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May 20, 2024 · Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England [1] and was the mother of King Henry VI. [a] Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and ...
Sep 1, 2022 · The treaty arranged the marriage of Henry to Charles’s daughter, Catherine de Valois. Furthermore, the Dauphin was dislodged as the heir to France and replaced with Henry. On the death of Charles VI, Henry would become King of France as well as King of England. This would be the realisation of the project begun by Edward III in 1337.
Mar 4, 2023 · Katherine of Valois is probably better known as the wife of Owen Tudor than as the queen of Henry V. She was queen of England for less than two years and thus had little time to exercise queenly roles, beyond producing an heir, the future Henry VI. Consequently accounts of Katherine, both medieval and later, have focused on her not as a queen ...
Jan 27, 2024 · King Henry V's wife, Catherine of Valois, was a French princess who became queen of England. After her husband's death, she remarried and lived a quiet life, away from the royal court.
CATHERINE OF VALOIS, Queen of Henry V of England, daughter of Charles VI of France by his wife Isabel of Bavaria, was born in Paris on the 27th of October 1401. The lunacy of her father and the depravity of her mother were serious drawbacks to Catherine, and her only education was obtained in a convent at Poissy.
Jun 24, 2022 · Illustration. by National Library of France. published on 24 June 2022. Download Full Size Image. Henry of Navarre (later King Henry IV of France, l. 1553-1610) and Margaret of Valois, miniature from manuscript NAL 00082, 1572. National Library of France.
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 ...
