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ISABELLA, ISABEAU

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ISABELLA, ISABEAU , Or See also:ELIZABETH OF See also:BAVARIA (1370-1435), wife of See also:Charles VI. of See also:France, was the daughter of See also:Stephen II., See also:duke of Bavaria. She was See also:born in 1370, was married to Charles VI. on the 17th of See also:July 1385, and crowned at See also:Paris on the 22nd of See also:August 1389. After some years of happy married See also:life she See also:fell under the See also:influence of the dissolute See also:court in which she lived, and the See also:king having become insane (August 1392) she consorted chiefly with See also:Louis of See also:Orleans. Frivolous, selfish, avaricious and fond of luxury, she used her influence, during the different periods when she was invested with the regency, not for the public welfare, but mainly in her own See also:personal See also:interest. After the assassination of the duke of Orleans (See also:November 23, 1407) she attached herself sometimes to the Armagnacs, sometimes to the Burgundians, and led a scandalous life. Louis de Bosredon, the See also:captain of her See also:guards, was executed for complicity in her excesses; and Isabella herself was imprisoned at See also:Blois and after-wards at See also:Tours (1417). Having been set See also:free towards the end of that See also:year by See also:John the Fearless, duke of See also:Burgundy, whom she had called to her assistance, she went to See also:Troyes and established her See also:government there, returning afterwards to Paris when that See also:city had capitulated to the Burgundians in July 1418. Once more in See also:power, she now took up arms against her son, the dauphin Charles; and after the See also:murder of John the Fearless she went over to the See also:side of the See also:English, into whose hands she surrendered France by the treaty of Troyes (May 21, 1420), at the same See also:time giving her daughter See also:Catherine in See also:marriage to the king of See also:England, See also:Henry- V. After her triumphal entry into Paris with the latter she soon became an See also:object of loathing to the whole See also:French nation. She survived her See also:husband, her son-in-See also:law, and eight out of her twelve See also:children, and she passed the last miserable years of her life in poverty, solitude and See also:ill-See also:health. She died at the end of See also:September 1435, and was interred without funeral honours in the See also:abbey of St See also:Denis, by the side of her husband, Charles VI. See Vallet de Viriville, Isabeau de Baviere (1859) ; See also:Marcel Thibault, Isabeau de Baviere, Reine de France, La Jeunesse,; 1390–1405 (1903).

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