She continued without comment on the English Bard and his plays, and I breathed again.
“It’s hard to understand a mother betraying her own son in the way Isabeau did. Admittedly, she chose to support the side led by Henry, her pregnant daughter’s husband. Her other daughter, Michelle, was also married to Philip, the son of the Duke of Burgundy. So what was a poor mother to do? Two daughters on one side, one son on the other.”
“I’m betting she went with the most politically expedient,” I said.
Joan smiled. “We’ll never know why she did what she did. But the Treaty of Troyes was drawn up and signed. To add insult to injury, Isabeau declared that her son, the Dauphin, was illegitimate.
“The Treaty disinherited the Dauphin from any claim to the throne of France and named Isabeau’s grandson
