| Notes |
- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"JOHN OF ENGLAND (nicknamed Lackland), King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou, youngest son, born at Oxford about 27 Dec. 1166. In 1173 he was contracted to marry Alice of Maurienne, eldest daughter of Humbert III, Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquis of Italy. This marriage scheme failed when his older brother, Henry, as count of Anjou, refused their father's proposal to give John the castles of Chinon, Loudun, and Mirebeau. In 1174 it was agreed that John should have Nottingham and Marlborough Castles in England and certain castles and rents in France. In 1177 his father declared him King of Ireland, and arranged his succession to the earldom of Gloucester. In March 1185 his father knighted him at Windsor, and sent him to govern Ireland. John treated the Irishmen with such insolence, they deserted the English cause and kept the Kings of Limerick, Cork, and Connacht from coming to do fealty to him. He was recalled from Ireland by his father in Sept. 1185. His father's continued favor to him contributed to the rebellion of John's older brother, Richard, though at the end of Henry's reign, John deserted his father to support Richard. On Richard's accession as king in 1189, he made John Count of Mortain in Normandy, and granted him the castles and honours of Marlborough, Ludgershall, Lancaster, Bolsover, and the Peak, the town of Nottingham, the honours of Tickhill and Wallingford, and the county of Derby, with the honour of Peverel. John married (1st) at Marlborough, Wiltshire 29 August 1189 ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, lady of Glamorgan, youngest daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, protested against the marriage, John and Isabel being related in the 3rd degree of kindred. They had no issue. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King Richard I, in Sept. 1189. By the end of 1189, John was further granted the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, with all rights of jurisdiction. In 1191, while Richard was on crusade, John broke his promise not to enter England during Richard's absence, and, on learning of Richard's imprisonment in Germany, attempted unsuccessfully to seize control of England. On Richard's return in 1193, John was deprived of his English lands and excommunicated. In May 1193 Richard and John were reconciled by the mediation of the queen- mother. In 1195 Richard granted him the county of Mortain, the honour of Eye, and earldom of Gloucester. In the beginning of April 1199, as Richard was dying, he named John his successor in England and all his dominions. On the death of Richard, 6 April 1199, John ascended the throne and was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey 27 May 1199. In 1199 he obtained a divorce from his wife, Isabel, on grounds of consanguinity. She was subsequently kept a state prisoner until 1214.* John married (2nd) at Bordeaux 24 August 1200 ISABEL OF ANGOULÊME, daughter and heiress of Adémar (or Aitnar) Ill Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice (or Alaïs, Alaidis), daughter of Pierre of France, seigneur of Courtenay, Montargis, and Châteaurenard (younger son of Louis VI, King of France). She was born in 1188, and was previously contracted to marry Hugues IX le Brun (died Nov. 1219), Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan and Couhé. She was crowned queen 8 October 1200. They had five children (see below). By various mistresses, King John had a large number of illegitimate children, including nine sons, Richard, Knt., Oliver, John, Geoffrey, Henry, Knt., Osbert Giffard, Eudes (or Ives), Bartholomew (clerk), and possibly Philip, and four daughters, Joan, ___, Maud [Abbess of Barking], and allegedly Isabel. War with France followed John's refusal to appear in 1202 before King Philippe Auguste of France concerning the grievance of the Lusignans. At first John was successful in defending his French lands, capturing his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, in August 1202, but, in 1204, he lost Normandy, Anjou, Maine, and Touraine to the French king. For the next ten years, John resided almost permanently in England (the first such Angevin king) and attempted to restore his finances for further warfare in France by determined taxation and exploitation of his feudal prerogatives (later the basis for the charge of tyranny). In 1205 he began a quarrel with the Church when he refused to accept Pope Innocent III's nomination of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. His intransigence in the matter led the Pope to impose an interdict on England in 1208, suspending all religious services, and excommunicating King John. In 1210 he went to Ireland, where he took Carrickfergus, seized the lands of the Lacys and banished the Earl of Ulster, built several fortresses, appointed sheriffs and other officers to carry out the English system of law, and coined new money. He arrested all the Jews in England, and made them pay 66,000 marks. In 1211 he made an expedition into North Wales, compelled the submission of Llywelyn, and raised fortresses. In 1213, after five years of amassing the revenues of vacant or appropriated sees and abbeys, John agreed to become a vassal to the Pope for an annual tribute of one thousand marks, with absolution from excommunication and the lifting of the interdict. In 1214 John conducted another campaign in France, and suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Bouvines on the river Margne. An alliance of barons took advantage of this defeat to launch a rebellion which was successful in forcing John to agree to a comprehensive and humiliating agreement at Runnymede near Windsor 19 June 1215 called the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. This defined the rights of the Church, barons, and the people. John soon repudiated the charter, claiming he acted under duress, and civil war ensued. JOHN, King of England, died testate suddenly at the Bishop of Lincoln's castle at Newark 19 October 1216, and was buried at Worcester Cathedral. His widow, Isabel, returned to France in 1217, to take up residence in her native city of Angoulême. She reasserted her control over Cognac, and entered into prolonged and violent disputes with Reginald de Pons over the castle of Merpins, and with Bartholomew le Puy. She married (2nd) 10 May 1220 HUGUES [X] LE BRUN (otherwise known as HUGUES DE LUSIGNAN), Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan, Château-Larcher, Montreuil-Bonnin, and la Mothe-Saint-Heray, and, in right of his wife, Count of Angoulême, son and heir of Hugues [IX] le Brun, Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan and Couhe, by his 1st wife, Agatha, daughter of Pierre de Montrabel, seigneur of Preuilly. They had five sons, Hugh le Brun (XI) [Count of La Marche and Angoulême], Guy (or Gui), Chev. [seigneur of Couhe, Cognac, Merpins, etc.], Geoffrey, Chev. [seigneur of Jarnac, Châteauneuf, Château-Larcher, etc.], William de Valence, Knt. [Lord (or Earl) of Pembroke], and Aymer [Bishop elect of Winchester], and four daughters, Agnes (wife of Goillaume de Chauvigiy, seigneur of Châteauroux), Alice (or Alix) (wife of John de Warenne, Knt., 7th Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 9]), Isabelle (wife of Maurice IV de Craon), and Marguerite (wife successively of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse [see ENGLAND 4.vii.a above], Amaury IX, Vicomte of Thouars, and Geoffroi V, seigneur of Châteaubriant). In 1224 Hugues de Lusignan defected to King Louis VIII of France during the Capetian invasion of Poitou, with Louis promising Isabel 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 they 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 daimed 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. Isabel, dowager Queen of England, Countess of La Marche and Angoulême, subsequently took refuge in Fontevrault Abbey, where she died testate 4 June 1246. She was initially buried in the common graveyard of the Abbey, but at her son, King Henry III's request, her remains were moved in 1254 to the choir of the Abbey Church. Hugues [X] de Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême, went on crusade to Holy Land in 1248. He was mortally wounded at the capture of Damietta 6 June 1249. He left a will dated 8 August 1248.
