In this thesis, it is shown that these two women writers reject the universalised notion of Woman and strive to create an alternative, not oppositional, view of the female sex.
Some argue that Margaret influenced the young Anne Boleyn during Anne’s time in France.This thesis examines the use of authority and example in the narrative representation of women in selected writings of Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre. “Le miroir” was translated by Princess Elizabeth (the future Elizabeth I) as a gift for her stepmother, Queen Catherine Parr. Her “salon”, a gathering of like-minded people, was known as “The New Parnassus” and was famous. Margaret was an influential woman, who, with the help of her mother, Louise of Savoy, helped her brother rule France. Her brother had to save her from being charged with heresy. Margaret wrote the controversial work, which was viewed by some as heresy, “Le miroir de l’âme pécheresse” in 1531. Margaret was acitively involved in freeing her brother, Francis I, after he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Pavia in 1525. Margaret’s grandson became Henry IV of France. The couple had two children: a daughter, Jeanne III of Navarre, and a son, Jean, who died in infancy. Margaret married her second husband, Henry II of Navarre, in 1526. She married him in 1509 and he died in 1525. 
Her first husband was Charles IV of Alençon, a man described as “a laggard and a dolt”.In 1502 her mother tried to arrange a marriage between Margaret and Prince Henry of England, the future Henry VIII – Boy, did she have a narrow escape!.Her father had several illegtimate children with his mistresses.Margaret’s parents were Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angoulême.Holbein’s The Ambassadors: A Renaissance Puzzle? – Part Two: Symbolsīut here are some facts about this famous Renaissance woman:.Holbein’s The Ambassadors: A Renaissance Puzzle? – Part One: Context.The Early Life of Anne Boleyn Part Four – The French Influence.
You can read more about her in the following articles:. On this day in history, 21st December 1549, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Marguerite de Navarre, Marguerite of Angoulême and Marguerite de France) died aged 57.
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