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Even more extravagant was Anne’s wedding dress – of ‘drap d’or trait-enlevé’ – a type of figured cloth-of-gold, at 7,350 francs the yard, trimmed with sables. Her Breton attendants, too, received expensive new clothes.
May 16, 2016 · Anne was fond of wearing traditional Breton dress with luxurious fabrics. When Anne was nine, her mother died. Her education was stopped and Anne’s quiet life was replaced by traveling with her father to various castles and fortresses.
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Mother:Margaret of Foix, daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre and Gaston IV, Count of FoixFather: Francis II, Duke of Brittany, who fought with King Louis and Charles VIII of France to keep Brittany independent, and who protected Henry Tudor who had fled England and would later become K...Member of the house of Dreux-Montfort, tracing descent back to Hugh Capet, the French king.Sibling:A younger sister, Isabelle, died in 1490As heiress to the rich duchy of Brittany, Anne was sought as a marriage prize by many of the royal families of Europe. In 1483, Anne's father arranged for her to marry the Prince of Wales, Edward, son of Edward IV of England. That same year, Edward IV died and Edward V was briefly king until his uncle, Richard III, took the throne and the young pri...
Alain d'Albret, called Alain the Great (1440 to 1552), tried to arrange a marriage with Anne, hoping the alliance with Brittany would add to his power against France's royal authority. Anne rejected his proposal. In 1490, Anne agreed to marry the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian, who had been an ally of her father in his attempts to keep Brittany inde...
Charles arranged that Anne would marry him, and she agreed, hoping that their arrangement would allow Brittany significant independence. They married on December 6, 1491, and Anne was crowned Queen of France on February 8, 1492. In becoming Queen, she had to give up her title as Duchess of Brittany. After that marriage, Charles had Anne's marriage ...
Anne gave birth nine months after the wedding. The child, a daughter, was named Claude, who became Anne's heir to the title of Duchess of Brittany. As a daughter, Claude could not inherit the crown of France because France followed Salic Law, but Brittany did not. A year after Claude's birth, Anne gave birth to a second daughter, Renée, on October ...
Immediately after Anne's death, Louis carried through the marriage of Claude to Francis, who would succeed him. Louis remarried, taking as his wife the sister of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor. Louis died the next year without gaining the hoped-for male heir, and Francis, Claude's husband, became King of France, and made his heir the Duke of Brittany as we...
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Mar 8, 2024 · The white wedding dress, now a common tradition in the western world, originated with Anne of Brittany on the occasion of her marriage to Louis XII of France in 1499. But it wasn’t until 1840, when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert, that the white dress was made popular.
Mar 8, 2018 · And because of this, like Mary, Anne (and her sizable inheritance) became an incredibly desirable marriage prospect for the powerful men of Europe. In 1489, when she was only twelve, Anne was crowned Duchess of Brittany, and the marriage offers came thick and fast.
What is more incredible that being crowned Queen? Being crowned Queen twice! Anne of Brittany is on that very rarified list, having been crowned Queen twice (along with another famous French woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine ). But that is not the reason that Anne of Brittany is today still remembered as one of the leading figures in French history.
Nov 14, 2020 · The whole creation was made of white silk with a veil of white tulle held in place by the same fringe tiara that Anne’s mother, the Queen, had worn for her own wedding back in 1947 and which...
