Isabella of Bavaria

Also known as: Isabell / Isabell the French quéene / Isabella of Bavaria, Queen of France / moother Isabell · Family: France · Role: queen · First appears: Henry V 16

Life events

c. 1417 · Charles VII obtained Isabella of Bavaria's hoarded treasure and spent it preparing France's defense.(Henry V 16)
- With: Charles VII
- “In conclusion, by the aduise and counsell of the earle of Arminacke the constable of France, he found a meane to get all the treasure & riches which his moother quéene Isabell had gotten and hoorded in diuerse secret places: and for the common defense and profit of his countrie he wiselie bestowed it in waging souldiers, and preparing of things necessarie for the warre.”
c. 1417 · Isabella of Bavaria placed John the Fearless in supreme authority over the king and realm.(Henry V 16)
- With: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy
- “The quéene forgetting the great perill that the realme then stood in, remembring onelie the displeasure to hir by this act doone, vpon a womanish malice, set hir husband Iohn duke of Burgognie in the highest authoritie about the king, giuing him the regiment and direction of the king and his realme, with all preheminence & souereigntie.”
c. 1419 · The peace consultation at Meulan produced no agreement or conclusion.(Henry V 23 · 📍 beside Meulan on the riuer of Seine)
- With: Henry V
- “But though manie words were spent in this treatie, and that they met at eight seuerall times, yet no effect insued, nor any conclusion was taken by this fréendlie consultation”

Henry V 16

child: Charles VII (The text explicitly calls Isabella Charles's mother.) “Charles the Dolphin being of the age of sixtéene or seauentéene yeares, bewailed the ruine and decaie or his countrie, he onelie studied the reléefe of the common-wealth, and deuised how to resist his enimies; but hauing neither men nor monie, was greatlie troubled and disquieted in mind. In conclusion, by the aduise and counsell of the earle of Arminacke the constable of France, he found a meane to get all the treasure & riches which his moother quéene Isabell had gotten and hoorded in diuerse secret places:”
married with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy “The quéene forgetting the great perill that the realme then stood in, remembring onelie the displeasure to hir by this act doone, vpon a womanish malice, set hir husband Iohn duke of Burgognie in the highest authoritie about the king, giuing him the regiment and direction of the king and his realme, with all preheminence & souereigntie.”
with John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (Isabella appointed John to exercise government and sovereignty over the king and realm.) “The quéene forgetting the great perill that the realme then stood in, remembring onelie the displeasure to hir by this act doone, vpon a womanish malice, set hir husband Iohn duke of Burgognie in the highest authoritie about the king, giuing him the regiment and direction of the king and his realme, with all preheminence & souereigntie.”

Henry V 23

child: Catherine of Valois (Catherine is explicitly identified as Isabella's daughter.) “the duke of Burgognie, and the earle of saint Paule, and she had attending vpon hir the faire ladie Katharine hir daughter”
married with Charles VII “Likewise for the French part came Isabell the French quéene, bicause hir husband was fallen into his old frantike disease”

Henry V 27

child: Catherine of Valois “our most déere beloued Katharine, daughter of our said father, & of our most déere moother Isabell his wife”
with Henry V (Isabella of Bavaria is Henry V's mother-in-law.) “the same Charles and Isabell béene made our father and moother”

Henry V 29

liege: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy “it was also agréed, that he should haue by patent granted of king Charles and quéene Isabell a fée of twentie thousand pounds Parisien, of yéerelie reuenues”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.