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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.
- 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...
Catherine of Valois (born October 27, 1401, Paris, France—died January 3, 1437, Bermondsey Abbey, London, England) was a French princess, the wife of King Henry V of England, mother of King Henry VI, and grandmother of the first Tudor monarch of England, Henry VII.
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Jul 9, 2020 · Catherine of Valois was a French princess who lived during the 15 th century. Catherine is an important female figure in medieval English history, being the wife of one English king, and the mother of another. On top of that, she was the grandmother of a third king (though through another husband), who was also the founder of a new dynasty.
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Jan 21, 2020 · Catherine of Valois, daughter of King Charles VI of France and his consort, Isabella of Bavaria, was born in Paris. Her earliest years saw conflict and poverty within the royal family. Her father's mental illness and her mother's rumored rejection of her may have created an unhappy childhood.
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Jun 2, 2020 · Catherine of Valois changed royal history forever but even now, centuries on, the prevailing image of her is the one created by Shakespeare for whom this French princess was a pretty pawn in a...
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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.
