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This chapter analyses consort coronations in the context of two different monarchies and demonstrates that the coronation perpetuated and extended dynastic legitimacy by anointing the queen as the mother to the future king and incorporated her into her husband’s body politic. The ritual bound the queen’s agency to her husband and children through prayers, gestures, objects, and setting. The chapter discusses the location, preparation of coronation space, ordines coronationis, regalia, and the participation of clergy and nobility to demonstrate that a consort coronation created a narrative of her status and role in a particular political setting by subtly adapting its form to suit absolute and elective monarchy. It grapples with terminologies applied to coronations and regional patterns of crowning consorts to understand not just the ritual but also its real-life value for queens consort.

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  1. 1.

    This was the case during the ‘coronation tempest’ of 1430, when Vytautas, the ruler of Lithuania and Jagiełło’s cousin, struggled to find a bishop to perform the unction and sought reassurance from Sigismund of Luxemburg, who consulted the Vienna professors to find examples for valid coronations without unction from Sicily, Castile, and Scotland. Vytautas’ coronation turned out to be a ‘humiliating fiasco’. R. Frost, The Oxford History of Poland Lithuania, Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 148–149.

  2. 2.

    Ovid, Metamorphoses, transl. A.D. Melville, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 1.2–3.

  3. 3.

    There is some discussion as to the exact date of Barbara’s coronation. B. Paprocki, Herby Rycerstwa Polskiego (Kraków, 1584), claims that she was crowned on 7 December, while Rysiński MS gives the date of the Tribute as 10 December. Baliński argues that Barbara was crowned on the day before, on 9 December. Possibly in connection to the feast of the Immaculate Conception—8 December—practiced in Poland since the fifteenth century—might have been chosen to remedy Barbara’s reputation as ‘the Great Whore of Lithuania’. M. Baliński (ed.), Pisma Historyczne, vol. 2 (Warszawa: Drukarnia Seppewalda, 1843), p. 186.

  4. 4.

    This was Anne’s second coronation as the queen consort of France. She had previously been married to Charles VIII of France.

  5. 5.

    The day after the Pentecost: C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France (Paris, 1549) [accessed at http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0014&strPage=8 on 17/09/2014].

  6. 6.

    For circumstances surrounding marriages and coronations of the sixteenth-century English queens see: A. Hunt, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); D. Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (London: Vintage Books, 2003); R. M. Warnicke, The marrying of Anne of Cleves: royal protocol in early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

  7. 7.

    E. H. Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957), p. 9.

  8. 8.

    R. A. Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to Charles X (London: University of North Carolina Press, 1984); M. Rożek, Polskie Koronacje i Korony (Cracow: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1987); J. R. Mulryne, H. Watanabe-O’Kelly and M. Shewing (eds), Europa Triumphans: court and civic festivals in early modern Europe, vol. 1–2 (Aldershot: MHRA and Ashgate, 2004).

  9. 9.

    F. Cosandey, La Reine de France. Symbole et pouvoir, XVe–XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), pp. 137–138.

  10. 10.

    C. J. Brown, The Queen’s Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477–1514 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), pp. 15–62; E. McCartney, ‘Ceremonies and Privileges of Office Queenship in Late Medieval France’, in J. Carpenter and S. MacLean (eds), Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995), pp. 178–220.

  11. 11.

    M. Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Leeds: Maney, 2007); Hunt, The Drama of Coronation; J. L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445–1503 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); Some ideas connected to coronations of queens consort may be found in: L. Oakley-Brown and Louise J. Wilkinson (eds), The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval and Early Modern (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009).

  12. 12.

    H. Matheson-Pollock, J. Paul, and C. Fletcher (eds), Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); E. Woodacre and C. Fleiner (eds), Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); F. Cosandey, ‘“La blancheur de nos lys”. La reine de France au cœur de l’État royal’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol. 44, no 3 (1997), pp. 387–403.

  13. 13.

    Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation, p. 3.

  14. 14.

    Rożek, Polskie Koronacje, p. 50.

  15. 15.

    Rożek, p. 58.

  16. 16.

