Well - true enough to their historical selves, acording to my extensive research based on whatever shows up on the first page of google hits! *g*
Basically, the women don't get much personality in the brief histories. Margaret - who is real - was actually married off to the real Lord of Albret, who honestly sounds like quite a catch --- though they only had one surviving kid - no wikipedia mention of others. So, perhaps it didn't work out that well for her after all. She has no recorded personailty. So, I feel free to give her whatever personality I want. And I rather like her, so - I will have to find her another good dude!
As for Jeanne - whose name is rendered about six ways in English, so I went with the French spelling which seems more consistent - again acording to my vast internet research! - doesn't have mjuch recorded personailty either. Only that Charles was believed to be truly fond of her and she of him. They had something like nine kids altogether, but there is a six year gap between 1360, when their newborn and three year old daughters died within two weeks of each other, and 1366, into which comes the (putative) mistress, also real, and the child in 1363 - also real. So, again, I feel pretty free to invent a plausible explanation for the apparent temporary estrangement.
Philippe was called 'the Bold' - but writing a 'bold' youngest and much loved son isn't very taxing! He's pretty easy to imagine.
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Date: 2012-12-01 11:24 pm (UTC)Basically, the women don't get much personality in the brief histories. Margaret - who is real - was actually married off to the real Lord of Albret, who honestly sounds like quite a catch --- though they only had one surviving kid - no wikipedia mention of others. So, perhaps it didn't work out that well for her after all. She has no recorded personailty. So, I feel free to give her whatever personality I want. And I rather like her, so - I will have to find her another good dude!
As for Jeanne - whose name is rendered about six ways in English, so I went with the French spelling which seems more consistent - again acording to my vast internet research! - doesn't have mjuch recorded personailty either. Only that Charles was believed to be truly fond of her and she of him. They had something like nine kids altogether, but there is a six year gap between 1360, when their newborn and three year old daughters died within two weeks of each other, and 1366, into which comes the (putative) mistress, also real, and the child in 1363 - also real. So, again, I feel pretty free to invent a plausible explanation for the apparent temporary estrangement.
Philippe was called 'the Bold' - but writing a 'bold' youngest and much loved son isn't very taxing! He's pretty easy to imagine.
I'm glad you are enjoying them all!