Margaret of Angoulême : Queen, Writer & Diplomat (Replay)
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
*This is a replay episode from July 2025 that was very popular with listeners/viewers, because Marguerite is a fascinating woman with an amazing portrait that we all recognize as her - immediately.
In this episode, we explore the remarkable life of Marguerite d’Angoulême—Renaissance writer, queen, and sister to King François I of France. Discover how Marguerite’s bold literary works, like the Heptameron, challenged gender norms, and how her passion for religious reform placed her at the heart of early evangelical movements. We’ll trace her journey from the French court to the throne of Navarre, revealing a woman who shaped politics, faith, and the role of women in 16th-century Europe.
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Credits:
Host: Rebecca Larson
Guest: Dr. Emily Lalande
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tudors Dynasty and Beyond podcast, history with a twist. |
| 0:07.2 | And now your host, Rebecca Larson. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome back to Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and I'm so excited today to welcome to the show for the very first time, Dr. Emily Lalonde. Welcome. |
| 0:23.1 | Hi, thank you. Thank you so much for having me on. So I recently saw a post that was shared on |
| 0:30.2 | Instagram by Dr. Estelle-Pronk about your PhD thesis and the topics. And I got so excited because you wrote your thesis on two |
| 0:42.8 | pretty amazing women. And maybe before we go into today's topic, you can tell everybody what |
| 0:47.8 | your thesis was about. Yeah. So my thesis was about the political careers of Marguerite |
| 0:54.0 | Angoulam and Marguerite de Valois, |
| 0:56.0 | who were both Queen's consort of Navarre and I would say just as importantly, |
| 1:01.7 | French princesses, so sisters to French kings. |
| 1:04.6 | And so it was really looking at their political careers through the scope of how they wrote. |
| 1:09.8 | So their life writing, how they wrote |
| 1:12.2 | two people, how they wrote about themselves, how they wrote in fiction, how they wrote in memoirs. |
| 1:18.9 | This is so exciting because on this show, we love talking about women in history. And I feel like |
| 1:24.7 | so often I neglect the French women because it's just an area that I'm not as comfortable with. |
| 1:30.4 | So when I saw that you had done some research on Margaret, I see, I'm trying here. |
| 1:36.8 | When you had done some research on Margaret of Angoulin, I was like, oh, this is a lady that I want to know more about. |
| 1:44.2 | When I think of her, I see that beautiful portrait, I think with the red background and the |
| 1:48.8 | parents. |
| 1:50.1 | And I just, I want to dive into her with you today. |
| 1:54.5 | And I want to kind of just, let's start from the beginning because there might be a lot of |
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