    For example, see: H. Watanabe-O’Kelly, ‘The Early Modern Festival Book: Function and Form’, in Mulryne, Watanabe-O’Kelly and Shewring (eds), Europa Triumphans, p. 7.

  17. 17.

    McCartney, ‘Ceremonies and Privileges of Office: Queenship’, p. 185.

  18. 18.

    Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614.

  19. 19.

    Michał Rożek on the shared Early Medieval ancestors of European ordines coronationis: Rożek, Polskie Koronacje i Korony, pp. 57–58.

  20. 20.

    E. S. Dewick (ed.), The coronation Book of Charles V of France (Cottonian MS Tiberius B.VIII) (London Harrison and Sons, 1899), pp. 44–50; ‘Ordo of Louis XI’, in R. A. Jackson (ed.) Ordines Coronationis Franciae: Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), pp. 523–554.

  21. 21.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, in O. M. Balzer (ed.) Corpus Iuris Polonici. Sectionis 1. Privilegia, statuta, constitutiones, edicta, decreta, mandata regnum Poloniae spectantia comprehendentis. Vol. 3, Annos 1506–1522 contientis (Cracow: Sumptibus Academiae Litterarum, 1906), pp. 208–212.

  22. 22.

    S. Kutrzeba, ‘Ordo coronandi regis Poloniae’, in Collectanea ex Archivo Collegi Historici, vol. 11 (Cracow: Akademia Umiejętności, 1909–1913), p. 147.

  23. 23.

    Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation, p. 24.

  24. 24.

    For a more detailed history of the Wawel Cathedral see: M. Rożek, Krakowska Katedra na Wawelu (Cracow: Petrus, 1976).

  25. 25.

    S. M. Crosby, The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis from Its Beginnings to the Death of Surger, 475–1151 (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1987).

  26. 26.

    Prior to that, the queens would be dressed in their apartments, but there is not enough extant material for comparison on the Polish side. It does not seem, however, that the tradition of wearing a specific set of coronation robes developed in Poland. It is certain that Bona Sforza wore the same dress as for her marriage by proxy (see previous chapter). There is also the coronation portrait of Anna Jagiellon, but it is not certain that she wore the garment she was painted wearing to her coronation. The existence of a traditional set of coronation robes, except for wearing a cloak, in France is also put to question by the descriptions of Anne of Brittany and Catherine de Medici’s coronations. The first wore a cloak of violet satin split in the front to show the garment of cloth of silver underneath. Catherine, on the other hand, wore ‘a corset, a tunic of ermine, a mantle cloak, a head ornament, and other royal garments, and her coat was made of velvet embroidered with fleurs de liz of gold and lined with ermines.’ A. de la Vigne, ‘Le Sacre de Anne de Bretagne et son entrée a Paris en 1504’, in P. Gringore, Les Entrées Royales a Paris de Marie d’Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517), C. J. Brown (ed.), (Geneve: Librarie Droz S.A., 2005), p. 219; C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France (Paris, 1549) [accessed at http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0014&strPage=8 on 17/09/2014; For English coronation robes see: M. Hayward, ‘Dressed to Impress’, in A. Hunt and A. Whitelock (eds), Tudor Queenship: the Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 81–84.

  27. 27.

    In Christianity, the number three is symbolic of transition into another state of being; Jesus traditionally came back from the dead after three days. It was a royal custom for the Polish kings to fast, confess, and give alms to the poor on the Saturday before coronation: Rożek, p. 54.

  28. 28.

    On public ceremonies accompanying coronations of Polish kings see: Rożek, Polskie Koronacje, pp. 58–59.

  29. 29.

    L. J. Decjusz, Diarii Et Earum Qvae Memoratu digna in […] Sigismundi Poloniae Regis Et […] Bonae Mediolani Bariq[ue] Ducis Principis Rossani nuptiis gesta […] Descriptio (Kraków: Hieronim Wietor, 1518), p. 50.

