. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). i66. Margaret of Valois (Margareta Valesia) THE old house of Valois was rich in Mar-guerites. In the sixteenth century alonethere were three of that name. All werenearly related to one another ; all figuredin the political and literary movements ofthe age. The third Marguerite, the Reine Margotof history and romance, was the most daughter of Henry 11. by Catherine de Medici,she was married to Henry of
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). i66. Margaret of Valois (Margareta Valesia) THE old house of Valois was rich in Mar-guerites. In the sixteenth century alonethere were three of that name. All werenearly related to one another ; all figuredin the political and literary movements ofthe age. The third Marguerite, the Reine Margotof history and romance, was the most daughter of Henry 11. by Catherine de Medici,she was married to Henry of Navarre oh the eve ofblack St. Bartholomews Day ; but, on the occasionof her husband becoming Henry IV. of France, themarriage was dissolved by the Pope, not so muchbecause it was scandalous as because it hadbeen sterile. From her youth Margaret III. wasfamous for beauty, for learning, and for laxity ofmorals ; and in the later years of life she displayedthe strange Valois blending of licentiousness with 167 Bezas Portraits of Reformers religious devotion and the cultivation of art andletters. Her Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois^Queen of Navarre, fVriUen by Her Own Hand, arerank
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