@the.past.reborn: I was born into one of Europe’s greatest dynasties, but from childhood my value was measured in marriages. My mother died when I was three. Almost immediately I was sent to France, where I was raised to become its future Queen. I spent eight years being moulded for that role, only for the King to cast me aside when another bride offered him a more valuable alliance. Even then, I was kept in France for another two years before finally being allowed home. I barely had time to settle before I was sent away again, this time to Spain. On the journey our ship was caught in a violent storm, but I survived and married the Spanish heir. To my surprise, we were genuinely happy. Six months later he was dead from illness, leaving me pregnant. Then our child was stillborn too. Eventually I returned home, only to be sent away once more to marry the Duke of Savoy. This marriage brought me happiness as well, but after just three years my husband died. I put on mourning clothes and wore them for the rest of my life. Then everything changed. My brother died, leaving his six-year-old son to inherit the Low Countries. For the first time, my family did not need me as a bride. They needed me to rule. For years I governed in my nephew’s name, bringing stability and prosperity to his lands. Even when he came of age, I remained one of his closest advisers and second only to him in authority. Near the end of my life, as war raged across Europe, I sat down with the French King’s mother. The men around us had failed to make peace. We succeeded. The agreement became known as the Ladies’ Peace. I had spent my childhood being traded across Europe to create alliances. I spent my adulthood making them myself. Who am I? #historytok #History #whoami #WomenInHistory #frenchhistory #europeanhistory

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