Isabella of Valois – The Cruellest Royal Marriage Medieval England Never Told | Sleep History
She was 6 years old. They packed her dolls alongside her crowns and shipped her from France to England as a bride for King Richard II. For three years, he was the only person who was kind to her. Then they took everything – her husband, her jewels, her freedom. When the most powerful man in England demanded she marry his son, she said NO. She was 10.
This is one of the most heartbreaking and forgotten stories in medieval history – documented by chronicler Jean Froissart, preserved in the French Archives Nationales, and confirmed in England’s Calendar of Patent Rolls. Discover what happened when they opened her grave 215 years later.
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⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 A girl in a blue velvet dress – the wedding of 1396
01:50 Why Isabella mattered – the Hundred Years’ War
03:22 Who was Isabella of Valois
04:13 The marriage contract – pricing a child’s death
06:08 A queen’s trousseau: crowns and dolls in the same shipment
06:43 Richard II – the father she never had
08:09 No letters, no words – Isabella’s silence
09:12 The last visit – a lying promise
10:01 The fall of Richard and death at Pontefract
11:53 State-sanctioned theft – robbing a child queen
13:18 “NO” – the defiance that shook a king
15:01 Return to France and a second marriage
16:41 Death at 19 and history’s cruellest irony
18:22 The tomb opened after 215 years – what they found inside
19:22 Forgotten by two countries for six centuries
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17 Comments
Each time Muslims say that European too married little girls speaking about those people, this story of what it exactly was should be shown
Compared to many girls of her time, Isabella had a pleasant life. She was never treated unkindly by anyone. Unfortunately she died young, but that was common then.
A golden cage is still a cage silver puppet strings are still puppet strings yes she was lucky enough that her first husband treated her well but she was still a child bride the only choice she ever got to make in her entire life was saying no to her husband's brother / killer for marrying his son which I actually think is an insult and shows how they viewed women as nothing more than tools and this is why I say history is important because if we don't learn about history it's bound to be repeated especially with how the world is now😢 I just hope she found peace in next life❤
Isabella marriage wasn't consummated, he died. She later died at age 19. It still goes on in the western world too. Except trump doesn't marry them.
Yes it did, but have not done so for centuries. Unlike islamic doctrine which continues to perpetrate this archaic abominable practice.
Poor beautiful child ❤🥀❤️🌹💙🙏🏼🕯️
Marriage contracts would be signed but the marriage would not be consummated until usually around mid-teens if the contract was still honoured. This was to protect the girl's health and that of any child. Think of Catherine of Aragon. Contract signed she went to live in England. The marriage to Arthur took place when she was in her mid-teens.
As horrible as this is. It still goes on in the world of today. Child marriage, "honor" killing, forced captivity of daughters who won't do as their powerful fathers try to force them to do.
This is why Lilith told God , "The FUXK Imma be this fool's 'wife"!!" Deuces, Im out!!"
Was it really ‘love’… or just political convenience?
rampant pedophilia born from these disgusting societal practices and acquiescence of the people who standby and enable such savagery shameful by all manners
There is another video with the same narrator don't know if it's AI but the channel is called PaladinApp (paladin reconstruction history) same narrator different channel thats what these guys do nowadays open different channels under Ai
A terribly sad story, poorly narrated by AI? If a real person is narrating this, it's even worse!
And muslims are still doing this! 😡
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She didn't say no anymore than her second husband said yes. And her sister brought madness into the English royal family. Henry VI and eventually George III and how many non-monarch siblings. A weak gene.
They couldn't even let her rest in peace.