Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici
Not Just the Tudors
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4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de' Medici - the two most powerful Queens of their time - is one of the most intriguing and captivating stories of the 16th century.
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dr. Estelle Paranque about her new book Blood, Fire and Gold, which explores how these two formidable women wielded and negotiated power, and were united only in their dislike of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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| 0:00.0 | Queen Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici were two of the most powerful women in 16th century |
| 0:14.5 | Europe. Although Elizabeth was a queen regnant and Catherine a queen consult and later a |
| 0:20.4 | queen regent in all but name, they had much in common. Among other things they were both |
| 0:26.1 | related to and had an ambivalent relationship with Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots and the relationship |
| 0:31.7 | between the Elizabeth and Catherine themselves is deeply revealing about both the English and |
| 0:37.2 | French courts of the time. Seeing the last Tudor Queen through French eyes for example |
| 0:43.0 | teaches us much about Elizabeth and England's place in the world. Joining me to discuss these two |
| 0:48.8 | queens is Dr Estelle Peranc. Estelle is a lecturer in early modern history at New College of the Humanities |
| 0:56.0 | at Northeastern and the author of the monograph Elizabeth I through Valois eyes. Her next book coming out |
| 1:03.5 | in 2022 with Ibrei is Blood, Fire and Gold, the story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici |
| 1:10.0 | so who better to speak to about these two formidable women? |
| 1:20.1 | Estelle I imagine listeners are familiar with Elizabeth I but could you |
| 1:25.6 | introduce Catherine de Medici for us please? Yes of course she was a French queen but she was also |
| 1:32.8 | from Italy she was half Italian half French from her mother she was French and from her father she |
| 1:37.8 | was Italian and she's obviously from the famous family the Medici and she was from Florence and |
| 1:45.2 | she was not meant to be queen I think that's why it's so extraordinary about her and she married Henry |
| 1:51.7 | the Second World War he was Henry Duke of Orlil in 1533 a great year with the birth of Elizabeth and |
| 1:57.9 | the marriage Catherine de Medici and then she became D'Orthene of Hans and then she became |
| 2:04.0 | Queen Concert of France and then even after that her husband died and she became a sort of |
| 2:09.8 | Queen Regent and then she became the Queen Mother of France so she's a very important 16th century |
| 2:16.6 | French figure she has an extreme dark legend around her brain and her life is full of dramas |
| 2:23.6 | candle but also you learn so much from her and what were her dates when was she born and when does |
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