marriage-treaty

Updated: June 22, 2025

What was yet more fatal to Suffolk was the renewal of the war. In the face of the agitation against it the English ministers had never dared to execute the provisions of the marriage-treaty; and in 1448 Charles the Seventh sent an army to enforce the cession of Le Mans. Its surrender averted the struggle for a moment.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540

The Churchmen were as bitterly opposed to such a marriage as the partizans of France; and their head, Cardinal Beaton, who had held aloof from the Regent's Parliament, suddenly seized the Queen-mother and her babe, crowned the infant Mary, called a Parliament in December which annulled the marriage-treaty, and set Henry at defiance.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume IV

Bitter reproaches on his intrigues with the French king marked even more vividly the close of Warwick's power. He withdrew from court to his castle of Middleham, while the conclusion of a marriage-treaty between Charles and Margaret proved the triumph of his rivals.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540

A truce was concluded as a prelude to a future peace, and the marriage-treaty paved the way for it by ceding not only Anjou, of which England possessed nothing, but Maine, the bulwark of Normandy, to Duke René.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540

"No," said the king with shrewd sense; "in such a case England would annex Scotland, for the greater always draws to it the less." His steady pressure at last won the day. In 1502 the marriage-treaty with the Scot-king was formally concluded; and quiet, as Henry trusted, secured in the north. The marriage of Margaret was to bring the House of Stuart at an after time to the English throne.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540

Friedrich Wilhelm, on conclusion of the Marriage-Treaty, had been appointed to join his Father-in-law, Britannic George, at the Gohrde, in some three weeks' time, and have a bout of hunting.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05

But the invasion of Italy by Charles the Eighth drew French ambition to a distant strife, and once delivered from the pressure of immediate danger Henry held warily back from a close connexion with the Spanish realms which might have involved him in continental wars. It was not till 1501 that the marriage-treaty was really carried out.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume III : The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540