Hey friend, welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network

and the original Tudor History podcast. My name is Heather. I am your host, and I've been

podcasting on Tudor England since 2009, going on 16 years. My goodness. Today we are going

to talk about Louise of Savoy, an overlooked matriarch of Renaissance France. I've been getting into more like

Renaissance European women of late, if you can't tell by the direction of this podcast. I've been

reading or just got and have been referencing Amy licenses the 16th century in 100 women.

There's also Sylvia Barbara Soberton's The Golden Age Ladies.

So those are really interesting.

And, you know, I've been kind of going through them and every day reading a different one.

And it's made me want to do more episodes about them.

So that's where this is coming from. I'm kind of on a kick of expanding the net a little bit.

And also, just before we get started, I want to, of course, thank all the supporters, the YouTube members, the Patreon supporters of this podcast.

Welcome to Joan of Arc apparently started supporting me on Patreon, which is super cool.

Joan Dark is the name. So welcome Joan and all of the YouTube members. I'm so grateful to have you.

You keep this podcast going. I do have a new Patreon that is launching this week.

I first set up my Patreon in 2014, and the only

option they had at the time was to do per creation. So I would charge per podcast episode.

And then I know that things changed over the time and like kind of the business models changed.

And everything went to like per month sort of stuff. And I just never changed over the time and like kind of the business models changed and everything went to like per month sort of stuff and i just never changed over because

inertia and b i thought it would be confusing for the people who are already supporters and then i got a note from

patreon a couple months ago saying that they were forcing everybody to go to monthly tiers to comply

with like a new rule on Apple. So I am changing. I have fought it because hashtag inertia,

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