Other Events:

• Occupation: Queen of France
• Cause of Death: Childbirth complicated by a fall from a horse

Notes:

d/o King James I of Aragon and his second wife Yolanda of Hungary and thus granddaughter of Yolanda de Courtenay.

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 the Basilica of St Denis. Her tomb, like many others, was desecrated during the French Revolution in 1793.

Isabelle married King Philip CAPET, III on 28 May 1262 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Philip (son of King Louis CAPET, IX and Queen Marguerite BERENGUER) was born on 1 May 1245 in Château de Poissy, Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; died on 5 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Count Charles DE VALOIS was born on 12 Mar 1270 in Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 16 Dec 1325 in Norgent de Roi, Eure et Loire, France.