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Isabeau of Bavaria

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    (1370-1435)
    Queen consort of King Charles VI of France
    Daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria

Why she might be annoying:

    She allowed her children to be raised in squalor.
    There were rumors that her son, the Dauphin, was not sired by her husband.
    She agreed to the Treaty of Troyes, which barred her son, Charles, from the French throne in favor of King Henry V of England.
    Marquis De Sade wrote a novel about her.
    Her son refused to accept the Treaty of Troyes and proclaimed himself King of France upon his father's death.
    She dismissed her son's claims, referring to him as 'Charles who called himself Dauphin, and now calls himself King.'
    A popular saying in France was that the country 'had been lost by a woman and would be recovered by a girl' (the girl in question was Joan of Arc).
    Her grandson, King Louis XI, called her 'a great whore.'
    She is one of the most reviled figures in French history.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her husband suffered from periods of schizophrenia.
    There is no reliable evidence that she was in fact unfaithful to her husband. (He, on the other hand, had a mistress.)
    She became regent of France during the Hundred Years' War. In addition, France was in the middle of a civil war involving noble factions.
    Most her children died in childhood.
    Her great-grandson, King Henry VII, was the first Tudor monarch.

Credit: Truffle


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 109 Votes: 47.71% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 77 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 21 Votes: 80.95% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 33 Votes: 51.52% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 56 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 73 Votes: 57.53% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 121 Votes: 55.37% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 84 Votes: 60.71% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 54 Votes: 79.63% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 85 Votes: 63.53% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 74 Votes: 72.97% Annoying