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1. Prospography Content: Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of France (d. 1435) (person)

Charles, Charles, Isabella, Louis of Guyenne, Catherine. For a notion of the queen as 'perfect wife', see R. C. Famiglietti, Tales of the

2. Prospography Content: King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) (person)

King Henry VI of England (d. 1471) Born in 1421, the son of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, he succeeded his father as king of England when less than a year old. A weak ruler lacking leaders

3. Prospography Content: Catherine of Valois, queen of England (d. 1438) (person)

Catherine of Valois, queen of England (d. 1438) The youngest daughter of king Charles VI of France, and Isabella of Bavaria, she married king Henry V of England at Troyes on 2 June 1420, thus becoming his consort, their son, the future Henry VI, being born in December 1421. On the death of her husband, at which she was not present, she remained in England and probably entered a morganatic marriage with a Welsh squire, Owen Tudor, by 1432. She died at Bermondsey Abbey, near London, in January 1437, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. Michael Jones, ‘Catherine (1401–1437)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4890.

4. Essay: France, England and the Political Climate, 1400-1415

French king’s last unmarried daughter, Catherine