Isabella of Valois
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| Tenure | 1 November 1396 – 30 September 1399 |
| Coronation | 8 January 1397 |
| Spouse | Richard II of England Charles, Duke of Orléans |
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| Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon | |
| House | House of Valois |
| Father | Charles VI of France |
| Mother | Isabella of Bavaria |
| Born | 9 November 1389 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 September 1409 (aged 19) Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France |
Isabella of France (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was a Princess of France, daughter of King Charles VI and Isabella of Bavaria-Ingolstadt.[1] She was queen consort of Richard II, King of England, from 1396 to 1399.[2]
Isabella's younger sister, Catherine of Valois, was Queen consort of England from 1420–1422, as the wife of King Henry V of England, mother of Henry VI, King of England and grandmother of King Henry VII of England.
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Isabella lived during a period of political tension between France and England known as the Hundred Years War, the situation exacerbated by the mental instability of her father. On 31 October 1396, at the age of six, Isabella married the widower King Richard II of England in a move for peace with France. Although the union was political, Richard II and the child Isabella developed a mutual respectful relationship. The Queen was moved to Porchester Castle for protection while Richard went on a military campaign in Ireland. When Richard II was imprisoned and murdered on his return to England, Queen Isabella was ordered by the new King Henry IV to move out of Windsor Castle and to settle in the Bishop of Salisbury's Thameside palace at Sonning.
King Henry IV then decided Queen Isabella should marry his son, the future Henry V of England, but she put her foot down and refused to have anything to do with the prince. Knowing her husband was dead, she went into mourning, ignoring Henry IV's demands. Eventually he let her go back to France.
On 29 June 1406, Queen Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans.[3] She died in childbirth at the age of 19, leaving one daughter, Joan, who married John II of Alençon in 1424. Isabella was interred in Blois, in the abbey of St.Laumer, where her body was found entire in 1624, curiously wrapped in bands of linen plated over with quicksilver. It was then transferred to the church of the Celestines in Paris.
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- ^ Strickland, Agnes, Lives of the queens of England: from the Norman conquest, Vol.2, (George Bell and Sons, 1885), 2.
- ^ A Historical Dictionary of British Women, (Routledge, 2003), 240.
- ^ A Historical Dictionary of British Women, 240.
- ^ Boutell, Charles (1863), A Manual of Heraldry, Historical and Popular, London: Winsor & Newton, pp. 148
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Anne of Bohemia |
Queen consort of England Lady of Ireland 31 October 1396 – 30 September 1399 |
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- English royal consorts
- Irish royal consorts
- 1389 births
- 1409 deaths
- French princesses
- People of the Hundred Years' War
- House of Valois
- Ladies of the Garter
- Women of medieval England
- People from Sonning
- Deaths in childbirth
- Women in Medieval warfare
- Duchesses of Orléans
- 14th-century French people
- 15th-century French people
- 14th-century English people
- 15th-century English people
- 14th-century women
- 15th-century women
- Richard II of England
