Devotion, Influence, and Loyalty: Reevaluating Queen Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont’s Political and Diplomatic Role in Early Modern France

Paranque, Estelle (2022) Devotion, Influence, and Loyalty: Reevaluating Queen Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont’s Political and Diplomatic Role in Early Modern France. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 16 (2). pp. 237-264. ISSN 1933-0065

Abstract

This article returns to Louise with a new set of questions in mind concerning her political and diplomatic role at the French court. Her political views and influence can be gleaned from the many letters she sent to the Guise matriarch Anne d’Este, her husband’s counselors, foreign monarchs, and, after her husband’s death, the new king, Henry IV. In this way, Louise acted as a crucial mediator between the French crown and the Guises; she performed a significant advisory and diplomatic role at the French court; and, finally, she deployed her political agency as a dowager queen after Henry III’s death. Throughout this time, her loyalty to Valois interests, and especially to her husband, never wavered.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1086/717541
Item Type:	Article
Disciplines:	Humanities > History
Depositing User:	Estelle Paranque
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2023 08:18
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2025 10:40
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1208

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