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  Britannia History: Frances Stuart, the Face of Britannia
Frances' thoughts were racing with the excitement and honour of knowing her likeness would be engraved on a special medal.
Her father, the Honourable Walter Stuart, third son of the first Lord Blantyre, was distantly connected with the Royal House of Stuart.
A figure of Britannia contemplating her victories was to adorn the medals, and the King chose Frances for the model.
www.britannia.com /history/articles/francesstuart.html   (1341 words)

  
 FRANCES TERESA STEWART, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCES TERESA STEWART, DUCHESS OF ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
RICHMOND AND LENNOX, FRANCES TERESA STEWART, DUCHESS OF (1648-1702), daughter of Walter Stewart, or Stuart, a physician in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria when in exile after 1649, was born in 1648 and was brought up in France.
The kings infatuation was so great that when the queens life was despaired of in 1663, it was reported that he intended to marry Miss Stewart, and four years later he was considering the possibility of obtaining a divorce to enable him to make her his wife.
The duchess of Cleveland, who was losing her hold on the kings affections, is reported by Hamilton to have led the king to Miss Stewarts apartment at midnight when Richmond was closeted with her, and the duke was immediately expelled from court.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RICHMOND_AND_LENNOX_FRANCES_TERESA_STEWART_DUCHESS_OF.htm   (624 words)

  
 Public Figures with a Lack of Fire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Spanish royalty, the Queen of Castile called "the Catholic Queen." She was the daughter of John II of Castile by his second wife, Isabella, and granddaughter of John I of Portugal.
She was the elder daughter of Walter Stuart, M.D., who was the third son of Lord Blantyre.
Frances returned with the Queen Mother in 1662, at 15, to be the maid-of-honor for the new queen.
www.astrodatabank.com /AS/ASFire_TblLack.htm   (2498 words)

  
 Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, vol 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The King's fancy had shortly before been attracted by a new denizen of the "Lady's" drawing room, and he had become so infatuated with the charms of Miss Stuart, [Footnote: Frances Teresa Stuart, born in 1648, was the daughter of Dr. Walter Stuart, a cadet of the House of Blantyre.
Her father, an ardent Royalist, fled from the vengeance of Parliament, and Frances was brought up at Paris, where her beauty and peculiar charm attracted even royal attention.
Frances Stuart steered her course with safety through many quicksands, and died, not without honour, in 1702.] that he had seriously contemplated a divorce, which might enable him to offer her those terms of lawful marriage which could alone overcome her stubborn virtue, or her ambitious prudence.
www.manybooks.net /pages/craikhenetext04dwclr10/288.html   (352 words)

  
 Earl of Lichfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Stewart, second son of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox was rewarded by King Charles I for his actions at the battles of Newbury and Naseby, and created baron Stuart of Newbury and Earl of Lichfield in 1644.
Charles Stewart (1639-1672), the son of Bernard's younger brother George, who had been killed at the battle of Edgehill, inherited the title upon his uncle's death on September 26, 1645 soon after the Battle of Rowton Heath.
He married the celebrated beauty and alleged former mistress of King Charles II, Frances Teresa Stuart.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Lichfield   (648 words)

  
 All About Romance: Interview with Teresa Medeiros
Teresa: Traditionally and from a marketing standpoint, some time periods are considered to be more "romantic" than others.
Teresa: People are always saying you should write what you know, but I love to write what I don't know.
Teresa: I fell in love with New Zealand when I was writing Once An Angel and was fascinated by the Maori culture.
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 Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Teresa was elevated to doctor of the church in 1970 by Pope Paul VI, the first woman to be so...
Stuart's hard-riding troopers formed a screen between Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces and the Union armies.
One of the most highly respected women in the world, Mother Teresa was internationally known for her charitable work among the victims of poverty and neglect—particularly in the slums of Calcutta, India.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9063600?tocId=9063600   (832 words)

  
 Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The daughter of an exiled Scottish physician, she was educated in France and returned to England as maid of honor to Charles’s queen, Catherine of Braganza.
In 1667 she declined Charles’s offer to make her a duchess and eloped with and married Charles Stuart, duke of Richmond and Lennox, much to the king’s displeasure.
However, the duchess (known as La Belle Stuart) soon returned to court, and Charles renewed his attentions, dispatching her husband to Scotland (1670) and Denmark (1671), where he died.
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 EARLS AND DUKES OF RICHMOND - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF RICHMOND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ludovic Stuart, 2nd duke of Lennox (1574-1624), who also held other titles in the peerage of Scotland, was created earl of Richmond in 1613 and duke of Richmond in 1623.
These became extinct at his death in 1624, but his Scottish honors devolved on his brother Esm, who was already earl of March in the peerage of England (see MARCH, EARLS oF~ and LENNOX).
His son Charles, 2nd duke (1701-1750), addec~to the titles he inherited from his father that of duke of Aubigny in France, to which he succeeded in 1734 on the death of his grandmother the duchess of Portsmouth; and all these honors are stifi held by his descendant the present duke of Richmond.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RICHMOND_EARLS_AND_DUKES_OF.htm   (1434 words)

