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Sixteen Corpses : The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen
No full textThis chapter analyses the Spanish Habsburg crypt at the Escorial and the dynamics that caused it to become increasingly inclusive. Two main dynamics are identif ied: family heads exercising increased authority in mandating burials in the Escorial, including for individuals who had indicated other wishes, like siblings and adult children. And peripheral relatives who previously would not have expected to be buried in the dynastic crypt (cousins, widowed sisters, illegitimate children) actively pushing for burial in the Escorial, by making testamentary stipulations handing control of their place of burial to the family head. Together these ‘pull’ and ‘push’ dynamics gave family heads much more authority in arranging for their relatives’ post-mortem destinies and shaping a Habsburg community of the dead
Building Dynasties, Shaping States : Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
No full textThe introduction discusses the concepts of dynasty and state formation and their interrelated nature. It stresses the need to def ine the concept of dynasty as a kinship group with an acute sense of historical continuity, claiming the right to rule a certain territory and manifesting this claim in political, social and cultural ways; and the related concept of dynasty formation as the acts, conscious or unconscious, whereby such a group achieved and upheld its position as a dynasty, and how that position developed and changed
William Louis : Stadholder And Strategist (1560-1620-2020)
No full textNederländsk titel: Hanno Brand en Joop W. Koopmans (reds.), Willem Lodewijk: stadhouder en strateeg (1560-1620-2020); Guido von Büren, Ralf-Peter Fuchs en Georg Mölich (reds.), Herrschaft, Hof und Humanismus. Wilhelm V. von Jülich-Kleve-Berg und seine Zeit</p
Ter promotie der devotie : materiële voorzieningen en offervaardigheid voor de Sint-Leonarduscultus in Zoutleeuw (1453-1505)
No full textDynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
Get PDFIn state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling houses have been overlooked in studies about state formation. What’s more, when discussing such dynasties, the vertical chronological perspective (grandfather-father-son) is all dominating, for instance in the focus on dynastic continuity, dynastic culture and representation, and the like. This collection of essays highlights the horizontal perspective (ruler, all children, siblings, cousins), in asking how the members of a princely family acted as a power network. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process. This volume brings together existing knowledge of the topic with the aim of exchanging insights and furthering knowledge
The Chièvres Legacy, the Croÿ Family, and Litigation in Paris. Dynastic Identities between the Low Countries and France (1519-1559)
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The Frustrations of Being the Spare: Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society, 1560s-1780s
Get PDFThis chapter examines the changing role of the younger brother of the king in the monarchy of France, from the Wars of Religion to the Revolution. It traces the evolution of the relationship between these princely siblings, from one of competition and a desire for independence to a tighter bond of loyalty and an understanding that the needs of the dynasty must always proceed individual desires. Like other major grandees in this period, they recognised that cooperation with the Crown as an embodiment of the state was usually more beneficial for their personal and dynastic success than competing with it. This was not always a smooth transition, and the first two princes examined here, François, duke of Alençon, and Gaston, duke of Orléans, spent much of their lives in rebellion against royal authority of their elder brothers. The second pair, Philippe, duke of Orléans, and Louis-Stanislas, count of Provence, learned to express independent authority in different, less threatening, ways, notably in the patronization of arts and architecture, the development of private properties, and the cultivation of clients and favourites separate from those of the monarch
Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries:Christoffersen Lyschander, Vitus Bering, Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen
No full textDynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe : A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and Three Houses of the Empire
No full textPrincely marriages are here seen as a key component in dynasty formation and dynasty securing. The marriages of the Danish royal house and three houses of the Empire are studied for the period c. 1530–1700. Most of them took place within what can be labelled a Scandinavian-German-Lutheran marriage sphere. It was a highly hierarchized sphere with little contact between top (royal and electoral houses) and bottom (comital houses). The will of a princely couple to let their of fspring continue to lead their lives at an appropriate status level, or a higher if possible, together with confessional considerations, seems to explain more of the marriage pattern than purely political considerations
Sacrale ruimtes in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden : perspectieven en dwarsverbanden
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