Biography of Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France 1370-1435

Paternal Family Tree: Wittelsbach

Maternal Family Tree: Tomasina Morosini

1396 Marriage of Richard II and Isabella of Valois

1420 Marriage of Henry V and Catherine of Valois

On 13 Oct 1364 [her father] Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 27) and [her mother] Taddea Visconti Duchess Bavaria (age 13) were married. She by marriage Duchess Bavaria. He the son of [her grandfather] Stephen Wittelsbach II Duke Bavaria (age 45) and [her grandmother] Elisabeth Barcelona Duchess Bavaria.

Around 1370 Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France was born to Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 33) and Taddea Visconti Duchess Bavaria (age 19).

On 28 Sep 1381 [her mother] Taddea Visconti Duchess Bavaria (age 30) died.

On 17 Jul 1385 Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 16) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 15) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 48) and Taddea Visconti Duchess Bavaria. He the son of King Charles V of France and Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France.

In 1386 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 13) was appointed Duke Touraine.

In 1389 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 16) and Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans (age 18) were married. He the son of King Charles V of France and Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France.

On 09 Nov 1389 [her daughter] Isabella Valois Queen Consort England was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 20) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 19).

On 24 Jan 1391 [her daughter] Joan Valois Duchess Brittany was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 22) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 21).

In 1392 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 19) was appointed I Duke Orléans.

On 06 Feb 1392 [her son] Charles Valois was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 23) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 22).

On 22 Aug 1393 [her daughter] Marie Valois was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 24) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 23).

On 11 Jan 1395 [her daughter] Michelle Valois Duchess Burgundy was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 26) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 25).

In Aug 1396 [her son-in-law] John Montfort V Duke Brittany (age 6) and [her daughter] Joan Valois Duchess Brittany (age 5) were married. She by marriage Duchess Brittany 1341 War of Sucession. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 27) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 26). He the son of John Montfort V Duke Brittany (age 57) and Joanna of Navarre Queen Consort England (age 26).

Marriage of Richard II and Isabella of Valois

On 31 Oct 1396 [her son-in-law] King Richard II of England (age 29) and [her daughter] Isabella Valois Queen Consort England (age 6) were married. The marriage being one of the terms of a twenty-eight year peace treaty with France. He twenty-nine, she six. The marriage sowed the seeds subsequent rebellion since there was no prospect of an heir to secure the Crown. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 27) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 26). He the son of Edward "Black Prince" and Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Princess Wales.

William Ros 6th Baron Ros Helmsley (age 26) attended.

In 1397 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 24) was appointed Count Blois.

On 22 Jan 1397 [her son] Louis Valois was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 28) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 27).

On 31 Aug 1398 [her son] John Valois was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 29) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 28).

In 1400 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 27) was appointed Count Périgord.

On 13 Jan 1401 [her son] Charles Valois (age 8) died.

On 16 Jan 1401 [her father] Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 64) and [her step-mother] Elisabeth La Marck Duchess Bavaria (age 23) were married at Cologne. She by marriage Duchess Bavaria. The difference in their ages was 41 years. She the daughter of Adolph La Marck and Margaret Jülich Countess Cleves and Mark (age 51). He the son of [her grandfather] Stephen Wittelsbach II Duke Bavaria and [her grandmother] Elisabeth Barcelona Duchess Bavaria.

On 27 Oct 1401 [her daughter] Catherine of Valois Queen Consort England was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 32) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 31).

On 22 Feb 1403 [her son] Charles "Victorious" VII King France was born to [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 34) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 33).

In 1404 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 31) was appointed Count Angoulême.

In 1404 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 31) was appointed Count Soissons.

On 28 Jan 1405 [her son-in-law] Philip "Good" Valois III Duke Burgundy (age 8) and [her daughter] Michelle Valois Duchess Burgundy (age 10) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 36) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 35). He the son of John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy (age 33) and Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy (age 42).

In 1406 [her son-in-law] Charles Valois Duke Orléans (age 11) and [her daughter] Isabella Valois Queen Consort England (age 16) were married at Compiègne, Oise. She by marriage Duchess Orléans. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 37) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 36). He the son of [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 33) and Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans (age 35).

Murder of Louis of Orléans

On 23 Nov 1407 [her brother-in-law] Louis Valois I Duke Orléans (age 35) was murdered on the orders of John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy (age 36) at Paris [Map]. [her son-in-law] Charles Valois Duke Orléans (age 12) succeeded Duke Orléans.

On 13 Sep 1409 [her granddaughter] Joan Valois was born to [her son-in-law] Charles Valois Duke Orléans (age 14) and [her daughter] Isabella Valois Queen Consort England (age 19). Isabella Valois Queen Consort England died in childbirth.

On 26 Sep 1413 [her father] Stephen "Magnificient Fop" Wittelsbach III Duke Bavaria (age 76) died. [her brother] Louis "Bearded" Wittelsbach VII Duke Bavaria (age 45) succeeded VII Duke Bavaria.

In 1415 [her son] John Valois (age 16) and [her daughter-in-law] Jacqueline Wittelsbach Duchess Brabant and Gloucester (age 13) were married. She the daughter of William Wittelsbach IV Count Holland VI Count Hainault V Count Zeeland (age 49) and Margaret Valois Countess Holland (age 40). He the son of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 46) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 45).

On 18 Dec 1415 [her son] Louis Valois (age 18) died.

On 05 Apr 1417 [her son] John Valois (age 18) died.

