Folie de Bourbon?

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Tony Hoskins

Folie de Bourbon?

Legg inn av Tony Hoskins » 05 feb 2006 00:37:02

In the realm of speculative medieval heritable diseases. I've long been
intrigued by the apparent legacy of madness evidenced in Queen Jeanne
(de Bourbon) of France (1339-1378), her son Charles VI, King of France,
and his grandson Henry VI, King of England.

If memory serves, other members of the Valois descendants of Queen
Jeanne gave some evidence of this. Barbara Tuchman in _A Distant Mirror_
discusses the Queen's madness briefly, and deals at greater (and most
interest) length with the madness of her son King Charles VI of France.

This may be of particular interest to the Tudor descendants among us,
if for no other reason that it might provide additional evidence for
Catherine de Valois' legitimacy - her mother Queen Isabeau (wife of
Charles VI) being possessed of a rather unsavory and debauched
reputation.



Anthony Hoskins
History, Genealogy and Archives Librarian
History and Genealogy Library
Sonoma County Library
3rd and E Streets
Santa Rosa, California 95404

707/545-0831, ext. 562

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Re: Folie de Bourbon?

Legg inn av Gjest » 06 feb 2006 14:45:27

Tony Hoskins wrote:
In the realm of speculative medieval heritable diseases. I've long been
intrigued by the apparent legacy of madness evidenced in Queen Jeanne
(de Bourbon) of France (1339-1378), her son Charles VI, King of France,
and his grandson Henry VI, King of England.

Sir Iain Moncreiffe even speculated that it was from Charles VI that

porphyria came to the British royals- that this was what he and Henry
VI suffered from, that Mary Q of Scots and James VI & I both had it
too, and through them it passed to the Hanoverians.

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