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Feb 19, 2024 · 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. Daughter of Charles VI of France, Catherine was expected to play her part in a strategic alliance through marriage, as were all royal daughters.
Apr 26, 2022 · Catherine of Valois. Catherine of Valois (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437 [1]%29 was the Queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422. She was the daughter of Charles VI of France, wife of Henry V of England, [2] mother of Henry VI of England, and through her secret marriage [citation needed] with Owen Tudor, the grandmother of Henry VII of ...
Catherine of Valois was the daughter of King Charles VI of France and Isabelle of Bavaria, the daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt. Catherine was born at the royal palace of the Hôtel Saint-Pol in Paris on 27 October 1401, one of eight children born of the marriage. An older sister, Isabella of Valois, had previously been ...
Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria. She was born in Paris in the Hotel St Pol on 27th October 1401. Her childhood was beset with struggles as her family managed the divisions between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in France. Rumours circulated that Catherine was rejected by her ...
Jun 24, 2022 · Catherine of Valois was born on October 27, 1401, in Paris, France, to King Charles VI and Queen Isabella. At the time of her birth, the royal Valois family was split between two factions that vied for power: the Armagnacs and the Burgundians. The power struggle had begun a decade prior as the king began to show signs of madness.
Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis]; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian [a] ( Florentine) noblewoman born into the Medici family. She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II and the ...
Catherine of Valois. Catherine of Valois was the queen consort of England from 1420 until 1422, as the wife of King Henry V of England. She was the daughter of the beloved but mentally unstable King Charles VI of France and a princess of France until her marriage to the king of England in 1420. She was also the proud mother of King Henry VI of ...
