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Isabella the Catholic (1451–1504) the first Spanish female monarch and a key character in the discovering of America
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| Gender |
Female |
| Meaning |
"My God is my oath" |
| Origin |
Hebrew via Greek and Latin. |
| Related names |
Isabella, Isabelle, Izabela, Isobel |
| Wikipedia articles |
All pages beginning with Isabel |
Isabel (Portuguese, Spanish,
Provençal), Isabella (Italian),
Isabelle (French), Izabela (Polish) are women's names, formally translated into English as Elizabeth or Elisabeth but often substituted (in English) one for the other, seemingly arbitrarily.
Spanish Isabel, for example, is often rendered into English as Italian Isabella and sometimes as French
Isabelle but seldom as English Elizabeth or Elisabeth; for another example, both Isabella and
Elisabetta are Italian names. A Scottish variation of the spelling is Isobel.
The name Isabella, or set of names, is a Southwestern European variant of the Hebrew name Elisheva. It first appeared in medieval Provençal as Isabel. It is clear both etymologically and
contextually (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John
the Baptist) that, like the name Elizabeth in English, the name Isabel / Isabella / Isabelle derives from the Latin and
Greek renderings of the Hebrew name Elisheva.[1]
According to Hanks/Hodges (166), the name is simply the Spanish form of the name Elisabeth, with loss of the first syllable
and /l/ instead of /t/ (the latter sound does not appear word-finally in Spanish). Compare Italian Elisabetta, where the female
ending -a is added.
An alternative etymology would derive the name from a hypothetical phrase, 'Isis bella',
presumably derived from the Egyptian name of the goddess of love plus the Latin word for "beautiful."
Royalty
Queens
The following are queens named Isabella, ordered by year, such as Isabella of
Castile (wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon):
- Isabelle of Hainaut (1170–1190), queen consort, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of
Hainault, wife of Philip II of France.
- Isabella of Jerusalem (1170–1205).
- Isabella of Angoulême (c. 1187–1246), queen consort, second wife of John of
England, mother of Henry III of England.
- Yolande of Jerusalem (1212–1228), also known as Isabella II.
- Queen Isabella of Armenia (died c. 1252).
- Elisabeth of Aragon (1271–1336), better known as Queen Elisabeth of Portugal,
daughter of Pedro III of Aragon, wife of Denis of Portugal.
- Isabella of France (c.1295–1358), wife of Edward II of England, mother of Edward
III of England.
- Isabeau of Bavaria (1369–1435), queen consort of France, wife of Charles VI of
France.
- Isabella of Valois (1389–1409), queen consort, daughter of Charles VI of France,
second wife of Richard II of England.
- Queen Isabella of Portugal (1428–c. 1457), queen consort, 2nd wife of
John II of Castile, mother of Isabella I of Castile.
- Isabella of Castile (1451–1504), wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon, mother of
Catherine of Aragon, patron of Christopher Columbus. Also known as Isabella the Catholic (of "Ferdinand and Isabella").
- Isabella of Asturias, (1470–1498), queen consort,
daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, wife of Manuel I of Portugal.
- Isabella of Habsburg (1501-1526), queen consort, wife of Christian II of Denmark, granddaughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
- Isabella of Portugal (1503-1539), queen consort, daughter of Manuel I of
Portugal, wife of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
- Isabella Jagiello (1519–1559), queen of Transylvania.
- Isabella II of Spain (1830–1904), daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain, mother of
Alfonso XII of Spain.
Other royalty
- Isabella d'Anjou (c. 1101/1107–1154), Abbess of Fontevrault, wife of William
Adelin.
- Isabella of England (1214 – December 1, 1241) daughter of King John of England
and Isabella of Angouleme, wife of Frederick II Hohenstaufen 'Stupor Mundi', Holy Roman Emperor.
- Isabella of Antioch (13th century), regent of Jerusalem.
- Isabella of Mar (c. 1277–1296), first wife of Robert I of Scotland.
- Princess Isabella of Armenia (died c. 1321).
- Princess Isabella of Portugal (1397–1471), wife and political advisor of Philip
III, Duke of Burgundy.
- Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (1400–1453).
- Isabella of Bourbon (1436–1465), wife of Charles, Duke of Burgundy.
- Marchioness Isabella d'Este (1474–1539), wife of Francesco II of Gonzaga.
- Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (1566–1633), wife of
Archduke Albert of Austria.
- Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846–1921) — Princess
Imperial of Brazil, daughter of Pedro II of Brazil, abolished slavery in Brazil.
- Isabelle, Comtesse de Paris (1911–2003).
- Princess Isabella of Denmark (born 2007)
Saints
Other famous people
Places
- Philippines
- Solomon Islands
- United States
There are also ten places worldwide named Santa Isabel.
Fictional characters
- Ysabell, a character in the Discworld series of books by Terry
Pratchett
- Isabella (commedia dell'arte), a character in Commedia dell'arte
- Isabella, the heroine of a story in Boccaccio's Decameron and John Keats's poem, Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.
- Isabella the Lorry, from the Thomas the Tank
Engine and Friends TV Series
- Isabelle of Cornwall, the mother of Tristan in Arthurian legend
- Isabella Thorpe, a character in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
- Isabella Linton, a character in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
- Isabel Archer, main character of Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady
- Isabella, a character in Shakespeare's Measure
for Measure, a novice nun, sister of Claudio
- Queen Isabel of the Holy Griffin Empire, a character from the video game Heroes of Might and Magic V
- Daisuke "Isabella" Yamamoto, the transvestite fashion student in the manga series Paradise
Kiss by Ai Yazawa.
- Isabella, a character in the movie Read It and Weep.
- Isabella Swan of Twilight (novel) by
Stephenie Meyer
- Isabella, a character from the video game Dead Rising
- Isabella Turk, daughter of Carla Espinosa and Chris Turk on Scrubs
- Isabel, a member of The Others in Lost.
- Isabelle, the youngest child of King Babar in the Babar series.
- Isabel Lahiri, a character in the movie Oceans Twelve played by Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Isabella-Italian Pop Star from The Lizzie Mcguire Movie
Miscellaneous
- 210 Isabella, an asteroid
- Hurricane Isabel, a major hurricane that occurred in 2003.
- Isabella or isabelline, a greyish-yellow or light buff horse coat colour.
- Isabelle (comics), a series of comic books.
- Isabelle (computer game), a 1997 computer adventure game.
- Isabella (album), an album released by German Schlager group Die Flippers in 2002.
- Isabella grape, used to make a well-known type of Uhudler wine.
- Isabella piercing.
- "Isabella (The Sopranos episode)", the 12th episode of the first
season of The Sopranos TV show
- Isabelle theorem prover, an interactive theorem proving system.
- Pyrrharctia isabella, the Isabella Tiger Moth.
- Isabel, a Mexican gunboat, renamed
USS Falcon (1846)
- Isabella (Millais painting) a painting based on Keats' poem Isabella,
or the Pot of Basil.
- Isabella and the Pot of Basil, a painting based on Keats' poem
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.
- Isabella (film) (伊莎貝拉), a 2006 film from Hong
Kong. Written and directed by Pang Ho-Cheung, it stars Chapman To, Isabella Leong and Anthony Wong.
Bibliography
- Hanks, Patrick und Flavia Hodges. 1996. Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press.
See also
- Special:Allpages/Isabel for a more comprehensive list of article names that begin with
Isabel
- Special:Allpages/Isabella for a more comprehensive list of article names that begin with
Isabella
- Special:Allpages/Isabelle for a more comprehensive list of article names that begin with
Isabelle
References
- ^ Guido Gómez de Silva, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua
española, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1985.
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