Isabelle de Bourbon

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Portrait of Isabelle de Bourbons by an anonymous painter, 16th century

Isabelle de Bourbon , Spanish Isabel de Borbón (* 1437 ; † September 25, 1465 in Antwerp ) was Duchess of Burgundy from 1454 to 1465 through marriage to Charles the Bold .

Life

Isabelle was the second daughter and thus the fifth child of Duke Charles I de Bourbon and his second wife Agnes of Burgundy .

On October 30, 1454, she married her cousin Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, in Lille , the only legitimate son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. For Karl this was the second marriage. His first wife, Katharina von Valois , had died when he was 13 years old. The marriage is said to have been happy, although Karl is said to have preferred a marriage to Margaret of York . However, by the Treaty of Arras between his father and the French king, Charles was obliged to marry a princess from the French royal family.

Mary of Burgundy , the only surviving child of Charles the Bold, was born from marriage to Isabelle. She was born in Brussels on February 13, 1457 . Isabelle died on September 25, 1465 in the Abbey of Saint Michael in Antwerp, probably of tuberculosis . The abbey church housed its monumental tomb until it was destroyed.

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SURNAME Bourbon, Isabelle de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourbon, Isabella of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION by marriage Duchess of Burgundy
DATE OF BIRTH 1437
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1465
Place of death Antwerp