winterhalters: women history meme → queens [3/5] ↳ Isabella of France, Queen Consort of En

winterhalters: women history meme → queens [3/5] ↳ Isabella of France, Queen Consort of England “History has been unkind to Isabella. For centuries, she has been condemned, mostly by male historians, for her adultery, her violation of marital conventions, her cruelty, her misgovernment, and her connivance in a murder that probably never took place. […] Yet Isabella is deserving of great pity for the impossible situation in which she found herself and also of admiration for the way in which she dealt with it. For these reasons, Isabella was one of the most important figures of the early fourteenth century, despite being in the political spotlight for only five years.” –  A. Weir, Queen Isabella. -- source link

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