Isabella of Aragon

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Philip III and his knights keep vigil on Queen Isabella's deathbed. Illustration from the late 14th century.

Isabella of Aragón (* around 1243 ; † January 28, 1271 in Cosenza , Italy ) was Queen of France from 1270 to 1271 .

Life

Isabella was the daughter of King James I of Aragón , called the Conqueror , from the house of Barcelona and his second wife Yolanda of Hungary , daughter of King Andrew II.

According to an agreement made between Aragón and France in the Treaty of Corbeil , Isabella was betrothed to Prince Philip in 1258 , the second-born son of Louis IX. from France. After the death of his older brother Ludwig , Philip was promoted to the new heir to the throne. On May 28, 1262 the wedding was celebrated in Clermont in Auvergne .

In 1270 she accompanied her husband to Tunis during the Seventh Crusade . After Louis IX. There on August 25, 1270 died of an epidemic during the siege of Tunis and Philip was proclaimed King of France, the couple began their return journey, which led from Tunisia via Sicily and Italy. In winter the queen, who was suffering from the discomfort of the trip, fell from her horse while pregnant at Cosenza in Calabria .

Isabella von Aragon died in 1271 at the age of 28 from the consequences of this accident and the resulting premature birth. The child did not survive. Philip the Bold had a tomb built for his wife in Cosenza Cathedral. In accordance with the custom of partial burial at the time, this tomb only received the flesh of the deceased, while the bones were transferred to France and, four months after the queen's death , they were buried in a second grave in the grave of the French royal family in the abbey church of Saint-Denis .

Tomb of Isabella of Aragón in Saint-Denis.

When the royal tombs of Saint-Denis were sacked during the French Revolution, their tomb was opened and looted in August 1793, and their remains were buried in a mass grave outside the church.

progeny

From Isabella's marriage to Philip III. had four sons:

literature

  • Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France. Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-262-00789-6 .
  • Sabine Geldsetzer: Women on crusades. 1096-1291. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-534-13736-1 .

Web links

Commons : Isabella von Aragon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spicilegium sive collectio veterum aliquot Scriptorum qui in Galliae bibliothecis delituerant , Vol. 3, ed. by Luc d'Achery (1723), p. 634.
  2. ↑ Julius von Schlosser, Thomas Medicus (Ed.): Dead Views. History of portrait painting in wax. An attempt , Akademie Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-05-002408-9 online
predecessor Office Successor
Margaret of Provence Queen of France
1270–1271 		Maria of Brabant
personal data
SURNAME Isabella of Aragon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isabelle d'Aragon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of France
DATE OF BIRTH around 1243
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1271
Place of death Cosenza