  30. 30.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France (Paris, 1549), [accessed at http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0014&strPage=8 on 17/09/2014]; André de la Vigne’s original manuscript: Waddesdon Manor MS 22; a detailed description of the manuscript: L. M. J. Delaissé, J. Marrow, and J. de Wit (eds), The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Illuminated Manuscripts (London: National Trust, 1977); the text of the manuscript printed in: P. Gringore, Les Entrées Royales a Paris de Marie d’Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517), C. J. Brown (ed.), (Geneve: Librarie Droz S.A., 2005) Appendice II; A. de la Vigne, ‘Le Sacre de Anne de Bretagne et son entrée a Paris en 1504’, H. Stein (ed.), in Mémoires de la Société de l’Histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France, vol. 29 (1902), pp. 268–304.

  31. 31.

    Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII, p. 57.

  32. 32.

    The Duke was expected to come himself, but he reportedly became ill while on his way to Barbara’s coronation, and returned to Królewiec (also known as Königsberg and Kaliningrad): C. Lanckorońska (ed.), Elementa ad fontium editiones, vol. 63 (Rome, 1973–1974), p. 163; see also the description of the Tribute: Baliński, Pisma, vol. 2, p. 190, The Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614, f. 175v–176v.

  33. 33.

    Przeździecki, p. 257; Mentioned in the manuscript describing Barbara’s coronation as ‘barons’ and ‘magnates’. The Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614, f. 174r.

  34. 34.

    K. Orzechowski, Historia ustroju Śląska 1202–1740 (Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2005), pp. 48–56.

  35. 35.

    H. Persson, ‘Viadrina to the Oder-Neisse Line: Historical Evolution and Regional Cooperation’, in S. Tagil (ed.), Regions in Central Europe: The Legacy of History, transl. J. Aimaq (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1999), p. 221.

  36. 36.

    Kurtze Beschreibung der Hochzeit des Jungen Königs aus Polen mit Römischer Königklicher Mayestat Ferdinandi Tochter mit mancherley gepreng vnd Ceremonien geschehen den iii. May vnd etlich tag hernach. Anno. M. D. xliii; The original text: The Polish National Library Special Collections XVI.Qu.1767; The Princes Chartoryski Library 408 I; printed and translated in: J. R. Mulryne, H. Watanabe-O’Kelly and M. Shewing (eds), Europa Triumphans, vol. 1, p. 395.

  37. 37.

    AGAD, Archiwum Skarbu Koronnego, Dział 1, MS 112, f. 21.

  38. 38.

    Masovia returned to Poland in 1526, after the death of the last Masovian Piast, Duke Janusz III.

  39. 39.

    L. J. Decjusz, De Sigismundi regis temporibus liber, W. Czermak (ed.), (Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, 1901), pp. 57–58.

  40. 40.

    The Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614, f. 174r.

  41. 41.

    For the complete lists see: P. Gringore, Les Entrées Royales a Paris de Marie d’Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517), Appendice II; C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France, [accessed at http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0014&strPage=8 on 17/09/2014].

  42. 42.

    Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation, pp. 156–157.

  43. 43.

    K. Friedrich, ‘Royal Entries into Cracow, Warsaw and Danzig: Festival Culture and the Role of the Cities in Poland-Lithuania’, in J. R. Mulryne, H. Watanabe-O’Kelly and M. Shewing (eds), Europa Triumphans, vol. 1, p. 387.

  44. 44.

    Kurtze Beschreibung der Hochzeit des Jungen Königs aus Polen, in Mulryne, Watanabe-O’Kelly and Shewing (eds), Europa Triumphans, vol. 1, pp. 394–397; A. Przeździecki, Jagiellonki Polskie: obrazy rodziny i dwory Zygmunta I i Zygmunta Augusta Królów Polskich, vol. 5 (Cracow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1868), p. 106. The old queen’s daughters were Anna, the future queen of Poland, Sophie, who was to become the Duchess of Brunswick, and Catherine, the future Queen of Sweden.

  45. 45.

    M. Bogucka, Bona Sforza (Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1998, 2009), pp. 142–143.

  46. 46.

    Letter from Masurpin to King Ferdinand: Przeździecki, vol. 1, pp. 121–122, 172.

  47. 47.

    J. Guy, ‘My Heart is my Own’: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Harper Perennial, 2004), pp. 101–104.

  48. 48.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, pp. 208–209.