(* Note: In 1207 Isabel of Gloucester, former wife of King John, was lodged in Sherborne Castle [see Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 92; Hardy Rotali Iitterarum Patentium (1835): 77; C.P. 5 (1926): 689-692 (sub Gloucester)]. Early in 1214, she was in Bristol Castle, apparently closely guarded (ibid., p. 108b), and was brought thence to be given in marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville [see Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 162b, 163b, 209b; Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Patentium' (1835): 109b; English Hist. Rev. 61(1946): 294, footnote 11. She married (2nd) 16/26 Jan. 1213/4 (as his 2nd wife) Geoffrey de Mandeville, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2.i], Constable of the Tower of London, 1213, joint Marshal of the Army of the Barons, 1215, and, in right of his wife, Earl of Gloucester [see Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Invs. of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 90 (Isabel, wife of Geoffrey de Mandeville, styled "kinswoman" [cognatam] of King John; Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufridus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia."); Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex); Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 12-13 (sub Gloucester); C.P. 5 (1926): 126-130 (sub Essex); Holt Magna Calla (1992): 206-2101. They had no issue. He died 23 Feb. 1215/6, and was buried in Trinity Priory within Aldgate Nee Luard Annales Monartici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufiidus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia.").]. Isabel married (3rd) c.17 Sept. 1217 (as his 2nd wife) Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.iii]. They had no issue. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, died 14 October 1217, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Church [see Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 ( Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouernie, soror et benefactrix nostra")]. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, died 12 May 1243, and was buried in church of the Black Friars in Holborn [see Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicle 2 (1849): 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 Maii]"); English Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711; C.P. 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent); English Hist. Rev. 50 (1935): 418-432]. See also Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92; University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810076, 00810114, 00810140, 00810141, 00810142, 00810143, 00810144, 00810145, 00810146, 00810147, 00810150, 01400342 (charters of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, dated variously 1214-1217) (available at http:// res.deeds_utoronto.ca:49838/research).)
Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 49,81-87. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1725): 474 (sub Courtenay); 3 (1728): 75-81 (sub Lezignem). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1745): 41 ([Raoul] Vicomte of Beaumont styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by King John in 1202). Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 13-14 (will of King John). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 91 (Reynold, King of Man, styled "kinsman" by King John). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 315-321. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 5 (will of King John). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1169. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londiensi Asservati (1835): 71b (Queen Isabel of Angoulême styled "sister" [i.e., half-sister] to Pierre, Count of Joigny). Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Loncunensi asservad 1(1) (1837): 20-21 (Constance de Toeni daughter of Richard Vicomte de Beaumont styled "kinswoman" [consanguinee] by King John in charter dated 1199), 34 (Adam Simla [of Stapley (in Odiham), Hampshire] styled "kinsman" [cognato] by King John in charter dated 1200), 126 (Henr' de Puteaco [Henry du Puiset] styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by King John in charter dated 1204), 150 (Mary, Abbess of Shaftesbury styled "aunt" [amita] by King John in charter dated 1205). Fonteneau Tables des Manuscrits 1 (Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest 4) (1839): 195, 197, 202-205, 208, 211-213, 215, 217, 221, 224, 229, 230. Reiffenberg Monuments pour servir a l'Histoire des Provinces de Namur; de Hainaut et de Luxembourg 1 (1844): 324-325 (Philippe, Count of Namur, styled "kinsman" by John, lord of Ireland, Count of Mortain, in 1193). Hawley Regal Fam. of England (1851): 18-20. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Charles 4th Ser. 2 (1856): 537-545. BuIL Son Arch. & Hist. de la Charente 2nd Ser. 1 (1856): 116-252. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 8-12 (marriage contract dated 1173 between John, son of King Henry II, and Alice, daughter of Humbert, Count of Maurienne). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 1 (1862) (Rolls Ser. 27): 22-23, 32-34, 114-115, 536 (letters of Queen Isabel of Angoulême). Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 397-398 (seal of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224-Sceau equestre. Le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, le cor au cou et tenant à la main un petit chien pose sur la croupe du cheval. Légende: * SIGILL' : HVGONIS : DE : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : ENGOLISME; Revers. Ecu burelé. Le champ à arabesques. Légende: + SIGILL’ : HVGONIS : DE: LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.) Docs. Hist. sur l'Angorimois 1 (1864): 131-133 (charter of Hugues de Lusignan, Count of La Marche, and his wife, Isabel ["Hysabella'], Countess of La Marche and Angoulême, dated 1226). Button Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (1866): 246 (sub A.D. 1189: "Post coronationem autem suam, rex Ricardus Johanni fratri suo, præter id quod ex dono paterno in Hibernia et Normannia habuerat, provincias Cornubiæ, Devoniæ, Notyngamiæ et Lancastriæ, contulit. Sed et filiam comitis Glovemiae, in tertio gradu consanguineam suam, cum integritate paterni juris, eidem copulavit."). