Isabeau of Bavaria was Queen of France from 1385 to 1422. She was born into the House of Wittelsbach as the only daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti of Milan. At age 15 or 16, Isabeau was sent to France to marry the young King Charles VI; the couple wed three days after their first meeting. Isabeau was honored in 1389 with a lavish coronation ceremony and entry into Paris.
Queen Isabeau receiving Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, c. 1410–1414. Illumination on parchment, British Library
Miniature from Froissart's Chronicles, showing entertainers and acrobats at Isabeau's coronation
Miniature showing Isabeau's entry in Paris on 23 August 1389
In his first bout of illness, Charles VI attacked his knights in 1392, as shown in a miniature from Froissart's Chronicles.
Taddea Visconti, Duchess of Bavaria was an Italian noblewoman of the Visconti family, the ruling house in Milan from 1277 to 1447. She was the first wife of Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria, and the mother of the French queen Isabeau of Bavaria.
A posthumous engraving of Taddea by Joseph Zimmermann
Bernabò Visconti and Beatrice Regina della Scala, the parents of Taddea Visconti
