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Isabelle of France (March 1225 – 23 February 1270) was a French princess and daughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. She was a younger sister of King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) and of Alfonso, Count of Poitiers, and an older sister of King Charles I of Sicily.
Dec 30, 2018 · Fourteenth century English Queen Isabella, the She-Wolf of France aka the Rebel Queen, was a complex, violent person who drank heavily but who was charitable to the poor and well-liked by her people. She killed her husband, King Edward II, the only English queen known to have killed an English king. Later in life she became a nun.
Apr 22, 2024 · Isabella of France (c. 1295 – 22 August 1358), known as the She-Wolf of France, [1] was the Queen consort of Edward II of England and mother of Edward III. She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre.
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Mar 30, 2024 · Isabelle of France (1225–1270), sister of King Louis IX of France (r. 1226–1270), is best known for rejecting marriage and founding the female Franciscan abbey of Longchamp just west of Paris. Literate in both Latin and French, Isabelle owned numerous books and was the dedicatee of at least one sophisticated Latin work of religious advice.
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Aug 15, 2019 · The Rules of Isabelle of France is a welcome addition to the growing body of medieval texts in translation. Sean L. Field's analysis of these heretofore neglected sources provides direction for future scholars and students interested in the development of medieval female Franciscanism and the role of the Capetian princess, Isabelle of France ...
Isabella of France (1296–1358)Queen consort of England who is most famous for her leadership of the rebellion against her husband Edward II (1325–27) and for her short period of power (1327–30) when she and her lover, Roger Mortimer, ruled England in the name of her young son, Edward III.
Feb 1, 2008 · Isabelle of France (?1225–1270), daughter of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castille, and sister of Saint Louis, has been the subject of much devotional and hagiographical writing down to the twentieth century, but of strikingly little scholarly work.
