The society of princes: the Lorraine-Guise and the conservation of power and wealth in seventeenth-century France /
Spangler, Jonathan
The society of princes: the Lorraine-Guise and the conservation of power and wealth in seventeenth-century France / Jonathan Spangler - Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009. - x, 343 p., [6] p. of plates: ill., maps; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.
1 Introducing the Foreign Princes
2 The Lorraine-Guise Dynastic Identity: History, Image, Property
and Display
3 At Court: Lorraines and Royal Favour
4 The Corporate Merger: Marriage Alliances, Contracts and
Widowhood
5 Lorraines in the Courts: Successions and the French Judiciary
6 Being Everywhere ... in the South: Provincial Interests in
the Vivarais
7 Lorraines on the Borders and in the Service of Foreign Monarchs
9780754658603 (alk. paper) 0754658600 (alk. paper)
Nobility--France
France--Court and courtiers--History
France--History
France--History
944.033 / SPA/S
The society of princes: the Lorraine-Guise and the conservation of power and wealth in seventeenth-century France / Jonathan Spangler - Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009. - x, 343 p., [6] p. of plates: ill., maps; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index.
1 Introducing the Foreign Princes
2 The Lorraine-Guise Dynastic Identity: History, Image, Property
and Display
3 At Court: Lorraines and Royal Favour
4 The Corporate Merger: Marriage Alliances, Contracts and
Widowhood
5 Lorraines in the Courts: Successions and the French Judiciary
6 Being Everywhere ... in the South: Provincial Interests in
the Vivarais
7 Lorraines on the Borders and in the Service of Foreign Monarchs
9780754658603 (alk. paper) 0754658600 (alk. paper)
Nobility--France
France--Court and courtiers--History
France--History
France--History
944.033 / SPA/S