Marguerite de la Rocque’s name survives.

This is itself remarkable for a woman of her era, her circumstances, and her social position.

Many women of the sixteenth century left no trace at all in the historical record — they lived and died without generating the documentation that would allow later historians to know they existed.

Marguerite generated documentation because her story was extraordinary enough that people felt compelled to record it.

The story they recorded was shaped by their own assumptions and interests, and the historical person is partially obscured by those shapings.