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François Blondel, Dessin des Buffets du Bal de l’Hôtel de Ville, aquarelles extraites du livre “Fêtes Publiques Données par la Ville de Paris à l’occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 février 1745”

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Mariage en aquaplan : les mariés, le curé, le garçon et la demoiselle d’honneur : [photographie de presse] / Acmé

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Le Mariage de Louis XIII, Roi de France et de Navarre, et d’Anne d’Autriche de Jean Chalette (1581-1644), commandée par les Capitouls de 1614-1615, huile sur toile de 2,49m par 1,38m - Musée des Augustins à Toulouse. - Reproduit dans L’Or de Toulouse Fernand Cousteaux, éditions Locales de France / La Dépèche du Midi 1996) ISBN:2-911-065-02-6 - Photo de cette reproduction par Siren|Com.

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Anne was betrothed at age 11 to Louis XIII. For fear that Louis XIII would die early, the Spanish court stipulated that she would return to Spain with her dowry, jewels, and wardrobe if he did die. The pecuniary arrangements being thus satisfied, Anne was saluted as the Queen of France, “a dignity which her Highness accepts with marvellous dignity and gravity”. Prior to the marriage, Anne renounced all succession rights she had had for herself and her descendants by Louis, with a provision that she would resume her rights should she be left a childless widow. On 24 November 1615, Louis and Anne were married by proxy in Burgos while Louis’s sister, Elizabeth, and Anne’s brother, Philip IV of Spain, were married by proxy in Bordeaux. These marriages followed the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as part of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis. Anne and Elisabeth were both exchanged on the Isle of Pheasants, between Hendaye and Fuenterrabía.

Registre de Givry

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Givry possesses the older Parish register of France. The book, written by the local priests, recorded redevances, baptism, wedding and death from 1303 to 1357, as well as the money received for the ceremonies.

The forty two first pages are copies from letters and lists of redevance. From page froty three to eighty three, marriages and deaths are listed.

It is really informative about the consequences of the plague. Before 1347, there were around 4-5 deaths per months. But between the 28th of July and the 19th of November 1348, we can count 620 deaths - as much deaths in four months than in the previous twenty years. On the 10th of September 24 people died, as much as in a year. No wedding was celebrated between the beginning of the epidemy and the end of the year.

Mariage de Charles IV le Bel et de Marie de Luxembourg Grandes Chroniques de France, enluminées par Jean Fouquet, Tours, vers 1455-1460 Paris, BnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 6465, fol. 332 (Livre de Charles IV le Bel) Le 21 septembre 1322 à Provins, Charles IV le Bel et Marie de Luxembourg, fille de l’empereur Henri VII, se marient. Sur la gauche, Blanche de Bourgogne, première épouse de Charles IV, s’éloigne triste et dépitée par l’annulation de son mariage.

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Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324) was Queen consort of France and Navarre, second wife of King Charles IV of France. She was married in Paris to Charles IV of France following his divorce from his adulterous first wife, Blanche of Burgundy, on 21 September 1322.

(left scene) 14th-century representation of the wedding of Louis and Eleanor; (right scene) Depiction of Louis leaving on Crusade

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On 25 July 1137 Alienor of Aquitaine and Louis VII were married in the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux by the Archbishop of Bordeaux

Bague de mariage juive, France, 16e.

Jewish wedding ring, France, 16th century

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Mariage entre Henri Ier et Anne de Kiev

Grandes Chroniques de France
Moyen Âge (14??)
Manuscrits à peinture

BNF, Manuscrits occidentaux, français 2610, fol. 175

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Anne of Kiev (or Anna Yaroslavna) was the queen consort of France as the wife of Henry I, and regent for her son Philip I.

After the death of his first wife, Matilda of Frisia, King Henry searched the courts of Europe for a suitable bride, but could not locate a princess who was not related to him within illegal degrees of kinship. At last he sent an embassy to distant Kiev, which returned with Anne. Anne and Henry were married at the cathedral of Reims on 19 May 1051.

Célébration à la chapelle du roi à Versailles le 16 ami 1770 du mariage de Monseigneur Louis Auguste, dauphin de France, né à Versaille le 13 août 1754, avec l’Archiduchesse Marie-Antoinette, sœur de l’empereur, née à Vienne le 2 novembre 1755.

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Marriage of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette on the 16th of May 1770, at the Chapelle du Roi, Versailles.

Mary (age 16) and Francis II (age 15) shortly after Francis was crowned King of France in 1559. From Catherine de’ Medici’s Book of Hours, Bibliotheque nationale de France

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Following the death of her father, James V, King of Scots, Mary I was crowned Queen of Scots in Stirling Castle at the age of nine months. The marriage between the Queen of Scots and the Dauphin of France, was arranged by Henry II of France in 1548, when Francis was just four years old. Once the marriage agreement had been formally ratified, the now six-year-old Mary was sent to France, to be raised in the royal court until the marriage.

On 24 April 1558, the fourteen-year-old Dauphin was married to the Queen of Scots in a union that could have given the future kings of France the throne of Scotland and also a claim to the throne of England through Mary’s great-grandfather, King Henry VII of England. However, Mary and Francis were to have no children during their short lived marriage.