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unusual facts about Henrietta Maria



James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle

Next year he went to Paris on the occasion of Prince Charles's journey to Madrid, and again in 1624 to join Henry Rich, afterwards Lord Holland, in negotiating the prince's marriage with Henrietta Maria, when he advised James without success to resist Richelieu's demands on the subject of religious toleration.

Louise Bourgeois Boursier

They were Louis XIII, future King of France (1601), Elizabeth, Queen of Spain (1602), Christine Marie, Duchess of Savoy (1607), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), and Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, Queen of Scots and Queen of Ireland (1609).

After the birth of Henrietta Maria, the last child, Bourgeois asked for a pension of 600 livres per year.

Maurice Ewens

Newport also wrote a manuscript treatise, De Scientiâ Dei, preserved in the library at Salamanca; and George Oliver conjectured that he was the author of A Golden Censer full with the pretious Incense to the Praisers of Saints, Paris, 1654, dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria.

Salmacida Spolia

The masque was unique in that both Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, performed in it; the Queen's mother, Marie de' Medici, was in the audience.

Sir Samuel Barnardiston, 1st Baronet

According to an anecdote of Paul de Rapin, Barnardiston's prominence in the crowd of apprentices with distinctive haircuts on this occasion gave rise to the political use of the word Roundhead, when Queen Henrietta Maria called out “See what a handsome young Roundhead is there!”

Treaty of Oxford

It boasted of large supplies of money from Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and from France; of cannon, and arms for horse and foot, part of them sent by the King Christian IV of Denmark, some of which were already shipped for Newcastle, and the rest on the point of being embarked with the English queen Henrietta Maria.

Useless Parliament

The parliament was summoned by the king on 2 April 1625 and convened at Westminster on 18 June 1625, first meeting only a month after Charles's marriage to Henrietta Maria, a daughter of King Henry IV of France.

William Batten

It was Vice-Admiral Batten's squadron which bombarded Scarborough when Henrietta Maria landed there.


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Daniel Dulany the Elder

After his death, in 1754, Dulany's third wife Henrietta Maria,appeared before Michael MacNamara, then Deputy Commissioner of Anne Arundel County, seeking to overturn the will of her late husband.

George Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway

Galway was the son of George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway, and his wife and first cousin Henrietta Maria, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.

Malú Gatica

Henrietta Maria de la Luz Boisier Gatica, known as Malú Gatica (January 15, 1922, Purén - August 10, 1997, Santiago) was a Chilean actress and singer.