  49. 49.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/pageview.aspx?strFest=0014&strPage=3 on 29/05/2014].

  50. 50.

    Ibid.

  51. 51.

    Hunt, The Drama of Coronation, p. 51.

  52. 52.

    Wellman, Queens and Mistresses, p. 208.

  53. 53.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0014 on 29/05/2014].

  54. 54.

    J. Loach, ‘The Function of Ceremonial in the Reign of Henry VIII’, Past and Present, no. 142 (1994), p. 44.

  55. 55.

    A. Sucheni-Grabowska, ‘Społeczność szlachecka a państwo’, in A. Wyczański, Polska w epoce Odrodzenia (Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, 1986), pp. 88–89.

  56. 56.

    Rożek, pp. 50–61.

  57. 57.

    J. A. Chrościcki, ‘Hołdy Lenne a Ceremoniał Obrad Sejmu’, in M. Markiewicz and R. Skowron (eds), Theatrum Ceremoniale na Dworze Książąt i Królów Polskich: Materiały Konferencji naukowej zorganizowanej przez Zamek Królewski na Wawelu i Instytut Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w dniach 23–25 marca 1998 (Cracow: Zakład Poligraficzny ‘Cenzus’, 1999), pp. 165–182; J. Seredyka, ‘Nabożeństwa Sejmowe w Dawnej Polsce. Norma Prawna czy Ceremoniał?ʼ, in Markiewicz and Skowron (eds), Theatrum Ceremoniale na Dworze Książąt i Królów Polskich, pp. 255–264; J. S. Dąbrowski, ‘Wjazdy na sejmy w okresie panowania Jana Kazimierza Wazy’, in Markiewicz and Skowron (eds), Theatrum Ceremoniale, pp. 277–290.

  58. 58.

    McCartney, ‘Ceremonies and Privileges of Office’, p. 179.

  59. 59.

    de la Vigne, ‘Le Sacre de Anne de Bretagne et son entrée a Paris en 1504’, in P. Gringore, Les Entrées Royales, pp. 223–224.

  60. 60.

    R. J. Knecht, Catherine de’ Medici (London: Longman, 1998), p. 42.

  61. 61.

    The Polish National Library Special Collections, MS 6614, f. 173v; see Appendix 1 for transcription and translation.

  62. 62.

    W. Czermak (ed.), Jodoci Ludovici Decii De Sigismundi regis temporibus liber, 1521 (Cracow: Akademia Umiejętności, 1901), p. 56; Przeździecki, vol. 1, p. 109; The Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614, f. 173v.

  63. 63.

    Ś. Orzelski, Bezkrólewia ksiąg ośmioro czyli Dzieje Polski od zgonu Zygmunta Augusta r. 1572 aż do r. 1576, vol. 2, W. Spasowicz (ed.), (Petersburg and Mohilew: Bolesław Maurycy Wolff, 1856), p. 335.

  64. 64.

    Orzelski, Bezkrólewia, vol. 3, p. 189.

  65. 65.

    Ibid., p. 231.

  66. 66.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, pp. 208–209.

  67. 67.

    The Polish National Library Special Collections MS 6614, f. 174r.

  68. 68.

    de la Vigne, ‘Le Sacre de Anne de Bretagne et son entrée a Paris en 1504’, in P. Gringore, Les Entrées Royales a Paris, p. 225.

  69. 69.

    McCartney, ‘Ceremonies and Privileges of Office: Queenship’, p. 185.

  70. 70.

    de la Vigne, ‘Le Sacre de Anne de Bretagne’, p. 225.

  71. 71.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0014 on 29/05/2014].

  72. 72.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0014 on 29/05/2014].

  73. 73.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 209; Kurtze Beschreibung, in Mulryne, Watanabe-O’Kelly and Shewing (eds), Europa Triumphans, vol. 1, p. 397.

  74. 74.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 209.

  75. 75.

    Kurtze Beschreibung, in Europa Triumphans, vol. 1, p. 397.

  76. 76.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 210.

  77. 77.

    Ibid.

