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(15 Mar 1292 - 22 Aug 1358)
Isabella took a lover and at least acquiesced in the plot to murder her husband, Edward II. Her son, Edward III, sent her to Castle Rising in East Anglia following the execution of her lover (Mortimer); she lived there 28 years in semi-seclusion. She is buried at Grey Friars Church at Newgate, London, as she requested.
"Webster's Biographical Dictionary" (Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1980), p. 763. Isabella of France. 1292-1358. Daughter of Philip IV of France; m. (1308) Edward II, who treated her with great unkindness; driven to France; raised army with Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March, and formed plot to invade England; landed with army at Harwich (1326) and terminated successful invasion by deposition of Edward (1327); ruled with Mortimer (1327-30) as coregent for her son Edward III; arrested with Mortimer (1330) by Edward III and Henry of Lancaster; lived thereafter in semiretirement.
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| Birth | 15 Mar 1292 | Orleans, Bourgogne, France | | | |
| Birth | Bet Prob May 1295 and Nov 1295 | Paris, France | | | |
| Title (Nobility) | 25 Jan 1308 - 20 Jan 1327 | Queen Consort of England | | | |
| Coronation | 25 Feb 1308 | England | | | |
| Burial | Aug 1358 | Grey Friars Church, Newgate, London, England | | | |
| Death | 22 Aug 1358 | Castle Rising, Norfolk, England | | | |
| Death | 22 Aug 1358 | Hereford, Herefordshire, England | | | |
| Burial | 27 Nov 1358 | Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England | | | |
| Marriage | 22 JAN 1307/08 | Boulogne Cathedral, Pas-De-Calais, France. - King Edward PLANTAGENET Of England II | | | |
| Divorce | | King Edward PLANTAGENET Of England II | | | |
| Alt name | | Isabel OF FRANCE | | | |
| Alt name | | She-Wolf of France | | | |
| Alt name | | Queen Isabella CAPET of England | | | |
| Residence | | arrived in England at the age of 12 during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions | | | |
| Title (Nobility) | | Princess of France | | | |
| Residence | after her fall from power in 1330 | castle, Castle Rising, Norfolk, England | | | |
| Residence | | brought up in and around the Château du Louvre and the Palais de la Cité in Paris | | | |
| the youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre | | | | | |
| noted for her beauty, diplomatic skills and intelligence | | | | | |
| Royal House: Capet | | | | | |
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