Margaret of Burgundy
(French: Marguerite de Bourgogne) (1290 – 14 August 1315) was the first queen consort of King Louis X of
France (also King Louis I of Navarre).
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Many women
have been more merciless and heartless than any man could have been, who could
have been more merciless and heartless than Queen Margaret of Burgundy, wife of
King Louis X. of France? According to the chronicler Brantome, she used to lure
the handsomest young officers in the army to her retreat, the Tour de Nesle,
and then, “having obtained what she wished of them, caused them to be tied in a
sack and thrown into the Seine.”
[Excerpt from: “A Real Female Bluebeard - Strange Tragedy of
the Jealous Beauty and Her Thirty-five Unlucky Sweethearts,” American
Weekly (San Antonio Light Sunday magazine section), Aug. 22, 1925, p. 5;
referencing: Pierre de Bourdeille,
seigneur (and abbé) de Brantôme (c. 1540 – 15 July 1614) “L'Histoire de la Tour de Nesle.”]
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