Princess Isabelle FRANCE

   Other names for Isabelle were Isabella, "The Fair", ENGLAND King and FRANCE Princess.

   Ancestral File Number: B02J-7X.

   General Notes:

Princess of FRANCE, Queen of ENGLAND.

"The Fair".

Not Married Roger De Mortimer Earl of March.

BOOKS
The English A Social History 1066-1945, Christopher Hibbert, 1987, Norton, p50:
"But by the end of the thirteenth century those friars who still adhered to the strict rules of conduct laid down by the founders of their orders were few and far between. With munificent bequests from royal and noble patrons, all the main orders had acquired riches and had been enabled to begin the constuction of buildings of great splendor, often on the sites of much poorer houses where their former indigence and good intentions had once aroused the admiration of laity and clergy alike. Henry III, Edward I and Edward II were particularlygenerous to the Dominicans whose property in London, where their first community had been found in Chancery Lane in 1221, had spread down to the river and by 1278 included those tow huge Thameside strongholds, Baynards Castle and Montfichet Tower. Henry III's brother, the Earl of Cornwall, as well as Henry III himself, Edward I and John of Gaunt had helped the Carmelites to develop an equally large area upon which a splendid priory appeard. Margaret, second queen of Edward I, QueenIsabella and Queen Philippa were all benefactors of the Franciscans whose Greyfriars Monastery was to be one of the finest in London with a large library built at the expense of Richard Whittington..."

Kings and Queens of Europe, GenealogicalChart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1989: "Isabelle, Daughter of Philippe IV and Jeanne Navarre, Mar Edward II King of England, Died 1358."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday &Co
p227: "Queen Isabella had shown great courage in bringing her small army across the North Sea...
"...The landing had been made on the domain of Thomas of Brotherton, half brother to the king and her own blood cousin...
"Henryof Lancaster, called Wryneck, came galloping down from the north with a body of men. He was the brother of Thomas [2nd Earl of Lancaster], who had been so summarily disposed of, and had succeeded to the huge family estates. Burning with the desire for vengeance, which he had been compelled to suppress for four years, he threw in his lot with the invaders..."
p286: "Isabella died at Castle Rising on August 22, 1358, at the age of sixty-three, a ripe age indeed for those days. She had lived in seclusion for twenty-eight years and had done nothing to justify criticsm. She had expressed a desire to be buried in the church of the Grey Friars at Newgate in London. With the general willingness to find fault in every particular, some historians have survised that this was due to the reception there of the mangled remains of Mortimer after his execution...A better reason is that she would be permitted burial at the Grey Friars in the robes of the order; a precaution against the prying fingers of the devil, whose interest the erring queen had good reason to fear. Queen Marguerite, the second consort of Edward I, was Isabella's aunt and was buried there, as it was through her munificence that the edifice had been raised. This may have been a reason for Isabella's desire..."

Political History of England 1216-1377, T F Tout, Vol III, 1905, AMS Press, p239: "Early in 1308 Edward crossed over to France, leaving Gaveston as regent, and was married on January 25, at Boulogne, to Philip the Fair's daughter Isabella, a child of twelve, to whom he had been plighted since 1298. The marriage was attended by the French king and a great gathering of the magnates of both countries..."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, T F Tout, Vol III, 1905, AMS Press, p298: "...At last, on December 1, 1325, Edward peremptorily ordered his wife to return home, and warned her not to consort with certain English traitors in the French court. The Duke of Aquitaine was similarly exhorted to return, with his mother if he could, but if not, without her. The reference to English traitors shows that Edward was aware that Isabella had already formed a close relation with the exiled lord ofWigmore which soon ripened into an adulterous connexion. Inspired by Roger Mortimer, Isabella declared that she was in peril of her life from the malice of the Despensers, and would never go back to her husband as long as the favourites retained power. A band of exiles of 1322 gathered round her and her paramour, and sought to bring about their restoration as champions of the loudly expressed grievances of the queen, and her young son...Thus England, already exposed to a danger of aFrench war, was threatened with the forcible overthrow of the Despensers and the reinstatement of Isabella by armed invaders.
"By the spring of 1326 the scandalous relations of Isabella and Mortimer were notorious all over England and France. Charles IV grew disgusted at his sister's doings, and gave no countenance to her schemes. Isabella accordingly withdrew from Paris with her son and her paramour, and made her way to the Netherlands. There she found refuge in the county ofHainault, whose lord, William II, of Avesnes, was won over to support her by a contract to marry the Duke of Aquitaine to his daughter Philippa..."

