Aimer de Taillefer 
Aimer was born about 1160 in Angouleme, Charebte-Maritime, France. Aimer's father was William IV de Angouleme Taillefer and his mother was Marguerite De Turenne. His paternal grandparents were Wougrin II Taillefer and Ponce De la Marche Montgomery; his maternal grandparents were Raimond I De Turenne and Matilda Maude Felicie Perche. He had two half-brothers named Wulgrim III and Adhemir (Aymar) V. He died in 1218 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. He was buried in 1202 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France.General Notes
Only child, Queen Isabella, was wife of King John and Hug h de Lusignan. [The Bruces and the Cumyns, p. 511]
Son of William IV, Count d'Angouleme, and Marguerite de Tur enne; husband of Alice de Courtenay; father of Isabelle d'A ngouleme. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 279]
Traditionally the house of Lusignan and that of Angouleme w ere enemies and rival contenders for La Marche. They had p atched up their difference and a treaty giving Isabella t o Hugh Lusignan had been signed when John Lackland arrive d on the scene. The 12-year old Isabella of Angouleme, a s lovely and fresh as a newly budded rose, attracted John w hen a violence that completely knocked out of his head an y marriage with an unknown Portuguese princess. Through som e underhanded dealing, John was able to work a deal with Ay mer, who retrieved Isabella, John sent the Lusignan brother s on missions to remote regions, and married Isabella in th eir absence. [Eleanor of Aquitaine, p. 342]
Count of Angouleme; b.c. 1160, son of William IV "Taillefer ", Count de Angouleme, and Margaret de Turenne; m. 1180, Ad elaide/Alice de Courtenay; d. 16 Jun 1202. [Charlemagne & O thers, Chart 2902]
William's full name was Ademe-Eymer Tallifer, also called Americus. or Aymer I
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.BET 988 AND 1014 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.BET 1040 AND 1048
- b.BET 1015 AND 1048 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.1089
- b.BET 1015 AND 1036 in Bonteville, France d.> 1048 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France
- b.BET 1065 AND 1084 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Apr 1118
- b.~ 1010 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1035 AND 1062 in Eu, Normandy, France or Angouleme, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1089 AND 1108 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Nov 1140 in France
- d.> 1097
- b.BET 1040 AND 1046 in Benauges, St. Macaire, France d.1103
- d.> 1097
- b.BET 1066 AND 1073 in Benauges, Gironde, France d.UNKNOWN in Angouleme, France
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1120 AND 1134 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.BET 7 AUG 1178 AND 1179 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.BET 985 AND 995 in St. Germain, Normandy, France d.< 1056
- b.1022 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1094 in Battle of Cardiff, Wales
- b.BET 970 AND 989 in Ponteaudemer, Normandy, France d.7 FEB 1049/50
- b.~ 1035 in Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales d.~ 1123 in Mortain, Manche, France
- b.BET 990 AND 995 in Belesme, Normandy, France d.1070 in Alencon, Normandy
- b.1026 in Alencon, Normandy d.05 Dec 1082 in France
- b.~ 0990 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.~ 1067 in Strangled
- b.BET 1109 AND 1110 in Haute March, Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.0974 in Toulouse, France d.1047
- b.1018 in Marche, Limousin, Poitou, France d.BET 1086 AND 1088
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, France d.1072
- b.BET 1062 AND 1070 in Haute March, Normandy, France d.1116
- b.BET 1030 AND 1035 in France d.1076
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Charebte-Maritime, France d.1218 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France
- b.0965 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1012 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1008 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1075
- b.~ 0970 in France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1050 in Turenne, Vienne, France d.1091 in Jerusalem, Holy Land
- b.0990 d.1037
- b.~ 1024 d.1069
- b.0994 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1080 AND 1090 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin,France d.BET 1122 AND 1137
- b.~ 1030 in Terrasson d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1050 AND 1070 in Terrasson, Guyenne, Aquitaine, France d.1103
- b.BET 1117 AND 1120 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France d.> 1201
- b.BET 1005 AND 1014 in Chateaudun, Mortagne, France d.~ 1079
- b.~ 1042 in Perche, Normandy, France d.Oct 1100
- b.BET 1016 AND 1025 in Belleme, Domfront, France d.UNKNOWN in Chateaudun, France
- b.BET 1070 AND 1080 in Mortagne-Au-Perche, Orne, France d.Apr 1144
- b.BET 1009 AND 1010 in Montdidier, Picardie, France d.1063 in Spain
- b.~ 1051 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.> 1129
- b.BET 1014 AND 1020 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
- b.~ 1105 in Perche, Normandy, France d.18 May 1143
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandy
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Forat, Normandy, France
- b.BET 1031 AND 1032 in Flanders d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1086 in England d.26 Nov in Drowned with the wreck of the White Ship in the English Channel
- b.~ 1068 in England d.UNKNOWN
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Aimer and Alix Adelaide De Joigny Courtenay were married in a religious ceremony in 1180 in Angouleme, Charente, France. They had a daughter named Isabella.
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Children
Isabella de Taillefer
Isabella was born about 1187 in Angouleme, Charente, France. She died on May 31st, 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, France. She was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, France.
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