But it is universally agreed that Louis entered the ceremony and the marriage itself dutifully, as evidenced by his formal embrace of Margaret upon their first meeting on 24 June 1436, the day before their wedding.

[1] Margaret and Louis' marriage shows both the nature of medieval royal diplomacy and the precarious position of the French monarchy.

After a papal dispensation was granted due to the age of the bridge and groom,[3] the marriage took place 25 June 1436 in the afternoon in the chapel of the castle of Tours.

King Charles' attire and the speed with which the guests were hustled out was considered an insult to Scotland, which was an important ally in France's war with the English.

Margaret was considered lovely, gracious and very beautiful,[7] with a certain ability to write poetry and rhymes, though no example of her compositions survived destruction at her husband's hands after her death.

[citation needed] She had a strained relationship with her husband, the future king of France, mainly because of Louis' hatred of his father.

[citation needed] On 16 August 1445, between ten and eleven at night, she died in Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France at the age of 20.

She died, raving against a Jamet de Tillay, a Breton soldier, in favour of her father-in-law, King Charles (Jamet surprised Margaret at her habitual poetry reading, when there were no candles, only a good fire in the mantelpiece; he stuck a candle into her face, sniggered and afterwards went around, talking about "wanton princesses".

Her last words, in response to others' urgings to rouse herself and live, were supposedly Fi de la vie!