Mohamed-Aggad went to Syria in late 2013 with a number of others from his neighbourhood in an area outside the eastern French city of Strasbourg.
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French police have identified the third attacker who blew himself up at the Bataclan during the Paris attacks, officials say.
One of the woman’s other sons, who has returned from Syria, faces terrorism-related charges.
“Without the mother, there would have been nothing”, the family’s lawyer, Francoise Cotta, told the Associated Press. The other two bombers were previously identified as Samy Amimour from Drancy and Ismaël Omar Mostefaï from Chartres.
Investigators believe two brothers from the same group who left Strasbourg in 2013, Mourad and Yassine Boudjellal, were killed fighting for Isis in Syria.
Mohamed-Aggad’s mother received a text message in English about 10 days ago announcing her son’s death “as a martyr” on November 13 – a typical way that IS notifies families of casualties.
He had been on the radar of French security services as a potential extremist, a judicial source said, and had probably travelled to Syria on false papers.
“He was a very nice boy, but easily influenced”, his former football coach Denis Theilmann told Agence France-Presse, while his friends remembered him as someone who liked to get drunk and stoned.
Officials have yet to put names to all of eight dead gunmen and suicide bombers directly involved in last month’s attacks, for which Islamic State, a militant group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility.
The third man who unleashed carnage at the Bataclan club in Paris last month has been identified.
It has taken a long time to identify the bodies of the attackers, since they blew themselves up after shooting to death members of the crowd at a concert of the California band Eagles of Death Metal.
French-speaking Islamic State fighters, primarily from France and Belgium, tend to live and fight together.
“The more identities that they can find, the more that the police can start to draw a broader net to try to establish the connection”, she said.
“What is important is that the investigation is progressing, that the accomplices are found out, that arrests happen”, he said. He said he was going on holiday two years ago and he went to Syria.
All of the identified assailants in the attack were French and Belgian nationals.
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In addition, two of the Stade de France attackers were believed to have come to Europe via the Greek island of Leros and may have been posing as Syrian refugees.
