Isabella of France: A Reign of Power and Intrigue
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Isabella of France and her husband Edward II's marriage was turbulent and marked by rumors of infidelity. Isabella's "affair" with Roger Mortimer, a powerful nobleman, became widely known and they plotted to overthrow Edward II. Their plot succeeded, resulting in Edward II's deposition and possible murder. This scandalous period remains one of the most controversial in English royal history, and Chris Riley joins the show again to discuss this fascinating woman with Steph.
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Host: Steph Stohrer
Guest: Chris Riley
Edited by: Rebecca Larson
Voice Over: David Black
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| 0:00.0 | And his last request was to have his bones completely boiled and to be carried essentially |
| 0:06.7 | as a skeleton at the front of an army to beat the Scots one more time, which I think is one |
| 0:12.2 | of the more metal moments of medieval history. |
| 0:14.1 | So I'm a big fan of that. |
| 0:16.1 | The Tudor's Dynasty Podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | This is the Tudors Dynasty podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | And now, Ask the Expert with Steph. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome back to Ask the Expert with me, your host, Steph Store. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm delighted to welcome back our friend and historian Chris Riley to discuss none other than the she-wolf of France herself, Isabella of France, Queen of England, |
| 0:47.8 | wife of Edward II. |
| 0:50.1 | Now, we have had an episode a while back on him. |
| 0:53.3 | So you might remember a little bit of the information you're going to hear. |
| 0:57.1 | There might be some crossover. |
| 0:58.9 | But our primary focus today will be Isabella, of course. |
| 1:02.9 | So without further ado, let's welcome our expert and get to some questions. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome back to the show, Chris. |
| 1:09.7 | Thank you very much for having me back. |
| 1:12.2 | Let's get started, as I always like to do chronologically with our topic or the character |
| 1:17.7 | we're talking about from the beginning. Let's talk about her early years and her upbringing. |
| 1:24.8 | Yeah, so as, you know, we see through history, many noble women, we don't really |
| 1:31.1 | know where their kind of story starts. So for Isabella, we know that she was born roughly in the year |
| 1:37.1 | 1295. And we only know that based on the fact that her closest sibling, the future Charles IV, was born roughly a year before, |
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