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Catherine of Valois

Type Figure Region France Time 1401–1437 Also known as Queen Catherine of England

French Valois princess (1401-1437), daughter of Charles VI and Isabeau; a pawn of Anglo-French alliance after Agincourt, she married Henry V in 1420 …

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  1. 1401–1411Paris · Île-de-FranceRaised at court amid Charles VI's madness and factional civil war, she was a daughter of the French king whose status fluctuated with the Armagnac-Burgundian struggle.
  2. 1411–1419Paris · Île-de-FranceAfter full-scale civil war erupted in 1411, Catherine, as a royal female member, became a diplomatic bargaining chip. Following the defeat at Agincourt in 1415, England more actively sought a marriage contract in exchange for recognition of the French throne.
  3. 1420Troyes · Grand EstThe Treaty of Troyes of May 1420 stipulated her marriage to Henry V, with the wedding held on June 2 at the church of Saint-Jean-en-Villeneuve. The contract recognized Henry V as heir to the French throne, legally uniting the English and French crowns.
  4. 1422–1437London · EnglandAfter Henry V's death in 1422 she bore Henry VI and lived in England. She later secretly married the Welsh attendant Owen Tudor, bearing children including Edmund Tudor, whose line passed through Margaret Beaufort to Henry VII.

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