Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France

Isabella of Aragon (c. 1243; † January 28, 1271 in Cosenza, Italy) was 1270-1271 Queen of France.

Life

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

According to an agreement reached in the Treaty of Corbeil between Aragon and France, Isabella was betrothed to Prince Philip were in 1258, the second son of Louis IX. of France. After his older brother Ludwig 's death Philip had been promoted as the new heir to the throne. On May 28, 1262 wedding at Clermont in Auvergne was committed.

In 1270 she accompanied her husband during the Seventh Crusade to Tunis. After Louis IX. died there on August 25, 1270 at the siege of Tunis of a plague and Philip was proclaimed king of France, the couple took the return journey that led from Tunisia via Sicily and Italy. In winter, overthrew the queen, who was suffering from the discomfort of the journey, at Cosenza in Calabria in pregnant condition of the horse.

Isabella of Aragon died in 1271 at the age of 28 years at the consequences of this accident and the resulting provoked premature birth. The child did not survive. Philip the Bold was his wife in the Cathedral of Cosenza build a tomb. According to the former custom of partial burial took this tomb but only the flesh of the deceased, while the bones transferred to France and were buried four months after the death of the queen in the grave laying of the French royal family in the Abbey Church of Saint- Denis in a second grave.

In the sack of the Royal Tombs of Saint- Denis during the French Revolution to her grave was opened and looted in August 1793, their remains were buried in a mass grave outside the church.

Progeny

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

• Ludwig (1267-1276)
• Philip IV the Fair (1268-1314)
• Robert ( † young)
• Charles I, Count of Valois (1270-1325) founder of the House of Valois