  78. 78.

    The coronation Book of Charles V of France (Cottonian MS Tiberius B.VIII), p. 45.

  79. 79.

    Ibid.

  80. 80.

    The coronation Book of Charles V, p. 48.

  81. 81.

    L. Huneycutt, ‘Intercession and the High-Medieval Queen: The Esther Topos’, in J. Carpenter and S. MacLean (eds), Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995), pp. 127–129.

  82. 82.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 211.

  83. 83.

    Przeździecki, vol. 1, p. 109.

  84. 84.

    The Polish National Library Special Collections, MS 6614, f. 174v.

  85. 85.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0014 on 29/05/2014].

  86. 86.

    McCartney, ‘Ceremonies and Privileges of Office’, p. 183.

  87. 87.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 210.

  88. 88.

    N. Menin, A Description of the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of France (London: S. Hooper, 1775), p. 161.

  89. 89.

    ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum Poloniae observandum’, p. 211.

  90. 90.

    Rożek, Polskie Koronacje, p. 80; Various inventories of the Treasury of the Crown containing all Polish regalia printed in: Ibid., pp. 77–95.

  91. 91.

    Ibid., pp. 101–106.

  92. 92.

    Ibid., pp. 90–91.

  93. 93.

    The painting by an anonymous artist is held at the Wawel cathedral.

  94. 94.

    McCartney, p. 184.

  95. 95.

    C’est l’ordre et forme qui a este tenue au sacre [et] couronneme[n]t de treshaulte [et] tresillustre dame, Madame Catherine de Medicis, royne de France [accessed at: http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0014 on 29/05/2014].

  96. 96.

    The Coronation Book of Charles V, p. 47; ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum’, p. 211.

  97. 97.

    The Coronation Book of Charles V of France, p. 47; ‘Ordinato caerimoniarum in coronantionibus reginarum’, p. 211.

  98. 98.

    The Coronation Book of Charles V, p. 47; LP I 3424.

  99. 99.

    E. F. Twining, European Regalia (Batsford: 1967), p. 216.

  100. 100.

    Gieysztor, ‘Gesture in the Coronation Ceremonies of Medieval Poland’, in J. M. Bak (ed.), Coronations, p. 152.

  101. 101.

    Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies, p. 338.

  102. 102.

    Bielski, p. 3; translation into English by: A. Gieysztor, ‘Gesture in the Coronation Ceremonies of Medieval Poland’, p. 153.

  103. 103.

    R. Schulte, ‘Introduction: Conceptual Approaches to the Queen’s Body’, in R. Schulte (ed.), The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006), p. 1.

  104. 104.

    K. Kosior, ‘Anna Jagiellon: A Female Politician in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’, in E. Woodacre (ed.), A Companion to Global Queenship (Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2018), pp. 67–78.

  105. 105.

    R. Weil, ‘Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy’, in R. Schulte (ed.), The Body of the Queen, p. 89; also mentioned by J. Bayard, Sacres et Couronnements, p. 206.

  106. 106.

    J. C. Parsons, ‘The Queen’s Intercession in thirteenth-Century England’, in J. Carpenter and S. MacLean (eds), Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), p. 160.

  107. 107.

    T. Hobbes, Leviathan or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil (London: Andrew Crooke, 1651) [accessed at: www.eebo.chadwyck.com, 08/06/2014]. See especially the front page which represents the king as a composition of smaller human figures; Henry’s speech cited in: S. Ray, Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 1.

  108. 108.

    Ray, Mother Queens and Princely Sons, p. 5.

  109. 109.

    Kurtze Beschreibung der Hochzeit des Jungen Königs aus Polen, p. 397; R. E. Giesey, ‘Inaugural Aspects of French Royal Ceremonials’, in J. M. Bak (ed.), Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 35–45.

  110. 110.

    Brown, The Queen’s Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, p. 22.

  111. 111.

    Gringore, p. 226.

  112. 112.

    Kurtze Beschreibung der Hochzeit des Jungen Königs aus Polen, p. 397.

  113. 113.

    Przeździecki, vol. 1, pp. 259–260.

  114. 114.

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