NameCharles, Duke of Orleans & Milan
Spouses
Birth9 Nov 1389, Hotel du Lourve, Paris, France
Death13 Sep 1409, Château de Blois, France
BurialChurch of the Celestines, Paris, France
Marriage29 Jun 1406, Compiégne, France
Notes for Charles, Duke of Orleans & Milan
Child 1: de Orléans, Jeanne, b. 1409
Notes for Isabella of Valois (Spouse 1)
de France, Isabella

Father: de Valois, Charles VI the Beloved, King of France, b. 3 DEC 1368

Mother: Wittelsbach, Isabelle of Bavaria, b. 1369

Married 1 NOV 1396, St Nicholas' Church, Calais, France to , Richard II, King of England


Married 29 JUN 1406, Compiégne, France to de Orléans, Charles, Duke of Orleans & Milan

Child 1: de Orléans, Jeanne, b. 1409




Isabella of Valois

In 1396 Richard married again, as part of a peace treaty with France. His bride, the six year old daughter of Charles VI and Isabeau of Bavaria, came to England and lived mostly at Windsor. She was the perfect second wife for the mourning king. Still a child, it would be several years before a consummation was expected, thus giving Richard plenty of time to overcome his grief for Anne. She was also like the child he and Anne never had and he appeared fond of her, giving her gifts and visiting with her as often as he could. By all accounts she grieved for him deeply after his death, then waited two years in England while Henry IV quibbled about returning her and her dowry as per the marriage contract. (This is similar to what happened to Catherine of Aragon more than a century later.) After returning to France she married Charles of Angouleme (later Duke of Orléans), but died in childbirth in 1409, after only three years of marriage.
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