Is there a resource that tells typical traveling routes at various times in history?
Specifically, I need to find out how Marguerite of Navarre would have traveled from Paris to Navarre (presumably Pamplona) in the 16th century. Would she have gone over land or by sea? (Or would she have gone from Madrid to Navarre? And how?)
Also, Wikipedia tells me that, "Marguerite's most remarkable adventure involved freeing her brother, King François, captured in the Battle of Pavia, Italy, 1525, and held prisoner in Spain by Charles V...Queen Marguerite rode horseback twelve hours a day, for many days, through wintry woods, to meet a safe-conduct deadline, writing letters at night." Any idea WHERE this would have been?
ETA: In 1525 she traveled from Saint-Just, near Lyon, down the Rhone to the French Mediterranean coast, and from there set sail for Palamos and then on horseback to Madrid. So there's one journey. I'll keep reading...
http://books.google.com/books?id=de...X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA115,M1
ETA2 (this is good): In the fall of 1526 (November or December) she traveled from Paris to the suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where her betrothal ceremony was held. Then she traveled south to Tarbes where she stayed for a festival, and east to Prouille, where she hung out for a while before heading back to Saint-Germain-en-Laye for the wedding in January 1527. I'm assuming that this was all over land (horseback? Carriages?) but would love it if some of it was by sea.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dp...arre+1526&ei=0EPESYj5GqGSzgSdkqnvAw#PPA377,M1
Specifically, I need to find out how Marguerite of Navarre would have traveled from Paris to Navarre (presumably Pamplona) in the 16th century. Would she have gone over land or by sea? (Or would she have gone from Madrid to Navarre? And how?)
Also, Wikipedia tells me that, "Marguerite's most remarkable adventure involved freeing her brother, King François, captured in the Battle of Pavia, Italy, 1525, and held prisoner in Spain by Charles V...Queen Marguerite rode horseback twelve hours a day, for many days, through wintry woods, to meet a safe-conduct deadline, writing letters at night." Any idea WHERE this would have been?
ETA: In 1525 she traveled from Saint-Just, near Lyon, down the Rhone to the French Mediterranean coast, and from there set sail for Palamos and then on horseback to Madrid. So there's one journey. I'll keep reading...
http://books.google.com/books?id=de...X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA115,M1
ETA2 (this is good): In the fall of 1526 (November or December) she traveled from Paris to the suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where her betrothal ceremony was held. Then she traveled south to Tarbes where she stayed for a festival, and east to Prouille, where she hung out for a while before heading back to Saint-Germain-en-Laye for the wedding in January 1527. I'm assuming that this was all over land (horseback? Carriages?) but would love it if some of it was by sea.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dp...arre+1526&ei=0EPESYj5GqGSzgSdkqnvAw#PPA377,M1
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