  
 Student Book Competition -Teresa Trupiano Barry
Her position is much more conservative than Fern or Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, but, as such, she represents a more moderate (and, hence, perhaps more widespread) stance on issues facing women in the nineteenth century.
Like historians of our own time, she notes that women's contributions are not found in the public records and must be sought from "private sources" (x).
This adulatory biography, written by Willard's personal secretary of over 20 years, focuses on Willard's contributions to the Christian world, primarily through her work as president of the largest organization of women in America to that time the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
www.lib.msu.edu /events/contest/barry99.htm   (3531 words)

  
 Frances Stuart, Duchess of Lennoxlove
Loved byCharles II, Frances Stuart is the face behind the famous figure of Britannia that appears on so many British coins and official documents.
In 1662, at age 14, Frances traveled to England to become a Maid of Honour to Charles II's Queen, the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganca.
After the death of her husband in the 1670's, and without children or a male her, Frances' husband's estates reverted back to the King.
www.britainexpress.com /scotland/destinations/britannia.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Lennoxlove Scotland
William (1525-1573) was appointed Secretary of State by Mary, Queen of Scots when she returned from France in 1561.
Frances never visited the house and, on her death, it passed to her cousin, Walter Stuart.
Holding a place of prominence is a portrait of "La Belle Stuart", the famous beauty of Charles II's Court.
www.britainexpress.com /scotland/destinations/lennoxlove.htm   (557 words)

  
 Concerning the Names Teresa, Theresa, Tracy, and Treasa
The name Teresa was confined to the Iberian peninsula (modern-day Spain and Portugal) until the late 16th century, when it spread in the wake of the veneration of Saint Teresa of Avila.
Teresa is probably originally derived from a Greek locative Therasios, Therasia 'inhabitant of Thera'.
[10] Teresa of Avila died in 1582, was beatified in 1614, and was canonized in 1622.
www.medievalscotland.org /problem/names/teresa.shtml   (942 words)

  
 Interview with Teresa Medeiros
Teresa Medeiros: I truly believe that life is a mixture of laughter and tears (my life certainly has been!) so I tend to reflect that belief in my books.
Teresa Medeiros: To be honest, my mother has been very sick for the last five years and it's been hard for me to delve into those darker emotions.
Teresa Medeiros: I used to have my e-mail addy on my website, but I soon discovered that I was spending all of my time answering e-mail instead of writing.
www.die-buecherecke.de /medeirs2.HTM   (2819 words)

  
 Britannia
Frances Teresa Stewart, who became Duchess of Richmond, may have been the model for this figure.
It was first struck on British coins in Roman times, and in 1667 Charles II revived the device, the model chosen being a lady friend of his (a maid of honour to Queen Catherine his wife), Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, concerning whose character the less said the better.
Other writers have it that the model was Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, another of King Charles the Second's lady associates.
www.sterlingtimes.org /memorable_images13.htm   (226 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Biographies of related people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
“La Belle Stuart” by Cyril Hughes Hartmann is the biogrpahy of Frances Teresa Stuart, a young lady who was a distant relative of Charles II and a beauty of his court.
While her family sought refuge in France during the Cromwell period, she was a favorite of the French court and well regarded by both Charles’ mother Henrietta and his sister Minette.
As Frances grew into womanhood she had to face the reality of her behavior which left 3 choices—mistress, convent or marriage to anyone who would take her.
www.pepysdiary.com /p/2433.php   (6207 words)

  
 Duchess of Richmond Definition / Duchess of Richmond Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frances Teresa Stuart (1648-1702 Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
May 4/14 - The War of the Spanish Succession widens, as war is declared on France by the Grand Alliance.
For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
www.elresearch.com /Duchess_of_Richmond   (132 words)

  
 Search Results for Stuart - Encyclopædia Britannica
visual arts produced during the reign of the British house of Stuart; that is, from 1603 to 1714 (excepting the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell).
To the Jacobites—supporters of Stuart claims to the British throne—he was known as King Henry IX of Great...
English noblewoman whose status as a claimant to the throne of her first cousin King James I (James VI of Scotland) led to her tragic death.
www.britannica.com /search?query=Stuart&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (387 words)

  
 obits
EDITH E. Edith Frances Epperson Goins, 82, of Mount Airy, N.C., died Sunday, September 25, 2005, at Northern Hospital of Surry County.
She was born in Stuart on December 30, 1942 to the late Carlyle and Madge Williams.
She was a graduate of Stuart High School and attended a local Baptist church.
www.theenterprise.net /obits.html   (1290 words)

