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  1. Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Queen Isabella Of England stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. Queen Isabella Of England stock photos are available in a variety of sizes and formats to fit your needs.

  2. Royalty – Famous Kings and Queens throughout history. Including Henry VIII, Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria and Catherine the Great. Biography of Queen Isabella I. Her role in strengthening the Spanish State and launching the period of conquest. Her religious views and role in Spanish inquisition.

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    Isabella was born in south-west France sometime between 1188 and 1191. From her mother, Alice Courtenay, she inherited beauty and a dash of royal blood. Her father, Aymer Taillefer, passed on something much more valuable to his only child – the right to rule the rich lands of Angoulême. Every medieval heiress needed a husband – and Isabella’s fathe...

    The truth is much tamer. The new queen was twelve at the most, and the royal couple were living separate lives at the time. On going back to England, John (who was a divorced man in his 30s) even lodged his child-bride with his ex-wife – which was certainly a novel way of cutting back on his household expenses! It took six years for Isabelle to con...

    As queen, Isabella never had money or power of her own. Her prospects as queen mother looked no better. So in 1217, she sailed home for good, taking her eldest daughter Joan with her. Officially, she was going to deliver Joan to her betrothed, Hugh of Lusignan, Count of La Marche – not the man Isabella was originally supposed to marry, but his son ...

    For the next twenty years, Isabella and Hugh were the power couple of south-west France. Paris was a long way off, and they got used to their independence. That all changed in 1241 when King Louis IX of France decided to appoint his brother as overlord of the region. The French king came south, bringing not one but two queens with him – his wife an...

    In 1243, Isabella decided the best way to preserve her children’s inheritance was to bow out as gracefully as she could. She retired to the abbey of Fontevrault. Even then, the gossip followed her inside. There were rumours she only became a nun to escape justice after trying to poison the French king. The end came three years later. By now, Isabel...

  4. Download image. This portrait is one of a pair depicting Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504) and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452-1516), King and Queen of Spain, and parents of Katherine of Aragon (1485-1536). The paintings were first recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of Henry VIII; however, it is possible that the ...

  5. Royalty, Queens and Consorts of England, Illustration, Isabella of France, (1292-1358) the daughter of King Philip II of France, she married King Edward II of England at Boulogne in 1308.

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