Isabella of France (Navarre)

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Queen Isabella of Navarre (right) accepts gifts from her father, King Louis IX. from France, against. Depiction from the middle of the 13th century.

Isabella of France (March 2, 1242 , † April 27, 1271 in Îles d'Hyères near Marseille ) was Queen of Navarre and Countess of Champagne by marriage .

Life

Isabella was the daughter of the French King Louis IX. and his wife Margaret of Provence . The marriage of Isabella and Thibaud II , King of Navarre and Count of Champagne , celebrated by Eudes Rigaud , Archbishop of Rouen , took place on April 6, 1255 in Melun . The groom was only 18 and the bride only 13 years old. The marriage remained childless. Louis IX wanted through this connection to ensure that Navarre was geared towards French interests. Some written educational directives of Ludwig IX. for his daughter have been preserved to this day. Together with her husband and her father, the very pious Isabella took part in the Seventh Crusade and embarked with them in July 1270 for Tunis . But Louis IX died there. of an epidemic that Thibaud II succumbed to on December 4, 1270 on his return journey. Three months after landing in Provence , Isabella also died at the age of 29 and was buried next to her husband in the Couvent des Cordelières in Provins .

literature

  • Elisabeth or Isabelle de France . In: Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (ed.): Nouvelle biographie générale . Volume 15. Firmin Didot, Paris 1858, column 866.
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personal data
SURNAME Isabella of France
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elisabeth of France; Isabelle of France; Isabelle de France
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Navarre
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1242
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1271
Place of death Îles d'Hyères