Lost stories

Marguerite de Bourgogne (1290-1315) is the second daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, and Agnes of France, and therefore, through her mother, granddaughter of Louis IX, known as Saint Louis.

She is also Queen of Navarre and France through her marriage to King Louis X.

In April 1314, Philip IV the Fair had his three daughters-in-law, Margaret, Joan, and Blanche of Burgundy, arrested. They were accused of adultery with two young squires, Philip and Gauthier d'Aunay. This scandal is now known as the Tour de Nesle affair.

Mary of Hungary (1505-1558) was the daughter of Queen Joanna and King Philip the Handsome of Castile.

She married King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in 1515. Their marriage was happy but short and childless.

Upon her husband's death following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Queen Mary governed Hungary as regent in the name of the new king, her brother, Ferdinand I.

François de Bourbon, Comte de Saint-Pol (1491-1544), had an important role to play in the French campaign of 1521 against the Holy Roman Empire, aiding in the defence of Mézières by seeing the city resupplied.

He was the son of François de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme, and Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of Saint-Pol.

Catherine of Bulgaria was empress consort to Byzantine emperor Isaac I Komnenos.

Saint Ludmila of Bohemia (860-921) was the first Christian ruler and is the country’s first saint.

Zoe Porphyrogenita (978-1050) was born when her father Constantine was nominal co-emperor to his brother, Basil II.

Eoghan Rua Ó Néill (or Owen Roe O'Neill; 1560-1649) was a renowned member of the O'Neill family of Ulster.

He left Ireland in the exile known as the "Flight of the Earls" to escape the English conquest of his native Ulster. He grew up in Spanish Holland and spent 40 years serving in the Irish regiment of the Spanish Armada.

Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (1402-1460) was the great-grandson of King Edward III of England on his mother's side. She was Anne of Gloucester, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, the youngest son of Edward III.

Blanche of Burgundy (1296-April 29, 1326) was queen consort of France for a few months in 1322 through her marriage to the future Charles IV of France.

In early 1314, her father-in-law had her arrested on charges of adultery with Gauthier de Aunay at the manor of Nesle. She was tried and found guilty, stripped of her honors, had her head shaved, and was imprisoned in the Château Gaillard.

In 1322, after the death of Philip V, her huaband ascended the throne of France while she was still a prisoner, making her temporarily Queen of France.

Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387-1421), was the second son of Henry IV of England and his first wife, Mary de Bohun.

Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1489-1537) was the son of François de Bourbon and Marie de Luxembourg.

From his mother, Charles would inherit many Picard lands, among them: La Fère, Ham and Condé-en-Brie. She also brought him Flemish fiefs, including Enghien...