Wednesday 24 August 2022

1501) Françoise de Luxembourg-Ligny

Françoise de Luxembourg-Ligny (c. 1520 - 1566). Daughter of Charles I, Count of Ligny, and Charlotte of Estouteville. In 1535 she married Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, who was 61. They had a son, Philibert, but in 1536 Bernhard died. Their second son, Christopher, was born in 1537.

In 1543 Françoise remarried to count Adolf IV of Nassau-Idstein.
 
The painting below is a detail from Venus with a Tiara, by Hans Besser or workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger.
 

 

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