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The renowned historian Jules Michelet, in his *Histoire de France*, granted to Charles VIII a place in the national narrative. He was the king who dedicated himself to the Italian Wars, thereby igniting the spark that allowed Italian culture to encounter French civilization and thus igniting the fire of the Renaissance.
Armoiries royales de Charles VIII
France, 1488
Marguerite of Austria as Queen of France, as wife to Charles VIII, King of France. Engaged from 1482 to 1491.
Marguerite of Austria as Princess of Asturias, as wife to Juan, Prince of Asturias. Married from April to October 1497.
Marguerite of Austria as Duchess of Savoy, as wife to Philibert II, Duke of Savoy. Married from 1501 to 1504.
From Changement de fortune en toute prosperite by Michele Riccio, c.1507-1509.
(Images via Margaret of Austria. A Princess with ambition and political insight by Dagmar Eichberger, published 2005.)
Odd Obstinate Odysseus
Hospitable Hospitallers
Temporary Templars
Trampling Templars
Trying Templar Trials
Conspiratorial Co Kings
Feudal FOMO
Feudal Football Fans
Italian War Interludes
La Maison de Valois.
When Henry shifted from neutrality to opposing France in Brittany and Flanders, thereby reviving the Anglo-Burgundian-Breton axis against France, it was Charles VIII who supported Yorkist conspiracies to neutralise Henry and punish him for his ingratitude. In 1490–91, the French encouraged two failed plots to murder Henry VII, and then they became involved with a new Yorkist impostor, Perkin Warbeck, who appeared in Ireland in late 1491 masquerading as Richard, duke of York, Edward IV’s youngest son. Charles VIII’s support for the impostor was a factor in Henry’s 1492 war against France, and included in the treaty of Étaples was Charles’s promise not to support Henry’s rebels. After the peace was signed, Charles expelled Warbeck from France.
John M. Currin, “England’s International Relations 1485–1509: Continuities amidst Change” | Tudor England and Its Neighbours
Bataille de Fornoue, 6 juillet 1495 by Éloi Firmin Féron
King Charles VIII of France.
