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A new blog about royal and noble women!
I do not know how you managed to stumble upon this very fresh historical blog, but I am very glad you did. If you are into history and women then this is the blog for you. I will feature historical...
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Sophia of Hanover
(Sophia dressed as an Indian, painted by her sister Elizabeth)As the eldest, surviving child of Elizabeth of Bohemia (daughter of James I) to be a protestant, Sophia of Hanover was the nearest heir to...
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Isabella de' Medici
(Isabella painted in the 1560s by Alessando Allori)Isabella de’ Medici was born in Florence the 31st of August in 1576 to the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici and his Spanish wife,...
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Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
Born as a king’s daughter, but deprived of the title “princess”, Leonora Christina was married to a traitorous and somewhat stupid man (stupid in the sense of not to know when to stop scheming, kind of...
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Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
Born Anne Stanhope cirka 1497 to Sir Edward Stanhope of Sudbury and Elizabeth Bourchier, Anne was through her mother a direct descendant of Thomas of Woodstock, the youngest son of King Edward III of...
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Blanche of Lancaster
(photo from a tapestry)The woman to whom "The Book of the Duchess" by Geoffrey Chaucer is dedicated to, Blanche of Lancaster, was the first and beloved wife of John of Gaunt (yes, he who later married...
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Maria Theresa of Savoy
by Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775She could have been a Queen of France had she not died, and she was the first of her generation to give birth to the next royal child, humiliating Marie...
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Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland
A woman loved by both the people and her husband, she had a strong political influence over her husband the King, until the day he realised that her family, the Habsburgs, would not give him assistance...
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Christina of Saxony, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
As I am Norwegian myself, I thought to present to you one of our queens, Christina of Saxony, or Christine av Sachsen as she is known as in Scandinavia. As she was also born on Christmas Day I thought...
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Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France
Elisabeth painted by François Clouet in 1571.Considered as a great beauty and a very intellectual woman, Elisabeth was married off to Charles IX of France. As France was ruled by his mother, the...
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Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
Richard and Joan greet Philip II of FranceMarried away to a foreign king at the age of only eleven, Princess Joan of England had to adjust to a whole new lifestyle. When she was widowed at the age of...
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Historical fiction reading challenge 2011
Okay, so. I thought to enter a reading challenge, gracing all of you readers with my review of the books after I've finished reading them, haha. This is a historical fiction challenge, so it is related...
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Berengaria of Castile
Statue of Berenguela of Castile in Madrid (1753)A granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and heiress to the kingdom of Castile, Berengaria was, like her infamous grandmother, not a woman to be stowed...
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Mary of Burgundy
Posthumous portrait painted by Michael Pacher in cirka 1490.A wealthy heiress, Mary of Burgundy was one of the most eligible bachelorettes of her time, so wealthy that she was even called “Mary the...
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