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 1188 - 1246 (~ 58 years)
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| Name |
Isabel d'Angoulême |
| Suffix |
Countess of Angoulême |
| Born |
ca 1188 |
Angoulême  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
04 Jun 1246 |
Fontevraud Abbey, France |
| Buried |
Fontevraud Abbey, France |
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| Notes |
- Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Angoul%C3%AAme
Isabel was the second wife of King John of England and at the time of their marriage, the blonde and blue-eyed 12-year-old was already renowned by some for her beauty. Her mother-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine readily accepted her as John's wife.
Isabella was much younger than her husband and possessed a volatile temper similar to his own. King John was infatuated with his young, beautiful wife; however, his acquisition of her had as much, if not more, to do with spiting his enemies, than romantic love. She was already engaged to Hugh de Lusignan,IX Count of La Marche when she was taken by John.
She had five children by the king, including his heir, later Henry III. He was quickly followed by another son, Richard, and three daughters, Joan, Isabel, and Eleanor. All five children survived into adulthood, and would make illustrious marriages; all but Joan would produce offspring of their own.
When King John died in October 1216, Isabella's first act was to arrange the speedy coronation of her nine-year-old son at the city of Gloucester on 28 October.
Less than a year after his crowning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême.
In the spring of 1220, she married Hugh X of Lusignan, "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of her former fiancé, Hugh IX, to whom she had been betrothed before her marriage to King John. Isabella had nine more children by Hugh X. Their eldest son Hugh XI of Lusignan succeeded his father as Count of La Marche and Count of Angoulême in 1249.
Isabella could not reconcile herself with her less prominent position in France. Though Queen mother of England, Isabella was now mostly regarded as a mere Countess of La Marche and had to give precedence to other women. In 1241, when Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King Louis IX of France's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager Blanche openly snubbed her.
This so infuriated Isabella, who had a deep-seated hatred of Blanche for having fervently supported the French invasion of England during the First Barons' War in May 1216, that she began to actively conspire against King Louis. She encouraged her son Henry in his invasion of Normandy in 1230, but then did not provide him the support she had promised.
In 1244, Hugh had made peace with King Louis, two royal cooks were arrested for attempting to poison the King; upon questioning they confessed to having been in Isabella's pay. None of this can be confirmed, but before Isabella could be taken into custody, she fled to Fontevraud Abbey, where she died on 4 June 1246.
By her own prior arrangement, she was first buried in the Abbey's churchyard, as an act of repentance for her many misdeeds. On a visit to Fontevraud, her son King Henry III of England was shocked to find her buried outside the Abbey and ordered her immediately moved inside. She was finally placed beside Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Afterwards, most of her many Lusignan children, having few prospects in France, set sail for England and the court of Henry, their half-brother.
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| Person ID |
I35207 |
Master File |
| Last Modified |
23 Jun 2016 |
| Father |
Aymer d'Angoulême, Count of Angoulême, b. ABT. 1160, Angoulême, France , d. 16 Jun 1202, Limoges, France (Age ~ 42 years) |
| Mother |
Alice/Alix de Courtenay, Countess of Angoulême, b. 1160, France , d. 12 Feb 1218, France (Age 58 years) |
| Family ID |
F14532 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Hugh, Seigneur de Lusignan, X, Count of La Marche and Angoulême , b. BET. 1183 and 1195, Lusignan, Poitou, France , d. ABT. 5 Jun 1249, Angoulême, France (Age ~ 66 years) |
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| Last Modified |
22 Jun 2016 |
| Family ID |
F14531 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
John I Plantagenet, King of England, b. 24 Dec 1166, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England , d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Eleanor of England, b. 1215, Gloucester, Gloucershire, England , d. 13 Apr 1275, Montargis, Loiret, Centre, France (Age 60 years) |
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| Last Modified |
26 Jun 2016 |
| Family ID |
F14557 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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