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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 of Valois, was Queen consort of England from 1420–1422, as the wife of Henry V and mother of Henry VI. ==Life== Isabella lived during a period of political tension between France and England known as the Hundred Years War, the situation exacerbated by the mental instability of her father. On 31 October 1396, at the age of seven, Isabella married the widower King Richard II of England in a move for peace with France.〔Jeffrey Hamilton, ''The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty'', (Continuum, 2010), 205.〕 Although the union was political, Richard II and the child Isabella developed a mutually respectful relationship. The Queen was moved to Portchester Castle for protection while Richard went on a military campaign in Ireland. When Richard II was imprisoned and died in custody on his return to England, 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. King Henry IV then decided Queen Isabella should marry his son, the future Henry V of England, but she refused. Knowing her husband was dead, she went into mourning, ignoring Henry IV's demands. Eventually he let her go back to France. On 29 June 1406, Queen Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans.〔Robert Knecht, ''The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589'', (Hambledon Continuum, 2007), 51.〕 She died in childbirth at the age of 19, leaving one daughter, Joan, who married John II of Alençon in 1424. Isabella was interred in Blois, in the abbey of St.Laumer, where her body was found entire in 1624, curiously wrapped in bands of linen plated over with quicksilver. It was then transferred to the church of the Celestines in Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isabella of Valois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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