Isabella of England

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The wedding of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Isabella.

English Royalty
Angevin>House of Plantagenet

Henry II Children    William, Count of Poitiers Henry, Count of Anjou Richard I Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany John Matilda, Duchess of Saxony Leonora, Queen of Castile Joan, Queen of Sicily Richard I John Children Henry III Richard, Earl of Cornwall    Joan of England, Queen of Scotland Isabella, Holy Roman Empress Eleanor, Countess of Leicester Henry III Children Edward I Margaret, Queen of Scotland Beatrice, Duchess of Brittany Edmund, Earl of Lancaster Edward I Children    Joan of England, Countess of Gloucester    Alphonso, Earl of Chester Edward II Thomas, Earl of Norfolk Edmund, Earl of Kent Edward II Children Edward III John, Earl of Cornwall Eleanor, Duchess of Gueldres and Zutphen Joan, Queen of Scotland Edward III Children Edward, Prince of Wales Lionel, Duke of Clarence John, Duke of Lancaster Edmund, Duke of York Thomas, Duke of Gloucester    Joan of England    Isabella of England Grandchildren Richard II     Philippa, Countess of Ulster     Philippa of Lancaster     Elizabeth of Lancaster Henry IV     Catherine of Lancaster Edward, Duke of York Richard, Earl of Cambridge     Constance of York     Anne of Gloucester Richard II

Princess Isabella of England, also called Elizabeth (1214 – December 1, 1241) was a daughter of King John of England and Isabella of Angouleme.

She was married to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1225, who kept her hidden away in seclusion. When her brother, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, passed through Sicily returning from the Sixth Crusade, he had to beg Frederick to see Isabella and speak with her for a few moments.

She bore four children, all of whom died as infant aside from a daughter, Margaret of Sicily (1237-1270). Isabella died in childbirth at Foggia along with her newborn child in 1241, and according to Thomas Costain, Frederick buried her beside one of his Saracen mistresses.

Younger namesake

A later Isabella Plantagenet (1332-1379), also called Dame Isabella de Coucy was the daughter of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. She was married to Enguerrand VII of Coucy, 1st Earl of Bedford on July 27, 1365 at Windsor Castle. She had two children by Enguerrand VII of Coucy, Marie of Coucy (1366-1404) and Philippa of Coucy (1367-1411). She died in England under mysterious circumstances after Enguerrand's renunciation of English ties, separated from her husband and eldest child.

Reference

• Tuchman, Barbara W. (1978), A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century., Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-394-40026-7.

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