On 3rd October 1609 [her future husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 32] and Isabella Brant [aged 18] were married.
On 11th April 1614 Helena Forment was born.
1622-25. [her future husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 44]. Portrait of Susanna Lunden née Forment (1599–1628) formerly known as 'Le Chapeau de Paille' i.e. 'The Straw Hat', the older sister of Rubens' future second wife Helena Fourment [aged 7]. The painting being the inspiration for Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun's painting 'Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat',
In 1630 Peter Paul Rubens [aged 52] and Helena Forment [aged 15] were married. The difference in their ages was 36 years.
Around 1630. Jan Boeckhorst [aged 26]. Portrait of Helena Forment [aged 15].
Around 1630. [her husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 52]. Portrait of Helena Forment [aged 15] in her Wedding Dress.
1635. [her husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 57]. Portrait of Helena Forment [aged 20].
1635. [her husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 57]. Portrait of Helena Forment [aged 20] with her son Frans.
1636-1638. [her husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 58]. 'Helena Forment [aged 21] in a Fur Wrap'.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 30th May 1640 [her husband] Peter Paul Rubens [aged 62] died.
On 15th July 1673 Helena Forment [aged 59] died.