  
 Stuart, Frances Teresa, duchess of Richmond and Lennox on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Stuart, Frances Teresa, duchess of Richmond and Lennox on Encyclopedia.com
Magazines and Newspapers for: Stuart, Frances Teresa, duchess of Richmond and Lennox
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 Yale's Painted Ladies Explores Women of the Court - The Tripod - Arts
Following the reign of the Puritan Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, during which many of the gilded relics of the earlier Stuarts were melted down for the war effort against the Dutch or painted fl to cover their sinful extravagance, the English welcomed back the Stuart monarchy in the form of Charles II.
One wall-dominating piece in a classical style is a portrait of Frances Teresa Stuart by Henry Gascan done in 1675.
The portrait shows Frances Stuart as Minerva in a flowing gown with sandals, a spear, a helmet crowned with a truly massive plume and a shield featuring the image of a gorgon.
www.trinitytripod.com /news/2002/02/26/Arts/Yales.Painted.Ladies.Explores.Women.Of.The.Court-194601.shtml   (1248 words)

  
 Duchess of Richmond - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Frances Teresa Stuart (1648-1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and a mistress of Charles II.
A distant relative of the ruling dynasty, she was born in exile in Paris, but was sent to England after the restoration by Charles I's widow Henrietta Maria to act as maid of honour at Charles I's wedding and subsequently as lady-in-waiting to his new bride, Catherine of Braganza.
The great diarist Samuel Pepys records that she was the greatest beauty ever I saw ; the King was similarly taken with her, and at several points in his reign it was feared that he would succumb sufficiently to marry her.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Duchess_of_Richmond   (302 words)

  
 Earl of Lichfield
The Earl of Lichfield is a title originally created in the peerage of England that has twice become extinct and was recreated in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
Bernard Stuart, second son of Esme Stuart, 1st Duke of Lennox was rewarded by King Charles I for his actions at the battles of Newbury and Naseby, and created baron Stuart of Newbury and Earl of Lichfield in 1644.
Charles Stuart (1639-1672), the son of Bernard's younger brother George, who had been killed at the battle of Edgehill, inherited the title upon his uncle's death on September 26, 1645 soon after the battle of Rowton Heath.
www.ukpedia.com /e/earl-of-lichfield.html   (605 words)

  
 City of Stuart, Florida Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Our website is intended to provide useful information about the City of Stuart, its people, government services, employees and various city events.
Stuart offers something for everyone - with a proud past and a strong present - and looks forward with confidence to the future.
A class, for ages 1-3 (walkers), is being offered by the Recreation Department on Mondays and Fridays from 9:30-11:00 AM for $5 a class or $8 per week.
www.cityofstuart.com   (455 words)

  
 Shearman, Jean & Elizabeth Shearman Hall
Jean Shearman (1925 - 2005) and Elizabeth Shearman Hall (1920 -) are the great-great-granddaughters of Frances Browne Stewart (1794-1872) and Thomas Alexander Stewart (1786-1847), who immigrated from Ireland to Douro Township in 1822.
Their grandmother, Anna Maria Stewart Williams, was the granddaughter of Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Browne Stewart, and the daughter of William Stewart.
The sisters have dedicated much of their lives to transcribing the Frances Stewart letters and creating a biographic reference guide to them and all associated families.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/02-001.htm   (351 words)

  
 Public Figures with a Lack of Air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was said of her, "It is hardly possible for a woman to have less wit or more beauty.
Frances returned with the Queen Mother in 1662, at 15, to be the maid-of-honor for the new queen.At 20, she made a love-marriage which lasted for five years until her husband drowned in 1672, leaving her childless.
Though the king sought to make her a mistress, she kept him at arm's length for years.
www.astrodatabank.com /AS/ASAir_TblLack.htm   (4906 words)

  
 Stuart Family Genealogy Forum (Page 4)
Alexander Stuart of the Lusitania - Zachary 3/10/02
Stuart and Priscilla Greer - Evorie Stuart Loe 3/06/02
Jane Stuart married to Isaac Holland, circa 1790.
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 Statement Due by Teresa de Lauretis
Teresa de Lauretis is professor in the department of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She is the author of Soggetti eccentrici (1999), The Practice of Love (1994), and several other books in English and Italian.
Stuart Hall, Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, ed.
www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v30/30n2.DeLauretis.html   (1104 words)

  
 Entente Cordiale Centenary
The Entente Cordiale, a diplomatic agreement between Britain and France, was signed on 8 April 1904.
France can be traced back to 1295 when the Auld Alliance was first established.
Paris during the reign of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV for Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of
www.ententecordialescotland.org.uk /events/claret_concorde.html   (570 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of (British And Irish History, Biography) - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa Stuart, duchess of 1647–1702, mistress of Charles II of England.
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