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Personal data Isabella "(de wolvin)" van Frankrijk 

• Nickname is (de wolvin).
• She was born in the year 1295.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1308) below 16 years (13).

• She died on August 22, 1358, she was 63 years old.
• A child of Filips Iv van Frankrijk and Johanna I van Navarra

Household of Isabella "(de wolvin)" van Frankrijk

She is married to Edward Ii van Engeland.

They got married in the year 1308, she was 13 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Eduard Iii van Engeland  1312-1377 
2. Jan van Eltham  1316-1336
3. Eleonora van Engeland  1318-1355 
4. Johanna van Engeland  1321-1362

Notes about Isabella "(de wolvin)" van Frankrijk

Isabella van Frankrijk, koningin van Engeland, bijgenaamd de wolvin van Frankrijk, (Parijs, 17 maart 1292 - Hertford, 22 augustus 1358) was een dochter van Filips IV van Frankrijk en van Johanna I van Navarra. Zij huwde na lange onderhandelingen, in 1308 met Eduard II van Engeland. Eduard verwaarloosde zijn vrouw en er gingen geruchten dat hij homoseksueel zou zijn, aangezien hij het gezelschap van mannen prefereerde, onder anderen Piers Gaveston, John de Burgh en Hugh le Despenser. Toch kregen zij vier kinderen:

Eduard III (1312-1377)
Jan (1316-1336)
Eleonora (1318-1355), gehuwd met Reinoud II van Gelre
Johanna (1321-1362), gehuwd met David II van Schotland.
Aan het hof van de Franse koning leerde zij de gevluchte Roger Mortimer kennen en zij werden minnaars. Nadat haar broer Karel IV van Frankrijk de bezittingen van Eduard II in Frankrijk had aangevallen, brachten Isabella en Roger Mortimer een leger van baronnen samen, onder de leiding van haar minnaar Mortimer om Eduard II af te zetten en haar zoon Eduard III tot koning van Engeland te maken. Isabella en Mortimer regeerden als regent over Engeland voor de jonge Eduard III van 1326 tot 1328. Beiden waren ook verantwoordelijk voor de gruwelijke dood van Eduard II. Hij werd vermoord in september 1327 te Berkeley Castle. Eduard II werd anaal gespietst met een gloeiende pook, in een kennelijke poging hem als homoseksueel te kijk te zetten. Eenmaal volwassen liet Eduard III Roger Mortimer wegens verraad terechtstellen en zijn moeder verbannen.
Isabella voerde vanaf 1308 na haar huwelijk met de koning van Engeland een gevierendeeld ovaal vrouwenwapen. In het eerste en vierde kwartier het wapen van haar vader en in het tweede en derde kwartier het wapen van haar echtgenoot. Nadat ze haar gemaal had laten ombrengen paste ze vanaf 1327 haar wapen aan. De bovenste helft, het eerste en tweede kwartier bleven respectievelijk het wapen van haar vader, de Franse lelies, en het wapen van haar overleden echtgenoot. Het derde kwartier werd ingevuld met het wapen van Navarre, dat ze van haar moeders afstamming had. Het vierde kwartier vertegenwoordigt het wapen van Champagne.

Isabella arrived in England at the age of 12[2] during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions. Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power. After the death of Gaveston at the hands of the barons in 1312, however, Edward later turned to a new favourite, Hugh Despenser the younger, and attempted to take revenge on the barons, resulting in the Despenser War and a period of internal repression across England. Isabella could not tolerate Hugh Despenser and by 1325 her marriage to Edward was at a breaking point.

Travelling to France under the guise of a diplomatic mission, Isabella began an affair with Roger Mortimer, and the two agreed to depose Edward and oust the Despenser family. The Queen returned to England with a small mercenary army in 1326, moving rapidly across England. The King's forces deserted him. Isabella deposed Edward, becoming regent on behalf of her son, Edward III. Many have believed that Isabella then arranged the murder of Edward II. Isabella and Mortimer’s regime began to crumble, partly because of her lavish spending, but also because the Queen successfully, but unpopularly, resolved long-running problems such as the wars with Scotland.

