MARY OF MODENA

mŏdˈĭnə, 1658–1718, queen consort of James II of England; daughter of Alfonso IV, duke of Modena. Her marriage (1673) to James, then duke of York, was brought about through the influence of Louis XIV of France. Mary was a devout Roman Catholic and therefore unpopular in Protestant England. When she bore a son in 1688, it was widely rumored that this Catholic heir to the throne was a changeling, and fear of a Catholic succession precipitated the Glorious Revolution that overthrew James II. Mary fled to France with her son, James Francis Edward Stuart, and worked tirelessly to advance his claims to the English throne (see Jacobites).

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books on: Mary of Modena  - 407 results

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The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844 - Vol. 2
Book by Paula R. Feldman, Diana Scott-Kilvert, Mary Shelley; Clarendon Press, 1987
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft--1797-1851--Diaries, Women Authors, English--19th Century--Diaries
...letters, 410 n. 5; relations with Tighe, 433 n. 1, 586 ; Mary on coldness of, 433 n. 1; requests Byron to aid Claire...Advice to Young Mothers, 586 ; Stories of Old Daniel, 586 Massa Modena , 358 n. 1 Mastiani, Countess, 375 n. 3 Mathews, Mr...
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From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200
Book by Rachel Fulton; Columbia University Press, 2002
Subjects: Europe--Church History--600-1500, Europe--Religious Life And Customs, Jesus Christ--Cult--Europe, Mary--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion To--Europe
...additional miracles related by Peter, see Gripkey, Blessed Virgin Mary, pp. 25 30. 79 Donizo of Canossa, Vita Mathildis celeberrimae...85 90. 89 Paris: Arsenal, MS 369, fols. 160v 171r; and Modena: Biblioteca Estense, MS H. 46, fols. 93v 96v (cited by...
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The Conduct of the Earl of Nottingham
Book by William A. Aiken; Yale University Press, 1941
Subjects: Great Britain--History--William And Mary, 1689-1702
...also Sheffield Lord Chamberlain to Mary of Modena. See Godolphin Lord Chancellor...duchess of. See Churchill, Jennings Mary, Queen of England, consort of William...responsibilities with, 136 Mary of Modena, consort of James II, Godolphin...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II [Microform - Vol. 4
Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay; W. L. Allison, 1885
Subjects: Great Britain--History--James Ii, 1685-1688, Great Britain--History--Revolution Of 1688, Great Britain--History--William And Mary, 1689-1702
...his plenipotentiaries at the Congress to declare that Mary of Modena should have whatever, on examination, it should appear...been frequently asserted that William promised to pay Mary of Modena fifty thousand pounds a year. Whoever takes the trouble...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II - Vol. 3
Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay; Lippincott, 1884
Subjects: Great Britain--History--James Ii, 1685-1688, Great Britain--History--William And Mary, 1689-1702
...Whitehall as one of the loveliest women in the tram of Mary of Modena. After the Revolution, he followed his mistress to...blameless life of Tillotson. In the spring of 1690, Mary of Modena wished to send to her correspondents in London some...
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journal articles on: Mary of Modena  - 58 results

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The Role of Mary Knatchbull in the English Benedictine Foundations of the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Caroline Bowden; Magistra, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Charities, Christianity, Clergy, Costs, Debt, Donations, Females, Finance, Gender, History, Literature, Religion, Women
...regarding the debts, Mary Knatchbull maintained...surviving letters written by Mary Knatchbull is one sent to Mary of Modena, the second wife of...MS. Vol. 77, f27, Mary Knatchbull to Hyde...Knatchbull to Mary of Modena. (37) Ypres, 117...
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Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary
Journal article by Corrinne Harol; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 45, 2004
Subjects: Catholicism, Literary criticism, Morality, Poetry, Popes, Religious fundamentalism
...Elizabeth had been able to retain Mary as a figure for Protestant femininity...end of the seventeenth century, Mary becomes an important dividing line...the Womb" via a warming pan.10 Mary of Modena was aligned with the Virgin Mary...
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A Puritan Subject's Panegyrics to Queen Anne
Journal article by Barbara Olive; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002
Subjects: Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chudleigh, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1700-1775 (Early 18th century)--Political aspects, English poetry--Women authors, Laudatory poetry--18th century, Politics in literature--18th century, Puritans--Authorship
...panegyrics to Queen Anne by Barbara Olive When Mary, Lady Chudleigh, a little-known Devonshire...political manifestations. Chudleighs mother, Mary Jeffries Sydenham, came from a family...background, one can picture the daughter of Mary Sydenham and Richard Lee writing a spirited...
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Donatello's Gattamelata and Its Humanist Audience *
Journal article by Mary Bergstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Classical antiquities, Donatello, Donato de'Bardi detto--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--History, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Social aspects, Humanism--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism--Social aspects, Renaissance sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance sculpture--History, Renaissance sculpture--Social aspects, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--History, Sculpture, Renaissance--Social aspects
Donatellos Gattamelata and Its Humanist Audience *. by Mary Bergstein Italian Renaissance sculpture frequently demonstrates...Donatello had been asked by the Consigilo del Comune of Modena to make a life-size bronze statue of Borso dEste, Lord...
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Dryden's Sixth Satire of Juvenal and the Sexual Politics of Monarchy
Journal article by Tanya Caldwell; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 75, 1996
Subjects: Dryden, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Juvenal--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex in literature--Moral and ethical aspects, Translations--Political aspects, United Kingdom--History, 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
...opportunity to make a special attack on Mary II.(2) His satire on the queen and...connect his point with a specific attack on Mary II. Documented among womens vices are...it works simultaneously to attack Queen Mary), it nonetheless again provides a means...
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magazine articles on: Mary of Modena  - 21 results

