BORN_SHORT ‎between 1188-1189 Angoulême, Charente, France, DIED_SHORT ‎jun 1246 Fontevrault-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France‎
KINSHIP: Daughter and heiress.

TITLES: 1st Marriage> Queen of England, crowned 8 Oct 1200.
TITLES: 2nd Marriage> Countess of La Marche and Angoulême.

POLITICS: In 1224 King Louis VIII promised Isabel, late Queen of England, 2000 lives Parisis annually in return for her dower lands forfeit in England, and the annual revenues of Langeais near Tours in exchange for rights that she claimed as dower at Saumur in Anjou.

In 1230, she and her husband, Hugues, entered into alliance with King Louis IX of France, who granted Isabel an annual pension of 5000 livres Tours in return for resignation of her dower rights she claimed in England, Normandy, and Anjou. In 1242 she and her husband, Hugues, rebelled against the French. In return for a pardon from King Louis IX, they were forced to relinquish the pensions paid to them since 1224 and to abandon their claim to Saintes. Isabel was subsequently implicated in a plot to poison King Louis IX and his brother, Alphonse, Count of Poitiers.

TRAVELS: Returned to France, 1217.

RESIDENCE: Angoulême {Angoulême, Charente, France}.

DEATH: Date Conflict> Listed as "31 May 1246" in ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists', 7th ed. p. 3 line 1:26; listed as "3 or 4 Jun 1246" in ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists', 7th ed. p. 106 line 117:27, p. 134 line 153:28.
listed as "4 Jun 1246" in 'Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families', p. 10 PLANTAGENET:3.

BURIAL: Reinterment> Originally buried in the common Graveyard of the Abbey, but in 1254, at the request of her son, King Henry III, her remains were moved to the choir of the Abbey Church.