Royal and noble house

Welcome to the noble and royal house. Here you will find everything related to noble or royal HISTORICAL houses such as : Tudor, Borgia, Medici, Sforza, Stuart, Plantagenet, Bourbon, Valois, and many more.

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"…all I can do is to beg you earnestly to remember me sometimes, and to know that I bear you always in my heart."

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Children of Royalty: Henry II and Catherine de Medici

Francis II of France

Elisabeth, Queen of Spain

Claude, Duchess of Lorraine

Louis of Valois

Charles IX of France

Henry III of France

Margaret, Queen of France

Francis, Duke of Alençon

Joan of Valois

Victoria of Valois

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܀ history meme ܀ six relationships: Charles I (x) and Henrietta Maria (x) (1/6) ↳ husband and wife

Amidst the turmoil and bloodshed during the English Civil Wars (1642-9), came about a remarkable, passionate and turbulent relationship between King Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. Though both were of different temperaments, Charles being far more peaceful than his warlike wife, and with opposing religious convictions, they found common ground in the arts and ideas on platonic love. The ardent affection that they grew to hold for one another makes them one of the greatest love affairs in the British monarchy to date.

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܀ history meme ܀ nine women: Isabella d’Este {18 May 1474 – 13 February 1539} (2/9) ↠ Marchesa of Mantua There are few women that could rival Isabella d’Este as one of the first amongst the women of the Italian Renaissance - and even fewer could claim the good fortune that seemed to stay with her throughout her life. An avid patron of the arts, her grotto was filled with many rare and beautiful pieces that she collected or obtained. In the same way, she also made sure to gather the very best of people around her and her court was one of the most splendid in all of Italy. She was also a good stateswoman, taking over her husband’s duties of ruling Mantua when he could not. Her effective style of ruling kept her and her lands out of the troubles that fell upon others, including many of her close her friends. Isabella never shied away from promoting her own interests, even at sometimes the expense of others, but neither can her generosity be ignored or the great esteem that she held for those dearest to her. She became, during her lifetime and after, a model of the great Renaissance lady and her vibrant life and personality accounts for this.

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܀ history meme ܀ six relationships: Isabella d’Este (x) and Elisabetta Gonzaga (x) (2/6) ↳ sisters-in-law Two of the most exemplary women of the Italian Renaissance were Isabella d’Este and Elisabetta Gonzaga, the latter being the much idolised lady in the works of Pietro Bembo and Baldassarre Castiglione. They both cultivated the best of courts that housed many of the finest writers, artists and intellects. Whilst they were both so similar in some respects, they were also different. Hare summaries Elisabetta’s personality – and by this, Isabella’s – as “Elisabetta had not the splendid vitality of her friend, nor her undoubted beauty, but she was more gentle and winning, more unselfish and affectionate.” Yet it is clear that Isabella, with those that she cared for greatly, (Elisabetta being one at the very top), she proved to be most loving and compassionate. Such is the case when Isabellla wrote to Elisabetta, “There is no one I love like you, excepting my only sister, the Duchess of Bari”.

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܀ history meme ܀ seven dynasties: House of Sforza {1447 – 1519/1624} (1/7)

Coming from rural nobility and securing their position as condottieri, Muzio Attendolo took over the duchy of Milan from the Visconti family in 1447 and it became their predominate home and power base (and they also had Pesaro). The Sforza strength lay in their military prowess as well as being active and great patrons of the arts, (da Vinci being at the court of Ludovico), and they produced many influential and powerful men and women.Through alliances and marriage, they created ties to other Italian families (they tended to have good relations with the Medicis who they were similar to) and played vital and critical roles in the shaping of Italian history. The last duke of Milan was in 1519 and the line of Sforza-Cotignola ended in 1624. 

Some notable Sforzas were: Ludovico Sforza, Caterina Sforza, Bona Sforza - Queen of Poland, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza and Bianca Maria Sforza - Holy Roman Empress. 

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Peter Paul Rubens. Detail from Portrait of Anne of Austria (1601-1666), wife of Louis XIII, King of France, 1625.

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Hair of Mary Tudor in a gold locket

Engraved on the back: ‘Hair of Mary Tudor Queen of France cut from her head Sep 6 1784 when her tomb at St Edmundsbury was opened H.W.’

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Rare photograph of the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II, in a photoshoot for the 1903 Ball in the Winter Palace. Nicholas was dressed as his seventh great-grandfather Tsar Alexei, the second Romanov ruler who lived in the seventeenth century.

