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  Queen Elizabeth
Elzbieta of Poland (1305-1380), queen regnant of Poland and queen consort of Hungary: daughter of Ladislaus I of Poland; wife of Charles II of Hungary
Elizabeth of Castile (or Isabella of Castile) (1451-1504), queen regnant of Castile & Leon (Spain) and queen consort of Aragon: daughter of John II of Castile; wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon; mother of Joanna of Castile and of Catherine of Aragon; patron of Christopher Columbus
Elizabeth of Castile (or Isabel of Spain) (1501-1526), queen consort of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden: daughter of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile; wife of Christian II of Denmark
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 Queen Eleanor
Eleanor of Aquitaine (~1122-1204), queen consort of France and queen consort of England: daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine; wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England; mother of Richard I of England and John of England
Eleanor of Castile (1202-1244), queen consort of Aragon (Spain): daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile; wife of James I of Aragon
Eleanor of Castile (1244-1290), queen consort of England: daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile; wife of Edward I of England; mother of Edward II of England
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 Mary Queen of Scots
Mary, however, was sent to France, 7 August, 1548, where she was excellently educated, as is now admitted by both friend and foe.
On 24 April, 1558, she married the dauphin Francis and, on the death of Henri II, 10 July, 1559, became Queen Consort of France.
Mary, moreover, always contended that the Queen of Scotland did not incur responsibilities for the plottings of English subjects, even if she had known of them.
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 Britannica India: Biographies
Queen of Scotland (1542-67) and queen consort of France (1559-60).
Although it was a political match aimed at the union of France and Scotland, Mary was sincerely fond of her boy husband, though the marriage was probably never consummated.
The death of Henry in 1559 brought Francis to the French throne and made Mary a glittering queen consort of France, until Francis's premature death in December 1560 made her a widow at the age of 18.
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Elizabeth of York was the Queen Consort of King Henry VII of England, who she married in 1486, and the mother of King Henry VIII.
Lady Frances Brandon was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, former queen consort of France.
Frances was still able to negotiate the marriage of her daughter Catherine to Edward Seymour, 2nd Earl of Hertford, the old suitor of Jane Grey.
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 BBC - History - Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542 - 1587)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Queen of Scotland from 1542-67 and queen consort of France from 1559-60, whose complicated personal life and political immaturity eventually led to her execution by Elizabeth I. Mary was the only child of James V of Scotland and his French wife, Mary of Guise.
She was sent to France and raised at the court of Henry II; in April 1558 she was married to Francis, Henry's son.
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Earl of Bothwell
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Mary I of England
Mary Tudor was a cousin, once removed, of Mary, Queen of Scots, with whom she is often confused by those unfamiliar with British history.
When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: "Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth Supreme Head".
Countess Consort of Flanders, Burgundy, Artois, Hainaut, Namur, Holland, Zeeland and Zutphen
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 Scotland - A Concise History - The Queen and Mr Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Mary Queen of Scots, in France since 1548, and married to the Dauphin in 1558, had become queen consort in France when her husband became King Francis II in 1559.
She was by birth Queen of Scots, and by marriage Queen of France.
She was Queen in France for only one year, as her husband died in 1560 leaving her a nineteen-year-old widow at a court in which she had shone, but which was now controlled by her mother-in-law, the masterful Catherine de Medici, who had never liked this Guise girl anyway.
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 Mary Tudor (queen consort of France) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Tudor (March 18, 1496 – June 25, 1533) was the younger sister of Henry VIII of England and queen consort of France due to her marriage to Louis XII.
Mary was known to have developed a hatred for the future queen Anne Boleyn.
She is also the subject of the novels Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy, The Reluctant Queen by Molly Costain Haycraft, and Princess of Desire by Maureen Peters.
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 Isabel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isabelle of Hainaut (1170–1190), queen consort, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, wife of Philip II of France.
Isabeau of Bavaria (1369–1435), queen consort of France, wife of Charles VI of France.
