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  1. Marguerite, bâtarde de France. Marguerite de Valois, la demoiselle de Belleville, also known as Marguerite, bâtarde de France (1407 – January 1458), was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles the Mad and his beloved mistress Odette de Champdivers. Marguerite was legitimated in January 1428 by Charles VII of France, her half-brother.

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    • Jean III de Harpedenne
    • January 1458
    • Valois
  2. Marguerite de Valois, la demoiselle de Belleville, also known as Marguerite bâtarde de France (1407 January 1458) was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles the Mad and his beloved mistress Odette de Champdivers. She was their only child. Marguerite was legitimated in January 1428 by Charles VII of France, her half-brother.[1]

    • French Princess
    • Political Unrest in France
    • Queen and Diplomat
    • Rebel Queen and Her Return
    • Death and Legacy
    • Sources

    Margaret of Valois was the third daughter and seventh child of King Henry II of France and his Italian queen, Catherine de’ Medici. She was born at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where she spent her childhood alongside her sisters, the princesses Elisabeth and Claude. Her closest familial relationship was with her brother Henry (later ...

    Catherine de’ Medici’s preference was for a marriage between Margaret and Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot prince. His house, the Bourbons, was another branch of the French royal family, and the hope was that the marriage of Margaret and Henry would rebuild family ties as well as brokering a peace between French Catholics and Huguenots. In April 1572, ...

    Margaret’s marriage, at this point, was fast deteriorating. They were unable to conceive an heir, and Henry of Navarre took several mistresses, most notably Charlotte de Sauve, who sabotaged Margaret’s attempt to reform the alliance between Francis of Alençon and Henry. Henry and Francis both escaped imprisonment in 1575 and 1576, but Margaret was ...

    Margaret rallied the Catholic League and turned against her family and husband’s policies. She briefly was able to seize the city of Agen, but the citizens eventually turned on her, forcing her to flee with her brother’s troops in hot pursuit. She was imprisoned in 1586 and forced to watch her favorite lieutenant executed, but in 1587, her gaoler, ...

    In 1615, Margaret fell seriously ill, and died in Paris on March 27, 1615, the last survivor of the Valois dynasty. She had named Henry and Marie’s son, the future Louis XIII, as her heir, cementing the link between the old Valois dynasty and the new Bourbons. She was buried in the funerary chapel of the Valois in the Basilica of St. Denis, but her...

    Haldane, Charlotte. Queen of Hearts: Marguerite of Valois, 1553–1615. London: Constable, 1968.
    Goldstone, Nancy. The Rival Queens. Little Brown and Company, 2015.
    Sealy, Robert. The Myth of the Reine Margot: Toward the Elimination of a Legend. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1995.
  3. Marguerite de France Duchesse de Valois 1ere femme de Henry le Grand... Museum number 1879,0510.284 |

  4. Apr 15, 2024 · Marguerite, bâtarde de France (Q2949470) Marguerite, bâtarde de France. illegitimate daughter of one French king. Mademoiselle de Belleville. edit. Language. Label. Description. Also known as.

  5. On the side of Charles VI, dauphin de Viennois (Charles II, 1368-1380), roi de France (1380-1422), born December 3, 1368 - Paris (75 - Paris), deceased October 21, 1422 - Paris (75 - Paris) aged 53 years old.

  6. Apr 26, 2022 · Marguerite de Valois [1] [2] (May 14, 1553 – May 27, 1615), "Queen Margot" (La reine Margot) was Queen of France and Navarre. Early life. Born Marguerite de Valois at the Royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and nicknamed Margot by her brothers, she was the daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici.

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