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 ...

Verfasser: HUMPHREY, David
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Verlag/Hrsg.: Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone
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
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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 met with some success dspite Parliaments best efforts to intervene, but both visits failed to fulfill their aims. ; Afin de lever des fonds nécessaires à la cause royaliste en angleterre, la reine Henriette Marie, épouse du roi Charles Ier d’Angleterre, effectua dans les années 1640 deux visites sur le continent pour tenter de vendre certains des bijoux de la Couronne anglaise. Dans les deux cas, elle rencontra des difficultés pour mener à bien son projet, notamment car le droit de vendre de tels objets n’était guère considéré comme légitime, que ce fût pour elle ou le roi. Par conséquent, elle ne put obtenir que des offres très faibles de la part d’acheteurs potentiels. Le Parlement anglais tenta au mieux de surveiller les activités de la reine, de façon ouverte ou plus secrète. Ses visites sur le continent en 1642 et 1644 ne furent pas dénuées de succès, malgré les tentatives d’interventions du Parlement, mais elle ne put finalement atteindre son objectif.