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Isabella of Valois (1387-1410) was a Princess of France, daughter of King Charles VI, and queen consort of England from 1396 to 1400.
When Isabella was eight, she was married to the widower King Richard II of England, in a move for peace with France. Although the union was political, Richard II and the child Isabella developed a mutual respectful relation. When Richard II was imprisoned and murdered, Isabella was ordered by a new king Henry IV to move out of Windsor and had to settle into a place called Sunninghill. Henry IV didn't know what to do with her; he then decided that she should marry his son, the future Henry V, but Isabella put her foot down and utterly refused to have anything to do with the prince. Knowing her husband was dead, she went into mourning and ignored Henry IV's demand; eventually Henry let her go back to France. She married again, to Charles, Duke of Orleans. Isabella died in childbirth at the age of 23. Her younger sister, Catherine of Valois, later married King Henry V.
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