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Mary of Modena, Queen of England
Standard Name: Mary of Modena,, Queen of England
Used Form: Mary Beatrice d'Este, also known as Mary of Modena
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred Nithsdale spent her first years abroad living on a Jacobite pension, which was augmented by Mary Beatrice of Modena
until the latter's death on 7 May 1718. After years of hand-to-mouth existence, she received... |
Travel | Elizabeth Strickland | ES
had no reluctance, however, about accompanying Agnes on research trips. The two sisters set out on 3 April 1844, by way of Le Havre and Rouen to visit places around Paris associated with Henrietta Maria |
Travel | Agnes Strickland | They found plenty to criticise as well as to admire in France. On the track of three Stuart consorts, Henrietta Maria
, Catherine of Braganza
, and Mary of Modena
, they visited Paris and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Barker | These royalist poems centre on the female figure of Mary of Modena
. |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Both sisters were indefatigable researchers. They took as their motto Facts, not Opinions Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 62 |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | On the pregnancy of Mary of Modena
, the Stationers' Company
licensed AB
's A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty on the Universal Hopes of all Loyal Persons for a Prince of Wales. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland. 129 |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | |
Occupation | Elizabeth Cellier | |
Occupation | Anne Finch | |
Occupation | Lady Lucy Herbert | While at St Germain, LLH
attended the court of Mary Beatrice of Modena
, but it does not appear that she held any official position there as her mother and sister did. Maxwell Stuart, Flora. Lady Nithsdale and the Jacobites. Traquair House. 21 |
Occupation | Anne Killigrew | She became, along with Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch)
and Sarah Jennings (later Duchess of Marlborough)
, a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena
(then Duchess of York). Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago. 299 |
Occupation | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Mary of Modena
had no position to give, though she wrote a letter of advice. Lady Nithsdale offered her services to a potential wife of James Edward
as soon as the existence of such a... |
Literary Setting | Mary Boyle | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | This was the outcome of the Meal Tub Plot, so called after the container in Elizabeth Cellier
's kitchen where evidence was planted. Lady Powis was then granted bail, and the charges against her... |
Timeline
27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...
National or international item
27 May 1682
10 June 1688: The son of Mary of Modena and James II was...
National or international item
10 June 1688
The son of Mary of Modena
and James II
was born; the date became one of annual importance to Jacobites.
10 June 1688: The son of Mary of Modena and James II was...
National or international item
10 June 1688
The son of Mary of Modena
and James II
was born; the date became one of annual importance to Jacobites.
February 1689: Mary of Modena wrote to Pope Innocent XI...
National or international item
February 1689
Mary of Modena
wrote to Pope Innocent XI
asking him to lead an alliance of the Catholic rulers of Europe to restore her husband
as rightful and Catholic ruler of Britain.
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