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Queen Consorts of England + Margaret
Queens consort of England - Margaret of France
Margaret of France (1157 – aft. 10 September 1197) was, by her two marriages, queen of England, Hungary and Croatia.She was the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile. Her older half-sisters, Marie and Alix, were also older half-sisters of her future husband.
She was betrothed to Henry the Young King on 2 November 1160. Henry was the second of five sons born to King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was five years old at the time of this agreement while Margaret was three. Margaret’s dowrywas the vital and much disputed territory of the Vexin.
Her husband became co-ruler with his father in 1170. Because Archbishop Thomas Becket was in exile, Margaret was not crowned along with her husband on 14 July 1170. This omission and the coronation being handled by a surrogate greatly angered her father. To please the French King, Henry II had his son and Margaret crowned together in Winchester Cathedral on 27 August 1172.When Margaret became pregnant, she did her confinement period in Paris, where she gave birth prematurely to their only son William on 19 June 1177, who died three days later on 22 June.
She was accused in 1182 of having a love affair with William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, although contemporary chroniclers doubted the truth of these accusations. Henry may have started the process to have their marriage annulled, ostensibly due to her adultery but in reality because she could not conceive an heir. Margaret was sent back to France, according to E. Hallam (The Plantagenets) and Amy Kelly (Eleonore of Aquitaine and the Four Kings), to ensure her safety during the civil war with Young Henry’s brother Richard. Her husband died in 1183 while on campaign in the Dordogne region of France. By virtue of her marriage to Young King Henry, duke of Anjou, she was installed as the duchess. The coronet he and she would have worn was chronicled in about 1218 as “the traditional ring-of-roses coronet of the house of Anjou”.Margaret may have taken her coronet to Hungary in 1186 on becoming Queen Consort to King Bela III. A “ring-of-roses coronet was discovered in a convent grave in Budapest in 1838, which may be the same one.
After receiving a substantial pension in exchange for surrendering her dowry of Gisors and the Vexin, she became the second wife of Béla III of Hungary in 1186. The difficult delivery of her only known child in 1177 seems to have rendered her sterile, as she had no further children.
She was widowed for a second time in 1196 and died on pilgrimage to the Holy Land at St John of Acre in 1197, having only arrived eight days prior to her death.She was buried at the Cathedral of Tyre, according to Ernoul, the chronicler who continued the chronicles of William of Tyre.
GAVIN DREA as EADRIC STREONA VIKINGS: VALHALLA 1.04 The Bridge
just found that i can trace my descent from nine of the twenty-five magna carta barons the way i am johns number one opp
Favourite Medieval Queen | Leonor of England, Queen of Castile and Toledo
I know. I’m kinda hopeless. But I liked the combination blue, gold and awesomeness.
Do NOT interact if you've taken up with the foul pretender Stephen in his lawless attempt to usurp Her Majesty the Empress Matilda 😡
The Patronage of the Cult of St Thomas Becket by Henry II’s Daughters | Matilda of Saxony, Leonor of England, Joan of England
«The Anglo-Castilian connection in this period is also represented by the queen’s efforts to cleanse her father’s memory after the murder of Thomas Becket. Leonor had married Alfonso [VIII of Castile] only a few months before the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral, events that left Christian Europe in shock. News of his brutal assassination caused immediate reaction all over Europe and must have soon reached the Castilian court and Leonor’s ears. Her father was blamed for the prelate’s murder and the mighty king of the English was brought to his knees through public repentance and expiation. But soon after Becket’s horrid death, Henry II’s expiation turned into veneration and so the martyr of Canterbury – canonised in 1173 – having been a victim of Plantagenet wrath was then becoming an object of Plantagenet piety and devotion.
Kay Brainerd Slocum has studied the spread of the cult in Europe due to the patronage of Henry’s daughters and has suggested that the queen of Castile «departing from the usual practice, wished to establish her own very close connection, and that of her natal family, to the Canterbury martyr». The wonderfully coloured prayerbook of Henry of Saxony and Bavaria, married to Matilda of England, and the stunning mosaics of Monreale in Sicily, commissioned during the queenship of her youngest sister, Joan, bear witness to the agency of Henry II’s daughters in the promotion of Becket’s cult across the continent.
Leonor paid her dues in Castile and her contribution to the cult was manifest and resolute. The queen joined her father’s cry for divine forgiveness in the dedication of altars at the cathedrals of Sigüenza and Toledo and perhaps in the commission of wall paintings at a church in Soria».
Cerda, José Manuel: The Marriage of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet: the first bond between Spain and England in the Middle Ages, in: Aurell, Martin (ed.): Les Stratégies matrimoniales (IXe-XIIIe siècle), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, pp. 143-153, pp. 146-147.
Or: my favourite sisterly alliance.
Some of my old The Devil’s Crown (1978) fanarts, of Henry II through the Ages
Richard, Count of Poitou turns his back on his father and pays homage to Philip II, King of the Franks (AD 1188)
(Lily-less version here, and also WIPs and other posting on Patreon)
"Marriage as Tactical Response: Henry II and the Royal Wedding of 1160" by Lindsay Diggelmann (2004).
looove when my posts about like epic of gilgamesh or something break 1k notes i feel like im brainwashing people to go their local library. ooogh you want to read literature from thousands of years ago so bad
my lawyers have asked me to state publically and for the record that i specifically asked if nobody would rid me of this turbulent priest. the subsequent death via my vassal knights of anyone who isn't a priest (and my lawyers agree i have a strong case with my point that an archbishop of canterbury would not usually be referred to as "a priest") can have had nothing at all to do with my unfortunate outburst at dinner that one evening, and people need to stop saying the two events are connected or i will have yet another job for my lawyers.
also if anyone knows how to get un-ex-communicated quickly and easily please let me know. thanks in advance.
(thomas becket stans DNI, especially if you are pushing for his canonisation which if you ask me is very premature and also he was mean to me which i think should automatically exclude him from consideration for sainthood.)
listening to a man break up with his partner on the train and the first sentence I heard was "I just don't appreciate you cheating on me six different times, once with my own father."
do you guys ordered some knights in love?