Formation of a Provincial Nobility

Dewald, Jonathan

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“…94 The family of Denis de Brevedent, a councillor in the Parlement of Rouen, grew wealthy through the protection of Diane de Poitiers. 95 Marguerite de Navarre launched the diplomatic career of Georges de Selve. She wrote to Franc,ois de Tournon, archbishop of Bourgues, in April 1530 to ask him to assist Selve in any way he could, and in a second letter a week later she recommended him to Anne de Montmorency, one of the most powerful men in France.…”

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The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen*

Kettering

1989

Hist. J.

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It has been suggested that the political and economic power of Renaissance noblewomen declined significantlyfrom what it had been during the heyday of feudalism, and that this decline was caused by the expansion of royalpower and the growth of national monarchies, the development of centralization and the bureaucratization of government – in other words the creation of formal, male-dominated institutions to which women could not belong. Joann McNamara and Suzanne Wemple have written, ‘However, with the growth of a more structured society, where church and state aimed at centralized control, women of the high and late middle ages (1100–1500) found their rights and role increasingly curtailed and their ambitions frustrated. Women who held the most influential positions were the first to suffer from these restrictions.’

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Section: L Lmentioning

confidence: 99%