1515) As I have noted many times in the years since I began writing this...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Lady Margaret Douglas, Poet and "Progenitor of Princes"

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Margaret Douglas, countess of Lennox (christened 8 October 1515) Margaret Douglas was the daughter of Margaret Tudor , Henry VIII'...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Women and Political Power--Or, Some Things Never Change

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Hillary Clinton, Matilda of England, and the Crap Women Have to Put Up With When it comes to women seeking political power, things don...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Isabel of Portugal: Duchess of Burgundy, Queen of Italy, Naples, the Germans, and Spain, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire

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Isabel of Portugal, regent of Spain (born 24 October 1503) Isabel of Portugal was the daughter of Manuel I of Portugal and his second q...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Mary Tudor, Queen of England

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Mary Tudor (crowned 1 October 1553) Mary Tudor was crowned queen of England on 1 October 1553. Queen Mary of England, 1554, portr...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Kingmaker

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Lady Margaret Beaufort (born 31 May 1443) In 1485 Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field, ending thirty-t...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Jane Grey, Queen for Nine Days

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Jane Grey (executed 12 February 1554) I never realized, until starting this daybook in women's history, the eerie juxtaposition of...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Elizabeth of York: She Might Have Been Queen

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Elizabeth of York (born 11 February 1466 and died 11 February 1503) The daughter of Edward IV, the Yorkist king of England, and the nie...