Catherine de Montsalvy

Yolande, d'Aragon, Queen of four Kingdoms, Yolande d'Anjou, 1384 - 1442
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Queen Yolande was Isabelle de Montsalvy's (Catherine and Arnaud's daughter) godmother. She had called Catherine "my child" and helped her a few times, when everything seemed lost for the Montsalvy's. She regretted though that Catherine had not married one of her chevaliers "Pierre de Brézé - saying she had an impossible husband!

Geneviève Casile played Queen Yolande d'Aragon (d'Anjou) in the TV-Adaption Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour

non fictive character
was a daughter of John I of Aragon and his wife Yolande of Bar.Yolande's marriage to Louis II of Anjou, in December 1400, was part of an effort, made also in earlier such marriages, to resolve the contested claims upon the kingdom of Sicily and Naples between the houses of Anjou and Aragon. Louis spent much of his life fighting in Italy for his claim to the Kingdom of Naples. In France, Yolande was the Duchess of Anjou and the Countess of Provence. She preferred to hold court in Angers and Saumur. She had six children, and through her second son Réne was the grandmother of Margaret of Anjou, Queen Consort of King Henry VI of England.
In the emerging second phase of the Hundred Years' War, Yolande chose to support the French ( in particular the Armagnac party) against the English and the Burgundians; she supported the claim of Dauphin Charles who, relying upon Yolande's resources and help, succeeded in becoming crowned Charles VII of France. As Charles' own mother, Isabeau of Bavaria, worked against Charles' claims, it has been said that Yolande was the person who kept the adolescent Charles alive and protected him when all sorts of plots were attempted against his life, and acted as a substitute mother to young Charles. She removed Charles from his parents' Court and kept him in her own castles, usually in the Loire Valley, where Charles received Joan of Arc. Yolande married young Charles to her daughter, Marie d'Anjou, thus becoming Charles' mother-in-law.
Yolande was not averse to recruiting beautiful women and coaching them to become the mistresses of influential men, and whom would spy on her behalf. She had a network of such women in the courts of Lorraine, Burgundy, Brittany, and her son-in-law.

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