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Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. [3] She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol (a royal palace in Paris) on 27 October 1401. Early on, there had been a discussion of marrying her to the Prince of Wales , the son of Henry IV of England , but the king died before negotiations ...
Catherine's father and grandfather were Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino and Piero the Unfortunate, respectively. The latter was a son of Lorenzo il Magnifico, the great Renaissance ruler of Florence. This made Catherine a scion of the illustrious House of Medici.
François Clouet drew and painted portraits of all Catherine's family and of many members of the court. [122] After Catherine's death, a decline in the quality of French portraiture set in. By 1610, the school patronised by the late Valois court and brought to its pinnacle by François Clouet had all but died out. [123]
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.
The relationship between Claude and Charles III was described as a happy one. Claude was a favorite of her mother, who occasionally visited her in Lorraine, visits described as rare occasions of private family gatherings in the life of Catherine de' Medici, who enjoyed seeing her grandchildren by Claude and also liked her son-in-law Charles very much.
Catherine came from a branch of the French royal family, the House of Valois; her family was known as The House of Valois-Alençon. Her brother John I, Duke of Alençon was killed at the Battle of Agincourt against Henry V of England. Catherine married Peter of Évreux, Count of Mortain, brother of Charles III of Navarre. After only one year of ...
Catherine de Medici with her children in 1561: Francis, Charles, Margaret and Henry Margaret of Valois was born on 14 May 1553 at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the seventh child and third daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. [9]
The Capetian House of Valois [a] (UK: / ˈ v æ l w ɑː / VAL-wah, also US: / v æ l ˈ w ɑː, v ɑː l ˈ w ɑː / va(h)l-WAH, [1] French:) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.They succeeded the House of Capet (or "Direct Capetians") to the French throne, and were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589.