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Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre

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Tenure
  
1258–1270

Father
  
Louis IX of France

Name
  
Isabella France,

Burial
  
Provins, France

Mother
  
Margaret of Provence

House
  
House of Capet

Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre
Died
  
April 17, 1271, Provence, France

Spouse
  
Theobald II of Navarre (m. 1255)

Parents
  
Margaret of Provence, Louis IX of France

Cousins
  
Charles II of Naples, Robert II, Count of Artois

Similar People
  
Louis IX of France, Margaret of Provence, Robert - Count of Clermont, Isabelle of France, Philip III of France

Isabella of France (2 March 1241 – 17 April 1271) was a daughter of Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence. She was married to Theobald II of Navarre, eldest son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Navarre on 6 April 1255. Isabelle became Queen consort of Navarre.

Life

Louis IX wanted to make peace with Navarre so he married Isabella off to Theobald. The Archbishop of Rouen celebrated the marriage between Isabella and Theobald II, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne, on 6 April 1255 in Melun. The bridegroom was 18 and the bride 13 years old.

Together with her husband and her father, the very pious Isabella travelled with the Eighth Crusade in July 1270. Her father died there in August of the same year. Then, in December, Isabella's husband died of an epidemic while in Sicily. After the deaths of both her father and husband, Isabella returned to France and lived in Provence until her death only two months later in 1271.

Isabella is buried next to her husband in Provins.

References

Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre Wikipedia