Isabelle d'Angoulême Comtesse d’Angoulême 5 6 7
General Notes: ISABELLE d'Angoulême ([1187]-Fontevrault Abbey 31 May 1246, bur Fontevrault Abbey). Her first betrothal is confirmed by Ralph of Coggeshall who records that in 1202 John King of England made war against "comitem de Marchis…Hugonem cognomento Brun et fratrem eius comitem de Eu" who had rebelled against him "pro filia comitis Engolismi, quam Hugo prædictus prius affidaverat". The Continuator of Florence of Worcester records the marriage "IX Kal Sep" [1200] of King John and "Isabellam filiam Engolisimi comitis" and their coronation together "VIII Id Oct" in London. Matthew Paris names her as "filiam comitis Engolismi" when he records her first marriage. She was crowned Queen Consort of England 8 Oct 1200 at Westminster Abbey. She succeeded her father in 1202 as Ctss d'Angoulême, but was not formally recognised as such until Nov 1206. Her origin and second marriage are confirmed in the charter dated 1224 under which "Ugo de Leziniaco comes Marchiæ et Engolismæ et Ysabella uxor eius…regina Angliæ" confirmed rights granted by "bonæ memoriæ Ademaro comite Engolismæ patre eiusdem dominæ Ysabellæ" to Vindelle. Matthew Paris records her death, when he specifies that she was then the wife of Hugues Comte de la Marche. Isabelle married John I of England King of England, 3rd Earl of Gloucester, son of Henri d'Anjou King of England (Henry II) and Aliénor d'Aquitaine Duchesse d'Aquitaine, on 24 Aug 1200 in Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, FR.1 2 3 (John I of England King of England, 3rd Earl of Gloucester was born 24 Dec 1166 or 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1, GB,2 9 died 18-19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BG, GB 2 10 11 and was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 2LA, GB 12.) Isabelle next married Hugues XI de Lusignan Seigneur de Lusignan, Comte de la Marche et d'Angoulême, son of Hugues X de Lusignan Seigneur de Lusignan, de Couhé et de Château-Larcher, Comte de la Marche and Unknown, between 10 Mar and 22 May 1220.4 (Hugues XI de Lusignan Seigneur de Lusignan, Comte de la Marche et d'Angoulême was born before 1188,13 died after 15 Jan 1249 in Damietta, EG 13 and was buried in Abbaye de Valence, Couhé, Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 86700, FR.) |
1 John Cannon, Anne Hargreaves, The Kings and Queens of England (Oxford, GB, Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 201.
2 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Magna Carta Sureties 1215: the Barons Named in the Magna Carta, 1215 and Some of their Descendants who Settled in America during the Early Colonial Years (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999), 161-12.
3 Frederick Lewis Weis, Jr. Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots Of Certain American Colonists Who Came To America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004 (Reprint)), 1:26.
4 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 117-27.
5 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Magna Carta Sureties 1215: the Barons Named in the Magna Carta, 1215 and Some of their Descendants who Settled in America during the Early Colonial Years (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999), 151-2, 161-12, 148-3.
6 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 260-29.
7 George Edward Cokayne, "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000), XII/1:507.
8 Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 1-26, 117-27.
9 Frederick Lewis Weis, Jr. Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots Of Certain American Colonists Who Came To America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004 (Reprint)), 1:26, 29A-26.
10 Thelma Anna Leese, Blood Royal: Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England, 1066-1399 : the Normans and Plantagenets (Heritage Books, Inc., 1996), p. 60.
11 Frederick Lewis Weis, Jr. Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots Of Certain American Colonists Who Came To America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2004 (Reprint)), 1:25.
12 Brian Tompsett, "Index to Royal Genealogical Data".
13 Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands.
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