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 2 (1866): 38-39, 68, 121, 140, 175-176, 182-183, 241, 313, 453, 457, 476-477, 498-499, 513, 571-572, 574-576, 622-624. Delisle "Chronologie Hist. des Comtes de la Marche" (Bull. Société Archéologique et Hist. de la Charente) 4th Ser. 4 (1867): 3-16. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 309 (Ex Roberti Abbatis Appendice ad Sigebertum: "Anno MCLXVII (1167) Natus est Johannes filius Regis Anglorum"). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 407 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1216 - "Johannes rex Angliæ obiit apud Newewerke in crastino Sancti Lucæ; et sepultus est in cathedrali ecclesia de Wygorniæ coram magnum altari inter Sanctos Oswaldum et Wistanum"). Duval Cartulaire de l'Abbaye royale de Notre-Dame des Châteluers (1872): 56 (charter of Hugues [X] de Lusignan dated 1232), 80-81 (charters of Hugues [X] de Lusignan dated 1248), 82-85 (testament of Hugues [X] de Lusignan dated 1248). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 549 (Baldwin, Count of Flanders & Hainault (died 1205), styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by John, lord of Ireland, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John in 1196; see also Reiffenberg Monuments pour servir a l'Histoire des Provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg 1 (1844): 323-324). Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 1 (1881): 81-82 (Dunecanus de Karric [i.e., Duncan, Earl of Carrick] styled "our friend and cousin of Galloway" [amicus et consanguineus noster de Galweia] by King John in 1210) (see also Scots Peerage 2 (1905): 422-425 [sub Ancient Earls of Carrick]; Loengard Magna Carta & the England of King John (2010): 168-173). Demay Inv. des Sceaux de la Normandie (1881): 8 (equestrian seal of John, Earl of Mortain [Later King of England] dated about 1189 - casque à nasal à timbre arrondi, bouclier portant deux lions ? passant, étrivière en chainette. Counterseal: Intaille représentant une tête de nymphe ? à gauche). Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92. Inventaire Sommaire des Archives departmentales antérieures à 1790: Haute Vienne, Serie H. Supp. (1884-7): 58 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1247). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 435 (sub Cornwall), 685 (sub Essex); 2 (1886): 11 (sub Gloucester), 308 (sub Lancaster). La Porta Les Gens de Quailté en Basse-Marche 1(2) (1886): 1-60 (Généalogie de Lusignan). Richard Chartes et Docs. pour servir a l'Hist. de l'Abbaye de Saint-Maixent (Archives Hist. du Poitou 18) (1886): 38-39, 45-46 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1221), 46-47 (charter of Hugues X le Brun dated 1222), 59-60 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1233), 65-66 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1235), 79-80 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1248). Roger de Wendover Flowers of Hist. 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1886): 173 ("Per idem tempus Johannes, frater regis, coram legato et episcopis gravem deposuit querelam, quod archiepiscopus, post appellationem ad sedem apostolicam factam, total terrram suam posuerat sub interdict°, quia filiam comitis Glovernin, in tertio gradu consanguineam suam, duxerat in uxorem ..."). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 15 (seal of King John - Obverse. King enthroned; open crown; sword, and orb ensigned with ornamental cross; draped with loose dress and girdle; throne with cushion and footboard. Legend: + IOHANNES : DEI : GRA[CjIA : REX : ANGLIE : DOMINVS : HIBERNIE. Reverse: King on a horse to the right; hauberk of mail, with surcoat, flat helmet, broad sword, goad spear, and shield of arms of ENGLAND suspended close to his body. Legend: IOH'S : : DVX : NORMANNIE : ET : AQVITANNIE [:ET:] COMES ANDEG[AVIE].). Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 110-111 (charter of John, Count of Mortain, later King John). Broussillon Maison de Craon, 1050-1480 1(1893): 173-177 (seal of Hugues X de Lusignan: au centre, le comte à cheval, en costume de chasse, tête nue. le cor suspendu au cou et tenant de la main gauche un chien posé sur la croupe du cheval; celui-ci galope, son harnachement est bien détaillé. Legend: + SIGILL. : HVGONIS : DE LEZINIACO : COMITIS ENGOLISME. Le contre-sceau est de la même grandeur. L'écu triangulaire remplit le champ orné d'arabesques très finement gravées; II porte un burelé de dix-huit pieces: + SIGIL. : HVGONIS : LEZINIACO : COMITIS : MARCHIE.), 177-178 (seal of Isabel of Angoulême: C'est le numéro 10,010 des Archives; l'empreinte de encore appendue à la charte de mars 1227 publiée in extenso sous le numero 1924 des Layettes du Trésor des Chartes et par laquelle la reine, devenue l'epouse de Hugues X, dent le roi de France quitte de tout ce qu'elle pouvait reclamer pour son douaire. Le sceau represente la reine debout at couronnée, avec in légende: YSABEL DI GR... REGIN ANGLIE DN ...ERNIE. Au revers la légende porte: [IS]ABEL DUCISSA NORM …OR AQ...MANDEGAVORUM.). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 472 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: Ysabellis, mater regis Henrici 1111 Angliæ."), 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "18 October. Johannes, rex Anglorum."), 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "4 Jun. [Obiit] Isabel quondam regina Anglorum, mater Henrici regis."), 580 (Nom Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "18 Oct. [Oblit] Johannes, rex Anglorum."). Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 98. Wyckoff Feudal Relations Between the Kings of England & Scotland Under the
