Isabella of Aragon

For other people named Isabella of Aragon, see Isabella of Aragon (disambiguation).

Isabella of Aragon
Queen consort of France
Tenure	25 August 1270 – 28 January 1271
Spouse	Philip III of France
Issue
Louis Philip IV of France Robert Charles of Valois
House	House of Aragon House of Capet
Father	James I of Aragon
Mother	Violant of Hungary
Born	1247
Died	28 January 1271 (aged 23–24)
Burial	Saint Denis Basilica
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Isabella of Aragon (1247 – 28 January 1271), infanta of Aragon, was, by marriage, Queen consort of France in the Middle Ages from 1270 to 1271.

Life

She was the daughter of King James I of Aragon and his second wife Violant of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary.

In Clermont on 28 May 1262, she married the future Philip III of France, son of king Louis IX and Marguerite of Provence. They had four sons:

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

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 husband took her body and their stillborn son and, when he finally returned to France, buried her in Saint Denis Basilica. Her tomb, like many others, was desecrated during the French Revolution in 1793.