Princess Henriette Of England

As soon as she was old enough, her responsibilities as a princess begun. She was very young when her father arranged for her to be married to Ludwig IV of Thuringia (present day part of central Germany), a German nobleman. She was happily married and gave birth to three children. Later, two of three became members of nobility and the third entered the religious life. Her life changed for the worst when her husband who had left for the crusades was killed by sickness, she had become a widow at the age of twenty. Now without the support of her beloved husband, Elizabeth came across many difficulties in doing her charity work. She faced opposition from her brother in law and many important people. She then decided to take her dowry, sell it and build a hospital for the sick. During this time, she also decided to consecrate herself to religious life and wear the habit of the Franciscan order. She spent her life looking after leapers and sick and homeless. It is said that she even shared gave her own bed to a leper. It is not clearly known how she died but Elizabeth died at the age of twenty-four.

Catherine de' Medici was a French lady who was married into the royal family at the age of fourteen in the sixteenth century. She was different than other women during this time period, and she enjoyed studying astrology and the arts. She was also the one who ordered the Tuileries to be built. She formed a very close relationship with the King and her father-in-law, King Francis I, and even named one of her children after him. However, her husband and the King's son, Henry, despised Catherine, and openly had an affair with another mistress named Diane. Despite this, he and Catherine still tried to have children, yet failed the first few years of their marriage. Catherine was shamed by the people for not having children at this point, and some

Shortly after, the king, Louis’ father became ill and passed. On Christmas Day of that same year, Louis and Eleanor were coroneted as the King and Queen of France. The first few years of their reign were a bit tumultuous. The beginning better half of the couples reign was filled with diplomatic and military blunders made by Louis who at the time was still quite young, all the while having a country to run. While all of this was stressful for Louis, Eleanor, by all accounts made an effort to be an ideal wife and stood by Louis, and consequently took a stressful toll on her as well. Over the course of the several mistakes made over the beginning of the reign, the two grew farther and farther apart until eventually being granted an annulment in 1152, on the base of consanguinity. During the brief spell of matrimony, the two bore two daughters, who were granted to Louis as a result of the annulment. Eleanor received her lands back that she had attained from her father following his

King Louis VI arranged for his son Louis VII to marry Eleanor. After the King died in the same year as her father, Louis VII and Eleanor were crowned King and Queen of France. In 1145 their first daughter was born, Marie of France. King Louis was briefly involved in the first cascade, but developed guilt from it as so many people lost their lives. Because of this guilt by the 2 crusades he decided to fight among the knights. Eleanor joined her husband in leading the 2 crusade on the battlefield with her own lady squad, they were dressed as soldiers but did not fight. During this time Eleanor grew very close to her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, however Louis believed they were too close which resulted in the two arguing. Eleanor then arrived in Sicily and begged the Pope of a divorce, however, he refused and instead locked them in a room and told them to produce another child. In 1151 their second daughter was born, Alix of France, even though Eleanor loved both her children, the birth of only daughters caused even more problem in hers and Louis’ relationship as they needed a son to carry out their name. In this same year Eleanor went to the Pope again and begged for a divorce, this time to Pope granted her wish and divorced them, luckily Eleanor was able to keep all her land as well as the title, the queen of

At the age of 14 years old Marie Antoinette was sent to France to marry the 15 year old Dauphin, Louis Auguste. She got married on May 16, 1770 in a royal chapel at the palace of Versailles. It took almost 7 years before Marie and her husband ever thought about having kids. She had her first child at about the age 22. Marie and her husband lived in a beautiful palace in Versailles. Marie had a total of 4 children. The children's names were Louis XVII of France, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Marie Thérèse of France, and Sophie Hélène Beatrix of France. 2 of her children died at a young age. Her first son died on June 4th 1789. Her other child died on July 14. Marie said after her children died ¨No one understands my ills nor the terror that fills my breast who does not know the heart of a mother¨.

In late 1846 Virginia reached the final stages of her illness, finally passing on January 30, 1847. This drove Edgar mad. For weeks, he woke in the night, weeping and wandering out to his wife's grave. The only way he was able to sleep was if a woman was laying with him, stroking his

At first the French en masse looked to Antoinette lovingly as the future queen of France. But soon enough the public found reasons to dislike the native Austrian, as established by the many tell-tale rumours of the Queens habits. The first buzz that saw the beginning of Maries’ ever declining position was her supposed infertility. Of course it is common knowledge today that she was completely capable of producing children to continue the royal line. Nevertheless, when Marie, aged fifteen at the time, and Louis then aged 16, did not consummate on the night of their wedding, and then for seven more years, what was there to do but speculate? Many of her mother’s letters to her include advice and encouragement to produce an heir, which until she

When King Henry II of France died in 1559, many people in France were surely upset. King Henry II of France was killed during a jousting accident. Certainly none of them would have any idea how his accidental death while jousting would have extremely dire consequences for the people of France and much of the rest of Europe. As King Henry II of France was laid to rest, his 15 year old frail son Frances II of France came to power. With King Frances only being 15 he would need someone to help him rule as regent of France. The Queen mother and Henry’s widow Catherine De Medicis took over this role. The fact that Francis II was not only young, but also sickly was looked upon as weakness to some.

