Thursday, September 17, 2020

Margaret -- Marguerite

Margaret de Beaumont, Countess of Winchester (1156–1236)
Margaret of Harcourt.

Margaret of Achaea.
the Blessed:

the Rose.

the Saint

Margaret of Huntingdon, Queen of Galloway (d.1233)
the Scot:

Margaret Plantagenet:
Blessed Margaret Pole:

the Maid of Norway:

the Peace-Cow (Swe. Fredkulla): 

Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy.
Madame la Grande: "The relationship between Maximilian and the dowager duchess, who, like Anne of France, came to be known as Madame la Grande, was one of 'close interdependence'; Margaret needed Maximilian to safeguard her dower but the archduke also needed Margaret. Throughout his son's minority, Margaret remained her son-in-law's 'most loyal subject'; her support and advice were an invaluable asset to Maximilian in his government of the Low Countries.'. . . ." (The Monstrous Regiment of Women: 82)
the Aunt of All Pretenders: Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. " . . . [T]he Duchess Margaret, a woman of strong character and passionate feeling, pursued the family quarrel as a vendetta. She was always eager to receive any disaffected adherents of the House of York, and to help their conspiracies with money and influence; in fact so strong was her desire to injure Henry VIII that she gave warm welcome to Perkin Warbeck and others, and was called 'aunt of all the pretenders."(Maximilian the Dreamer: 61)

Margaret Beaufort 
Lady Margaret:

Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll.
the Mayfair Whore (by Edith Springett):
the Silly Old Bitch (by Edith Springett):

Mad Madge of Newcastle: [15]

the Fair
the Diamond of Delight (by James IV): "Near the end of the 1500's, another Drummond, Margaret the fair, enraptured King James IV. She was, to him, 'The diamond of Delight.' Because of his love for her, James originally declined the marriage to Mary Tudor, daughter of the King of England, Henry VII. It is rumored that James had indeed married Margaret and was to have her crowned Queen of Scotland. The nobles, mostly lowlanders and border Lords, feared that the Drummonds were becoming too powerful. They decided that Margaret must die, thus forcing James to marry the Tudor Princess. Margaret, and her two sisters, were poisoned. Shortly after, James married Mary Tudor, which made way for the union of the Scottish and English Crowns a century later." (Tour Scotland)

Little Margaret (Magheen)
Mairghread Gerroid
the Countess of Granny
the Great Countess of Ormonde [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Margaret O'Carroll.
Margaret O'Carroll of Offally: " . . . She is commonly called 'Margaret O'Carroll of Offally,' having retained her maiden name after her marriage, a not uncommon custom with our ancestresses;  indeed, in many county parts of Ireland, the custom is prevalent to this day.  She must have been a woman of remarkable spirit and capacity;  and when to these were united the virtue, benevolence, and piety which all chroniclers agree in ascribing to her, it is no wonder that they felt a pride in recording her good deeds. . . ."  (Blackburne: 62)
    Margaret the Hospitable (Irish Margaret-an-Einigh): "O'Carroll, Margaret, 'Margaret-an-Einigh' — (Margaret the Hospitable), was born early in the 15th century, and married Calvagh O'Conor, chief of Offaly. . . ." (Library Ireland)
      the Admirable Margaret O'Carroll: "In the year of our Lord 1445, there seems to have been a great religious revival in Ireland . . . [I]n this year took place the great Irish pilgrimage 'towards the citie (sic) of St. James, in Spain,' . . . Chief amongst the noble pilgrims was 'the admirable Margaret O'Carroll.'" (Blackburne, 1877, pp. 62-63)
        the Best Woman of Her Time in Ireland (Four Masters): " . . . The Four Masters speak of her as 'the best woman of her time in Ireland.' 'She was the only woman that has made most of preparing highways, and erecting bridges, churches, and mass-books, and of all manner of things profitable to serve God and her soul,' says MacFirbis, the chronicler. . . ." (Library Ireland)

        the Iron Lady: " . . . She earned the nickname 'The Iron Lady' because of her hard line against the USSR over their invasion of Afghanistan, and because when Argentina challenged Britain's right to the Falkland Islands, she went to war. In 1990 she resigned as prime minister, although she stayed in Parliament until 1992."
        the Passionara of Privilege: 

        the Peace-Cow (Swe. Fredkulla):
        the Peacemaker:

