Hello, friend, welcome back to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network and the original Tudor History Podcast, telling stories of Tudor England since 2009.

I am your host, Heather. Today we are going to talk about Chiquetta of Luxembourg.

So if you watch or read any of the Philippa Gregory books about the white queen, the red queen,

all the various different colors of queens, you ran into Jeketa.

And that is how I first learned about her when I read and watched the Stars series. Gosh, how long ago was that? Like a long, long time ago. And, you know, I've said this before. A lot of people have kind of mixed thoughts about Philippa Gregory. And the one thing, I'm not a fan of the way she treats Lady Margaret Beaufort. So there's that right off the bat. But I do love that

she's gotten so many people interested in Tudor history and, you know, wanting to dig deeper and

wanting to learn more. And so that is definitely a positive. I'm not a fan when people get into

arguments about historical things and they say, well, in the Philipa Gregory book, I read blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because, you know, that kind of makes you cringe a little bit.

But that's not her fault that people do that, so I can't blame her for that.

Anyway, Jagatta is one of those women that was so prominent and played such a huge role

and is fortunately getting a lot more attention thanks to Philippa Gregory and some other research

that's been done too. It's not just her. But so we're going to do an episode on her today

and talk about her. And of course she she is kind of outside of the Tudor period.

But her granddaughter was the Queen of England and her great-grandson was Henry VIII.

So she obviously has a role to play there.

So one quick note, I am opening up the call for speakers for

TudorCon. If you have a talk or a presentation, an idea for something you'd like to present at

TuterCon 2025, please let me know. Please fill out the form. We have a form. So things are very

official. We have a form and a committee that looks over all of the applications and decides who to invite and everything like that. But please, please, please fill out the form and any idea you have. We are open to all kinds of crazy ideas. So I will link to the form in the show notes for this episode

down below. So you have that, but certainly you are welcome. October 3rd through 5th at

H. Croft Hall in Richmond, Virginia is where TudorCon 2025 is happening. October 3rd through 5th.

The link is in the show notes, and we would love to see

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