Authentication of royal acts by the weapon seal of Queen Catherine de Foix
Disciplines
Blog Post
French
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During this last year (March 2017 — April 2018) we consulted and described more than a thousand acts issued by King Jean d’ALBRET and his wife Queen Catherine de Foix. As regards their authentication, as demonstrated by Faustino Menéndez Pidal Navascués, Mikel Ramos Aguirre or Esperanza Ochoa de Olza Eguiraun in his voluminous work entitled sellos medievales de Navarra [1], the sovereigns Jean d’ALBRET and Catherine de Foix used several seals...