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Margaret of Valois (1295–1342) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois, and his first wife, Margaret, Countess of Anjou. She was also a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I of Châtillon, Count of Blois. They had three children together:
Margaret of Blois (French: Marguerite; died 1230) was suo jure Countess of Blois in France from 1218 to 1230. From 1190 to 1200, she was the countess consort of the County of Burgundy and then regent for her daughters from 1200 until 1208.
May 10, 2024 · Margaret Of Valois was the queen consort of Navarre known for her licentiousness and for her Mémoires, a vivid exposition of France during her lifetime. The daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de Médicis, she played a secondary part in the Wars of Religion (1562–98) from the moment she.
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Early life
Margaret of Valois was born on 14 May 1553 at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the seventh child and third daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. Three of her brothers would become kings of France: Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. Her sister, Elisabeth of Valois, would become the third wife of King Philip II of Spain, and her brother Francis II, married Mary, Queen of Scots. Her childhood was spent in the French royal nursery of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye wit...
Vermillion wedding
By 1570, Catherine de' Medici was seeking a marriage between Margaret and Henry de Bourbon of Navarre, the leading Huguenot (French Calvinist Protestant). It was hoped this union would strengthen family ties, as the Bourbons were part of the French royal family and the closest relatives to the reigning Valois branch, and end the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Huguenots.[citation needed] On 11 April 1572, Margaret was betrothed to Henry. Henry was a few months younger than Marga...
Malcontent conspiracy
In 1573, Charles IX's fragile mental state and constitution deteriorated further, but the heir presumptive, his brother Henry, was elected king of Poland. Due to Henry's support of suppressing Protestant worship, moderate Catholic lords, called Malcontents, supported a plot to raise Charles' youngest brother, Francis of Alençon, to the throne of France instead. Alençon appeared willing to compromise in religious affairs, making him an appealing option to those tired of violence. Allied with t...
Myth of Queen Margot
Queen Margaret's life is obscured by the legend of "Queen Margot", the myth of a nymphomaniac and incestuous woman in a damned family. Many slanders were spread throughout the life of the princess, but those in The Satiric Divorce (Le Divorce Satyrique), a pamphlet probably written by Théodore Agrippa d'Aubignéagainst Henry IV, were the ones that were most successful by being subsequently handed down as if they had been established. By 1630, after the Day of the Dupes, Cardinal Richelieu and...
In literature and fiction
The 1845 novel of Alexandre Dumas, père, La Reine Margot, is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding Margaret's marriage to Henry of Navarre. The novel was adapted into film three times, with the 1994 version nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design (Margaret was played by Isabelle Adjani). The main action of William Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labour's Lost(1594–1595) is possibly based on an attempt at reconciliation made in 1578 between Margaret and Henry. Margaret...
Anselme de Sainte-Marie, Père (1726). Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France [Genealogical and chronological history of the royal house of France] (in French). Vol. 1...Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. New York: Lamb, 1912. OCLC 347527.Jacqueline Boucher, Deux épouses et reines à la fin du XVIe siècle: Louise de Lorraine et Marguerite de France, Saint-Étienne, Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 1998, ISBN 978-2862720807. (i...David Buisseret, Henry IV, King of France, New York: Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0-04-445635-2.Media related to Marguerite de Valoisat Wikimedia CommonsWorks by Margaret of Valois at Project GutenbergWorks by or about Margaret of Valois at Internet ArchiveMemoirs of Marguerite de Valois (in English):Son of Count Guy and Margaret of Valois, he beneathed the county of Blois and Dunois, but died during the battle of Crécy, in northern France. Louis III of Châtillon (bef. 1340–1372)
NameReignOther TitlesDescriptionTheobald I of Blois,aka Theobald the ...940–977Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Son of Theobald the Elder and Richilde.Odo I of Blois(c. 950 – died in 996)977–996Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Second son of Count Theobald I and ...Theobald II of Blois(c. 983 – 11 July ...996–1004Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Elder son of Count Odo I, her reign was ...Odo II of Blois(c. 985 – 15 Nov. 1037)1004–1037Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Younger brother of Count Theobald II, he ...Jul 31, 2023 · Margaret of Valois (1295–1342) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois and his first wife Margaret, Countess of Anjou and thus a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I, Count of Blois.
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Margaret of Valois (1295–1342) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois, and his first wife, Margaret, Countess of Anjou. She was also a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I of Châtillon, Count of Blois.
