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Charles IV was the king of France and of Navarre (as Charles I) from 1322, the last of the direct line of the Capetian dynasty. His inglorious reign was marked by his invasion of Aquitaine and by political intrigues with his sister Isabella, wife of King Edward II of England.
Apr 5, 2023 · But, as Emily Lalande explores, the succession crisis that changed the face of medieval France had its roots in a royal scandal, at the centre of which were three women accused of adultery. Emily Lalande. Published: April 5, 2023 at 2:18 PM. When King Charles IV of France died in 1328 with no surviving children to his name, the Capetian dynasty ...
- Princess Catherine of Valois: An Unlucky Childhood
- Marriage Negotiations and The Battle of Agincourt
- Catherine The Consort: from French Princess to Queen of England
- An Unexpected Legacy: The Grandmother of The Tudor Dynasty
Catherine of Valois was born in Paris on Oct. 27, 1401 and grew up as the lonely and neglected youngest daughter of King Charles VI of Franceand Isabeau of Bavaria. Her father, known as “Charles the Mad,” experienced tragic bouts of mental illness, during which he killed four of his own knights and thought he was made of glass. Catherine’s mother, ...
Charles VI’s illness forced him to withdraw from public life when Catherine of Valois was only three years old. Isabeau tried to wrest control of the government from her cousin-in-law, but a power vacuum ignited the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War in 1407 and made room for England’s conquest. It is possible that Catherine and her sisters, Marie and M...
In reality, it took five more years of military campaigns for Henry to defeat the French, conquer Normandy, disinherit the Dauphin and be named as the heir to the French throne – and marry Catherine of Valois. On June 2, 1420, the 33-year-old King of England and the 18-year-old princess finally married in the French village of Troyes. We know very ...
As Dowager Queen and mother to the king, Catherine was said to have participated in state processions, with the infant king seated on her lap, but she played no formal role in government. She was not named regent; Humphrey ruled in her son’s stead as Lord Protector. First, she lived again at Windsor Castle, and later moved to Baynard’s Castle in Lo...
After the signature of the peace of Saint-Germain, Catherine de' Medici, the powerful mother of King Charles IX, was convinced by François of Montmorency to marry her daughter Margaret with Henry. The match was in fact assumed almost thirteen years earlier by the late King Henry II. [4]
Jun 5, 2021 · Charles’s first marriage was arranged by his father, King John (the Blind) of Bohemia in 1323. The details were discussed and a deal was struck during a meeting with Philip IV of France at Toulouse. Charles was to marry Philip’s niece, Margaret called Blanche, the daughter of Count Charles of Valois and his third wife Mahaut de Chatillon.
In May 1314, by order of King Philip IV., she was arrested and imprisoned in the Chateau-Gaillard with her sisterin-law Marguerite, daughter of Robert II., duke of Burgundy, and wife of Louis Hutin, on the charge of adultery with two gentlemen of the royal household, Philippe and Gautier d'Aunai.
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Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans. Blanche of France (1 April 1328 – 8 February 1393) was the posthumous daughter of King Charles IV of France and his third wife, Joan of Évreux (the daughter of Louis, Count of Évreux and Margaret of Artois ). She was the last direct Capetian and the last-surviving member of her family, and her ...