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Perspectives
Magazine article by Mary Lou Beatty; Humanities, Vol. 23, January 2002
Subjects: Careers, Cole, Bruce, Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, Political appointments
Perspectives by Mary Lou Beatty Q: Youre beginning a new chapter after twenty-eight years...by tourists in the Sistine Chapel. But if you go anywhere else, like Modena or Ferrara or Parma, which were all important centers of the Renaissance...
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The Last Years of James II 1690-1701
Magazine article by Edward Corp; History Today, Vol. 51, September 2001
Subjects: James II, King of Great Britain--Conduct of life, United Kingdom--Kings and rulers
...of gold, gilt and silver objects, so that he and Mary of Modena could dine publicly and in state, as they had been...depended on his religion to sustain him. In June 1692 Mary of Modena gave birth to a healthy daughter, named Louise-Marie...
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Melfort: A Jacobite Connoisseur
Magazine article by Edward Corp; History Today, Vol. 45, October 1995
Subjects: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746--Personalities, John, Duke of Melfort--Collections and collecting, Painting--Collections and collecting
...was with Louis XIV when the queen, Mary of Modena, her baby son the Prince of Wales...title was publicly recognised by Mary of Modena, regent for James III...important Italian element. The queen, Mary of Modena, was herself Italian...
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Romancing the Throne
Magazine article by Patrick Allitt; The National Interest, July 2011
Subjects: British monarchy--History, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Royal marriage--History, Royal marriage--Laws, regulations and rules, United Kingdom. Royal Marriages Act 1772, William, Prince, Duke of Cambridge--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...infancy. The only survivor was Princess Mary. Henry dreaded the prospect of going to...never married but was briefly betrothed to Mary, Queen of Scots, when she was just seven...The eldest of Henry VIIIs daughters, Mary I (sired with Catherine of Aragon...
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The Lost Palace of Whitehall
Magazine article by Simon Thurley; History Today, Vol. 48, January 1998
Subjects: Monarchy--United Kingdom, Palaces--England, United Kingdom--History
...escaping to France. It was here that William and Mary accepted the throne, and where, six years later...well as a new riverside block of privy lodgings for Mary of Modena. But James and Mary never saw their rooms finished, and within ten...
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newspaper articles on: Mary of Modena  - 13 results

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Weekend History Of. QUEEN ANNE; Horrible Histories' Terry Deary Takes a Colossal Look at the Larger-Than-Life Queen Anne, Who Reigned for Just 12 Years
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 26, 2009
...contempt for her father and stepmother, Mary of Modena, was such that she spread the rumour...the stillborn heir. Annes sister, Mary, took the throne with hubby William...Denmark, had a son, William, while Mary, after two miscarriages, was unable...
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Queen of All Coffins
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 17, 2006
...father remarried the Roman Catholic Mary of Modena. In 1685, he succeeded to the throne...of 1688 had put Annes older sister Mary on the throne, alongside her husband, William of Orange. After Mary died, in 1694, followed by William...
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An Elementary Error; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 31, 2010
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan
...Prince Charlie, grandson of James II and his second wife Mary of Modena, was the Jacobite pretender to the British throne. Because...France in 1688, and the throne passed to his daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William III (of Orange). Following...
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An Elementary Error; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 31, 2010
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan
...Prince Charlie, grandson of James II and his second wife Mary of Modena, was the Jacobite pretender to the British throne. Because...France in 1688, and the throne passed to his daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William III (of Orange). Following...
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Around the Nation
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 5, 2006
Subjects: Insurgency
...United States; Mercedes Fabro Rivera, 25, from Spring Valley, New York City, United States; and Mary Ann Ethlyn Sanchez Saldivar, 21, from Modena, Italy. The fourth, Gretchen Oliver de Leon, 19, is a resident here. Engr. Rosendo So, beauty...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mary of Modena  - 5 results

 
 
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Mary of Modena
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARY OF MODENA mod in , 1658 1718, queen consort of James...England; daughter of Alfonso IV, duke of Modena. Her marriage (1673) to James, then...through the influence of Louis XIV of France. Mary was a devout Roman Catholic and therefore...
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James II , King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and his marriage (1673) to the staunchly Catholic Mary of Modena (his first wife having died in 1671), he became...consented to the marriage (1677) of his daughter Mary (later Mary II ) to the Protestant prince of Orange (later William...
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Stuart, James Francis Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STUART, JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD 1688 1766, claimant to the British throne, son of James II and Mary of Modena ; called the Old Pretender. His birth, falsely rumored by Whigs at the time to be supposititious (i.e., of other parents...
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Hapsburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...acquired by the marriage of Maximilian to Mary of Burgundy . The marriage of their son...Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras). The duchy of Modena , acquired (1806) by marriage, was also...Lombardy and Venetia, which, with Tuscany, Modena, and Parma, made the Italian peninsula...
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Romanesque Architecture and Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...but largely reconstructed after 1082, and the Church of St. Mary on the Capitol in Cologne (1049); Italy the cathedral (1063...the narrative reliefs from Genesis designed by Wiligelmo in Modena and by Niccolo in Verona. Metalwork Another aspect of the Romanesque...


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