#I love that Isabeau had her signature colour
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wonder-worker · 3 months ago
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"Over the course of her reign, [Isabeau of Bavaria] started a new fashion for a green lying-in room, a color she particularly liked and which symbolized youth, hope and renewal. Green, which was first reserved for the queen, subsequently became more widely used throughout other aristocratic courts, particularly Burgundy. According to Éléonore de Poitiers, this color was specific to them. Countesses and other great ladies, she wrote, ‘should not have a green room like the queen and the princesses have’."
-Murielle Gaude-Ferragu, Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500
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