Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8368
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Downie , Fiona.
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  • Title: La voie quelle menace tenir: Annabella Stewart, Scotland, and the European Marriage Market, 1444-1456 [the author examines Annabella's betrothal to Louis, Count of Geneva, which lasted from 1444 until it was dissolved in 1456; continental politics favored the alliance in 1444 but conditions had changed in the next decade; Annabella wanted to stay in Savoy at the court where she had lived since the age of nine, but personal feelings did not matter in marital politics].
  • Source: Scottish Historical Review 206, 2 (October 1999): Pages 170 - 191.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Betrothal Diplomacy Marriage Politics Princesses Savoy Scotland Stewart, Annabella, Daughter of James I, King of Scotland
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles;France
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Melbourne
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00369241