Early Plantagenets (1897): 110, footnote 2 (Alan [Fitz Roland, lord] of Galloway styled "faithful cousin" by King John of England in 1212, cites Bain Cal. Docs. Rel Scotland 1 (1881)). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (André de Chauvigny styled "kinsman" by Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Queen of England, and her son, King John, in letter dated 1199), 495 (Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainault, and his brother, Philippe, Count of Namur, both styled "cousin" by John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John of England] in 1196). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 69 (grant by "John, count of Moretain, brother of the King" dated 1198). C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 393 (Ayquelm-Guilhem, lord of Lesparre [Gironde], styled "kinsman" [cogriato] by King John in charter dated 1202). Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 78-82. Métais Chartes Vendômoises (1910): 163 (Louis, Count of Blois & Clermont, styled "nephew" [nepos] by John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John of England] in 1193). D.N.B. 10 (1908): 500-501 (biog. of Isabella of Angoulême: "... a beautiful and mischievious woman... hated by both English and Poitevins; John's marriage with her led to the loss of nearly all his continental possessions"), 839-854 (biog. of John, king of England: "... All the vices of his house appear in his character unredeemed by any greatness. He was mean, false, vindictive, and abominably cruel… greedy and extravagant... He had a violent temper, and a stubborn disposition… at heart a coward... self-indulgent and scandalously immoral"). Clark Cartæ et Alia Munimenta de Glamorgancia 5 (1910): 1785-1786. English Hist. Rev. 27 (1912): 106-117 (William the Lion, King of Scots styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by King John in 1207); 61 (1946): 289-314; 63 (1948): 83-89; 65 (1950): 360-371; 67 (1952): 233-235. C.P. 3 (1913): 429 (sub Cornwall); 5 (1926): 689-692 (sub Gloucester); 12(1) (1953): 768, footnote j (Constance de Beaumont, wife of Roger IV de Tony, styled "kinswoman"). Arch. Aeliana 3rd Ser. 17 (1920): 265, 282-286 (seal of King John bore two lions passant). Pertz Chronica ævi Suevici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 23) (1874): 874 (Chron. of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines: "que domna Petro de Cortenaio, regis Philippi patruo, peperit comitem Petrum Comitem Autissiodorensem et Robertum de Cortenaio et quendam Guilelmum et sorores comm. Una Alaydis comiti Guilelmo Ioviniaci peperit comitem Petrum, et post Engolismensi comiti peperit Isabellam modernam Anglie reginam ..."). Ede Cathedral Church of Christ & the Blessed Virgin Mary of Worcester (1925): 31-38. Thomas Cartulaire des Comtes de la Marche et d'Angoulême (1934). Landon Itinerary of King Richard I (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 13) (1935): 3-4. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 238 ("... cruel, lecherous, and deceitful… his mind was always seething with jealousy and suspicion"). Snellgrove Lusignans in England (1950). Speculum 30 (1955): 374-384. Metropolitan Museum of Art Bull n.s. 18(1) (1959): 18-27. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 14. Archives 5 (1961): 88-89. Warren King John (1961). VCH Wiltshire 6 (1962): 8-9. Coat ofArms 7 (1962): 18-24 (arms of John as Lord of Ireland: Two lions passant; arms of John as King: Three lions passant guardant in pale); n.s. 5 (1983): 153-156. Holt King John (1963). Archivum Heraldicum 79 (1965): 19-23. Barrow Robert Bruce & Scotland (1965): 36. Cuttino Gascon Reg. A 2(1975): 499 (letters of Hugh X de Lusignan dated 1227), 509 (charter of Hugues X de Lusignan dated 1224), 510. Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 15-17. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 191 (charter dated 1189/99 of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Mortain, 1st wife of King John). Adams Select Cases from Eccl. Courts of Canterbury (Selden Soc. 95) (1981): 106,112 (Sylvius de Cresto [Crofto], clerk, styled "king's kinsman" in 1202). Debord Cartulaire de Saint-Amand-de-Boixe (1982): 271-272 (charters of Hugh de Lusignan and his wife, Isabel, Queen of England, dated 1224 and 1225), 300. Recueil des Docs. de l’Abbaye de Fontaine-le-Comte (Société des Archives Historiques du Poitou 61) (1982): 64, 82 (will of Hugues [X] de Lusignan), 87 (another will of Hugues [X] de Lusignan). Sayers Papal Government & England during the Pontificate of Honorius 111 (1216-1227) (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life & Thought 3rd Ser. 21) (1984): 232. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 83 (sub England), 190 (sub Savoy); 3(2) (1983): 354; n.s. 3(4) (1989): 816 (sub Lusignan), 725 (sub Preuilly), 774 (sub Brosse), 818 (sub Angoulême). Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 37. Williamson Kings & Queens of England (1991): 66-67 (biog. of John Lackland: "... has always been regarded as the archetype 'bad' king; yet he had some redeeming features... his good looks and charm induced many of those he wronged to forgive him... [he] grew up a dandy, gourmet, and womanizer, dedicated to a sybaritic existence and entirely unprincipled... [his] personality was a complex one... He was cruel and avaricious, but possessed a sense of humor and could occasionally show acts of mercy and generosity"), 67-68 (biog. of Isabella of Angoulême). Turner King John (1994). Mortimer Angevin England 1154-1258 (1994). Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 165-220 (pg. 184 author states that King John rewarded Reginald [or Renaud], prévôt de Chartres, a kinsman of his mother-in-law, Countess Alice, in August 1201). Sayers Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1999): 44. Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 82-103. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 452-456. Wheeler Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord & Lady (2003): 159-175 (revises previously accepted birth date of King John). Seel King John: An Underrated King (2012).
Children of John of England, by Isabel of Angoulême:
i. HENRY III OF ENGLAND [see next].
ii. RICHARD OF ENGLAND, Knt., Earl of Cornwall, Count of Poitou, King of the Romans (or King of Almain), married (1st) ISABEL MARSHAL [see CORNWALL 6]; (2nd) SANCHE (or SANCHIA) OF PROVENCE [see CORNWALL 6]; (3rd) BEATRICE DE FALKENBURG [see CORNWALL 6].
iii. JOAN OF ENGLAND, married ALEXANDER II, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 5].
