Known for: governor of Habsburg Netherlands 1507-1515 and 1519-1530, not as a mother or wife. Her life is marked with connections with three generations of complicated political intermarriages. Titles: Princess of Asturias...
Read MoreYorkist Partisan Known for: partisan of the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses and the later Tudor monarchy Occupation: Duchess of Burgundy Dates: May 3, 1446 – November 23, 1503 Also known as: Margaret of York,...
Read MoreWhat Was a Bride Gift? How Is It Different From a Dowry? In some cultures, when a woman was married, the groom or his family made a payment to the bride’s family. In some others, the payment by the groom or his family was...
Read MorePhilippa Gregory’s book The White Princess has come to the screen via Starz in April, 2017. As with The White Queen, figures in the series are taken from history, with considerable fictionalizing. Here are some of the...
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Known for: a freethinker who worked for racial justice and for the education of African Americans;...
Read MoreThe only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby. Nick, they called me a goddamn juvenile delinquent, now do I get the part? (quoted in Gavin Lampert’s 2004 biography of Natalie Wood) In so...
Read MoreI know how a volcano must feel With molten lava Smoldering in its breast. from “Prelude” – Ariel Williams Holloway
Read MoreVannozza dei Cattenei was the mother of Lucrezia Borgia, Cesare Borgia and two (or maybe one) other children of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who later became Pope Alexander VI. Borgia’s mistress, she was also an innkeeper....
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