        Margarete von Tyrol
        Kriemhild (by Johann of Palatine-Neumarkt):"Kriemhild was how Johann, Count Palatine of Neumarkt, called Margaret. 'In Germanic heroic legend, sister of the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot, and Giselher. In Norse legend she is called Gudrun, and the lays in which she appears are variant tales of revenge. In the Nibelungenlied, she is the central character, introduced as a gentle princess courted by Siegfried. He wins Kriemhild’s hand by performing feats for Gunther in the wooing of Brunhild. When Siegfried is later killed on Gunther’s order because of Brunhild’s spite at his role in wooing her, Kriemhild’s grief transforms her into a “she-devil” in the second part of the epic. She marries Etzel (Attila the Hun) for revenge on her brothers, which she achieves by inviting them to Etzel’s court, where she has them killed. She herself is killed by Hildebrand, the weapons master of Dietrich von Bern. . . ." (Encyclopedia Britannica)
        the Medusa (from Villani):  "Medusa was how the Italian writer Filippo Villani described Margarethe in 1400."(Geschichte Tirol)
        Medusa (from Villani):  Medusa was how the Italian writer Filippo Villani described Margarethe in 1400."(Geschichte Tirol) [59]
        Pocket-Mouthed Meg; the Mouth Bag, the Mouthpoke, the Pocket-mouth, the Pocket-mouthed, the Satchel-mouth; With the Pouch Mouth (Ger. Maultasch): " . . . Margaret of the Tyrol, commonly called, by contemporaries and posterity, Maultasche (Mouthpoke, Pocket-mouth), she was the bride: -- marriage done at Innsbruck, 1342, under furtherance of father Ludwig the Kaiser:-- such a mouth as we can fancy, and a character corresponding to it. . . Not a lovely bride at all, this Maultasche; who is verging now towards middle life withal, and has had enough to cross her in the world. Was already married thirteen years ago; not wisely nor by any means too well. A terrible dragon of a woman. Has been in nameless domestic quarrels; in wars and sieges with rebellious vassals; claps you an iron cap on her head, and takes the field when need is: furious she-bear of the Tyrol. But she has immense possessions, if wanting in female charms. . . ." (Carlyle)
        the Ugly Duchess: " . . . (P)robably because of her unattractive appearance, especially her mouth... Legend has painted her as a woman of great power and evil. Her portrait was Sir John Tenniel's model for the 'duchess' in his illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Lion Feuchtwanger utilized her story in his novel The Ugly Duchess. . . ." (Columbia Encyclopedia)

        the Blessed:

        the Black:
        the Black Lady: "In 1243 Margaret buried her second husband, and in the following year her sister, who dying childless was succeeded by Margaret as Countess of Flanders and Hainaut: she associated her son, Guy de Dampierre, with her in the government, regardless of the claims of her elder children, the two d'Avesnes. Her sway was still more tyrannical that that of her sister Jane, and was still more detested by the Flemings. She was so dark, so stern, and unbending, so wholly without evidence of ordinary human feeling, that she was called by her subjects 'The Black Lady'.  She chose to consider her children by Bouchard as illegitimate; and delighted in sowing dissension between them and the Dampierres. Her unnatural conduct brought many calamities upon her country; the jarring pretensions of her sons created factions, and fostered party feeling." (The Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 7: 45)

        Margarita Cogni.
        la Fornarina: "In September 1817, he met Margarita Cogni, known as La Fornarina (the furnace). She was a wild, fiercely passionate woman married to a butcher. La Fornarina was illiterate but opened Byron's letters in jealous firs after she moved in uninvited, claiming her place as the new housekeeper. In that capacity she cut his bills in half and terrorized the household. When Byron finally ordered her to leave, she hysterically threw herself into the canal, but she was rescued and eventually left Byron alone." (Bloom: 47) the Little Baker's Wife (by Lord Byron):

        the Only Man in the House of Savoy: "Margherita of Savoy has been called 'the only man in the House of Savoy.' Her biographer used this surprising description to indicate the important role the queen played, and to emphasize that she was not satisfied to serve as a mere companion or decorative supernumerary in court ceremonial. . . ." (The Body of the Queen: 200)

        the Madama of Rome [13]

