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Chapter 5: The ‘Government of Women’: Delegating Power and Regency of madness. Historians have portrayed them as bad queens. They were stigmatized for having ruled and were inevitably considered as having been greedy, lusty and even traitresses to the ‘nation of France’.

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Introduction,centuries in that they redefined the queen’s place at the heart of the monarchy following the promulgation of Salic Law, which denied women the right to succeed to the throne. This book seeks to define the true nature of the power these women possessed and their role within both the court and the ki

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Chapter 2: Marrying the Monarchy: The Queen’s Coronationrated with the Holy Chrism, did not share the same miraculous power as her husband (the ability to heal scrofula). Her anointment nonetheless gave her an exceptional, almost sacerdotal, status—at least for the length of the ceremony. She was the only woman to take communion of both kinds, the body a

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Chapter 3: Bearing the Blood of Franceine children, and Isabeau of Bavaria had 12. Childbirth remained a precarious moment, even for female sovereigns (Joan of Bourbon died giving birth to her daughter in 1378). This explains why queens resorted to all forms of support, both religious and magical. Contrary to what historians have long a

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Chapter 4: The ‘Profession’ of Queene throne was legally reinforced using only this law as an argument. While a woman in France could not be king, the queen nonetheless played an important role in how the monarchy functioned. Although she was unable to fight in wars and dispense justice, she could grant pardons. Before an administrati

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Chapter 5: The ‘Government of Women’: Delegating Power and Regency or during his absence. In reality, the female right to rule—which would later appear natural in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries because the government of queen mothers appeared to have stretched back to ‘a(chǎn)ncient times’—was first an occasional practice (the regency of Blanche of Castile, Sai

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Chapter 6: The ‘Queen of Ceremonies’ early as the second half of the fourteenth century, however, female sovereigns were in fact contributing to the development of an increasingly ceremonial monarchy, which was established by the House of Valois. Thus, kings placed communication at the heart of their political agenda. In Paris, for ex

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