biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1292–1358)
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| biography:
| Queen consort of England, the wife of Edward II, and daughter of Philip IV of France. She married Edward in 1308 at Boulogne, but then became the mistress of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, with whom she overthrew and murdered the king (1327). Her son, Edward III, had Mortimer executed in 1330, and Isabella was sent into retirement, eventually to join an order of nuns. |
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