p309: "...[1330] Edward discreetly drew a veil over his mother's shame. Mortimer's notorious relations with her were not enumerated in the accusations brought against him, and Isabella, though removed from power and stripped of some of her recent acquisitions, was allowed to live in honourable retirement on her dower manors. Scrupulouslyvisited by her dutiful son, she wandered freely from house to house, as she felt disposed. She died in 1358 at her castle of Hertford, in the habit of the Poor Clares- a sister order of theFranciscans..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol VI, p436, Edward III England:
"The heir apparent was secure at his mother's side. With Roger Mortimer, an influential baron who had escaped to France in 1323 and had become her lover, Isabella now began preparations to invade England to depose her husband. To raise funds for this enterprise, Edward III was betrothed to Philippa, daughter of William, Count of Hainaut and Holland.
"Within five months of their invasion of England, the Queen and the nobles, who hadmuch popular support, overpowered the King's forces. Edward II, charged with incompetence and breaking his coronation oath, was forced to resign, and on January 29, 1327, Edward III, aged 15, was crowned King of England.
"During the next four years Isabella and Mortimer governed in his name, though nominally his guardian was Henry, Earl of Lancaster..."

Europe in the Middle Ages, Robert S Hoyt, 1957, Harcourt Brace & Co, p623: "Genealogical Table III, The Capetian Dynasty, Isabella, Daughter of Philip IV The Fair King of France, Mar Edward II King of England..."

The Later Middle Ages 1272-1485, George Holmes, 1962, Norton Library of England p258: "Appendix B Genealogical Table I The Plantagenets: "Isabella of France Mar Edward II (died 1358)..."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p70: "Isabella "The Fair" of France, 1296-1358, mar Edward II..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol VI, p436, Edward III of England: "...The eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France, born at Windsor on November 13, 1312...
"Edward III grew up amid struggles between his father and a number of barons who were attempting to limit the king's power and the strengthen their own role in governing England. His mother, repelled by her husband's treatment of the nobles and disaffected by the confiscation of her English estates by his supporters, played an important role in this conflict. In 1325 she left England to return to France to intervene in the dispute between her brother, Charles IV of France, and her husband over the latter's French possessions, Guyenne, Gascony, and Ponthieu. She was successful; the land was secured for England on condition that the English King pay homage to Charles. This was performed on the King's behalf by his young son.
"The heir apparent was secure at his mother's side. With Roger Mortimer, an influential baron who had escaped to France in 1323 and had become her lover, Isabella now began preparations to invade England to depose her husband. To raise funds for this enterprise, Edward III was betrothed to Philippa, daughter of William, Count of Hainaut and Holland.
"Within five months of their invasion of England, the Queen and the nobles, who had much popular support, overpowered the King's forces. Edward II, charged with incompetence and breaking his coronation oath, was forced to resign, and on January 29,1327, Edward III, aged 15, was crowned King of England.
"During the next four years Isabella and Mortimer governed in his name, though nominally his guardian was Henry, Earl of Lancaster..."

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World Ancestral Chart No. 31759 Ancestors of Warren Cash 1760.

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 B02J-7X Isabella Of FRANCE Born 1296 Mother Jeanne De CHAMPAGNE.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth T990361-299-0884798 Isabelle Princess of FRANCE Father Philippe IV King of FRANCE Mother Juana Queen of NAVARRE 1292 Paris Seine France.

IGI Marriage T990362-144-0884799 Isabelle Princess of FRANCE Spouse Edward II King of ENGLAND 25 Jan 1307 Boulogne-Sur-Mer Pas-De-Calais France.

   Marriage Information:

Isabelle married King Edward Carnarvon ENGLAND, II, son of King Edward ENGLAND, I and Queen Eleanor Castile ENGLAND, on 22 Jan 1307-1308 in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Pas-De-Calais, France. (King Edward Carnarvon ENGLAND, II was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Castle, Carnarvon, Carnarvon, Wales, died on 21 Sep 1327 in Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England and was buried on 20 Dec 1327 in Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.)

   Marriage Information:

Isabelle also married Earl Roger De Mortimer MARCH on 1 Dec 1325. (Earl Roger De Mortimer MARCH was born on 3 May 1287, died on 27 Nov 1330 in Elms Of Tyburn, London, England and was buried in Nov 1331 in Austin Priory, Wigmore, England.)