This Week in Royal History: October 23-29
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Welcome to This Week in Royal History, where we're exploring the world outside the Tudors with royal history highlights from a variety of centuries. This week we look at the following people: Charlotte of Valois (and her sister Louise), Isabella of Portugal, Renee of France, Anna of Austria, and Catherine of Valois.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tudors Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to this week in Royal History, where we're exploring the world outside the Tudors, |
| 0:12.8 | with Royal History highlights from a variety of centuries. |
| 0:16.9 | This week, the week of October 23rd through the 29th. |
| 0:22.0 | The year was 1516 in France, and Queen Claude, Consort of Francis I, had just given birth to a daughter. |
| 0:30.8 | They would name her Charlotte. We know her as Charlotte of Valois. This tiny princess had green eyes and red hair, something that was |
| 0:40.9 | passed on to her thanks to her maternal grandmother, Anne of Brittany. Now Charlotte's sister, |
| 0:47.6 | Louisa Valois, was older than Charlotte and the eldest child of Claude and Francis. And due to endless hostilities at the time between Spain and France, |
| 0:58.2 | Francis I and Charles I of Spain decided that a betrothal to Francis's eldest daughter, |
| 1:05.2 | Louise, was the best option. |
| 1:07.9 | The benefit for Spain in this contract was that now Spain controlled the kingdom of Naples. |
| 1:16.9 | This treaty stopped the hostilities and mandated that if Louise were to die before marriage, |
| 1:23.3 | that Charles would be obligated to wed another daughter of Francis I, or else maybe his sister-in-law, Renee. |
| 1:31.7 | Sadly, Louise died when she was only three years old, and it was her younger sister, Charlotte, |
| 1:37.6 | who would replace her in line to wed the Spanish king, Charles I. Well, Charles became Holy Roman Emperor while the two were betrothed. However, |
| 1:48.2 | Charlotte would not live to become an empress. Charlotte of Valois died on the 18th of September |
| 1:54.4 | 1524 at the age of seven after contracting measles. Her mother had died only two months before her, |
| 2:02.8 | and her aunt, Margaret, of Angoulam, looked after her until her death. Charlotte's father, |
| 2:10.5 | Francis I, was at war and was not with her when she died. A year after Charlotte's death, Charles, now Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, married Isabella of Portugal, |
| 2:24.5 | the daughter of Manuel I of Portugal and Maria of Aragon. |
| 2:29.7 | Isabella was born this week in 1503 and was named after her maternal grandmother, Isabella, |
| 2:35.7 | the first of Castile, and her aunt, Isabella of Aragon, who was her father's first wife? |
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