I know this sounds ridiculous but. a production of Richard II where Isabel is her historical age. This little kid obviously out of her depth and barely understanding what’s going on around her. The lady in 3.4. acting as a nursemaid rather than a friend. A nine year old screaming and crying to stay with Richard. Richard kissing her on the forehead. Northumberland dropkicking a child off the stage. also: young Isabel could almost work as a foil to Richard, who was crowned at ~10.

Isabella of Valois (1313 – 26 July 1383) was a Duchess of Bourbon by marriage to Peter I, Duke of Bourbon. She was the daughter of Charles of Valois by his third wife Mahaut of Châtillon.

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Isabella was Queen consort of England from 1396 until 1399 as the second wife of Richard II. She was born on 9 November 1389 as the daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. Just ten days before her seventh birthday, on 31 October 1396, she married Richard II of England. The fact that she was a child was not lost on anyone but Richard hoped to be able to shape her to his ideals and believed he was young enough to wait. Isabella told the English envoys that she was happy to become Queen because she was told it would make her a great lady. She also practiced different “Queenly” roles to be able to better perform in her role. After the wedding, she was given her own court at Windsor Castle (living separately from Richard). Four months after the wedding, on 8 January 1397, Isabella was crowned at Westminster. Although the marriage was political, Richard visited Isabella often and doted on her and Isabella looked forward to his visits and lived quite happily. During Henry Bolingbroke’s rebellion, Isabella was moved to Leeds Castle for her protection. After Richard is deposed and Henry became King Henry IV, Isabella was put under house arrest at Sonning Palace. In 1400, Richard died. Isabella’s father demanded she be returned to France, but Henry IV refused wanting Isabella to marry his son, future Henry V, however, Isabella herself refused. In August 1401, Isabella is finally allowed to return to France. In 1406, Henry IV once again proposed a marriage between Isabella and his son, but Isabella’s father refused. Instead, Isabella married Charles, Duke of Orléans on 29 June 1406 when she was 16 and he was 11. Isabella died on 13 September 1409 at the age of 19 while in childbirth with her only child, Joan.

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♔ Isabella de Valois was the older sister of Catherine de Valois. Isabella was married to Richard II King of England when she was only a child of about seven years old. In 1399, her husband Richard was deposed and he died in prison in 1400. The new king, Henry IV ordered Isabella out of the royal lodgings and placed her under house arrest. Isabella’s family asked for her to be returned to the French court, but Henry IV declined intending her to marry his son and heir, the future Henry V. Isabella refused. She returned to France in 1401, mourning her husband for whom she had affection. She married again, to her cousin, Charles Duke de Orléans. At 19, Isabella died in childbirth, but her daughter Joan survived.

Catherine would experience similar political upheavals of the English court that her sister experienced after she married Henry V King of England, the same man intended for her sister. Henry died two years after they married leaving behind an infant son. As queen dowager, she was in an unfamiliar country and with little authority over her son’s upbringing due to his importance as the new King of England (when he reached his majority). Catherine found solace in her secret relationship with the Welshman Owain Tudur (Owen Tudor). The relationship was not secret for long when she became pregnant. Catherine would have four children with Owain, but she died shortly after giving birth but she most likely did not die from childbirth itself. Her line would continue on and establish the Tudor Dynasty. ♔

Today in history - The death of Isabella of Valois

On June 29, 1406, Isabelle married her first cousin, the eldest son and heir of her uncle, the Duke of Orleans. Based mainly in Blois, she was witness to the growing strife of her family, particularly when her father-in-law was murdered on the orders of Burgundy in November 1407. Siding with her in-laws, she was estranged from her parents who pardoned Burgundy out of necessity until a peace was reached at Chartres in March 1409. By then Isabelle was pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to a daughter, Jeanne, on September and died a few days later on the 13th. She was only 19 years old.

