. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. ' I 1i ISABELLA OF FRANCE, SURNAMED THE FAIB. QUEEN OP EDWARD IT. CHAPTER I. Isabella's parentage—Both parents reigning sovereigns—Her portion—^AflSanced to the prince of Wales—Her gi'eat beuTjty— Her marriage—Nuptial festivities —Sails for England with Edward II.—Summons for ladies to wait on
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. ' I 1i ISABELLA OF FRANCE, SURNAMED THE FAIB. QUEEN OP EDWARD IT. CHAPTER I. Isabella's parentage—Both parents reigning sovereigns—Her portion—^AflSanced to the prince of Wales—Her gi'eat beuTjty— Her marriage—Nuptial festivities —Sails for England with Edward II.—Summons for ladies to wait on her at Dover—Her wardrobe—Her coronation—Peeresses first summoned thereto— Slights offered to Isabella—Queen's complaints—Revenues—Her popularity— Her jealousy of Gaveston—Civil war—Queen's charity—Mediates peace with barons—Birth of her eldest son—Prefents to her servants—Queen goes to France with the king—Return—Obtains amnesty—Conjugal happiness—Birth of her second son—Queen's chmching-robe—Birtl? ct her eldest daughter— Gifts to queen's nurse and servants— King's grant., tc. Isabella—Her residence at Brotherton—Roger Mortimer—Queen's pilgrimage to Canterbury—Inso- lence of lady Badlesniere—Indignation of the queen—She excites the civil war —Birth of princess Joinna in the Tcwer—Queen Isabella's first acqutuntance with Mortimer—Her influence with tho king—Mortimer's plots—His escape —Qur in's jealousy of the Despencers—Deprived of her revenues—Her French wrvants dismissed—Complaints to her brother—Estrangement of the king— Isabella rasdiatrix with France. Since the days of tlie fair and false Elfrida, of Saxon celebrity, no queen of England has left so dark a stain on the annals of fenuJe royalty as the consort of Edward II., Isabella of France. She was the eleventh queen of England from the Norman conquest, and with the exception of Judith, the consort of Ethelwulph, a princess of
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