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Isabella of France

Isabella of France was born in Paris, the daughter of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre, the daughter of Henry I, King of Navarre.

No record survives of her birth, but calculations based on the date of her marriage place it between May and November 1295.

Isabella spent her early childhood in and around the Château du Louvre and the Palais de la Cité in Paris.

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She was cared for by Théophania de Saint-Pierre, her nurse and received a good education, developing a love of books, which was to remain with her throughout her life. Contemporaries also commented on her intelligence and charismatic personality.

Like her father, King Philip IV, Isabella's beauty was commented on at the time.

Phillip the Fair was known as "le Bel" (the Fair) due to his good looks, her mother Joan of Navarre was described by contemporaries as being a plump, plain woman.

Isabella's brother