Queen Isabelle and Her (Bloody) Road to Regency: Sources & Citations

Image Sources:

By order of appearance

Philippa of Hainault by W.H. Egleton for the book Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest to Victoria

Note: While I know this isn't meant to be Isabelle, I decided to use it because of the contrast between the royal dress that borders on armor with her knowing and gentle expression and casual pose.

King Edward II, published by John Player & Sons, after George Vertue, color relief halftone cigarette card, 1935

The Luttrell Psalter, ca. 1325–1340. London, British Library, Add MS 42130, folio 60r (detail).

Master of the Couronnement de la Vierge, "A Princely Audience," from the Grande Bible historiale, ca. 1395–1401. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 159, folio 289v.

Hugh le Despenser the Younger, from the Founders’ and Benefactors’ Book of Tewkesbury Abbey, ca. 1500–1510. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2, folio 21r (detail).

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, ca. 1490–1500. London, British Library, Harley MS 4425, folio 24r (detail).

Marriage of Edward II and Isabella of France, Jean de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d’Angleterre, ca. 1471–1483. London, British Library, Royal MS 15 E IV, folio 295r.

The Future Edward III Paying Homage to Charles IV (1325), from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 15th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2643, folio 1v (detail).

Bertrade de Montfort, Fulk of Anjou, and the imprisonment of Bertha of Holland, from the Chroniques de Saint-Denis, ca. 1332–1350. London, British Library, Royal MS 16 G VI, folio 271r.

Rioters pillaging a house in Paris, from the Chroniques de France ou de St Denis, ca. 1380–1399. London, British Library, Royal MS 20 C VII, folio 41v.

King Charles IV "le Bel", from Jean du Tillet, Recueil des rois de France, ca. 1545–1547. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2848, folio 123r

Queen Isabella and her army with the execution of Hugh le Despenser, from Jean de Wavrin, Chroniques d’Angleterre, ca. 1470–1480. London, British Library, Royal MS 15 E IV, folio 316v.

Queen Isabella welcomed at the gates of Paris by Charles IV (1325), from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, ca. 1475. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2643

The Return of Isabella of France to England, from Jean Fouquet, Grandes Chroniques de France, ca. 1455–1460. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 6465, folio 338v (detail).

Conte de la Marsche, Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, from the Bruges Garter Book, ca. 1430–1450. London, British Library, Stowe MS 594, folio 15v.

The Return of Queen Isabella to England with Roger Mortimer, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, ca. 1470–1475. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2643, folio 7v.

Edmund FitzAlan and Hugh Despenser brought before Queen Isabella, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 15th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2663, folio 14v.

Edmund FitzAlan and Hugh Despenser brought before Queen Isabella, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 15th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2675, folio 11v

The Execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, ca. 1470–1475. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2643, folio 11r.

The Execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 15th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2675, folio 13r (detail).

The Arrest of King Edward II, from Jean Froissart, Chroniques, 15th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2675, folio 12r (detail).