In 1768, Louis XV sent a tutor for Marie, the tutor concluded that " she is more intelligent than has been generally supposed," but also stated that " she is rather lazy and extremely frivolous, she is hard to teach."1 She was only a child of fourteen at the time her and Louis were set to marry, and on May 16, 1770 Marie and Louis XVI were married. Now Marie being the young girl she was did not adjust well to this change. She wrote letters to her mother about her being homesick, complaining to her about how she didn’t like the things she had to do in the royal family. Then in 1774, Louis XV died and Marie Antoinette at the age of nineteen, became the queen of France. Marie and Louis could not be more different from each other. Louis was an introvert, very shy and indecisive, he loved things like reading and metalwork; Marie was more outgoing and social than her husband, she loved to party and gamble.

When he was, only sixteen years old had an arranged marriage with Marie-Antoinette and they became king and queen in 1774. He ruled in a patriarchal manner. Their last child died quickly after her birth and the two boys died during the French revolution. Both Louis XI and Marie were addicted to living the luxury lifestyle with all the gardens and performances that they had arranged for themselves at the palace. The interior of the palace was finished off with gold trim everywhere whilst there were people who lived on the streets. All there hobbies were funded by the high raised taxes that had to be paid by the third estate. Soon this created hatred amongst the French citizens towards the king and queens because they were living on the streets without fresh food and no money. Soon the French citizens stormed the palace of Versailles and imprisoned the royal family at Bastille. They tried to escape, but did not succeed and we are sentenced to death only a short while after. When he and his family were arrested on August 10 1792, he was dethroned at the same time. It was clear that as soon as the citizens had taken the step to arrest him, they would also take the next step and take away his

Louis XIV was born as a son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. He was portrayed as a gift

She tried everything she could think of to make him happy and fall in love with her, but nothing worked. Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI, but could never truly connect wit him because he was distant, withdrawn, and emotionless. Because of this, she cheated on him many times with her childhood love Eric and army general Axel. She cared for her husband however and still managed to have four children. She had been pressured to have her first born at 23 years of age. Her first child was a daughter by the name of, Marie Therese Charlotte. She later had three more

He put the country of France into a lot of dept. King Louis XVI was not a leader who focused on the needs or help his country asked for. His failure to address France’s problems set in motion the revolution that would eventually descend upon him. He would not listen when his noblemen tried to help or give him solutions to the countries problems. Making matters worse instead King Louis focused on the things that made him happy such as hunting or locksmithing. He was also uncommunicative posing no solution to situations according to the economy. On September 21, 1792 his secret dealings were discovered, and he and his family were charged with treason. King Louis was found guilty by the national assembly and condemned to death. His wife Marie Antoinette suffered the same fate nine months later on. October 16th 1793. They had a son who also suffered the same fate Louis Charles died in prison where living conditions where horrible. The daughter of King Louis was Marie Therese she was released from prison in December 1795 into the custody of her family in

In The Passion, Henri is a French soldier from Napoleonic who meets Villanelle, a Venetian woman when he goes to fight the Napoleonic wars in Russia. Villanelle fell in love with the queen of shades as she calls her and she was heartbroken as they split. She married another man who sold her two years later to the soldiers. She then met Henry who fell in love with her. Henri killed Villanelle’s husband when he appeared again in Venice out of jealousy making him spend the rest of his life in prison. With time Villanelle became pregnant with Henri’s baby but refused to marry her .

Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, are both well known for their gruesome deaths by guillotine and, of course, for being the last ruling monarchs of France. Their extremely luxurious lifestyle and refusal to accept the growing anger of their lower classes created the perfect storm from which was born the beginnings of the French Revolution. In fact, it was Louis XVI's very first biographer, Soulavie, who stated that King Louis XVI was "the primary cause of the collapse of the ancient monarchy". (Caiani, 2015) Since this single man and his wife were the "primary cause" of the collapse of the French monarchy, the tension leading up to this collapse has been closely looked at by many biographers. It was obvious that the people of France