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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.
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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.
Jun 7, 2019 · 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.” (Tudor Times) Upon Charles’s untimely death in 1498, Anne was compelled by treaty to marry his successor, Louis XII.
May 16, 2016 · By Susan Abernethy. Anne of Brittany was born in the Castle of Nantes on January 25, 1477. A sister named Isabeau was born a few years later. Her father was Duke Francis II of Brittany and her mother was Marguerite, sister of the Comte de Foix. Anne’s tutoring was administered by the prominent Breton noblewoman Françoise de Dinan.
Famous for: Marrying two Kings of France, to become twice Queen Consort of France. 1. She was born in 1477. Anne of Brittany was born on 26 January 1477 in the city of Nantes, as the eldest daughter of Duke François II of Bretagne and his second wife Margaret of Foix, Infanta of Navarre.
spouse Louis XII. daughter Claude of France. (Show more) Anne Of Brittany (born Jan. 25, 1477, Nantes, Fr.—died Jan. 9, 1514, Blois) was the duchess of Brittany and twice queen consort of France, who devoted her life to safeguarding the autonomy of Brittany within the kingdom of France. Daughter of Duke Francis II of Brittany and Margaret of ...