Isabella of Asturias, (1470–1498), queen consort, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, wife of Manuel I of Portugal.
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 Marie Leszczynska - LoveToKnow 1911
MARIE LESZCZYNSKA (1703-1768), queen consort of France, was born at Breslau on the 23rd of June 1703, being the daughter of Stanislas Leszczynski (who in 1704 became king of Poland) and of Catherine Opalinska.
During a temporary flight from Warsaw the child was lost, and eventually discovered in a stable; on another occasion she was for safety's sake hidden in an oven.
In the meantime the queen saw her father Stanislas established in Lorraine, and the affectionate intimacy which she maintained with him was the chief consolation of her harassed life.
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 Mary, Queen of Scots
Not only was she Queen of Scotland, but as the granddaughter of Margaret Tudor, she was in line for the throne of England after the children of Henry VIII.
At the age of 15 she was married to the dauphin, Francis, the son of Henri II of France, her childhood playmate.
There was talk of Mary marrying the Archduke Charles, Charles IX of France, the Duke of Guise or Don Carlos, the son of Philip II and even of a Protestant suitor, Leicaster or Eric of Sweden.
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 24th Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hugh d'Audley I, Baron Audley and Ambassador to France was born circa 1250 or 1267 in Audley, Staffordshire County, England and married circa 1288.
Isabella Capet, Queen Consort of France "The She-Wolf of France" was born 1292 and married 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne.
The daughter of Philip IV the Fair of France, Isabella was married to Edward on January 25, 1308, at Boulogne.
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 Isabella Queen Of Spain -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
She was born in Madrid, and was the eldest daughter of Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, and of his fourth wife, Maria Christina, a Neapolitan Bourbon and also the niece of Marie Antoinette.
Queen Isabella succeeded to the throne because Ferdinand VII induced the ''Cortes'' to assist him in setting aside the Salic law, which the Bourbons had introduced in the beginning of the 18th century, and to re-establish the older succession law of Spain.
* Isabella of Bavaria (1371-1435): queen consort of Charles VI of France.
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 Amazon.fr : Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen Of France: Livres en anglais: Leonie Frieda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1533, 14-year-old Catherine de Medici arrived in France to marry the future king Henri II; over the next 16 years, she endured the dominance of Henri's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, and the disdain of courtiers for her family's merchant background.
One of the most (in)famous royal players of the time was Queen Catherine de Medici of France, the Italian-born consort of the exciting and effective Henry II and the power behind the throne for her three weak king sons.
Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,
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 Scottish Monarchs - Kings and Queens of Scotland - Mary, Queen of Scots.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first Queen of Scotland to rule in her own right was born at the Palace of Linlithgow in West Lothian, the daughter of James V and his French Queen, Marie of Guise.
The infant Queen's relative James Stewart, Earl of Arran was appointed as Regent of the kingdom.
The Queen Mother, Marie of Guise, supported by Cardinal Beaton, repudiated the agreement and Henry, domineering and savage when crossed, again invaded Scotland, burning and ravaging the country in what came to be known as the 'rough wooing'.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England: Books: Alison Weir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
And at first glance the reputation seems to be justified: a Queen who takes a lover, overthrows with the lovers help her husband and king, assumes the power in the land and under her controll the husband and former king dies.
While in France she become the lover of Mortimer, one of the English exilies, and organized the overthrow of Edward and the Despensers.
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 Marie Antoinette, Guillotined 1793 - Timeline Index
Daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria of the Habsburg dynasty and her consort, the Emperor Francis I, she was married to the heir to the French throne (later Louis XVI of France) in order to confirm the alliance between Austria and France.
She was Archduchess of Austria, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and ruler of other terr...
Louis XVI was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792.
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 Mary Tudor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For Mary Tudor, queen regnant of England, see Mary I of England.
She married first Louis XII of France, but he died less than three months after they were married.
Mary's brother Henry VIII of England named his daughter, the future Queen Mary, after her.
