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 grant ...
and
Joan II, Countess of Burgundy.
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
Blanche of Burgundy ( 1296 – 1326) was Queen of France and Navarre for a few months in 1322 through her marriage to King Charles IV the Fair. The daughter of Count Otto IV of Burgundy and Countess Mahaut of Artois, she was led to a dis ...
had been imprisoned in the fortress of
Château Gaillard
Château Gaillard () is a medieval castle ruin overlooking the River Seine above the commune of Les Andelys, in the French department of Eure, in Normandy. It is located some north-west of Paris and from Rouen. Construction began in 1196 under ...
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 to his brother
Humbert II. He was buried in Saint-André in
Grenoble.
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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1312 births
1348 deaths
House of Capet
French princesses
Dauphines of Viennois
14th-century French people
14th-century French women
Daughters of kings