Catherine of Valois was born on 27 October 1401 as the daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. She was the youngest of twelve siblings, and her eldest sister had been Queen of England before her as the wife of Richard II. She grew up in the shadow of her father’s insanity and was apparently [read more]
I’ve been looking forward to this book for quite some time, so I was very happy to receive ‘The Sister Queens: Isabella & Catherine de Valois’ by Mary McGrigor in the mail from the publishers. Isabella and Catherine were the daughters of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. They were born 12 years apart, [read more]
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records Paperback – February 19, 2016 (US) & December 31, 2015 (UK) Henry VI (1422-61), a man ‘more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things’, was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of [read more]
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