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After watching the demise of two of her children in short succession, Isabeau passed the inheritance to her youngest son, the 14-year-old Charles. Unfortunately for Isabeau, Charles would deal her an utterly cold-hearted betrayal.
Jun 2, 2020 · King Charles suffered serious mental health problems Queen Isabeau was involved in the power struggles that resulted from her husband’s illness. Meanwhile, Catherine’s eldest sister,...
In 1392, Charles suffered the first attack of what was to become a lifelong and progressive mental illness, resulting in periodic withdrawal from government. The episodes occurred with increasing frequency, leaving a court both divided by political factions and steeped in social extravagances.
Feb 12, 2009 · Although Charles VI had been dead since 1422, the joint mausoleum was still not begun before 1432, although part of the royal library in the Louvre had been sold to pay Thury 400 livres of the 1,400 that had been promised to him for the work. Cf. Grandeau, Yann, ‘La mort et obsèques de Charles VI’, Bulletin phihlogique et historique du ...
- Rachel Gibbons
- 1996
Oct 9, 2016 · Female regency was not unknown in France during the later Middle Ages, but the position of Queen Isabeau of Bavaria in the early years of the fifteenth century was unprecedented. In the aftermath of the madness of her husband, Charles VI (1380–1420), Isabeau...
- Rachel C. Gibbons
- 2016
As regent, Isabeau signed the notorious Treaty of Troyes with the invading English which proved unpopular with the French people; it dispossessed her son Charles and agreed that Henry V of England would succeed Charles as king of France. It also provided for the marriage of Isabeau's daughter Catherine of Valois to King Henry.
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The fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of France, was respected and revered. After her death, she was reviled as an incompetent regent, depraved adulteress, and betrayer of the throne.
