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- Catherine de Valois was the daughter of a king, the wife and then widow of a king and, finally, the mother of, arguably, the greatest dynasty in English history.
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Elisabeth of France, or Elisabeth of Valois (Spanish: Isabel de Valois; French: Élisabeth de Valois) (2 April 1546 – 3 October 1568), was Queen of Spain as the third wife of Philip II of Spain. She was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici .
Nov 2, 2019 · Published November 2, 2019. Updated September 15, 2022. After a miserable childhood, Catherine of Valois married King Henry V of England and secured her place in history — but she lived in controversy after his untimely death. National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons A portrait miniature of a medieval woman, most likely Catherine of Valois ...
Feb 19, 2024 · He is there to this day, the prestigious new mortuary planned by his son Charles II never having materialised. The body of Catherine de Valois (1401 – 1437), wife of England’s famous warrior king Henry V , was subject to one of the strangest and most perplexing afterlives of all royals.
Jul 23, 2016 · Mother of a Dynasty: Catherine de Valois. Catherine de Valois was the daughter of a king, the wife and then widow of a king and, finally, the mother of, arguably, the greatest dynasty in English history. Her father, Charles VI of France, despite the fact that he was insane for much of the last thirty years of his life, managed to sire twelve ...
Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol (a royal palace in Paris) on 27 October 1401. Early on, there had been a discussion of marrying her to the Prince of Wales , the son of Henry IV of England , but the king died before negotiations could ...
At a time of religious conflict throughout Europe, Philip II of Spain married a sweetheart of the French court, Elizabeth of Valois, after the death of his second wife Mary I of England. The Catholic monarchs of France and Spain had just made peace at Câteau-Cambrésis in 1559, both because they were bankrupt and in order to unite their forces ...
Sent to a convent at Poissy when young; first chosen as a wife for Henry V (1413), but no dowry could be agreed upon; finally engaged to Henry V after the Treaty of Troyes (May 21, 1420); crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London (February 24, 1421); publicly supported her son, the child monarch, until 1428; spent the rest of her ...
