#isabelle of valois

[une-sanz-pluis]

I think a lot about Isabelle of Valois and Henry of Monmouth during Richard II's deposition. Two children whose lives were picked up and turned around, changed irrevocably by the deposition. There were other children caught up in, of course. The children of those executed in the Epiphany Rising. The children of those executed and murdered as part of Richard's revenge against the Lords Appellant. The teenaged Humphrey of Gloucester dying around the same time as Richard was deposed.

But none are quite so central to the story as Isabelle and Henry. How personally traumatic it was for them is unknowable and perhaps, in Henry's case, debatable. At the very least, it seems reasonable to assume that the deposition constituted a loss of childhood innocence for both of them. If Richard II's court was defined by a "culture of childhood", as Deanne Williams and James Simpson suggest, perhaps its destruction with Richard's deposition and Henry IV's assertion that the ideal king was one who had matured into manhood finds its ultimate symbol in the lives of Isabelle and Henry, uprooted by the events of 1399.

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LA REINE MARGOT (1994) dir. PATRICE CHḖREAU

[cesareeborgia]

↳ Historical Ladies Name: Isabella/Isabelle

[eve-to-adam]

Okay, so these artworks are called

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Life if beautiful.

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ISABELLE ADJANI as MARGUERITE OF VALOIS in LA REINE MARGOT (1994)

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Queen Margot (1994, dir. Patrice Chéreau)

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Everyone please look at this picture of Elisabeth of Valois

According to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, where it's been digitized, it was painted by Sofonisba Anguissola approximately 30 years after the death of the queen. I found it while searching the KHM Wien's Digital Collections and it reminded me that Elisabeth was only 23 when she died...

[isadomna]

"Catherine wept for her granddaughters the infantas and implored Princess Juana to tend to them. During the coming weeks, the children were committed to the care of Sofonisba Anguissola, their mother’s favourite artist and lady-in-waiting. Devastated by Elisabeth’s death, Sofonisba said ‘she did not want to continue living’, according to the envoy from the court of Urbino. She agreed to stay in Spain for the infantas however, and became their first teacher. The little princesses would remain in her care for the next five years, until Sofonisba returned to Italy to marry."

Leah Redmond Chang, Young Queens

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Marguerite de Valois - Queen Margot, 1994

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The triptych is complete!

Aumerle, Richard II, and Isabelle

Up next: painted versions of Aumerle and Isabelle

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Isabelle de Bourbon, countess consort of Charolais, circa 1460.

[une-sanz-pluis]

Creton also describes a ritual farewell managed by the queen: with her heart “enlightened by goodness,” Isabelle brought the English ladies with her to the French tents, where they dined together and “made sore lamentation.” After the meal, she distributed gifts to both the English ladies and the lords, “who wept mightily for sorrow” while Isabelle “bad them be of good cheer.” Creton shows how Isabelle, at thirteen, understood the ritual processes of ceremony and the emotional performances in which she was expected to participate — enough to direct them herself. Hayward frames Isabelle’s political maturity in a different way: reiterating Isabelle’s hatred of Henry and his supporters, he argues that she deliberately manipulated her performance of the gift-giving ritual in order to distribute her rewards “upon the ladies for favour, but upon the lordes only for fashion, for shee was not ether soe yong as not to perceive, nor yet soe careless as not to regard the treacheries threat they had used against King Richard.” According to Hayward, Isabelle scowled and frowned openly to make her displeasure clear to all those present. At the same time, he regards her agency in these scenes with suspicion. He imagines the various contemporary reports of Isabelle’s intelligence (“sharpe conceit”) as the effects of pity for her condition (“pittie did raise everie thing [in her] to the highest”); and concludes that she must have “receaved instructions” about her formal behaviour on the day. Usk interprets Isabelle’s inability to conceal her anger in public as a sign of her youth. The critical tone of both Usk’s and Hayward’s accounts is not surprising, given that they each wrote with the intent to discredit Richard’s kingship retrospectively. If the primary objection to Isabelle’s marriage to Richard had been her youth, then evidence of her childishness in her unconcealed distaste for Henry and his supporters tended to confirm Richard’s error in choosing such a young queen.

Stephanie Downes and Stephanie Trigg, "“she shal bryngen us the pees on every syde”: The Ceremonial Restoration of Women in Late Medieval Culture", Literature, Emotions and Pre-Modern War: Conflict In Medieval and Early Modern Europe (ARC Humanities Press 2021)

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ISABELLE ADJANI as MARGARET OF VALOIS

LA REINE MARGOT (1994) dir. PATRICE CHḖREAU

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Thread about Joanna of Castile: Part : 10 “A Storm of Jealousy: Juana and Philip's Turbulent Reunion"

By May 1504, Juana was in Burgundy. Juana’s reunion with Philip and the children was joyful.

But soon afterwards she suspected, or discovered, an affair between Philip and a noblewoman in her entourage:

“They say,” writes Martire, “that, her heart full of rage, her face vomiting fames, her teeth clenched, she rained blows on one of her ladies, whom she suspected of being the lover, and ordered that they cut her blond hair, so pleasing to Philip …”

Philip’s response was equally furious. He had “thrown himself” on his wife and publicly insulted her.

Sensitive and obstinate, “Juana is heartbroken … and unwell …”. Isabel “suffers much, astonished by the northerner’s violence.

Maximilian’s biographer, Wiesfecker, describes Juana’s response as:

"The symptom of a pathological, passionate, if not unfounded, Haßliebe, fomenting continual strife. "

Juana would have known for years about Philip's visits to the baigneries and his more casual relationships with women. However, this affair seemed to pose a direct challenge to her standing and dignity. Juana knew her faults and had tried to limit them. In 1500, after becoming princess, she had asked Isabel to send her an honest and prudent Spanish lady who:

“Knows how to advise her, and where she sees something out of order (‘deshordenado’) in her conduct could say so as servant and adviser but not as an equal because, even if the advice were good, if expressed in a disrespectful way it would create more anger in she to whom it was said than it would allow for correction.”

Sources: Fleming, G. B. (2018). Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile (1st ed. 2018 edition). Palgrave Macmillan.

Fox, J. (2012). Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile. Ballantine Books.

Gómez, M. A., Juan-Navarro, S., & Zatlin, P. (2008). Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen. Associated University Presse.

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So... I made this maternity outfit for Catherine of Valois. What do I do with this?

I don't f*cking know...

[carloskaplan]

Isabel de Valois, raíña de España