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history meme | nine rulers; catherine the great, empress of russia (1729-1796)

Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia. She came to power following a coup d’état and the assassination of her husband, Peter III, at the end of the Seven Years’ War. Russia was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. The period of Catherine the Great’s rule, the Catherinian Era, is often considered the Golden Age of the Russian Empire and the Russian nobility. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of Voltaire and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, when the Smolny Institute, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe, was established. {X}

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Crowns are the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honour, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness, and resurrection.

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The wedding contract/certificate of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.

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Happy Father’s Day !

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I love the picture of Fritz with the girls! Eeeek so cute. 

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→ The coronation of Louis XVI While traveling from Compiègne to Frismes—where His Majesty spent the night on 8 June–, the King received the most dazzling, the most sincere and already the most deserved proof of love from His Peoples. The King left Frismes on 9 June to go to the City of Reims, and He arrived there in a ceremonial coach, accompanied by Monsieur, Monseigneur the Count of Artois, the Duke of Orléans, the Duke of Chartres, and the Prince of Condé. After the Duke of Bourbon, Governor of Champagne, gave him the keys of the city, the King entered Reims escorted by the troops of the royal household and made his way through a People intoxicated with joy—which did not decrease but rather intensified as the procession moved along. His Majesty entered the metropolitan church, where he was greeted by the Archbishop-Duke of Reims—who was at the head of his Chapter—and listened to the Te Deum. After the Benediction, the King withdrew to the archbishop’s palace where all the Nobles complimented Him. The next day, the King listened to the first Vespers in the Cathedral, and on Sunday, June 11th, around seven o’clock, His Majesty—with the greatest pomp—went back to the same Church and was crowned in the usual ways. The Queen arrived accompanied by Madame [Elizabeth, the King’s sister], and despite the fact that she remained incognito, she was delighted at the most vivid expressions of love the French Nation devoted to her. She attended all the august ceremonies of this sacred feast. A stand had been set up for Her, Madame Clotilde and Madame Elizabeth. At that point some interesting details were removed and will be talked about in a more lengthy Report. The King gave permission to the Marquess of la Tour du Pin to take the name of the Marquess of Gouvernet—who requested it in his Will. His Majesty also allowed the Count of Charce, his son, to take the name of the Marquess of la Tour du Pin. (x)

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Romanov Birthdays → Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, June 10

Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia was the sixth child of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia and his wife Elizabeth Mavrikievna née Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg. Igor was born on 10 June 1894 in Saint Petersburg. During his youth, Igor attended the Corps des Pages, an imperial military academy in Saint Petersburg. He enjoyed theatre. During World War I, he was a captain in the Ismailovsky Guard Regiment and became a decorated war hero. However, his health was quite fragile: he suffered from pleurisy and lung complications in 1915, and even if he returned to the trenches, he couldn’t walk quickly and often coughed and spat blood.

On 4 April 1918, he was exiled to the Urals by the Bolsheviks and murdered on 18 July (the day after the murders of Nicholas II and his family) when he was pushed into a mine shaft near the town of Alapaevsk, along with his brothers Prince John Constantinovich, Prince Constantine Constantinovich, his cousin Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, and other relatives and friends. Their bodies were recovered and buried months later in an Orthodox cemetery in Beijing, China, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. A park was built on the site of the burial.

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A fragment of painting Boyarynya Morozova by Vasily Surikov depicting a defiant Old Believer, Feodosia Morozova, arrested by the Czar’s authorities in 1671. She holds two fingers raised: a hint of the old “proper” way of crossing oneself: with two fingers, rather than with three Feodosia Prokopiyevna Morozova (Russian: Феодо́сия Проко́пьевна Моро́зова) (1632–1675) was one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.

She was born on May 21, 1632 into a family of the okolnichi Prokopy Feodorovich Sokovnin. At the age of 17, she was married to the boyar Gleb Morozov, brother to the tsar’s tutor Boris Morozov. After her husband’s early death in 1662, she retained a prominent position at the Russian court.

During the Raskol Feodosia, being a penitent of Archpriest Avvakum, joined the Old Believers’ movement and secretly took monastic vows with the name Theodora. She played an important role in convincing her sister, Princess Evdokia Urusova, to join the Old Believers.

After many misfortunes the sisters were incarcerated in an underground cellar of the St. Paphnutius Monastery at Borovsk, where Feodosia succumbed to starvation on December 1, 1675. Many Old Believer communities venerate her as a martyr.