iv. ISABEL OF ENGLAND, born at Gloucester in 1214 (aged 21 in 1235). She married at Worms 15, 20, or 25 July 1235 (as his 4th wife) FRIEDRICH (or FREDERICK) II, King of the Romans, 1212-20, Holy Roman Emperor, 1220-50, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, Duke of Apulia, Prince of Capua, son and heir of Heinrich VI, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily, by Constance, daughter of Roger II, King of Sicily. He was born at Jesi 26 Dec. 1194. They had two children (see below). His wife, Empress Isabel, died in childbirth at Foggia 1 Dec. 1241, and was buried at Andria Cathedral. On 30 April 1242 King Henry III of England paid Brother John, his almoner, £208 6s. 8d. to feed the poor for the soul of the Empress, formerly his sister. Emperor FREDERICK II died at Fiorentino Castle in Lucera 13 Dec. 1250, and was buried at Monreale in Palermo. He left a will dated 10 Dec. 1250. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 87-88. Neugart Codex diplomaticus Alemanniæ et Burgundiæ Trans-Ivranæ 2 (1795): 133-135 ([Berthold] Margrave of Ronsberg styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Friedrich II, King of the Romans and King of Sicily, in 1213). Rymer Fædera 1 (1816): 220, 225-227. Devon Issues of the Exchequer (1837): 19. Huillard-Bréholles Grande Chron. de Matthieu Paris 8 (1840): 491-499. Pertz Chronica et Annales avi Salici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 9) (1851): 786 (Annales Sancti Rudberti Salisburgenses sub A.D. 1235: "Imperator colloquim in Augusta celebrans, multos malefactores Bawarie et castxa proscripsit, et filiam regis Anglie uxorem duxit ..."), 787 (Annales Sancti Rudberti Salisburgenses sub A.D. 1241: "Imperatrix defuncta est, soror regis Anglie."), 791 (Annales Sancti Rudberti Salisburgenses sub A.D. 1250: "Imperator in Apulia positus °Nit."). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 19-20. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist.: From the Year 1235 to 1273 1 (1852): 392-393 (letter of Emperor Friedrich II to King Henry III of England dated 30 Jan. 1242, reporting the death of his wife, Empress Isabel, the king's sister, which Isabel was survived by two children who are not named that she would live to us and you in the memory of her two children."]). Huillard-Bréholles Hist. Dolomatica Friderica Secundi 1(1) (1852): 62-63 (Adelasia, late Countess, styled “kinswoman" [consanguinea] by Friedrich, King of Sicily, in 1200), 221-223 (Friedrich, Duke of Lorraine, styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1212), 251-252 (Friedrich, late Duke of Rotenburg, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Friedrich, King of the Romans and of Sicily, in 1213), 249-251 (Friedrich, Bishop of Tridentinum styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by Friedrich, King of the Romans, in 1213), 263-265 (Margrave of Ruomesperch styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Friedrich, King of the Romans, in 1213); 3 (1852): 22-23 (Hermann, son of the late Ludwig, Landgrave of Thuringia, Count Palatine of Saxony, styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1227), 37-48 (Otto of Saxony [former Emperor Otto IV] styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1227), 57-60 (Otto [IV], late Emperor, styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1228); 4(1) (1854): 380 (Raymond Berenger, Count and Marquis of Provence, styled "kinsman" [affinis] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1232), 515-516, 522-524, 541-542; 4(2) (1855): 754-757 (Otto de Luneburg styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1235), 799-802 (instances of Raymond, Count of Toulouse, styled "kinsman" [affini/affinis] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1235); 5(1) (1857): 113-114 (G. Gonfanonerio "civi Brixie" styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1237), 370-371 ((Fernando III], King of Castile, styled "kinsman" [affinis] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1239), 380-382 (Bonifacio [II], Marquis of Monferrato, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1239), 536-537 (Berthold [IV], Margrave of Hohenburg, styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1239), 541-543 (Raymond, Count of Toulouse, styled "kinsman" [affinis] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1239); 5(2) (1859): 1096-1097 (Berthold [LV], Margrave of Hohenburg, styled "kinsman" [consanguinei] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1241); Preface & Introduction (1859): ccxxxii (Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1243); 6(2) (1861): 555-557, 569-571 (instances of A[madeo], Count of Savoy styled "kinsman" [affinis/consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1247), 658-660 (Thomas, Count of Savoy, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1248), 666-667 ([Guigues], Dauphin de Viennois, styled "kinsman" [consanguinei] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1248), 669-670 (B[erthold IV], Margrave of Hohenburg, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1248), 670-672 (charter of Emperor Friedrich II dated 1248 witnessed by Manfred, Marquis of Lancia, who is styled "our beloved kinsman" [dilectus affinis noster]), 805-810 (will of Emperor Friedrich II dated 1250), 906 (Isabel [of England] "late Empress" styled "sister" [sororis] by King Henry III of England in 1243), 907 (Emperor Friedrich II styled "brother-in-law" [sororio] by King Henry III of England in 1243). Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 1-48 (biog. of Isabel of England: "As far as can be traced, her leading characteristics appear to have been gentleness and beauty."). Pertz Annales avi Suevici (Monuments Germaniæ Historica, Scriptures 16) (1859): 30 (Annales Ephordenses sub A.D. 1235: "Itaque 17 Kalend. Augusti [16 July] imperator sororem regis Anglie ibidem Wormatie imperiali matrimonio sibi sollempniter copulavit"), 362 (Annales Stadenses sub A.D. 1235: "Imperator duxit sororem regise Angliæ et medio Augusto curiam Moguntiæ celebravit."). Archivio Storico Italiano n.s. 13(1) (1861): 78-83. Kingston Hist. of Frederick the Second Emperor of the Romans (1862). Ennen & Eckertz Quellen zur Geschichte tier Stadt Köln 1 (1863): 159-162, 165. Schirrmacher Kaiser Friderich der Zweite (1864): 558-563. Pertz Annales ævi Suevici (Monuments Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 19) (1866): 373 (Ryccardus de S. Germano sub A.D. 1235: "Mense Iulii imperator filia regis Anglie duxit uxorem, quam apud Guarmaciam magnifice desponsavit."), 374 (Ryccardus de S. Germano sub A.D. 1237: "Mense Februarii littere imperialis lecte sunt in Sancto Germano de captione Vincentie, et de nova imperatoris prole feminea de nova consorte suscepta."), 382 (Ryccardus de S. Germano sub A.D. 1241: "Mense Decembris imperatrix aput Fogiam obiit, et aput Andriam sepelitur."), 497 (Annales Siculi sub A.D. 1235: "none indictionis domnus imperator Fredericus secundus accepit uxorem sororem regis Angliæ."), 698 Canonici Sambiensis Annales sub A.D. 1235: "Federicus imperator duxit filiam regis Angliæ in uxorem."). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry III 2 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1866): 8-10 (instances of Emperor Frederick styled "brother" [fratri] by King Henry III of England), 25-29. Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 2 (1866): 300-302, 537 (instances of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, styled "dilectus affinis et fidelis nostri" by Emperor Frederick II in 1235 and 1244). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 99 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1250 - "Obiit Fredericus imperator Alemanniæ."). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Demay Inv. des Sceaux de la Flandre 1 (1873): 4-5 (seals of Frederick II). Pertz Chronica avi Suevici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 23) (1874): 949 (sub A.D. 1241: "Comes Richardus reversus est, cuius soror imperatrix paulo post mortua est, tribus, ut dicitur, liberis relictis."). George Gen. Tables Ill. of Modern Hist. (1875): Table XIII (The Saxon, Franconian, and Hohenstaufen Imperial Houses), Table XIX (The House of Wettin in Thuringia and Saxony). Waltz Annales ævi Suevici (Supp. XVI et XVII). Gesta sæc. XII, XIII. (Supp. tomorom XX-XXIII) (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 24) (1879): 219 (Chronica Pontificum et Imperatorum Mantuana: "[Emperor Friedrich II:] Prima eius uxor domina Constantia, filia regis Aragonum, fuit; ex qua genuit regem Henricum. Qua defuncta, conscilio domini pape Honorii et cardinalium dominam Ysabellam, filiam Iohannis regis Ierosolimitani, una cum eodem regno accepit; de qua Conradum, qui rex Romanorum electus fuit et heres Ierusalem, genuit. Qua etiam defuncta, alteram dominam Ysabellam, filiam regis Anglie, accepit; de qua filium et filiam suscepit."), 366, 403. Waltz Gesta sæc. XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 25) (1880): 134 (Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium Abbreviata: "Anno Domini 1235. imperator ducit filiam regis Anglie et magnam curiam in Wormatia tenet"), 700 (Sifridi de Balnhusin Compendium Historiarum: "[Friedrich II] - Ipse plures filios habuit, quos reges constituit super diversa regna, videlicet Conradum, Meinfridum et alios, et filiam Margaretam, de quibus dicetur infra."). Böhmer Regesta Archioiscoporum Maguntinensium. Regesten zur Geschichte der Mainzer Erzbischöfe 2 (1883): 238. Archives de l'Orient Latin 2 (1884): 150-153 (charters of Emperor Friedrich II dated at Acre 1228), 166-167 (charter of Emperor Friedrich II dated at Acre 1229), 199 (letter of Friedrich II to the Sicilians dated at Nocera 1246). Röhricht Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani (MXCVII-MCCXCI) (1893). Delaville le Roulx Carlulaire General de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 2 (1897): 59-60, 86, 110-111, 114, 138-139, 173-174, 177-178, 183, 191-192, 282-283, 312, 329, 356-357, 410-411, 567-568, 605-606. Carlo Troia, vita pubblica e privata, studi opere (1899): lxv-lxxii. Holder-Egger Monumenta Erphesfurtensia Sæc. XII, XIII, XIV. (Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum 42) (1899): 90 (Annales Erphord, Fratrum Prædicatorum sub A.D. 1235: "Itaque XVII. Kal. Augusti [16 July] imperator sororem regis Anglie ibidem Wormatie imperiali matrimonio sibi sollemniter copulavit."). C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 219 (F[rederick], emperor of the Romans, styled "king's brother" by King Henry III of England). Bloch Annales marbacenses qui dicuntur (Scriptores rerum Germanicarum 9) (1907): 97 (sub A.D. 1235: Transacta curia imperator apud Wormatiam celebravit nuptias cum sorore regis Anglie, quam sibi adduxerat archiepiscopus Coloniensis et alii magnates."). D.N.B. 10 (1908): 499-500 (biog. of Isabella: "... a very winning as well as beautiful woman"... lamented in death by Matthew Paris as the "glory and hope of England"). Lane Royal Daughters of England 1 (1910): 97-106. Cal. Liberate Rolls 1 (1916): 269, 275 (instances of Isabel styled "Empress of Almain"). Wall Handbook of the Maude Roll (1919) unpaginated (ped. dated c.1461-85: "Isabella imperatrix uxor Frederici"). Einstein Emperor Frederick 11 (1949). Kantorowicz Frederick the Second 1194-1250 (1957). Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 94. Tremlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 64 (arms of Frederick II: Or, a double eagle sable). Van Cleve the Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (1972). Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion 1258-1267 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1973): 194-195. Decker-Hauff "Das staufische Haus" in Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte - Kunst - Kultur 3 (1977): 358-359, 366. Camden Misc. 27 (Camden Soc. 40 Ser. 22) (1979): 1-47. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 42 (sub Wettin); 1(1) (1998): 15 (sub Staufer); 2 (1984): 83 (sub England). Kantorowicz Kaiser Friedrich 11 (1985-1986). Abulafia Frederick II (1988). Jones & Vale England & Her Neighbours 1066-1453: Essays in Honour of Pierre Chaplais 1989): 48. Sayer Original Papal Docs. in England & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 90. Stürner Friedrich II (1992-2000). Crawford Templar of Tyre': Pt. III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots' (Crusade Texts in Translation 6) 2003). Zimmermann Thomas Ebendoer, Chronica Regum Romanorum 2 (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum n.s. 18(2)) (2003): 767-768. Online resources: www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d'Oro/nobilityA.htm; www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/deutschland_koenige_2/isabella_deutsche_koenigin_1241_plantagenet_staufer/isabella_von_england_deutsche_koenigin_+_1241.html.