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Other daughters were wives of Andrew I of Hungary, Harald III of Norway, and Edward the Exile.
Anne of Kiev or Anna Yaroslavna (between 1024 and 1032 – 1075), daughter of Yaroslav I of Kiev and his wife Ingegerd Olofsdotter, was the queen consort of France as the wife of Henry I, and regent for her son Philip I.
She was the first queen of France to serve as regent.
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 Telegraph | Entertainment
When Mary Queen of Scots was executed in 1587, she died almost universally reviled: a failure as Queen of Scotland; an alleged adulteress, complicit in her husband's murder; and the promoter of a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I - the crime that finally brought her to the scaffold.
Mary was not only Queen of Scotland in her own right; as the great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England, she was also regarded in Catholic circles as having a superior claim to the English throne than Princess Elizabeth - Anne Boleyn's "Protestant bastard".
The vanquishing of the Queen of Scots became a life-long obsession.
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 Antoinette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A short biography exploring the life of Marie Antoinette and the events of the French Revolution Marie Antoinette was the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance.
Of an Empress, doomed Queen of France, Marie Antoinette is one of the most Romantic figures in world is Antonia Fraser, whose "Marie Antoinette: The Journey" (2001) may well be.
Queen of France: A Biography of Marie Antoinette.
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 CONTENTS
Depredations by the English,.—The Scots Parliament declares for France,.—Mary, Queen of Scots, sent at age of five to France,.— Brutal conduct of the French in Edinburgh,.
The Queen Dowager is made Regent in place of the Earl of Arran, who is created Duke of Chatelherault,.—Return to Scotland of John Willock and other preachers of the Reformed opinions,.
Murder of Lord Darnley; marriage of Mary to Lord Bothwell, one of the ringleaders in the murder; abdication of the Queen, and coronation of her son, James VI., a year old; the Earl of Moray appointed Regent; Act passed ratifying the Statutes of 1560, and declaring the Reformed Church the only church within the Realm.
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 aquitaine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
d.1 April 1204, queen consort of France (1137-52) and queen consort of England (1154-1204), born in France.
She inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father in 1137, the same year in which she was married to Louis VII of France.
In 1170, the queen induced her husband to invest their son Richard the Lion-Hearted with her personal dominions of Gascony, Aquitaine, and Poitou.
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 Women in History of Scots Descent - Mary Queen of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
France died leaving Mary a widow at the age of 19.
Therfore, the picture of Mary Queen of Scots as guilty but repentant, romantic in her great final scene and acceptance of death is still alive in Germany.
Somewhat sneeringly he tells Burleigh that this Mortimer, in whom the queen had put her trust, was in reality the inititator of the conspiracy and in league with the murderer.
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 Hotel Isabel
*Isabella of France (1295–1358), queen consort, daughter of Philip IV of France, wife of Edward II of England, mother of Edward III of England.
*Isabella of Bavaria (1369–1435), queen consort of France, wife of Charles VI of France.
*Isabella of Portugal, or Isabella of Asturias, (1470–1498), queen consort, daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, wife of Manuel I of Portugal.
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 Eleanor of Aquitaine, in transition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a 15-year-old orphan when, as her guardian, France's King Louis VI arranged her marriage to his 16-year-old son, his heir apparent.
For the king's son, the distant king and queen were great-great grandparents (two greats); for Eleanor, they were her great-great-great grandparents (three greats).
There were, however, other legal issues involved in Eleanor's transitioning from her role as queen consort of France's King Louis VII to wife of the man waiting to be England's king.
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 The Royal Scribe
Another variation of the two time queen is the woman who is queen both by marriage and in her own right.
Secondhand queens they might have been, but Emma of Normandy and Anne of Brittany were no mere castoffs.
All during an age when the role of queen consort was only just beginning to gain respectability and importance and in spite of the fact that her husband was not only ineffective as a ruler, but also took his frustrations out – often violently – on her.
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