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In the spring of 1220, Isabella married Hugh X of Lusignan, "le Brun", Seigneur de Luisignan, Count of La Marche, the son of her former fiancé, Hugh IX, to whom she had been betrothed before her marriage to King John. It had been previously arranged that her eldest daughter Joan should marry Hugh, and the little girl was being brought up at ...
Betrothed when very young to Hugh IX, Count of Lusignan, Isabella of Angouleme married John Lackland of England, son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England. John had put aside his first wife, Isabella of Gloucester, in 1199. Isabella of Angoulême was twelve to fourteen years old at her marriage to John in 1200.
In 1217, Isabella left England for her native Angoulême, ostensibly to escort her eldest daughter, Joan, to her bridegroom, Hugh (X) de Lusignan. In an extraordinary turn of events, however, Isabella usurped Joan’s place as Hugh (X)’s bride.
Isabella and Hugh retaliated by threatening to retain custody of Princess Joan, now betrothed to the King of Scots. Terms were finally agreed on and Isabella received compensation for her dower lands in Normandy and payment for arrears in her pension.
Jun 17, 2017 · For the next twenty years, Isabella and Hugh were the power couple of south-west France. Paris was a long way off, and they got used to their independence. That all changed in 1241 when King Louis IX of France decided to appoint his brother as overlord of the region.
Jun 7, 2017 · In 1214, John finally secured a truce with Hugh, well over a decade after marrying Isabella. However victorious he might have felt, the feeling was undermined by the rise of the English barons who were disgusted by John’s wild mismanagement of governance (a topic we’ll return to another time).
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Hugh's father, Hugh IX of Lusignan, was betrothed to marry 12-year-old Isabel of Angoulême in 1200, but King John of England married her instead. As a result, the entire de Lusignan family rebelled against the English king. [3]
