Queen Isabella of France of England ¹

  General Notes:

Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families
By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham

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King Edward's reliance on the Despensers aroused the resentment of his queen, Isabel, by inducing him to deprive her of her estates in 1324. While on a diplomatic mission in 1325 to Paris involving the dispute over Edward's French lands, Quern lsabel formed a close political connection with Roger de Mortimcr, 1^st Earl of March, an exiled baronial opponent of Edward.
Isabel and Mortimer raised an army in Germany and the Low Countries and, in 1326, they invaded England, captured and executed the Despensers, and deposed her husband, Edward 20 Jan 1326/7, in favor of their son, Edward.
All real power, however was in the hands of the Queen and Mortimer.
EDWARD II OF ENGLAND, late King of England, was murdered in Berkeley Castle 21 Sept. 1327, apparently in an attempt to escape the castle, and was buried at St. Peter's, Abbey at Gloucester, now the cathedral.
In 1327 Robert de Mohaut and Emme, his wife, conveyed the castles and manors of Mold (or Mohaut) and Hawarden, Cheshire to Queen Isabel, for 10,000 marks subject to a life estate.
On the death of Robert de Mohaut in 1329, these estates came into the possession of the Queen.
In Oct. 1330 Isabel and Mortimer, who now lived almost openly together, were arrested at Nottingham by orders of her son, Edward, who speedily had Mortimer executed.
Isabel subsequently retired to Castle Rising, Norfolk (a Mohaut estate) where she lived a comfortable and somewhat luxurious life.
In 1338 she exchanged the Mohaut properties with William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, for an annuity of 600 marks from the tin revenue of Cornwall.
She devoted herself to pious works, almsgiving, and charm, and finally took the habit of the sisters of Santa Clam She died at Hertford Castle 22 August 1358, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, London.


A. 10947. Feoffment by Henry de Clif, clerk, to Sir Robert de Monte Alto, knight, and Emma his wife, and the heirs male of the body of the said Robert, with remainder, in default, to Isabel queen of England, for life, with remainder to lord John of Eltham, in tail, with remainder, in default, to the king and his heirs, of the castle, town and manor of Mold (de Monte Alto) in Wales, the castles (sic) of Hawardyn, with the stewardship of Chester, and the manors of Hawardyn, Lee, Bosele and Neston, co. Chester, the manor of Walton upon Trent, co. Derby, the manor of Cheylesmore, co. Warwick, and 107l. rent from the prior of Coventre, and his successors, together with the homage and service of the said prior, the castle of Rysyng, and the manors of Rysyng, Snetesham and Kenynghale, and a fourth part of the Tolbothe of Lenne, co. Norfolk, and the manors of Cassynglonde and Frammesden, co. Suffolk, with all advowsons, knights fees, &c. Witnesses:-John, bishop of Ely, the king's chancellor,William de Herle, Roger de Bilneye, Roger de Watevill, Nicholas de Gonevill and John Walewayn, knights, and others (named). Notyngham, 8 May, 1 Edward III. Fragment of seal.

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(Note: Isabel is my 23rd great grandmother, Roger de Mortimer my 22nd great grandfather and Robert Mohaut is my 3rd cousin 23 times removed)

Isabella married King Edward Plantagenet II of England, son of King Edward Plantagenet I of England (Longshanks) and Eleanor OF CASTILE, on 25 Jan 1308 in Bologna, , Emilia-Romagna, ITA. (King Edward Plantagenet II of England was born on 25 Apr 1284 in CAE, WLS, died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley, , GLS, ENG and was buried in Gloucester, , GLS, ENG.)

  Marriage Notes:

In 1324 Queen Isabella openly charged King Edward's fvourite, Hugh Despenser, with creating discord between the royal couple.