King Charles VI of France
Other names for Charles were Charles le Bien-Aimé, Charles the Beloved and Charles VI de Valois. General Notes: Charles VI (1367-1422), King of France, son of Charles V, succeeded to the throne at the age of twelve; and the Government was entrusted to the Dukes of Berri, Burgundy, and Bourbon, who governed so badly that the people of Flanders and the North of France rose in revolt. The country was distracted by civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, and thus was unequal to battles with the English at Agincourt and elsewhere. Charles had to submit to the humiliating treaty of Troyes by which Henry V was acknowledged as heir to the French Throne. See Duval-Pineux’s Histoire de France sous le Règne de Charles VI (2 vols. 1842); and books cited at Henry V. [World Wide Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1935] Charles married Isabelle of Bavaria, daughter of Duke Stefan III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti, on 13 Jul 1385 in Amiens, Picardie, France.713 (Isabelle of Bavaria was born in 1371,713 died on 24 Sep 1435 in Paris, Île-de-France, France 713 and was buried in 1435 in St. Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France 713.) Charles also had a relationship with Odette de Champdivers. (Odette de Champdivers was born in 1389 713 and died in 1424 713.) |