Her second husband, Charles, Duke of Orleans, became a leader of one faction in the ongoing Burgundian-Armagnac civil war. He made a deal with Henry IV’s government in England in 1412/1413 in the hopes of using them to permanently oust Burgundy, however Henry IV’s death in 1413 and Henry V’s accession helped fast-track England’s invasion. He fought at the Battle of Agincourt in October 1415 and was captured. He remained a prisoner in England until his release in 1440.

Her daughter, Jeanne, married Jean, Duke of Alencon in 1424. She died, childless, in 1432.

Isabelle’s younger sister, Katherine, born after Isabelle’s marriage to Richard and raised in the convent of Poissy, married Henry V in 1420 and was the mother of Henry VI. After her husband’s death in 1422 she married Owen Tudor, eventually becoming the grandmother and great-grandmother of Henry VII and Henry VIII.

In July 1395 Richard began the negotiations for his marriage with Isabelle, daughter of Charles VI. She was then only six, but it could be hoped that she would bring a great dowry and that the truce with France would be changed into alliance. In fact, she brought 50,000 pounds as a first installment, the truce was prolonged for twenty-eight years, and the royal house of France promised to sustain Richard with all their power against any of his subjects. Isabelle made her state entry into London on the 23rd of November, 1396.

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Isabella of Valois (1389-1409) and Catherine of Valois (1401-1437)

Today in history, September 13, 1409: the birth of Isabella of Valois:

"Isabella of France (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen consort of England as the second spouse of King Richard II. Her parents were King Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She married the king at the age of seven and was widowed three years later. She later married Charles, Duke of Orléans, dying in childbirth at the age of nineteen.

Isabella's younger sister, Catherine, was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422, married to Henry V and mother of Henry VI. Catherine was also a grandmother of Henry VII.

Isabella lived during a period of political tension between France and England known as the Hundred Years War, the situation made worse by the mental instability of her father.

On 31 October 1396, almost the age of seven, Isabella married the widower King Richard II of England in a move for peace with France. The fact that she was a child was discussed during the negotiations, but Richard replied that each day would rectify that problem, that it was an advantage as he would then be able to shape her in accordance with his ideal, and that he was young enough to wait. Isabella herself told the English envoys, that she was happy to be Queen of England, because she had been told that this would make her a great lady. She is described as pretty, and reportedly practiced in order to be able to perform her role as queen. King Richard traveled to Paris to fetch her, where the wedding was celebrated with grand festivities at the French royal court, before they continued to the English enclave of Calais, where the formal wedding ceremony was performed on 31 October.

After the wedding, Queen Isabella followed Richard to England, where she was placed in Windsor Castle with her own court under the supervision of her appointed governess and chief lady-in-waiting Lady de Courcy (later replaced by Lady Mortimer). She was formally crowned Queen of England in Westminster in London the following year, 1397.

Although the union was political and an arranged marriage, Richard II and the child Isabella developed a mutually respectful relationship: Richard regularly visited her in Windsor, where he treated her with respect and entertained her and her ladies-in-waiting with humorous conversation, and Isabella reportedly enjoyed and looked forward to his visits.

By May 1399, the Queen had been moved to Portchester Castle for protection while Richard went on a military campaign in Ireland. During the following rebellion against Richard, Isabella was moved by the Duke of York first to Wallingford Castle and then to Leeds Castle. When on his return to England Richard II was imprisoned and died in custody, Queen Isabella was ordered by the new King Henry IV to move out of Windsor Castle and to settle in the Bishop of Salisbury's Thamesside palace at Sonning in formal house arrest.

In 1400, the deposed king was killed, and the French court requested that Isabella return to France. King Henry IV initially refused, deciding Queen Isabella should marry his son, the future Henry V of England, but she refused. Knowing her spouse was dead, she went into mourning, ignoring Henry IV's demands. In June 1400, he let her go back to France, but kept her dowry."

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considering they never met in canon, Isabella’s friendship with Kate Percy is becoming weirdly important to me.

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