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Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. [3] She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol (a royal palace in Paris) on 27 October 1401. Early on, there had been a discussion of marrying her to the Prince of Wales , the son of Henry IV of England , but the king died before negotiations ...
Catherine II of Valois, Princess of Achaea, titular Empress of Constantinople (before 15 April 1303 – October 1346). [1] She married Philip I of Anjou, Prince of Taranto and had issue. [1] Joan of Valois (1304 – 9 July 1363), married Count Robert III of Artois [3] Isabella of Valois (1305 – 11 November 1349), Abbess of Fontevrault.
Catherine of Alexandria, by Carlo Crivelli. Catherine was one of the most important saints in the religious culture of the late Middle Ages and arguably considered the most important of the virgin martyrs, a group including Agnes of Rome, Margaret of Antioch, Barbara, Lucia of Syracuse, Valerie of Limoges and many others.
Margaret of Valois was born on 14 May 1553 at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the seventh child and third daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. [9] Three of her brothers would become kings of France: Francis II , Charles IX and Henry III .
Sir Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, [a] c. 1400 – 2 February 1461) was a Welsh courtier and the second husband of Queen Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), widow of King Henry V of England. He was the grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Elisabeth de Valois with her husband Philip II of Spain, from Catherine de Medici's Book of Hours. Philip was very attached to Elisabeth, staying close by her side even when she was ill with smallpox. Elisabeth's first pregnancy in 1560 resulted in a stillborn son, [17] followed in 1564 with a miscarriage of twin girls.
Catherine was described as intelligent, kind and charming and was well liked in Burgundy, but the frequent traveling she was expected to do in parallel to adjusting to the formal court etiquette, which was required at the Burgundian court, described as one of the most elaborate in Europe and constantly moving about between the cities of the Low ...
English: Portrait of Catherine of Valois (or Catherine of France) (died 1446), Countess of Charolais (daughter of King Charles VII of France and Marie of Anjou, wife of Charles of Burgundy, count of Charolais (future duke Charles the Bold), bust-length, in a red fur-trimmed mantle and a richly embroidered headpiece with a white veil