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- She died around 1220.
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Oct 4, 2016 · It is possible she gave birth to another daughter named Isabelle and a still born son named Jean. The rest of her life was spent in relative peace. The exact date of Alys’ death is unknown with possible dates being 1213 or 1220. Alys’ husband William died in 1221 and Marie was his heir.
Jul 15, 2019 · Alys herself died sometime in the 1200s. William himself died in 1221, and Alys is believed to have died before him. While Alys herself never became Queen of England, one of those curious quirks of medieval genealogy and marriage meant that one of her descendants did.
May 10, 2017 · Alys of France had the last laugh, though. Richard Lionheart died without issue by his Navarrese wife. Alys’s daughter had a daughter who became Queen of Castile (marrying a descendant of Henry II’s daughter Eleanor) and whose daughter Eleanor of Castile married Edward I and so brought Ponthieu and the Vexin to the English king (then heir to the throne).
Alys married William IV, Count of Ponthieu on 20 August 1195. She died between 1218 and 1220. Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, known in English as "Alice", was a French princess, initially betrothed to Richard of England.
May 10, 2017 · Alys of France was born on 4 October 1160 as the daughter of King Louis VII of France and his second wife, Constance of Castile. She had two elder half-sisters from her father’s marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine and a full elder sister. Her mother died giving birth to Alys, and so she never knew her mother.
King Richard married Berengaria of Navarre on 12 May 1191, while still officially engaged to Alys. Philip had offered Alys to Prince John, but Eleanor prevented the match. [4] Alys married William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu, on 20 August 1195, and had two daughters: Marie, Countess of Ponthieu, and Isabelle and a stillborn son: Jean.
Dec 3, 2018 · Richard I, a.k.a. the Lionheart, should have married Alys of France – the dispensation for that marriage would have been interesting given that Richard’s mother Eleanor of Aquitaine and Alys’ father, Louis VII of France had once been married. Alys arrived in England aged eight as Henry II’s ward following a treaty agreed in 1169.