        Greber's Peg (by Nicholas Rowe)
        Hecate (by her husband)

        the Abbot's Concubine (Dan. Abbedfrillen; by Albert of Sweden): " . . . Meanwhile Albert, King of Sweden, having, on account of his preference given to German favorites, incurred the hatred of his people, the Swedes requested Margaret to assist them against him, which she promised to do if they in return would make her queen of Sweden. Moreover, Albert had highly offended the Danish Queen; had, though hardly able to govern his own kingdom, assumed the title "king of Denmark," and laid claim to Norway, too; and when she blamed him for it he had answered her disdainfully. In a letter he had used foul and abusive language, calling her "a king without breeches," and the "abbot's concubine" (abbedfrillen), on account of her particular attachment to a certain abbot of Soro, who was her spiritual director. It is, however, true, that her intimacy with this monk gave room for some suspicion that her privacies with him were not all employed about the care of her soul. . . ." (Union Of Denmark, Sweden, And Norway @archive.org)

        the Semiramis of the North: " . . . In 1338, Margaret, Queen of Sweden, styled by historians 'the Semiramis of the North,' by her warlike prowess and wise policy, united for the first time Sweden, Denmark, and Norway under one government, of which she was the head, and which she raised to a high pitch of glory. . . ." (The North American Review: 512)

        the Pearl of Pearls:

        the Bitch: . " . . . The Queen Who Never was by Maureen Peters, which is rife with historical inaccuracies, pictures Cicely as desirous of a crown from early age, who hates Margaret of Anjou ('the bitch') with a passion. . . ." (Faubell)

        Marguerite of Antioch (c1244-1308)
        the Loveliest Girl of Her Generation.

        the Great Dauphine.


        the Pearl of France: 

        the Blessed: " . . . She was a daughter of Amedee, prince of Achaia, and after the death of her husband, the Marquis of Montferrat, having been wholly converted to God by the preaching of St. Vincent Ferrer, she entered a monastery and devoted herself to the care of the sick in a hospital. She was canonized by Pope Clement X." (Paulist Fathers: 768)

        Marguerite of Angouleme: She was the daughter of Charles de Valois, Comte d'Angouleme & also born in Angouleme.
        Marguerite of Orleans:
        Marguerite of Valois: She belonged to the Valois branch of the House of Capet.
        the Defence, Shelter, and Consolation of the Distressed:
        the First Modern Woman:the Fourth of the Graces:  "The learned and the poets made it a duty to celebrate their protectress in funeral orations and in poems.  The the tenth Muse, the fourth of the Graces, to the illustrious sister and wife of kings. . . ."
        the Fourth Grace
        the Help and Protector of Good Literature:
        the Lady of the Camels: "In September 1585, the people of Agen, exasperated by Marguerite's exigencies and the behavior of her troops, rose in rebellion. Marguerite fled the town, which was quickly secured by royal forces. Marguerite and her entourage then crossed nearly 125 miles of dangerous countryside, finally coming to rest at Carlat, another of her dower properties. The news of Marguerite's flight amused Henri, who dubbed his wife the 'lady of the camels'---perhaps a biblical allusion. . . ." (Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age: 121)
        the Maecenas to the Learned Ones of Her Brother's Kingdom:
        the Minerva of France
        the Minerva and Venus of France: "This Woman was called the Minerva, and Venus of France, on the Score of her Learning and Amours, never denying any Thing to her Lovers, and being seldom without Men of Science in her Company. . . ."(Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy: 40)
        the Mother of the French Reformation:
        the Mother of the French Renaissance:
        the Pearl of Pearls:
        the Pearl of the Valois
        the Queen of Dissent.
        the Scandalous Queen
        the Sweetheart to the King of France (la Mignonne du Roi de France): "When Louis XII, who had married Mary Tudor in October, died at the end of 1514 without a male heir, Francois d'Angouleme became the monarch, and the life of Marguerite, Duchess of Alencon, changed drastically as she became 'La mignonne du roi de France' (the Sweetheart to the King of France).  Their more affluent lifestyle greatly pleased the duke of Alencon, and Marguerite, suddenly much in the public eye, began spending a good deal of time at court, where she often assumed the duties of her sister-in-law Claude, the frail queen of France.  Reports from ambassadors who conversed with Marguerite praised her wit, charm, intelligence, and ability to converse on a variety of subjects, but none described her as beautiful." ("Marguerite de Navarre," in Poetry Foundation)
        the Tenth Muse: "In 1549, Margaret, the king's aunt, and sister of Francis, died. She was indisputably the most accomplished princess of the age: devoted to the love of letters, she encouraged and patronized men of genius and learning, from who she received the flattering epithets of 'the Tenth Muse' and 'the Fourth Grace.' She was herself an author, and her tales are much in the style of Boccaccio. . . ." (Historic Anecdotes: France: 96) [Ref1]

        Madame Maggie Meller
        Marie-Marguerite Alibert
        Princess Marie-Marguerite Fahmy
        Marguerite Fahmy
        Madame Marguerite Fahmy

        la Dayelle.

        Marguerite d'Esteve.
        Margot, the Queen of the Congo:
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