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Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France , she married King Henry V of England [ 1 ] and was the mother of King Henry VI .
Catherine of France (1428 ... and on May 19, 1440, the wedding was conducted at Blois. Reportedly, ... House of Valois.
Catherine looked to further Valois interests by grand dynastic marriages. In 1570, Charles IX married Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. Catherine was also eager for a match between one of her two youngest sons and Elizabeth I of England. [73]
Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France at her husband's 1589 accession to the latter throne as Henry IV.
Coat of arms of Philip I of Taranto, after his wedding with Catherine of Valois: his personal arms (Anjou defaced with a bend), impaled with the arms of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. In 1309, Philip accused Thamar of adultery, probably on a falsified charge. This freed him to take part in a complex marital pact.
Charlotte de Sauve, Henry's mistress during the early years of his marriage to Marguerite of Valois, worked as an informant for Catherine de' Medici as a member of her "Flying Squadron" Until 1576, Henry remained at court, siding with Margaret and her brother François of Alençon against Henry III , who became king in 1574.
After the wedding Mary and Francis went first to the Chateau of Villers-Cotterêts. [96] In Paris, the Great Hall or Grand' Salon was redecorated with designs supplied by Primaticcio for the weddings of Elisabeth and Margaret of Valois in January 1559. Mary, as the Reine Dauphine, bought counterfeit precious stones for their wedding masque ...
Sir Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, [a] c. 1400 – 2 February 1461) was a Welsh courtier and the second husband of Queen Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), widow of King Henry V of England. He was the grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.