tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644036152805047632.post9124628222204980281..comments2024-03-28T05:22:09.542-07:00Comments on Record of a Baffled Spirit: 'History never repeats itself; man, always does.' VoltaireMike Keytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15116528233058221536noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644036152805047632.post-52965234807923434992020-03-21T09:30:15.531-07:002020-03-21T09:30:15.531-07:00It might have been better had he died. He was not ...It might have been better had he died. He was not a lucky man, nor were his descendents. His daughter Isabelle married Richard II of England at the age of six, and when Richard was deposed the new king, Henry IV pressured her to marry his son, the future Henry V. She refused and instead married her cousin still a young but experinced seventeen. She died in childbirth two years later. <br />As for Charles, officially called 'the blessed' unofficially 'the mad' was essentially psychotic. Raving at times. This madness continued in the French Royal family. Despite his madness, once convinced he was made of glass, Charles was remarkably fecund. His tenth child, Catherine, married Henry V of England and the Valois strain of madness entered the English Royal Family in the form of Henry Vi. Nice man, but weak and doo lally. Mike Keytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15116528233058221536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1644036152805047632.post-837425805420496172020-03-21T07:58:22.306-07:002020-03-21T07:58:22.306-07:00re: History never repeats itself; man, always does...re: History never repeats itself; man, always does. <br /><br />How very true. Makes you wonder how history would've changed if the king too had been killed. Maria Zanninihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604862636922299273noreply@blogger.com