Charles d’Orléans (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
The parents of Charles d’Orléans were Louis, Duke of Orléans and brother of King Charles VI, and Valentina, daughter of the Duke of Milan. Louis had powerful influence in French politics but was a man of dissolute habits; Valentina was a gentle, cultured lady. On June 29, 1406, at age fourteen, Charles married Isabelle, who was five years older than he, daughter of Charles VI and child-widow of England’s Richard II. Isabelle died September 13, 1409, after giving birth to a daughter.
In 1407, two years before Charles lost his wife, his father was murdered...
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