Isabeau of Bavaria was queen of France between 1385 and 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach. At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to the young King Charles VI of France. She became regent to the Dauphin of France and sat on the regency council. She lived in English-occupied Paris until her death in 1435.
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Isabeau of Bavaria was queen of France between 1385 and 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach. At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to the young King Charles VI of France. She learned quickly, suggestive of an intelligent and quick-witted character. She became regent to the Dauphin of France and sat on the regency council. She lived in English-occupied Paris until her death in 1435. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries historians re-examined the extensive chronicles of her lifetime. They concluded that many elements of her reputation were unearned and stemmed from factionalism and propaganda. They also concluded that she was popularly seen as a spendthrift and irresponsible philanderess, and that her reputation was largely based on propaganda and factionalist propaganda and factionalism and/or false claims to exaggerate her aristocratic credentials and her legendary crimes. They conclude that her reputation was unearned and that she was unquestionably the greatest Queen of France of all time. They conclude that she was a misogynist and a spoiled woman who took advantage of her husband’s incompetence and his inadequate treatment of her loyal cavalier couples in the 1380s and 1390s.
They say she was a principal partner of the Burgundians, who abandoned her husband in favour of the Armagnac–Burgundy Civil War between supporters of his brother, Duke Louis I of Orléans, and the royal dukes of Burgundy. The war ended soon after Isabea’s eldest son, Charles, had John the Fearless assassinated in 1419. IsabeAU attended the 1420 signing of the Treaty of Troyes, which decided that the English king should inherit the French crown after the death of her husband, Charles VI. She died in Paris in 1430, and was succeeded by her son Charles VII. She is buried in the Cimetière du Louvre in Paris, where she was buried with her husband Charles VII of France in 1430. The couple had a son Charles VI, who was born in 1389, and a daughter, Margaret of Briegaut, who died in 1393. The marriage was proposed about 1385, suggesting a birth date of around 1370, suggesting she was about 16 at the time of the marriage. The match was proposed again at the lavish Burgundian double wedding in Cambrai in April 1385. Charles VI’s uncle, Philip the Bold, thought the proposed marriage ideal to build an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and against the English.
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