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Isabella, Queen Eng/Prss Fr

Isabella, Queen Eng/Prss Fr[1, 2, 3]

Female 1292 - 1358  (66 years)

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  • Name Isabella  
    Suffix Queen Eng/Prss Fr 
    Born 1292  Of Paris, Seine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened Y  [4, 5, 6, 7
    Gender Female 
    AFN 8XJD-8V 
    _UID 8B979AEFE6A44D9FB2374211C8AF64C1F92D 
    Died 22 Aug 1358  Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I14287  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 5 Feb 2012 

    Married 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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Nov 1330, Elms, Tyburn, Warwickshire, Eng (Executed For Treason By Edw. Iii) Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F7367  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married 25 Jan 1307-1308  Boulogne, PA DE Cal, Fr (Or 28Th) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F7371  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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]

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  • Sources 
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    2. [S902] #54.

    3. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    4. [S641] Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To New England Between 1623 And 1650, Weis, Frederick Lewis, (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1992).

    5. [S803] Chapman Family History, Chapman, Beauchamp William, ((a Private Publishing) 1987).

    6. [S723] CHART=Kinship Of Families.

    7. [S900] CHART=The Royal Line.