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Isabella is a feminine given name, the Latinate and Italian form of Isabel, the Spanish form, Isabelle, the French form, and Isobel, the Scottish form of the name Elizabeth. All are ultimately derived from the Hebrew Elisheba , meaning God is my oath .
This set of names is a Spanish variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba through Latin and Greek represented in English and other European languages as Elisabeth. [2] [3] These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John the Baptist). [4]
Isabella was Edward and Philippa's second child, and eldest daughter. [1] Named after her paternal grandmother, Isabella of France, Isabella is believed to have been her father's favourite daughter, but less close to her mother. [2] Born at Woodstock Palace, in Oxfordshire, on 16 June 1332, [3] she was a baby who was much pampered by her doting ...
However, her presence in France became a focal point for the many nobles opposed to Edward's reign. Isabella gathered an army to oppose Edward, in alliance with Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, whom she may have taken as a lover. Isabella and Mortimer returned to England with a mercenary army, seizing the country in a lightning campaign.
Isabel, a figure in the Book of Mormon; Isabel of Gloucester (c. 1173 – 1217) Saint Isabelle of France (1225–1270) Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (1247–1271) Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany (1305–1330) Isabel of Majorca (1337–1406) Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (1397–1471)
Isabel of York, the only daughter of Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Anne de Mortimer, was born about 1409. [1] Through her father, she was the granddaughter of King Edward III's fourth surviving son, Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and his first wife, Isabella of Castile.
This book was previously owned by his first wife Yolande of Anjou (1412-1440) who had inherited it from her mother Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442). [3] The book was reilluminated for Isabella [5] in two stages to include images of the Scottish princess in heraldic dress (the ermine of Brittany and the lion of Scotland) and her own coat of arms. [9]
Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), [2] also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II.