Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France

Isabella was the daughter of King James I of Aragon[5] and his second wife Violant of Hungary.[6]

In Clermont on 28 May 1262, Isabella married the future Philip III of France, son of Louis IX and Margaret of Provence. She became queen upon the accession of her spouse in 1270.

She accompanied her husband on the Eighth Crusade against Tunis. On their way home, they stopped in Cosenza, Calabria. Six months pregnant with her fifth child, on 11 January 1271 she suffered a fall from her horse. After they had resumed the trip back to France, Isabella gave birth to a premature stillborn son. She never recovered from her injuries and the childbirth, and died seventeen days later, on 28 January. Her death was a devastating emotional blow to her husband, especially since she had been pregnant. Philip III took the bodies of Isabella and their stillborn son and, when he finally returned to France, buried them in the Basilica of St Denis.[7] Isabella's tomb, like many others, was desecrated during the French Revolution in 1793.

She had four sons:

1. Louis (1265–1276)
2. Philip IV "the Fair" (1268–1314), King of France
3. Robert (1269–1271)
4. Charles, Count of Valois (1270–1325)

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