thecreativehistorian:My “Almost Queens” blog series takes a look at some of the gir

thecreativehistorian:

My “Almost Queens” blog series takes a look at some of the girls and women who nearly became Queen (generally consort), had fate not intervened.

Margaret of Burgundy was almost a Queen of France. But the discovery of her affair with a knight from her father-in-law’s court saw her imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, and possibly murdered on the orders of her cuckolded husband.

Find out more at The Creative Historian.

Reblogging as she died on this day (30th April) in 1315!