In 1330, Isabella’s son Edward III deposed Mortimer in turn, taking back his authority and executing Isabella’s lover. The Queen was not punished, however, and lived for many years in considerable style—although not at Edward III’s court—until her death in 1358. Isabella became a popular "femme fatale" figure in plays and literature over the years, usually portrayed as a beautiful but cruel, manipulative figure.
Isabella was born in Paris on an uncertain date – on the basis of the chroniclers and the eventual date of her marriage, she was probably born between May and November 1295. She is described as born in 1292 in the Annals of Wigmore, and Piers Langtoft agrees, claiming that she was 7 years old in 1299. The French chroniclers Guillaume de Nangis and Thomas Walsingham describe her as 12 years old at the time of her marriage in January 1308, placing her birth between January 1295 and of 1296. A papal dispensation by Clement V in November 1305 permitted her immediate marriage by proxy, despite the fact that she was probably only 10 years old. Since she had to reach the canonical age of 7 before her betrothal in May 1303, and that of 12 before her marriage in January 1308, the evidence suggests that she was born between May and November 1295.[3] Her parents were King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre; her brothers Louis, Philip and Charles became kings of France.

Isabella was born into a royal family that ruled the most powerful state in Western Europe. Her father, King Philip, known as "le Bel" (the Fair) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man; contemporaries described him as "neither a man nor a beast, but a statue";[4] modern historians have noted that he "cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh".[5] Philip built up centralised royal power in France, engaging in a sequence of conflicts to expand or consolidate French authority across the region, but remained chronically short of money throughout his reign. Indeed, he appeared almost obsessed about building up wealth and lands, something that his daughter was also accused of in later life.[6] Isabella's mother died when Isabella was still quite young; some contemporaries suspected Philip IV of her murder, albeit probably incorrectly.
Isabella was brought up in and around the Château du Louvre and the Palais de la Cité in Paris.[8] Isabella was cared for by Théophania de Saint-Pierre, her nurse, given a good education and taught to read, developing a love of books.[8] As was customary for the period, all of Philip's children were married young for political benefit. Isabella was promised in marriage by her father to Edward, the infant son of King Edward I of England, with the intention to resolve the conflicts between France and England over the latter's continental possession of Gascony and claims to Anjou, Normandy and Aquitaine.[9] Pope Boniface VIII had urged the marriage as early as 1298 but was delayed by wrangling over the terms of the marriage contract. The English king, Edward I attempted to break the engagement several times for political advantage, and only after he died in 1307 did the wedding proceed.

Isabella and Edward II were finally married at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 25 January 1308. Isabella's wardrobe gives some indications of her wealth and style – she had gowns of baudekyn, velvet, taffeta and cloth, along with numerous furs; she had over 72 headdresses and coifs; she brought with her two gold crowns, gold and silver dinnerware and 419 yards of linen.[10] At the time of her marriage, Isabella was probably about twelve and was described by Geoffrey of Paris as "the beauty of beauties... in the kingdom if not in all Europe." This description was probably not simply flattery by a chronicler, since both Isabella's father and brothers were considered very handsome men by contemporaries, and her husband was to nickname her "Isabella the Fair".[10] Isabella was said to resemble her father, and not her mother, queen regnant of Navarre, a plump, plain woman.[11] This indicates that Isabella was slender and pale-skinned, although the fashion at the time was for blonde, slightly full-faced women, and Isabella may well have followed this stereotype instead.[12] Throughout her career, Isabella was noted as charming and diplomatic, with a particular skill at convincing people to follow her courses of action.[13] Unusual for the medieval period, contemporaries also commented on her high intelligence.
Edward ii of England and Isabella had four children, and she suffered at least one miscarriage. Their itineraries demonstrate that they were together 9 months prior to the births of all four surviving offspring. Their children were:

Edward III, born 1312
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, born 1316
Eleanor of Woodstock, born 1318, married Reinoud II of Guelders
Joan of the Tower, born 1321, married David II of Scotland

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