Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, And Murder In Medieval England, Alison Weir, c. 2005

Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, And Murder In Medieval England, Alison Weir, c. 2005. BISA. [Biography: ISA].

1295  - 1358.

Isabella of France, Queen of England as the wife of King Edward II, regent of England, 1327 - 1330.
King Edward II, 1284 - 1327; heir when brother Alphonso died; Edward 1 dieed 1307; Edward II king until deposed in 1327.

One year later, 1308, Edward II married Isabella of France.

Isabella only 12 at time of her wedding, young even by the standards of the time.

Couple's first child, 1312, the future Edward III -- then John, Eleanor, and Joan.

1295 - 1358.

Youngest surviving child and only surviving daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan 1 of Navarre.

From wiki: 

Isabella arrived in England at the age of 12 during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions. Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

After the death of Gaveston at the hands of the barons in 1312, however, Edward later turned to a new favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and attempted to take revenge on the barons, resulting in the Despenser War and a period of internal repression across England. Isabella could not tolerate Hugh Despenser, and by 1325, her marriage to Edward was at a breaking point.

Travelling to France on a diplomatic mission, Isabella may have begun an affair with Roger Mortimer, and the two may possibly have agreed at this point to depose Edward and oust the Despenser family.

The Queen returned to England with a small mercenary army in 1326, moving rapidly across England. The King's forces deserted him. Isabella deposed Edward, becoming regent on behalf of her young son, Edward III.

Some believe that Isabella then arranged the murder of Edward II. Isabella and Mortimer's regime began to crumble, partly because of her lavish spending, but also because the Queen successfully, but unpopularly, resolved long-running problems such as the war with Scotland.

In 1330, aged 18, Edward III forcibly asserted his authority. Mortimer was executed, Isabella's regency was ended and she was imprisoned, but soon released.

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Newgate Street, London.

Ruins of Christ Church (WWII blitz); the site of Christ's Hospital, the Blue Coat School founded by Edward VI in the 16th century; destroyed during the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Christopher Wren.

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Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate Street, was a church in Newgate Street, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. 

Established as a monastic church in the thirteenth century, it became a parish church after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Following its destruction in the Great Fire of London of 1666, it was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. Except for the tower, the church was largely destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. The decision was made not to rebuild the church; the ruins are now a public garden. Steeple finished in 1704.

This church was originally built in 1225; later endowed and reconstructed through the generosity off pious medieval queens; 14th century, the royal mausoleum rivaled Westminster Abbey as the resting place of crowned heads. The splendors long gone, disappeared after Henry VIII dissolved the monastery in 1538, during the Reformation.

One of those buried in Greyfriars Church at Newgate, and whose tomb was lost, was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen, one off the most notorious femmes fatales in history.

One of her favored residences: Castle Rising in Norfolk.]