Isabel Capet (1225-1269)

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Isabel Capet
St. Isabelle at the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, a Neo-Gothic replica of the original statue
Birth:	14 April 1225 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death:	23 February 1270 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Father:	Louis VIII Capet (1187-1226)
Mother:	Blanca of Castile (1188-1252)
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• Abbesse de Longchamp
• Saint Isabelle of France
• 1256 she founded the Franciscan Abbey of Longchamp

Isabel Capet was born 14 April 1225 in Paris, Île-de-France, France to Louis VIII Capet (1187-1226) and Blanca of Castile (1188-1252) and died 23 February 1270 Paris, Île-de-France, France of unspecified causes.

On 23 May 1200, Louis VIII Capet (1187-1226) (King of France) married Blanca of Castile (1188-1252). They had a number of children.

1. Isabel Capet (1225-1269)

She was a younger sister of Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) and Alphonse of Toulouse, and an older sister of Charles I of Sicily. In 1256 she founded the Franciscan Abbey of Longchamp in the part of the Forest of Rouvray now called the Bois de Boulogne, west of Paris.

When still a child at court Isabelle was already devoted to religion. By the Bull of 26 May 1254, Pope Innocent IV allowed her to retain some Franciscan fathers as her special confessors. She was even more devoted to the Franciscan Order than her royal brother. She not only broke off her engagement with a count, but moreover refused the hand of Conrad IV of Germany, son of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, although pressed to accept him by everyone, even by Innocent IV, who however did not hesitate subsequently to praise her fixed determination to remain a virgin.

Siblings

Offspring of Louis VIII Capet (1187-1226) and Blanca of Castile (1188-1252)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Blanche Capet (1205-1206)	1205 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1206 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Agnes Capet (1207-1207)	1207 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1207 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Philippe Capet (1209-1218)	9 September 1209 Paris, Île-de-France, France	30 June 1218 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Alphonse Capet (1213-1213)	26 January 1213 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1213 Paris, Île-de-France, France
John Capet (1213-1213)	26 January 1213 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1213 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Louis IX Capet (1214-1270)	25 April 1214 Poissy, France	25 August 1270 Tunis, Tunisia	Marguerite de Provence (1221-1295)
Robert Capet (1216-1250)	1216	8 February 1250 Mansoura, Egypt	Mathildis van Brabant (1224-1288)
Philippe Capet (1218-1220)	20 February 1218 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1220 Paris, Île-de-France, France
John Tristan Capet (1219-1232)	21 July 1219 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1232 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Alphonse Capet (1220-1271)	11 November 1220 Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France	21 August 1271 Savona, Liguria, Italy	Jeanne de Toulouse (1220-1271)
Philippe Dagobert Capet (1222-1232)	20 February 1222 Paris, Île-de-France, France	1232 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Isabel Capet (1225-1269)	14 April 1225 Paris, Île-de-France, France	23 February 1270 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Stephen Capet (1225-1227)	31 December 1225 Paris, Île-de-France, France	27 March 1227 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Charles Capet (1226-1285)	March 1226 Paris, France	7 January 1285 Foggia, Apulia, Italy	Béatrice de Provence (1231-1267) Marguerite de Tonnerre (1250-1308)

See Also

• Charlemagne Family Ancestry
• Capetian dynasty - Father
• House of Normandy - Mother
• wikipedia:en:Saint Isabelle of France
• Louis VIII of France, Roi des France at thePeerage
• Capetian Kings - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
• Isabelle de France, Abbesse de Longchamp - Geni.com
• Richard, Jean (1992). Saint Louis, Crusader King of France. Cambridge University Press. 
• Goldstone, Nancy (2009). Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. Phoenix Paperbacks, London.  purple
• Nolan, Kathleen D. Capetian Women, 2003.

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