Charles was raised in the household of Yolande, who became his most important protector and adviser. During the winter of 1462–63, Marie of Anjou made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Marie of Anjou, daughter of Yolande of Aragon, was queen consort of Charles VII of France during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War and the mother of Louis XI. After Charles VII's death in 1461, Marie lived quietly. When Charles VI died in October 1422, Marie's husband claimed the throne as Charles VII, though the English and their Burgundian allies controlled much of northern France. He was not crowned until 1429, after Joan of Arc's relief of Orléans. Marie had many children, including the future Louis XI. She lived largely in the background of court life, while her husband's favor went to his mistress Agnès Sorel, and she at times presided over the royal council in his absence. Returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, she died at the Cistercian abbey of Les Châtelliers in Poitou on November 29, 1463. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.