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158 - THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. warmly agitated between the two sovereigns ; though it appears to little purpose, for there is every reason to believe that they never were restored. In the month of July, 1402, Isabella, who had not yet com- pleted her fifteenth year, once more landed in her native coun- try, where she was received with a warm and joyous welcome by all whom her youth, beauty and misfortunes had interested in her behalf. About three years afterward, the young widow — against her own wishes at the time — was betrothed to the son of the Due d'Orleans, who succeeded to the title in the year 1407, by the death of his father, who was savagely murdered by the Due de Bourgogne. Two years afterward, the marriage (to which the betrothal had only been the prelude) was celebrated between herself and her cousin, whose many virtues, added to brilliant talents and elegance of mind and person, had completely suc- ceeded not only in reconciling her to the match, but in winning her affection and esteem. Nothing could exceed the felicity that attended this union, too sOon, alas ! to be destroyed by the untimely death of Isa- bella, who expired in 1410, after giving birth to a female in- fant. Her virtues and charms have been chronicled by the poems of her gifted husband, whose grief for her loss was as pas- sionate as his love had been true and ardent. Years afterward it was his fate to suffer nearly a quarter of a century's captivity in the country which had been the scene of his fair wife's mis- fortunes, being made prisoner by Henry the Fifth at Agin- court.