Daughter of France, Italian Princess, Protector of Protestants

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Notes

1 This duchy then passed to her daughter Anne d’Este, dowager duchess of Guise and duchess of Nemours. Matthew Vester, Renaissance Dynasticism and Apanage Politics: Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, 1531–1585 (Kirksville, MO, 2012), pp. 135-36, citing BN, Ms Fr 3424, 47-61, transaction between Charles IX, Renée de France and Anne d’Este, December 1570.

2 Gabriel Braun, ‘Le marriage de Renée de France avec Hercule d’Este: une inutile mésalliance. 28 juin 1528’, Histoire, économie et société 7, 2 (1988), pp. 147-68.

3 Works by Cynthia Brown, Aubrée David-Chapy, Zita Rohr and others. See a useful overview in Tracy Adams, ‘Fostering Girls in Early Modern France’, in Susan Broomhall (ed.), Emotions in the Household, 1200–1900 (New York, 2008), pp. 103-18.

4 For example, Royaume de fémynie: Pouvoirs, contraintes, espaces de liberté des femmes, de la Renaissance à la Fronde, edited with Eliane Viennot (Paris, 1999); and the fun article ‘Women on Top at Fontainebleau’, in Oxford Art Journal 16, no 1 (1993), pp. 34-48.

5 Several times the contributors in this volume refer to one author whose work would have been a useful addition: Chiara Franceschini. See her ‘La corte di Renata di Francia (1528–1560)’, in Adriano Prosperi (ed.), Storia di Ferrara (Ferrara, 2000), pp. 185-214.

6 Eleonora Belligni, Renata di Francia (1510–1575). Un eresia di corte (Turin, 2011).

7 It is Wilson-Chevalier’s second chapter that does provide us a much clearer picture of that — it is her contention that she did indeed engage with her husband Ercole and his programme for art patronage.

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Jonathan Spangler

Jonathan Spangler

Jonathan Spangler is a specialist in the court of France in the early modern period, and in particular in those satellites of monarchs: daughters, brothers, cousins. This was a central theme in his most recent work, Monsieur: Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550–1800 (2021). He is a senior lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University and senior editor of The Court Historian.