Radegonde of Valois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French princess
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Place of Birth: Château de Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Date of Death: 19-Mar-1445
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Radegonde of Valois
- Radegonde of Valois (born in Chinon in August 1428 and died in Tours on March 19, 1445), was a French princess, eldest daughter of King Charles VII of France and Marie of Anjou .
- She was betrothed to Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. She was born in the city of Chinon in August 1428, as evidenced by an act of the Queen's Treasurer General dated August 29 of this year, referring to the "gesine recently made in the city of Chinon, Madame Arragonde of France"The young princess, the eldest daughter of the king, was baptized in honour of Saint Radegund, to whom her father devoted a particular cult.
- According to Christian de MĂ©rindol, this choice was explained by reasons both political, historical and religious, in this particular context of reconquest of the kingdom of France on the English: "The name of Radegonde had several meanings: symbol of the city of Poitiers, seat of the second Parliament, so place of resistance in Paris, in the hands of the English and Burgundians, symbol of legitimacy, because the saint was the wife of Clotaire, the son of Clovis, finally a saint who could only attract the graces of heaven, so necessary to the young king.
- "She is the only princess of royal blood to have borne this name within the Capetian lineage.On April 22, 1430, his father promised her in marriage to Sigismund, born in 1427, son of the Archduke Frederick of Austria, Count of Tyrol. She became ill in Tours in 1445, perhaps suffering from pleurisy contracted after returning on foot from a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Notre-Dame de l'Epine.She died on March 19, at the age of 16 years.She is buried in the Saint-Gatien cathedral of Tours.Her fiancé, Sigismund of Austria, married in 1449 Eleanor of Scotland, daughter of King James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort.
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