Isabeau of Bavaria

Isabeau of Bavaria - Elisabeth before her marriage - (1371 - September 29th 1435) is the girl of Etienne III, duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Thadée Visconti. Philippe Bold the, Duke of Burgundy, tutor of Charles VI and regent of France while waiting for his majority, wishes an alliance with the Duchy of Bavaria. Isabeau of Bavaria Marie thus the July 17th 1385, with Amiens, the 14 years age with Charles VI of France (known as the Beloved) which has 16 and becomes of them queen of France. They had twelve children:

  1. Charles (1386-1386)
  2. Jeanne (1388-1390),
  3. Isabelle (1389-1409)
  4. Jeanne (1391-1433) married to Jean V of Brittany
  5. Charles (1392-1398)
  6. Marie (1393-1438), abbess in Poissy
  7. Michelle (1393-1422) married to Philippe III the Good, duke of Burgundy
  8. Louis de Valois (1397-1415) second Dolphin; duke of Guyenne,
  9. Jean (1398-1417) 3rd Dolphin, duke of Touraine.
  10. Catherine de Valois (1401-1437), married to Henri V of England
  11. Charles VII (1403-1461)
  12. Philippe (1407-1407)
A thesis affirms that this 12th child, would be illegitimate and that it would be acted in fact of Jeanne d' Arc, girl of Isabeau of Bavaria and Louis of Orleans.

Its close family, to start with her Louis brother, enters with it to the court of France. The historical context is that of the Guerre One hundred Year old and of the Great schism of Occident. Charles VI being insane, it will chair as from 1393 the Council of regency, where the large ones of the kingdom sit.

It is poor politicking, the real capacity is shared between the dukes of Orleans (Louis of Orleans chief of the party of the Armagnacs) and of Burgundy (Philippe Bold the then with its death in 1404 Jean without Peur). Jean de Berry is used as mediator between the two parties whose competition will increase gradually, to lead to true a Civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundian. It supports the Burgundian party initially then approaching Louis of Orleans (the Burgundian ones suspect it of being its mistress and will show the future Charles VII to be their hybrid son) with died of the duke of Burgundy, supports the party of the Armagnacs. Jean without fear then considers to be évincé of the capacity, threatens Paris in 1405 and makes assassinate the Duke of Orleans in 1407. He involves the Révolte of Cabochiens to seize the power in Paris in 1413. Henri V of England, king d' Angleterre, benefitting from these disorders, had armed against France: he gains the Bataille of Azincourt in 1415, true disaster for the French Army and seizes the Normandy.

However, conscious of representing the legitimate power, Isabeau sought with his/her son, the Dolphin Louis (which dies in 1415), to link the two enemy factions, but it failed. Exiled in Tours by the Armagnacs, it bound then with the duke of Burgundy, Jean without Peur, which delivered it. At the end of 1417, it organized in Troyes a government narrowly controlled by the Burgundian ones. Jean without Peur is assassinated at the time of an interview with the Dolphin Charles with the bridge of Montereau on September 19th, 1419, by henchmen of the party of the Armagnacs which fear a bringing together of the Dolphin with the Burgundian political sights.

Being combined Henri V, by the Treated of Troyes (1420), with the Isabeau queen and the young duke of Burgundy, Philippe the Good, which had to avenge the murder for his/her father, is made recognize like heir to the throne and regent, after having married Catherine, girl of Charles VI. This one preserves nevertheless the title of king de France. Its last wire living (Charles VII) is disavowed in the Treaty like " be-saying dolphin of Viennois" , which specifies " because of its crimes énormes". Charles installs in Bourges a Armagnac government and control approximately the Southern half of the kingdom.

The Isabeau queen had tried to negotiate with Henri V on bases different from those of the duke of Burgundy, but in vain; she thus resigned herself to the solution of this last, which founded the principle of a double monarchy, Frenchwoman and English, to the profit of the king of England. In 1422, the successive death of Henri V then of Charles VI returned this " double monarchie" difficult to set up, new the " king de France and of Angleterre" , Henri VI (grandson of Isabeau) being only one year old.

Isabeau, withdrawn in the hotel Saint-pol., died in 1435, hardly one week after the reconciliation between Bourguignons and Armagnacs (Treated of Arras). A chronicler affirmed that she cried with the advertisement of this news.

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