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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So great to be back in Lund University! Lets plan for future collaboration adventures!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today we start three days of royal history presentations in Prague

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What a wonder to see Matthias Braun's sculptures near Kuks in Bohemia. Carved straight out of the rock. This is St Onophrius

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Today the conference of @courtstudies.bsky.social visited the fantastic Ksiąz castle, once hometown Piast dukes and later princes von Plesse.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A lovely reconstructed medieval castle in Poznań

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today #dukesandprinces visits the Palace of Mitau (today Jelgava, Latvia). The seat of the dukes of Courland, and temporary home of the French court in exile, 1798 to 1807.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Riga, even on a very very warm day, is lovely!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Arms of Duchy of Lorraine spotted today in Stirling Castle. They put a white label on to represent the Guise. I wrote to Lord Lyon to say it should be red. He said I was wrong and referred me to a heraldry manual from 300 years later.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Criccieth Castle today, one of the last seats of the Princes of Gwynedd. ##dukesandprinces

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Today's #dukesandprinces visit was to the palace of the princes of Eggenberg. An amazing tale of social rise from rich burgher to master of finance to imperial prince...to extinction. In only a few generations.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Across the street was a second Auersperg Palace, damaged in an 1895 quake replaced by the National Library in the 1930s.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While visiting Ljubljana, #dukesandprinces had to pay a visit to the old palace of the princes of Auersperg, now the city museum.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Today we are so pleased to host Dr Samuel Clowes Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social to present his exciting new book "I Will Not Abandon You: Queen Women in Nazi Germany" to our research group and to our students. @mngupbooks.bsky.social

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Well, I guess I know now what I'm doing this weekend... (I actually love doing my own ibdex--very cathartic).

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Yesterday, touring the Cotswolds...no, actually this picture surfaced from 21 years ago!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Great to see our new series on Courts and Courtiers plkugged so strongly on the #RenSA26 app by @brepols.net and tovsee our first three books out in the world.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In today's #dukesandprinces, #RenSA26 conference edition, we attend three fascinating papers about Neopolitan princes, including Caraffa, including this erudite princess, Livia Doria.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The Duke of Clarence isn't the only royal arrest to be remembered by historians: in Scotland, about the same time, James III arrested abd executed his brother the Earl of Mar. And don't forget the arrest and trial of Mary, Queen of Scots!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Excited to get in a long walk through the Presidio ahead of the start of #RenSA26 tomorrow. Come hear us on Saturday in discussion about noble genealogies.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Excited to see this book arrive today, just in time to discuss this topic of French genealogical histories further next week at #RSA2026! @rsaorg.bsky.social

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Next Tuesday! If you're in London, come along to hear about the medieval jewels of an English queen! It is free, but please sign up now so we know what numbers to expect. #CourtStudies #HIstoricRoyalPalaces

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Exciting book launch in Madrid earlier this week. In fact two! The first to appear in Brepols Court Cultures series, co-efited by me (for whom the empty chair)

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Ohvthe trauma of being a royal child at a public event! #Luxembourg 🇱🇺

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Excited to share the first volume in a new series by @brepols.net , organised by Fabian Persson and me. This book survived Covid and two pregnancies...!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Very excited to get this book in the mail today! I'm looking forward to reading it. Congrats to Zita! #queenship #france

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Today in St Andrews, conference on Louis XIV and the provinces. Here, Stanislas Zagun looks at the Duc de Gramont as provincial governor. #FrenchHistory

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wouldn't it be great to have a historical drama set in early 17th-century Spain with Bella Ramsey playing Queen Margarita? The resemblance is uncanny--she definitely has a Habsburg lower jaw.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So....naturally the main attraction for me at Seville Cathedral, the royal chapel with royal tombs, looks like this, no explanation, nothing. Thanks a lot.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Today we visit the Casa de Pilatos, residence of dukes of Medinaceli

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

And up close, the arms of Spain and Orléans (note that 'she' is on the 'he' side!)

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A second ducal palace on one afternoon: the Palacio de San Telmo, home of the Duke of Montpensier (son of Louis-Philippe) and his wife Infanta Luisa Fernanda (sister of Isabel II)

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm about to visit the palace of the Dukes of Alba in Seville. Most exciting!

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fabian Persson discusses how new monarchs dressed in 'traditional' forms to impress new subjects in the later 19th century, in Leiden @esshc.bsky.social @courtstudies.bsky.social

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Katherine Butler Schofield (Kings College London) will be giving an online talk for the The Society for Court Studies “Musical culture under Mughal patronage: the place of pleasure c. 1593–1707” Monday at 6 PM (UK time). Free, but sig up in advance: courtstudies.org/events/lectu...

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today I did battle with footnotes for the House of Orléans. I through the lunch hour and emerged victorious! Now I need wine. #Bourbons #Iamwriting

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The only remaining medieval bit of Birmingham seems to be sinking down into the sea behind the new Bullring shopping centre.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Baroque oddity of the day. Captions please.

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

It's accession day for King Frederick X of Denmark! The birth of the royal house of Laborde de Monpezat? Celebrate with wine from Cayx and ramble through ancient villages of Bearn. dukesandprinces.org/2024/01/14/a...

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

Here's a fun query for my Tudorista colleagues: when Prince Henry was created Duke of York in 1493 did it have specific lordships attached (like an apanage in France) or was it an honorific only? Is there a good source to consult on this?

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Anyone now why Berlin might have been called 'Veropolis' in the 18th century?

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Dr Jonathan Spangler @jspan.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Sometimes my research takes me in strange directions... here are Byzantines cutting off the nose of an imperial rival to make sure he's a threat no more!

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