What health problems did the Valois suffer from? And which were further introduced into the bloodline.
Mainly... stupidity... both in chronic and acute form.
Edit: with maybe 2 notable exceptions.
Sorry, I meant the Valois-Angoulême. What were the health issues that were introduced by the wives?
Actually, what problems did Charles VIII, Louis XII and Anne of Brittany have?
Not much, since only two produced issue: Claude de Bretagne/France and Catherine de Médicis. The first one died young and was infected by her husband of syphilis but her lameness might have been inherited by her grandchildren through Henri II. She was also from a line with a very high infant mortality, even for the period. The second one... well, it's not clear. The black legend her enemies crafted obscures much. Because of Henri II's penile difformity which meant he could not impregnate her in the first years of their marriage, she feared she was going to be repudiated and supposedly drank many 'potions' to help with her fertility, which might have a deleterious effect on the health of her children but then again might have not.
Charles VIII was a weak child. His father Louis XI ordered he got a light education so he might not overexert himself. He seems to have partly overcome this by the time he was an adult since he campaigned vigorously in Italy (but got some illnesses for that), but that only hastened his demise: he hit his head on a stone ceiling while going to a tennis game. Louis XII had gout. François Ier also accused him of being impotent. Anne de Bretagne was the mother of the aforementioned Claude. Many deaths in very early childhood for her issue with only two girls surviving out of ten children. So part of the Valois-Angoulême weakness in constitution might come for her plus François Ier's syphilis. Not to mention the inbreeding.
You mean the kid who died at three? Yeah, he probably would have had better chances of siring viable offspring if his father had not reneged on the betrothal to Elizabeth of York. But then, Louis XI tended to support the Lancastrians and it was Burgundy who supported the Yorkists... and no matter how creepy, the engagement of Dauphin Charles to 3-year-old Margaret of Austria made much more sense dynastically.
Charles V and Louis XI, if I'm not mistaken.Mainly... stupidity... both in chronic and acute form.
Edit: with maybe 2 notable exceptions.
He had better constitution than Claude..
Wasn't Charles Orlando struck down by measles? Any kid would have had difficulties surviving a measles outbreak at the time. It really does seem like he was the strongest of Anne of Brittany's children. That it was merely unfortunate circumstances that killed him.
Charles V and Louis XI, if I'm not mistaken.
Yep. Charles VII had Jeanne d'Arc though. She was quite an asset to soldier morale.Most likely the ones who were referenced, but Charles VII made a decent showing as well. And Charles VI has an excuse where Jean II does not.
Quite right. It is possible that having Jeanne d'Arc and then his son the Spider King outshining him may have caused people to underestimate his real competence level.Charles VII had her for a year. She was damn effective in that year, but he managed alright in the latter campaigns which freed Normandy and Aquitaine. Of course, by that time, King Henry VI had lost his last marbles and the War of the Roses was beginning to simmer up. Plus the Beauforts were downright incompetent. In fact, it might actually make me believe the claime by Charles VII's own mother (!) that he was illegitimate: he was good at what he did and never went crazy, except for the bout of paranoia at the end of his life. Of course, when your son is l'Universelle Aragne, he probably is out to get you.
Quite right. It is possible that having Jeanne d'Arc and then his son the Spider King outshining him may have caused people to underestimate his real competence level.
Then again, Louis XI used money like a diplomatic sledgehammer. This is part of why he remained in history as backstabby.