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Important Quotes. “The bloodlust of war and the crusading spirit kindled by the Great Schism led to many atrocities. Not even nunneries were sacred.”. One of the recurring themes in The Last Duel is the prevalence of violence in the 14th century and in the region of Normandy in particular. More specifically, Jager highlights how sexual ...
By the time of The Last Duel, the succession laws of France explicitly did not allow women to inherit the crown; the title was only used for the son. When King Charles VI’s queen, Isabeau of Bavaria, gave birth to a son, that child was known as the dauphin until his early death from illness (141).
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Part 2, Chapter 7 Summary and Analysis: “The Judgment of God”. The duel was to be fought at Saint-Martin-des-Champes, a monastery in Paris with a special field for combat. Ironically, the monastery was named for a saint who, according to legend, was a Roman soldier (129). Next, Jager explains that the judicial duel had origins that could be ...
1 Isabeau of Bavaria: Her Life 1 2 Isabeau of Bavaria: Her Afterlife 38 3 Isabeau Mediatrix: De ning the Mediator Queen 73 4 Isabeau s Contemporary Reputation 113 5 Isabeau of Bavaria and the Cour amoureuse 149 6 Reinterpreting the Enlèvement du dauphin 166 7 Revisiting the Treaty of Troyes 193 8 Wife, Mother, Friend 222
Isabeau of Bavaria (or Isabelle; also Elisabeth of Bavaria-Ingolstadt; c. 1370 – September 1435) was Queen of France from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti of Milan. At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to France to marry the young King ...
ISABEAU OF BAVARIA, QUEEN OF FRANCE 53 heir to Rupert of Bavaria, the Elector Palatine, but neither marriage came to fruition. The marriage of Charles VI to Elisabeth of Bavaria, as told in detail by Froissart, was supported by the duke of Burgundy, and his influence was crucial in the choice of her in preference to a princess from Austria or ...
Yet, the movement for Isabeau of Bavaria's rehabilitation has not been as prominent as it might have been: Vallet de Viriville only wrote a few articles about her, Marcel Thibault never produced the promised second part of his biography and Yann Grandeau sadly died before his research papers could be developed into a complete work.
