To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644
In the pursuit of raising much needed finance for the English Royalist cause, Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, twice visited the European mainland in the 1640s in attempts to sell items of the English Crown Jewels. On both occasions her attempts were beset with problems including a perceived lack of legitimacy of any right she or the king had to sell such items. By association, extremely low offer prices were made by would-be buyers. The English Parliament did its best to track the queen’s activities using both overt and covert approaches. Her visits in 1642 and 1644 m... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 |
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Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone
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Schlagwörter: | Charles Ier d’Angleterre / Henriette Marie d’Angleterre / Bijoux de la Couronne d’Angleterre / relations franco-anglaises / relations anglo-néerlandaises / Parlement anglais / Guerres des trois royaumes / King Charles I of England / Queen Henrietta Maria of England / Crown Jewels / Anglo-French relations / English Parliament / Anglo-Dutch relations / Wars of the Three Kingdoms |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27031050 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://erea.revues.org/3715 |