Countess Of Gloucester Isabella Taillefer
1188 - 1246 (58 years)-
Name Isabella Taillefer Title Countess Of Gloucester Birth 1188 Poitou-Charentes, France 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Death 31 May 1246 Rhône-Alpes, France [1, 2, 3] Burial Pays de la Loire, France Person ID I8184 footsteps | Ancestors, Beaufort, Charlamagne, Robert Capet II Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
Father Count Of Angouleme Aymer Taillefer, b. Abt 23 Aug 1160, Poitou-Charentes, France d. Abt 16 Jun 1202, Île-De-France, France (Age 41 years) Relationship natural Mother Alice De Courtenay, b. Abt 1160, Boulogne, Pays de la Loire, France d. Abt Feb 1218, Poitou-Charentes, France (Age 58 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1186 Poitou-Charentes, France Family ID F929 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family King Of England John Lackland Plantagenet, b. 24 Dec 1166, Oxfordshire, England d. 19 Oct 1216, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years) Marriage 26 Aug 1200 Aquitaine, France Children + 1. King of England Henry Plantagenet, III, b. 1 Oct 1207, New Hampshire, United States d. 16 Nov 1272, Middlesex, England (Age 65 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. 1st Earl of Cornwall Richard Of Cornwal, b. 5 Jan 1209, Hampshire, England d. 2 Apr 1272, Herefordshire, England (Age 63 years)Family ID F46 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2025
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Isabella was betrothed to Hugh IX de Lusignan when John met her in 1200 . J o h n n e eded a heir and was covetous of the county of Angouleme. John b r u s h e d aside Hugh's protests and married Isabella, an act which brought o n w a r w i t h King Phillip of France (perhaps Phillip used this event as a p r e t e x t). Some have said that it was John's idle dalliance with Isabella w h i c h c a used John to lose his French territories, however, one historian r e l a t e s that "...John was quite capable of losing them without her assis t a n c e ." After John's death in 1215, Isabella went to France where in 12 2 0 s h e m a rried Hugh X de Lusignan, son of her previous betrothed.
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