Treaty of Troyes

Chronicle of Gregory. 20 May 1420. Ande in that year, the xx day of May, the year of our lord M¹CCCC xx, the [her future son-in-law] kyng (age 33) come unto Troys, in Chaunpeyne, and there he was worthely ressayvyde of alle the lordys spyrytualle and temporalle that were there whithe the King of Fraince. And on the morne the [her husband] Kyng (age 51) and Quene of Fraunce (age 50), and [her daughter] Dame Katerynne (age 18), and the Duke of Burgayne, mette to gedyr in Synt Petrys chyrche [Map] in Troys; whiche metyng was in the body of the chyrche. Ande thenne they went upe to the hyghe auter, and there were the artyculys of the pes redde, and the othys made on aythyr partye.

Marriage of Henry V and Catherine of Valois

On 02 Jun 1420 [her son-in-law] Henry V (age 33) and [her daughter] Catherine of Valois (age 18) were married at Troyes Cathedral [Map]. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 51) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 50). He the son of King Henry IV of England and Mary Bohun.

Chronicle of Gregory. 03 Jun 1420. And thenne was the [her son-in-law] kyng (age 33) and [her daughter] Dame Katerynne (age 18) swryde to-gedyr. And on the morne aftyr was Trenyte Sonday, that was the iij day of June, the year of our lord M CCCC xx, in the chyrche of Troys [Map], the kyng spowsyd Dame Kateryne, [her husband] Kyng Charlys daughter of Fraunce (age 51); and thenne he was made Regent of Fraunce, and the convencyons of the whiche acordyd folowynge here aftyr, that is for to saye:

Harry, by the grace of God, Kyng of Inglond, heyre and Regent of Fraunce, and lord of Yrlonde, to perpetualle mynde to alle Crystyn pepylle, ande to alle that ben undyr owre obeysaunce, we notefy and declare that thoughe a here before dyvers tretes have ben be twyne the moste excellente Prynce Charlis, owre fadyr of Fraunce, and his progenytours, for the pes to ben hadde be twyne ij realmys of Fraunce and of Inglonde, the whiche here by forne have borne no¹ frwte, we, consyderynge the grette harmys that have ben, not oonly by twyne ij realmys for the grette devysyon that hathe ben be-twyne hem, but to alle hooly Chyrche, we have take a trete whythe our said fadyr and us, that for as moche as be the bonde of matrymonye, i-made for the goode of the pes be-twyne us and our moste dyre modyr Isabelle (age 50) his wife, the same Charlis and Isabelle ben made fadyr and modyr, and there fore take them as for owre fadyr and modyr, we shalle have and worschippe as it syttythe and semythe so worthy a prynce and a pryncesse too ben i-worschippyde, pryncypally before alle othyr temporalle personys of the worlde.

Alle so we shalle nought dystroble, nor dyssesyn, nor lette our said fadyr, but that he holde and procede² as long as he levythe, and holdythe, ande he possedythe at this tyme, the crowne and dignity of the ryalte of Fraunce, and rentys and profytys of the same, to the sustenaunce of his estate and chargys of the realme of Fraunce, and owr modir al so holdyng as long as she levy the estate and dignity of the quene, aftyr the maner of the same realme, whythe convenable and convenyante parte of the said rentys and profytys.

Alle so that the fore said Kateryne shalle take and have dwer in our realme of Inglond, as [quenes of England]³ here a-forne were wonte to have and take, that is for to saye, to the summa of xl M [40000] scwtys yearly, of the whyche⁴ ij [2] shalle be worthe a nobylle Englysche. Alle so the maners, weyis, and menys that we may, whythe out transgressyon or ofFensys ofte⁵ i-made by us for to kepe the lawys, customys, usagys, and ryghtys of owre said realme⁶ of Inglonde, [we]⁷ shalle done owre labur and pursewe that the said Katerynne, alsone as it may be done and be made sure, for to take and for to have in owre said realme of Inglonde fro tyme of our dethe, the said xl M [40000] scutys yerly, of the whyche twyne shalle alle way be worthe⁸ a nobylle of Englysche mony.

Note 1. borne no. These words are taken from J., and are a true rendering of the text of the original treaty (see Kymer, ix. 895). Our MS. reads, "have ben frwte/' following perhaps some other translation in which the word "without" has been omitted. Vit. reads, still more absurdly, "have ben frendes."

Note 2. procede. A transcriber's error for "possede," i.e. possess,

Note 3. Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

Note 4. of the whiche repeated, MS.

Note 5. ofte. We should certainly read, "of the oath;" but the words do not occur even in J.

Note 6. of owre said realme repeated in MS.

Note 7. Omitted in MS.

Note 8. worthe. with, MS.; corrected from J.

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On 22 Apr 1422 [her son] Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 19) and [her daughter-in-law] Marie Valois Anjou Queen Consort France (age 17) were married. She the daughter of King Louis of Naples and Yolanda Barcelona Queen Consort Naples. He the son of [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 53) and Isabeau Wittelsbach Queen Consort France (age 52).

On 08 Jul 1422 [her daughter] Michelle Valois Duchess Burgundy (age 27) died.

Death of Charles VI

                    On 21 Oct 1422 [her husband] Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France (age 53) died at Hôtel Saint Pol [Map]. The succession of the French throne was disputed between:
                
                    [her grandson] King Henry VI  succeeded II King France: Lancaster                

                    [her son] Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 19) succeeded VII King France: Capet Valois. [her daughter-in-law] Marie Valois Anjou Queen Consort France (age 18) by marriage Queen Consort France.