Editing Gian Galeazzo Visconti (section)

=== Conflict with France ===
Galeazzo was a devoted father to his daughter [[Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans|Valentina]]. He reacted to gossip about Valentina at the French Court by threatening to declare war on France.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Frazee |first=Charles A. |date=June 1992 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 3 vols. xxxi + 2232 pp. $225.00. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168272 |journal=Church History |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=241–243 |doi=10.2307/3168272 |jstor=3168272 |s2cid=162432200 |issn=0009-6407}}</ref> The wife of King [[Charles VI of France|Charles VI]] of France was [[Isabeau of Bavaria]], the granddaughter of Bernabò Visconti, and, thus, a bitter rival of Valentina and her father Gian Galeazzo.{{sfnp|Bueno de Mesquita|2011|pages=63, 158–159}}

Furious at French political manoeuvring that had removed [[Genoa]] from his influence, Gian Galeazzo had been attempting to stop the transfer of Genoese sovereignty to France and [[Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy|Enguerrand VII]] was dispatched to warn him that France would consider further interference a hostile act. The quarrel was more than political. Valentina Visconti, the wife of the Duke of Orleans and Gian Galeazzo's beloved daughter, had been exiled from Paris due to the machinations of Queen Isabeau the same month as the departure of the crusade.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

In 1396, after the [[Battle of Nicopolis|disaster of Nicopolis]], Galeazzo was strongly suspected of having informed the Ottomans of the Crusaders' plans and of the size and strength of their army as vengeance for his daughter being accused of being behind the illness of King Charles VI of France, and for France's increasing control over the city of Genoa that he had attempted to hamper, for which he had been rebuked by [[Enguerrand VII de Coucy|Enguerrand VII]] before the battle.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}