Isabella of France and Burgundy (1312 – April 1348) was the daughter of

Philip V of France Philip V (c. 1293 – 3 January 1322), known as the Tall (french: Philippe le Long), was King of France and Navarre (as Philip II) from 1316 to 1322. Philip was the second son of King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre. He was gr ...

and

Joan II, Countess of Burgundy Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (french: Jeanne; c. 1287/88 – 21 January 1330), was Queen of France by marriage to Philip V of France; she was also ruling Countess of Burgundy from 1303 to 1330 and ruling Countess of Artois in 1329-1330. Biogra ...

Life

When Isabella was only two years old, her mother was placed under house arrest because it was thought she was having love affairs. Joan was released the following year since Isabella's father, Philip refused to divorce her. Her aunt, Blanche of Burgundy had been imprisoned in the fortress of

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in 1314 along with Isabella's other aunt, Margaret of Burgundy. In 1316, her father became the King of France. The same year, her marriage with

Guigues VIII of Viennois Guigues VIII de la Tour-du-Pin (1309 – 28 July 1333) was the Dauphin of Vienne from 1318 to his death. He was the eldest son of the Dauphin John II and Beatrice of Hungary. Career Only nine years of age when his father died, he succeeded ...

was contracted. In 1322, however, her young father died, which devastated the family. Although Isabella was still in grief, she was married in 1323, when she was just 11 years old. Guigues was killed while besieging the Savoyard castle of Perrière in 1333. He left the

Dauphiné The Dauphiné (, ) is a former province in Southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the Dauphiné of Viennois. In the 12th centu ...

to his brother Humbert II. He was buried in Saint-André in

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. In 1335, Isabella married John III, Lord of Faucogney. She was widowed a second a time as John died in 1345, this marriage was childless. Isabella herself died of the bubonic plague (Black Death) in April 1348.

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* * *{{cite book , title=Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250–1500 , editor-first1=Elizabeth , editor-last1=Morrison , editor-first2=Anne Dawson , editor-last2=Hedeman , publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum , year=2010 1312 births 1348 deaths House of Capet French princesses Dauphines of Viennois 14th-century French people 14th-century French women Daughters of kings