Countess Isabelle Of Angouleme 
Countess Isabelle Of was born in 1188 in Angouleme, C, France.1 Countess Isabelle Of's father was William V Tallifer and her mother is Alix de Courtenay. Her paternal grandparents were Guillaume Count Angoule and Marguerite De Turenne. She had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Hanger and Isabella. She died at the age of 56 on May 31st, 1244 in Fontevrault, M Lr, France.1 General Notes
Isabella, the beautiful fourteen-year-old daughter of the Count of Angoulême, is betrothed in 1200 to Hugh le Brun, Count of Lusignan. She looks forward to a life of ease and luxury as the wife of one of the most powerful nobles of France. Then she marries King John of England instead. Did she jilt Hugh because she was more dazzled by the prospect of being Queen of England than that of becoming a mere countess, as the historians surmise? In this book Bard offers a different explanation.
Once crowned, Isabella is supremely happy. She and John are infatuated with each other and she glories in the trappings of queenship. But their marriage becomes stormy, with accusations of adultery and betrayal. As John fails in his efforts to regain territories claimed by King Philip of France, his English subjects accuse Isabella of being a Jezebel and a sorceress. After John's death she is banished to her native France and forced to leave her children behind.
Still a beauty at thirty, Isabella marries Count Hugh X de Lusignan—the son of the man she'd been betrothed to twenty years before. She is determined to cement her position as a force to be reckoned with in strife-ridden thirteenth-century France. Though the marriage is politically motivated, the couple prove as compatible in the bedchamber as they are in their struggle for power. Thanks to the vastness of their combined realms, they need fear neither the King of France nor the King of England—Isabella's son Henry III. They take sides with anyone who will support their territorial claims. But their fortunes decline into disaster and ignominy. Isabella blames Hugh and they agree to part. Isabella retires to an abbey, where at last she finds a measure of peace.
Like her mother-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella demanded to be called Queen of England to the end of her days, though other queens had followed her on the throne. In death she is accorded the honor and recognition she had sought all her life: she is buried at Fontevraud Abbey near her royal in-laws, and her effigy bears the crown of a Queen of England.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1015 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.1089 in Angouleme, France
- b.1084 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.16 Apr 1118 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou Charentes, France
- b.1042 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.1087 in Angouleme, Aquitane, France
- b.1108 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Nov 1140 in St Cybard, Abby, France
- b.1060 in Benauges, Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.1103
- b.1086 in Benauges, Gironde, France d.1089 in Angouleme, Aquitane, France
- b.1134 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.07 Aug 1187 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b. in Poitou, France
- b.1109 in Haute Marche, La March, Normandy, France d.1134 in Y
- b.1160 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.1218 in Labbey, LA, USA
- b.1080 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France d.1122 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France
- b.1120 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France d.1201 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France
- b.1105 in Perche, Normandy, France d.28 May 1143 in Turenne, Corre, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, C, France d.31 May 1244 in Fontevrault, M Lr, France
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Countess Isabelle Of and King John Lackland of were married in a religious ceremony on August 24th, 1200 in Bordeaux. They had two sons and three daughters, named King Henry III of, Earl of Cornwall, Joan Lackland of, Isabella Lackland Princess of and Eleanor Lackland Countess of.
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Children
King Henry III of England
King Henry III of was born on October 1st, 1207. He died at the age of 65 on November 16th, 1272.
Earl of Cornwall Richard
Earl of Cornwall was born on January 5th, 1209. He died at the age of 63 on April 2nd, 1272.
Isabella Lackland Princess of England
Isabella Lackland Princess of was born in 1214. She died at the age of 27 on December 1st, 1241.
Countess Isabelle Of and Hugh X of were married in a religious ceremony in 1220. They had four sons and four daughters, named Aymer de Valence Bishop of, Guy, Geoffrey, William, Agnés, Alice, Marguerite and Isabelle.
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Children
Aymer de Valence Bishop of Winchester
Aymer de Valence Bishop of was born in 1222. He died at the age of 38 in 1260.
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