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Agnès Sorel first took by storm the French court of King Charles VII of France in 1444 when she was about 20. What was her life like before her meeting with the monarch?
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#AgnèsSorel #France #Lorraine #history #Valois
Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan, was born on the 4th of February 1495 (he died in 1535). He became the last member of the Sforza family to rule Milan in 1521 until his death. In 1534, he married Christina of Denmark; the union remained childless.
#Milan #Renaissance #history
Italian painter, Masaccio, San Giovenale Triptych (1422)
#Renaissance #Florence #Masaccio
The Angelic Announcement to the Shepherds (1332-38). Fresco, the Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, #Florence, #Italy, by Taddeo Gaddi
#Renaissance
King Henry I of England (born c. 1068), also known as Henry Beauclerc, died on the 1st of December 1135. The fourth son of William the Conqueror, he ruled England from 1100 to his death in 1135.
Françoise d’#Aubigné, known first as Madame #Scarron and subsequently as Madame de #Maintenon, was born on the 27th of Nov 1635 (died on 15 April 1719). She was a French noblewoman who secretly married King Louis XIV (#Bourbon) after the death of his first wife, Marie Therese.
On the 10th of November 1483, Martin #Luther, German monk and priest, was born. He proposed an academic discussion of the practice and efficacy of indulgences in his Ninety-five Theses of 1517. He became leader of the Protestant #Reformation (d. 1546).
Renée of France was born on the 25th of October 1510. The second surviving daughter of King Louis XII of France (#Valois) and Anne de Bretagne, Renée lived quite a long and eventful life, living her mark in the history of the French and Italian #Renaissance and in Reformation.