Isabella, Queen Eng/Prss Fr^{[1, 2]}

1292 - 1358  (66 years)

• Name	Isabella
  Suffix	Queen Eng/Prss Fr
  Birth	1292	Of Paris, Seine, France
  Christening	Y  [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  AFN	8XJD-8V
  _UID	8B979AEFE6A44D9FB2374211C8AF64C1F92D
  Death	22 Aug 1358	Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England
  Person ID	I14287	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Marriage	1 Sep 1794
  Family ID	F13693	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Roger De MORTIMER, Sir/1St Earl Marche/8Th Baron,   b. 3 May 1287, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d. 29 Nov 1330, Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, Eng (Executed For Treason By Edw. Iii) (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F7367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Marriage	25 Jan 1307-1308	Boulogne, PA DE Cal, Fr (Or 28Th)
  Family ID	F7371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  MISC: She and her English lover, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, plotted the overthrow and murder of her husband Edward II in 1327. In consequence of his father's assassination (instigated by his own mother), Edward III declared that he was himself the true King of France. In 1330 Edward III had Roger Mortimer executed, and confined Isabella to a convent.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. [Encyclopdia Britannica CD '97] **********

  
  

• Sources

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