Isabella of France

Isabelle of France and Burgundy (c. 1312 - April, 1348) was the daughter of Philip V of France and Joan II, Countess of Burgundy. She was a member of the House of Capet.

Life

When Isabelle was only two years old, her mother was placed under house arrest because it was thought she was having love affairs. Joan was released the following year since Isabelle's father, Philip refused to divorce her. Her aunt, Blanche of Burgundy had been imprisoned in the fortress of Château-Gaillard in 1314 along with Isabelle's other aunt, Margaret of Burgundy.

Isabelle married Guigues VIII of Viennois in 1323 (the marriage was contracted in Lyon on 18 June 1316 and made in Dole on 17 May 1323). The marriage produced one son,

   * Humbert de La Tour du Pin (died 22 May 1355), succeeded his father but had no children.

Guigues was killed while besieging the Savoyard castle of Perrière in 1333. He left the Dauphiné to his brother Humbert II. He was buried in Saint-André in Grenoble.

In 1335, Isabelle married John III, Lord of Faucogney. She was widowed a second a time as John died in 1345, this marriage was childless. Isabelle herself died in April 1348 aged 35 or 36.