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Jul 26, 2022 · Casts of two statues (Jeanne de Boulogne and Isabeau of Bavaria) from the fireplace in the Salle des Pas-Perdus of the Poitiers courthouse. Preserved at the Musée de sculpture comparée au palais du Trocadéro, Musée des monuments français. Veils. When they go out and about, most of the women wear veils and circlets over their (styled) hair:
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 ...
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Jan 12, 2014 · This essay takes issue with a still common tendency to read contemporary criticisms of powerful women as straightforward evidence of their “unpopularity,” using as a cast study Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), who was generally imagined to have suffered the scorn of her contemporaries. In part one of the essay we argue that the two sources ...
Isabeau of Bavaria was one of France's most despised queens. She was a German princess. born in 1371, the daughter of Stephen III of Bavaria and Thaddaea Visconti . In 1385, Isabeau married the French king Charles VI as part of a political alliance between Bavaria and France. Isabeau succeeded in the primary duty of a queen, to provide heirs to ...
This money was probably the one-off payment of 57,000 francs that Isabeau gave her brother Louis on 22 July 1405 in return for the revenues of five Bavarian provinces (cf. BN f. fr. 6537, fo. 159), but there were suspicions that this was actually the proceeds of the 1405 tax, being concealed in Bavaria.
- Rachel Gibbons
- 1996
Abstract: This thesis revisits the origins of Isabeau of Bavaria’s notorious reputation – her ‘Black Legend’. Among medievalists, the commonly held opinion regarding Isabeau, Queen Consort of France (1385-1422), is that she was the scorn of contemporary writers. She is charged with a lengthy inventory of sins including profligacy ...
Isabeau of Bavaria, Anne of France, and the History of Female Regency in France; The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria; The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422; Materiality in the Queenship of Isabeau of Bavaria
