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On 5 June 1523, a very noble and royal girl was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris in France. She received the name: Margaret of France. Sometimes she was called: Marguerite de Valois. Family Margaret of France was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany. She was thus a sister of inter alia: King Henry II of France (who had married Catherine de' Medici); Madeleine, Queen of Scots; Charles, Duke of Orléans; Margaret, Duchess of Savoy. Margaret was very close to her paternal aunt, Marguerite de Navarre, who took care of her, her sister Madeleine and her sister-in-law: Catherine de' Medici. Love and Marriage At the end of 1538, her father and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor agreed that Margaret should marry Charles 's son, the future King Philip II of Spain. However this arrangement and wedding never took place. On 29 April 1530, at the age of 26, she was created: Duchess of Berry. Before he

Hugo van der Goes, who lived between 1430/1440 and 1482 in the Low Countries, was one of the most significant and original Flemish painters of the late 15th. century. Life Hugo van der Goes was born in or around Ghent, but nothing is known about his life before 1467. In 1467 he became a master in the painter's guild of Ghent. His sponsors were Joos van Wassenhove, master painter in Ghent, and Daneel Ruthaert. In 1468 Hugo van der Goes was asked by the city of Ghent to execute some works in connection with the grant of the Great Indulgence of the city. On 18 October 1468, he and other members of the Ghent's painters guild hosted painters from Tournai to celebrate St. Luke's day together and St. Luke was the patron saint of the painters. At the Burgundian Court In 1468 Hugo van der Goes was also in Bruges, there he made the decorations for the wedding of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret of York, sister of the King of England. Fr