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Isabella of Angoulême
b.1188 Angoulême, Charente, France
d.31 May 1245 (1246 ?) Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France
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m. 1186
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m. 24 Aug 1200
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m. Bet 10 Mar 1220 and 22 May 1220
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Isabella (; c. 1186/ 1188 – 4 June 1246) was Queen of England, as the second wife of King John, from 1200 to 1216, and Countess of Angoulême in her own right from 1202 until her death in 1246. Isabella had five children by the king, including his heir, later Henry III. In 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, by whom she had another nine children. Some of Isabella's contemporaries, as well as later writers, claim that Isabella formed a conspiracy against King Louis IX of France in 1241, after being publicly snubbed by his mother, Blanche of Castile, for whom she harbored a deep-seated hatred. In 1244, after the plot had failed, Isabella was accused of attempting to poison the king. To avoid arrest, she sought refuge in Fontevraud Abbey, where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed.
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