Daisy of Valois (1553-1615), known as Queen Margot , Queen of France and Navarre, was the daughter of King Henry II and Catherine de Medici and the sister of Charles IX and Henry III. In 1572, she married the leader of the Huguenots, Henri de Navarre (future Henri IV), symbolizing an attempt at reco
Introduction The royal women of the Middle Ages are a fascinating object of study. Not only because of the unfair neglect to which they have sometimes been subjected, but also because their life events usually represent a much richer picture than that of men from the same period. A medieval king is
Today the use of Roman numerals is limited to certain fields: watches list volumes, chapters and volumes of a work. names of popes, kings and emperors. acts and scenes of a play. in the designation of congresses, Olympics, assemblies, contests, etc. Initially they only used the symbol «I» for the
Todays post takes us back to the convulsive early years of the Christian peninsular kingdoms, in which they were so busy trying to define their borders and their own identity against to the rest of the monarchies descended from the Visigoths as well as to gain ground from the Muslim occupants of the