WI: No Isabeau of Bavaria?

Basically, what if Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen to Charles VI of France, died around the time of her marriage, causing him to marry elsewhere? With a wife with, say, less generous inclinations manage to not gain such a terrible reputation? Maybe they have a healthy son earlier then Charles VI and Isabeau did?

My main pick so far is Isabeau's cousin, Sophia/Sofia of Bavaria, who was born in 1376 and got married OTL in 1388. She'd be perfect to continue the Bavarian alliance, and she was described as economical, so that might help things.
 
I think Isabeau gets a lot of the blame for what would have happened anyway, at least moneywise, and Charles VI was a great lover of spending lots of money on frivolous parties and the like. The more important butterfly would be the lack of a rivalry between Isabeau and Valentina Visconti, the wife of Louis d'Orleans. Her decision to jump into bed with Louis was at least partially due to her absolute hatred of Valentina whose father had deposed Isabeau's grandfather. If Isabeau isn't sleeping with Louis, then the eventual Charles VII might not end up being a bastard (I am quite convinced that he was) or at least not have that claim surrounding him.
 
I think Isabeau gets a lot of the blame for what would have happened anyway, at least moneywise, and Charles VI was a great lover of spending lots of money on frivolous parties and the like. The more important butterfly would be the lack of a rivalry between Isabeau and Valentina Visconti, the wife of Louis d'Orleans. Her decision to jump into bed with Louis was at least partially due to her absolute hatred of Valentina whose father had deposed Isabeau's grandfather. If Isabeau isn't sleeping with Louis, then the eventual Charles VII might not end up being a bastard (I am quite convinced that he was) or at least not have that claim surrounding him.

Bastard or no, the power vaccuum resulting from her husband's insanity would lead her to being accused of adultery irregardless of whether she did this or not. Look at Marguerite d'Anjou a generation later - chances are that her son WAS legitimate, but because of a likewise incapacitated hubby (probably suffering from the same thing as his French grampère) the rumors that she shagged anything with a pulse and a penis abounded, namely that her son was actually a Butler or a Beaufort. Mary of Modena suffered from the same rumors, as did Anne Boleyn, Kitty Howard, Marie Antoinette. The fact that Isabeau ACTED as shr did simply gave them far more likelihood of being true.

Also, IDK if substituting Sophie for Isabeau is going to do much good. Her OTL husband, Wenzel/Vaclav IV killed St. Jan Nepomuk for not breaking the seal of confession to tell him if the Queen was having an affair or not (as he suspected). Which means thecourt might still be rife witrumors of delphinate bastardy
 
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Bastard or no, the power vaccuum resulting from her husband's insanity would lead her to being accused of adultery irregardless of whether she did this or not. Look at Marguerite d'Anjou a generation later - chances are that her son WAS legitimate, but because of a likewise incapacitated hubby (probably suffering from the same thing as his French grampère) the rumors that she shagged anything with a pulse and a penis abounded, namely that her son was actually a Butler or a Beaufort. Mary of Modena suffered from the same rumors, as did Anne Boleyn, Kitty Howard, Marie Antoinette. The fact that Isabeau ACTED as shr did simply gave them far more likelihood of being true.

Also, IDK if substituting Sophie for Isabeau is going to do much good. Her OTL husband, Wenzel/Vaclav IV killed St. Jan Nepomuk for not breaking the seal of confession to tell him if the Queen was having an affair or not (as he suspected). Which means thecourt might still be rife witrumors of delphinate bastardy

The difference is that Isabeau was explicitly telling people that Charles VII was a bastard, whereas Marguerite d'Anjou did what she could to diffuse the rumors. The rumours would likely still be there, but it is hard to imagine things going worse than with Isabeau.
 
The difference is that Isabeau was explicitly telling people that Charles VII was a bastard, whereas Marguerite d'Anjou did what she could to diffuse the rumors. The rumours would likely still be there, but it is hard to imagine things going worse than with Isabeau.

Fair enough. Although her behaviour didn't help matters. Who else might be a good replacement for Isabeau? Or is @Kynan set on having Sophie as her replacement?
 
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