Children of Isabel of England, by Emperor Frederick (or Friedrich) II:
a. MARGARETHA OF HOHENSTAUFEN, born in Feb. 1237. She married before Feb. 1254 (by contract dated 1245) (as his 1st wife) ALBRECHT II OF MEISSEN (nicknamed "The Degenerateâ€), Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringen, son and heir of Heinrich, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringen, by his 1st wife, Constanze, daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria and Styria. He was born in 1240. They had three sons, Heinrich, Friedrich (I) [Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringen], and Dietrich (or Dietzmann), and two daughters, Margaretha and Agnes (wife of Heinrich I, Duke of Braunschweig-Grübenhagen). In 1262 his father made a division of his territories, by which Thuringen and the Saxon palatinate were allotted to Albrecht. In consequence of this arrangement, Albrecht was called Landgrave of Thuringen until the death of his father in 1288, and under this title, he is more frequrntly mentioned in history than under that of Margrave of Meissen. He distinguished himself early by valour and military skill in the war of succession in which his father was involved for his lands in Thiiringen. His wife, Margaretha, died at Frankfurt 8 August 1270, and was buried in Frankfurt. ALBRECHT II, Landgrave of Thuringen, died at Erfurt 13 Nov. 1315. Descendants include Erik of Pomerania, King of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway [see LANCASTER 9.vii] and the later Electors and Kings of Saxony. Huillard-Bréholles Grande Chron. de Matthieu Paris 8 (1840): 491-499. Biog. Dict. of the Soc. for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1(2) (1842): 737-738 (biog. of Albrecht the Degenerate (Degener), landgrave of Thüringen). Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 46, footnote 3 (cites Tentzel vita Fred. II.; Menckenius Rer. Germ. Script. Ant., vol. ii., col. 897), 46, footnote 4 (cites "The 16th letter in the 5th book of De Vinea's Epistles"). Pertz Annales ævi Suevici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 16) (1859): 32 (Annales Erphordenses sub A.D. 1238: "dein filiam suam Hermanno lantgravio per manum Maguntini episcope in Aschaffenburg desponsavit"), 44 (Annales Veterocellenses sub A.D. 1270: "Margareta nobilis domina lantgravia Thuringie, filia Friderici imperatoris, fugit die sancti Iohannis baptiste; obiitque 6. Idus Augusti [8 Aug.] eodem anno."). Kingston Hist. of Frederick the Second Emperor of the Romans 1 (1862): 477; 2 (1862): 62, 347, 426 427 ("[Margaretha] had first been betrothed to the nephew of the deceased Thuringgian King; after the death of her intended bridegroom, she had been sent to the margrave of Meissen, one of the richest Princes in Germany owing to his silver mines, to be to married his son Albert, who was then but four years old."). Schirrmacher Kaiser Friderich der Zweite (1864): 558-563. Pertz Historici Germaniæ sæc. XII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 22) (1872): 536 (Annales Sancti Pantaleonis Coloniensis sub A.D. 1241: "Ipso anno Hermannus landgravius filius sancte Elysabeth, obiit, qui, repudiata filia imperatoris sibi desponsata, filia ducis de Brunswich duxerat n uxorem."). George Gen. Tables Ill. of Modern Hist. (1875): Table XIII (The Saxon, Franconian, and Hohenstaufen Imperial Houses), Table XIX (The House of Wettin in Thuringia and Saxony). Waltz Annales ævi Suevici (Supp. tomorum XVI et XVII). Gesta sæc. XII, XIII (Supp. tomorum XX-XXIII) (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 24) (1879): 208 (Chronica Minor. Continuatio I. sub A.D. 1270: "Item inclita Thuringie lantgravia Margareta, filia Friderici imperatoris, feliciter obiit in Franckenfort"), 210, 213 (Chronica Minor. Continuatio VI. sub A.D. 1270: "Margaretha, filia Friderici imperatoris, uxor langravii Alberti, nocte furtive recessit de Varberch cum paucis, et eodem anno in Franchkenfurt mortua est et sepulta."), 219 (Chronica Pontificum et Imperatorum Mantuana: "[Emperor Friedrich II.] Prima eius uxor domina Constantia, filia regis Aragonum, fuit; ex qua genuit regem Henricum. Qua defuncta, conscilio domini pape Honorii et cardinalium dominam Ysabellam, filiam Iohannis regis Ierosolimitani, una cum eodem regno accepit, de qua Conradum, qui rex Romanorum electus fuit et heres Ierusalem, genuit. Qua etiam defuncta, alteram dominam Ysabellam, filiam regis Anglie, accepit; de qua filium et filiam suscepit."). Waltz Gesta sæc. XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 25) (1880): 703 (Sifridi de Balnhusin Compendium Historiarum: "De marchione Heinrico. Hoc tempore marchio Misnensis Heinricus, [cognatus landgravii Thuringorum Ludewici et fratrum suorum], cum haberet duos filios Adelbertum et Dythericum, quos genuerat ei nobilis et inclita princeps [Constantia], filia ducis Austrie, cum magna pompa et fastu venit ad curiam imperatoris Friderici, petens filiam ipsius cesaris Margaretam dari filio suo in uxorem. Tandem adepta filia imperatoris, tradidit eam Adelberto, filio suo, in uxorem, quem procedente tempore landgravium constituit Thuringorum. Hec genuit dicto Adelberto tres filios, Heinricum, Fridericum, Diethericum."), 706 (Sifridi de Balnhusin Compendium Historiarum sub A.D. 1270: "Eodem anno inclita et nobilissima princeps Margareta, filia imperatoris Friderici, Thuringie landgravia, cum multas contumelias et etiam comminationes mortis a marito suo landgravio Adelberto indigne pertulisset, tandem existens in castro Wartberg, suffragio cuiusdam militis per murum in sporta de altissima rape eiusdem montis castri dimissa, cum duabus tantum pedissequis et duobus camerariis fugam iniit. Ipsa namque inter ceteras pedissequas suas unam habuit que Kunegundis de Ysinberg vocabatur, quam ipse landgravius amans et cum ea frequenter adulterans, filiam cesaris exosam habuit et despectam. Abbas autem Fuldensis dictum filiam imperatoris fugientem usque Franconevord deduci fecit; ubi a civibus honorifice suscepta et pertractata, ibidem defuncta est eodem anno et honore regio tumulata per archiepiscopum Moguntinum."), 713 (Sifridi de Balnhusin Compendium Historiarum: "Et tunc marchio Fridericus et Th[eodericus], germanus suus, filii landgravii Thuringorum Adelberti, nepotes imperatoris Friderici ex filia sua Margareta, de iam dictis terris progenitorum suorum elirninati sunt"). Bohmer Regesta Archiepiscoporum Maguntinensium. Regesten zur Geschichte der Mainzer Erzbischöfe 2 (1883): 251 (sub 1238. Aschaffenburg. "durch seine hand wird die zweijahrige tochter des Kaisers, Margaretha, mit dem landgrafen [Hermann] von Thüringen verlobt."), 378 (sub August 1270. Frankfurt. "begräbt die vor ihrem gemahl, dem landgrafen Albert v. Thüringen, geflohene und in Frankfurt vestorbene (Aug. 10) Margaretha, die tochter kaiser Friedrich's, im Katharinenkloster daselbst."). Encyclopedia Britannica 13 (1910): 279-280 (biog. of Henry Raspe) (states that Margaretha, daughter of Emperor Frederick II, was bethrothed c.1238 to Hermann, nominally Landgrave of Thuringia, which espousal was broken off c.1239). Einstein Emperor Frederick II (1949): 280. Kantorowicz Frederick the Second 1194-1250 (1957): 573. Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion 1258-1267 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1973): 194-195. Decker-Hauff "Das staufische Haus" in Die Zeit der Staufer, Geschichte - Kunst - Kultur 3 (1977): 339-. Online resource: www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/mittelalter/staufer/familie_kaiserfriedrichs_2/margaretlia_von_hohenstaufen_markgraefin_von_mei%DFen_+_1270.html.
