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  1. Sep 11, 2019 · After the Pope grants him the annulment of his 7-year-long marriage, Louis XII is free to marry his predecessor's young widow, Anne of Brittany. Isabel s03e06 - The Queen of the Entire...

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  2. 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.

  3. 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 Foix
    Father: 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 1490

    As 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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  4. Apr 13, 2018 · Her wedding dress was of cloth of gold at 7350 francs per yard. I mean, you just can’t imagine such magnificence, right? I suppose Meghan Markle’s is going to cost me.

  5. Anne of Brittanywedding with Charles VIII. Anne became engaged to the King in the vault of the Jacobins in Rennes on 17 November 1491. Then, escorted by her army (ostensibly to show that she had willingly consented to the marriage), Anne we… Inspiration. Wordpress. Wedding Dress. Rennes. 16th Century. Brittany. Victorian Dress. Century.

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  7. Mar 8, 2018 · Even though Anne has the weakest connection to Maximilian, I still wanted to share her story, if for nothing else than for the almost comical tale of her spectacularly failed marriage with the emperor. Born in 1477, Anne was part of the ruling family of the powerful duchy of Brittany.

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