Cy sensuit histoire de costace empere et royne de scecille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de costace empere et royne de scecille
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily
Description: This image depicts Constance, the daughter of King William of Sicily, marrying Henry, the emperor of Rome. Constance was forced to be a nun at a young age due to a prophecy which foretold Constance would somehow cause the destruction of Sicily. Her father, William, put her in a convent to prevent the prophecy from happening. At an older age, Constance was married to Emperor Henry and bore a son at the age of fifty-five (despite being fifty-five, Constance is depicted young in this image). There are three men on the left side of the image witnessing the marriage between Constance and Henry.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25597
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_25597_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Constance; Important Women; Famous Women; Prophecies