ISABELLA of ANGOULEME TAILLEFER
Countess of Angouleme
Queen of England
| BIRTH: Abt 1170 in Angouleme, Poitou-Charentes, France DEATH: 31 May 1246 in Fontevrault, Frontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France BURIAL: Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, Isere, France FATHER: Aymer Valence TAILLEFER - Abt 1160 in Angouleme, Poitou-Charentes, France MOTHER: Alice De COURTENAY - Abt 1160 in Courtenay, Galinois, France
FIRST MARRIAGE: Abt 1200 - John I LACKLAND PLANTAGENET in Bordeaux, Gironde, France CHILDREN: 1. Joan LACKLAND PLANTAGENET -BIRTH: 1201 in Coucy, Alsne, France 2. Henry III PLANTAGENET - BIRTH: 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England 3. Richard PLANTAGENET - BIRTH: 5 Jan 1209 in Coucy, Alsne, France 4. Isabella Elizabeth LACKLAND PLANTAGENET - BIRTH: Abt 1214 in Coucy, Alsne, France 5. Eleanor LACKLAND PLANTAGENET - BIRTH: Abt 1215 in Coucy, Alsne, France
SECOND MARRIAGE: 10 May 1220 - Hugh Le March Le BRUN in England CHILDREN:
6. Hugh XI De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1220
7. Guy De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1222 in France 8. Alice De BRUN (ALFAISE) LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1224 in Vienne, France 9. Geoffrey De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1225 in France 10. William De Valence LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1226 in France 11. Marguerite De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1227 in France 12. Isabella De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1228 in England 13. Aymer De LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1229 in France 14. Agatha Agnes LUSIGNAN - BIRTH: Abt 1230 in France |
BIRTH: 24 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
'Effigy' of Isabella Taillefer
Isabella was the only daughter and heir of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. Her maternal Great grandfather was King Louis VI of France. She became Countess of Angouleme in her own right in 1202. She had married King John I Lackland of England on 24 Aug 1200 at the age of 13, so she was already the Queen of England. She was sometimes called the 'Helen' of the Middle Ages because of her beauty.
Isabella was much younger than King John. She had a fiery character to match his. Conflict came about between King Philip II of France when Isabella and John married. She had previously been engaged to Hugh IX of Lusignan, County of La Marche. King Philip took all his French lands back from the English.
Isabella was only in her twenties when King John died in 1216. She went back to France and married Hugh X of Lusignan, County of La Marche in 1220. He was the son of the man she had been betrothed to.
In 1244 Isabella was accused of plotting against the French king. She fled to Fontevrault Abbey. She died there on 31 May 1246 and is buried at the Abbey.
After the death of Isabella, most of her children went to England where their half-brother Henry was King.
Isabella of Angoulmane - Queen consort England
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SOURCES: Charles Arnold Baker The Companion to British History (Longcross Press, 1996)
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