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3 days ago · The French queen was in the middle, under the canopy, and the duchess of Alençon at the end. The Kings and Queens always dined at home before coming to the banquets, and only conversed while admiring the service and the meats.
3 days ago · The bishop of Worcester has done much towards effecting this Advises him to write and thank the Pope and Cardinals. The 15,000 or 16,000 ducats thus condoned are a mark of their good will. Some expense will be incurred in the expedition of the letters. Commends to him his secretary Florian. Rome, 4 July 1520.
5 days ago · Statement of the chief obstacles to the marriage of Queen Elizabeth with the Duke of Alençon, particularly the great difference of age, the possibility of his person being distasteful to the Queen, the diversity of religion, and the great misliking of her subjects thereof, through the late massacre in France.
3 days ago · France. Signature. Joan of Arc ( French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
3 days ago · Charles, Duke of Vendôme and Françoise d'Alençon: Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale: Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies: 25 November 1844: Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria: Henry, Duke of Villena: Infanta Catherine, Duchess of Villena: 12 July 1420: John I of Castile and Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of ...
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3 days ago · "At la Chasterie, near Alençon." "I should not have thought that Montauran would have been fool enough to marry her," the baron whispered to the count. "The natural daughter of a duke! Out upon it!" "If she had been a king's daughter, he might have been excused," he Comte de Bauvan said, with a smile, "but I am not the one to blame him.
3 days ago · As headlines across the globe speak of the life and legacy of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, 2022, today we remember St. Thérèse of Lisieux on what would have been her 150th birthday.