Isabel of Majorca

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Isabel (also Isabel or Elizabeth, Catalan: Elisabet) (1337–1406) was the last titular Queen of Majorca as Elisabet I of Mallorca and Countess of Roussillon and Cerdanya from 1375 to her death.

She was the daughter of James III and his first wife, Constance of Aragón. Her maternal grandparents were Alfonso IV of Aragon and his first wife Teresa of Entença and Antillon d'Urgell, countess of Urgell, vescomtess of Àger, Co-princess of Andorra.

She succeeded to the titles and pretensions for the Mallorca Kingdom, as well as the actual lands, of her brother James IV on his death in 1375. Their father had lost the kingdom (1343) and his died in the battle of Llucmajor (1345) by Peter IV of Aragón. Isabel was unable at any point to mount a serious attempt to regain her claimed territories. But She tryed it. She adopted two men as sons and to fight for her in front of the Aragon King, her oncle Peter IV of Aragon. She died in France about 1406.

On 4 September 1358, Isabel married the Margrave John II of Montferrat in Montpellier. They had five children:

• Otto III of Montferrat (1358-1378)
• John III of Montferrat (1360-1381)
• Theodore II of Montferrat (1364-1418)
• William (1365-1400)
• Margaret(c.1365-1420), married in 1375 to Peter II of Urgell

In 1375, Isabel married secretly Baron Lord Konrad von Reischach zu Jugnau, with whom she had one son, Michael.

Preceded by James IV

Queen of Majorca 1375-1403

Succeeded by none