Isabella de France 
Isabella was born in 1292 in France. Isabella's father was Philippe IV the Fair Capet King of France and her mother was Joan (Juana) I de Navarre Queen of Navarre. Her paternal grandparents were Philippe III the Bold le Hardi King of France and Isabel de AragUn; her maternal grandparents were Henri I the Fat de Troyes King of Navarre and Blanche Capet de Artois. She was an only child. She died at the age of 66 on August 22nd, 1358 in Hertford Castle, Hertford, England.General Notes
Isabella OF FRANCE (b. 1292--d. Aug. 23, 1358), queen consort of Edward II of England, who played a principal part in the deposition of the King in 1327.
The daughter of Philip IV the Fair of France, Isabella was married to Edward on Jan. 25, 1308, at Boulogne. Isabella's first interventions in politics were conciliatory. During the height of the influence of the King's favourite Piers Gaveston and after Gaveston's murder in 1312, she attempted to promote peace between Edward and the barons. In the 1320s, however, Edward's new favourites, the Despensers, aroused her antagonism. Isabella sailed for France in 1325 to settle a long-standing dispute over Gascony. Joined there by her son, the future Edward III, she announced her refusal to return to England until the Despensers were removed from court. She became the mistress of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore and with Mortimer and other baronial exiles crossed to Essex in 1326 and routed the forces of Edward and the Despensers.
After the accession of Edward III (1327) Isabella and Mortimer enjoyed a brief period of influence until 1330 when the young king asserted his independence by the arrest and execution of Mortimer. Isabella was sent into retirement. In her old age she joined an order of nuns, the Poor Clares. [EncyclopEdia Britannica CD '97]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.05 Nov 1187 in Paris, Seine, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Montpensier, Auvergne, France
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Chateau of Poissy, Yvelines, France d.25 Aug 1270 in near Tunis, Tunisia, Africa
- b.23 May 1188 in Chateaux de Pale, Valencia, Castile d.30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
- b.01 May 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orienta, France
- b.1198 in Of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France
- b.1221 in St.-Maime, Forcalquier, France d.20 Dec 1295 in St. Marcel, Paris, Seine, France
- b.BET. 1198 - 1201 in of Ghamberg, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1268 in Fontainbleau, Seine-et-Marne, France d.29 Nov 1314 in Fontainbleau, Seine-et-Marne, France
- b.BET. 1243 - 1247 in AragUn, Spain or Montpellier, Herault, France d.28 JAN 1270/71 in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
- b.1292 in France d.22 Aug 1358 in Hertford Castle, Hertford, England
- b.1244 in Troyes, Aube, France d.21 Jul 1274 in Pamplona, Navarre, France
- b.JAN 1271/72 in Bar-Sur-Seine, Aube, France d.02 Apr 1305 in Ch, teau de Vincennes Paris, Val-de-Marne, France
- b.05 Nov 1187 in Paris, Seine, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Montpensier, Auvergne, France
- b.Sep 1216 in France d.8 JAN 1249/50 in Al-Mansura, on the Nile, Egypt
- b.23 May 1188 in Chateaux de Pale, Valencia, Castile d.30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
- b.~ 1248 in Arras, France d.02 May 1302 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1180 in Brabant, France d.1 FEB 1247/48
- b.BET. 1218 - 1224 in Brabant, France d.29 Sep 1288
- b.~ 1201 d.BET. 1235 - 1244
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Isabella and Edward II of Caernarvon were married in a religious ceremony in Boulogne, France.
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