Isabella of Bourbon

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

Life

Isabelle was the second daughter and fifth child in order of Duke Charles I de Bourbon and his second wife Agnes of Burgundy to the world.

They married on October 30, 1454 in Lille her cousin Charles the Bold, Count of Charolais, the only legitimate son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. For Charles, this was the second marriage. His first wife, Catherine of Valois, had died when he was 13 years old. Marriage should have been happy, although Karl a marriage with Margaret of York is said to have preferred. Karl was, however, obliged by the Treaty of Arras between his father and the King of France to marry a princess of the French royal house.

Mary of Burgundy, the only surviving child of Charles the Bold, sprang from his marriage to Isabelle. She was born on February 13, 1457 in Brussels. Isabelle died on September 25, 1465 in the Abbey of Saint Michael in Antwerp, probably from tuberculosis.