One of the hidden gems of the area of Tours is definitely what remains of the Royal Château de Plessis-lez-Tours. It is located just outside Tours in the town of La Riche. It was a favourite residence of King Louis XI of France, who also died there on 30 August 1483. The original château had three wings in [read more]
This article was written by Sophie Strid. On 13 July 1889, Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Battenberg was born at Heiligenberg Castle in Germany. A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Louise spent the majority of her younger years in Great Britain, and together with her mother, she would often visit her great-grandmother on the Isle of Wight. [read more]
Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau was born on 18 August 1579 as the fourth daughter of William of Orange and Charlotte of Bourbon in Antwerp. She was baptised on 18 October in the chapel of the Castle of Antwerp. She had troubles with her health from early on. Her mother died when she was just three [read more]
Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (Maria Josepha Gabriela Johanna Antonia Anna), the twelfth child of Maria Theresa I, Holy Roman Empress and Francis of Lorraine, was born on 19 March 1751 in Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. The Archduchess, who was described as “delightfully pretty, pliant by nature” in Marie Antoinette, The Journey by Antonia Fraser, would have a short life, but she did [read more]
Ilona Szilágyi has largely been overshadowed by her illustrious husband Vlad the Impaler. So much attention has been focused on Vlad that we hardly know much about Ilona. We don’t know much about her life or even how she died. Ilona was the daughter of a nobleman. Her cousin was King Matthias Corvinus, the king [read more]
This article was written by Ezgi Özcan. La Bella Simonetta was a wife of Marco Vespucci who born as a noblewoman from Cattaneo family in Genoa. They met in 1469 in Genoa during a church ceremony and got married in Florence soon after. The court and the city highly appreciated her beauty, and she became [read more]
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