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Isabella of Lusignan (c.1224 – 14 January 1300) was a daughter of Hugh X of Lusignan and his wife Isabella of Angoulême, Dowager Queen of England. Isabella was half-sister to King Henry III of England .
- Birth and Parents
- Marriage to King John
- Reign of King John
- Departure from England
- Marriage to Hugues de Lusignan
- Relations with England
- Final Years, Death and Burial
Isabella (as she is usually known) was the daughter of Aymer/Audemar, Count of Angolême, France and Alix/Alice, daughter of Pierre (son of Louis VI of France). She was said to be about 12 at the time her 1200 marriage to King John, pointing to a birth year of about 1188.She may have been born in her father's county of Angoulême.
In 1200 Isabella was betrothed to Hugues de Lusignan. This would have given Hugh control over the strategically important territory of Angoulême, which would have threatened the interests of King John of England. John prevented this, marrying Isabelle on 24 August 1200. There is disagreement over the marriage place: Charles Cawley gives it as Borde...
In 1204, following the death of King John's mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella was promised Eleanor's dower estates. In 1214 Isabella accompanied King John to Poitou, where her husband secured control over the County of Angoulême. During the baronial rebellion which followed the signing of the Magna Carta, Isabella stayed mostly in south-west En...
King john died in October 1216.Isabella continued to use the title Queen of England. Most of her dower lands from her marriage to John were released to her, but castles she claimed at Exeter and Rockingham were withheld as also were 3500 marks which she said John had willed to her. She appears to have been given no significant role in the governmen...
In 1220 Isabella married Hugues de Lusignan, son of the Hugues to whom she had been betrothed in 1200. The exact date of their marriage is uncertain, but it was no later than May 1220.The marriage was not a smooth one: Hugues was unfaithful, and several times threatened to divorce her. Isabella and Hugues had the following children: 1. Hugues 2. Gu...
Isabella's relations with the English government were uneasy. In 1221 her English estates were briefly confiscated. They were finally declared forfeit in 1224, when her second husband entered into alliance with Louis VIII of France. Two years later, in 1226, she met her son Henry III, when he engaged in an unsuccessful military expedition to Poitou...
Isabella spent her final years at Abbey], where she died on 4 June 1246 (Charles Cawley gives the death date as 31 May.)Initially she was buried in the main cemetery of the Abbey: in 1254 Henry III visited Fontevrault and oversaw the removal of her remains to the choir of the Abbey's church, near where several Plantagenets were buried.
- Female
The lords of the castle at Lusignan became counts of La Marche in the 12th century. They added the county of Angoulême to their holdings in 1220, when Hugh X of Lusignan married Isabella of Angoulême, daughter of Count Aymer of Angoulême and widow of John, King of England. These acquisitions produced complicated titles.
27 de abr. de 2022 · Isabelle de Craon, Dame de Fougères (born 1212), was a French noblewoman, being the daughter of Amaury I, Sire de Craon, a wealthy baron who was the possessor of many lordships in Anjou and Maine. She was the wife of Raoul III, Sire de Fougères, by whom she had one daughter, Jeanne de Fougères, who became the heiress to her father's seigneury.
- Caron de Bodegat, Ralph de Fougères, III
- 1212
- "de Bodegat"
- Craon, Mayenne, France
In 1200 his fiancée, Isabella of Angoulême, was taken for wife by his feudal lord, King John of England. This outrage caused Hugh to turn to the king of France, Philip II Augustus, forming an alliance that culminated in John’s loss of his continental possessions.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
11 de ene. de 2023 · In 1220, Isabella shocked the world when she announced that she had taken Hugh X Lusignan, her daughter’s betrothed, as her second husband! Isabella wrote to her eldest son, now King Henry III, announcing the marriage and justifying it as being in Henry’s best interests.
17 de may. de 2023 · Sally Spong. Part of the book series: Queenship and Power ( (QAP)) 183 Accesses. Abstract. As a consort active at the turn of the thirteenth century, Isabella of Angoulême occupies a position in a period of history in which academic argument has focussed on the changing nature of queenship.