b. HEINRICH (also known as CARLOTTO) OF HOHENSTAUFEN, born at Ravenna 17 or 18 Feb. 1238. He was a legatee in the 1250 will of his father, who bequeathed him either the kingdom of Arles or Jerusalem, as his older half-brother, Conrad, might prefer. Heinrich died without issue in Sicily in Dec. 1253-Jan. 1254. He never married. Huillard-Bréholles Grande Chron. de Matthieu Paris 8 (1840): 491-499. Huillard-Bréholles Chronicon Placentinum et Chronicon de Rebus in Italia Gestis (1856): 214 (Chronicon de rebus: "Carlotus ex regina Anglorum genitus in Apulia."). Green Lives of the Princesses of England 2 (1857): 34, footnotes 4, 5 (cites Paris 2:455; Petri de Vincis Epistolæ 3:#70; Rocchus Pirrus Chronologia Region Gravius 5: col. 48), 46, footnote 2. Kingston Hist. of Frederick the Second Emperor of the Romans 1 (1862): 477; 2 (1862): 62, 438, 471, 501, 505-507. Schirrmacher Kaiser Friderich der Zweite (1864): 558-563. Pertz Annales avi Suevici (Monumenta Germaniæ Histories, Scriptores 19) (1866): 497 (Annales Siculi sub A.D. 1236: "undecime indicionis mense Februarii natus fait rex Heinricus filius domni imperatoris de uxore sua tercia, qua fuit soror regis Angliæ."), 498 (Annales Siculi sub A.D. 1250: "Domnus Heinricus rex, filius domni imperatoris procreatus de uxore decimo nono die mensis Ianuarii dictæ nonæ indicionis applicuit Messanum, et cum magno gaudio fuit ibi receptus.'). George Gen. Tabls Ill. of Modern Hist. (1875): Table XIII (The Saxon, Franconian, and Hohenstaufen Imperial Houses). Weber Ueber das Verhältniss Englands zu Rom wahrend der Zeit der Legation des cardinals Otho in den jahren 1237-1241 (1883): 45 ("Am 17 Februar 1238 hatte Isabella dem Kaiser ihren ersten Sohn geboren, der in einem Briefe vom 3. Marz. aus Turin das freudige Ereigniss dem Grafen Richard anzeigte. Am 17 Februar, nicht am 18. Februar, wie irrthümlich in dem Briefe Friedrich's II in Matt. Par. III, 474."). Holder-Egger Cronica fratris Salimbene de Adam ordinis Minorum (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 32) (1905): 470-471. Gregorovius Hist. of Rome in the Middle Ages 5(1) (1906): 273. Einstein Emperor Frederick II (1949): 280. Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion 1258-1267 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1973): 194-195. Decker-Hauff "Das staufische Haus" in Die Zeit der Staufer, Geschichte - Kunst - Kultur 3 (1977): 339, et seq. Heinisch Kaiser Friedrich II.: Seth Leben in eitgenossischen Berichten (1977): 233, 243.
c. F[RIEDRICH] OF HOHENSTAUFEN, died young. Decker-Hauf "Das staufische Haus" in Die Zeit der Staufer, Geschichte - Kunst- Kultur 3 (1977): 339, et seq.
d. Unnamed child, born at Foggia 1 Dec 1241, died at birth. Schirrmacher Kaiser Friderich der Zweite (1864): 559-563. Decker-Hauff "Das Staufische Haus" in Die Zeit der Stauffer, Geschichte - Kunst - Kultur 3 (1977): 339, et seq.
v. ELEANOR OF ENGLAND, married (1st) WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., 5th Earl of Pembroke, hereditary Master Marshal [see MARSHAL 3.i]; (2nd) SIMON DE MONTFORT, Knt., Earl of Leicester [see LEICESTER 10].
Illegitimate child of John of England, when a single man, by a mistress, CLEMENCE ___, an unmarried woman [see Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 101 (Tewkesbury Annals sub 1234: "Obiit Johanna domina Walliæ, uxor Lewelini, filia regis Johannis et reginæ Clemenciæ, in. kal. Aprilis [30 March]; unpublished Register of Honorius III [Reg. Vat. 13, fol. 122])*:
(* Note: The identity of Clemence, mother of King John's illegitimate daughter, Joan, is presently unknown. She is perhaps the same person as Clemence le Boteler, wife of Nicholas de Verdun, Knt (died 1231), of Brandon (in Wolston), Warwickshire, Alton, Staffordshire, etc. In 1228 Nicholas and his wife, Clemence, were granted custody of the king's niece, Susanna, daughter of Llywelyn, Prince of North Wales, and his wife, Joan [see C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 230; VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 273-280; Hagger Fortunes of a Norman Fam. (2001): 16 (chart), 68-69, 761. If Clemence was Susanna's grandmother, it would explain her inclusion in the grant of Susanna's custody. Regardless, stronger evidence is needed before any firm conclusion can be drawn about a possible relationship between these families.)
i. JOAN OF ENGLAND, married LLYWELYN AP IORWERTH, Prince of North Wales, Prince of Aberffraw, Lord of Snowdon [see WALES 6].
Illegitimate child of John of England, by a mistress, ___ de Warenne, daughter of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 7.v for footnote on her possible identity]:
i. RICHARD FITZ ROY (or DE WARENNE, DE CHILHAM), Knt., of Chilham, Kent, married ROSE DE DOVER [see ATHOLL 9].
Illegitimate child of John of England, by a mistress, HAWISE FITZ WARIN, daughter of Fulk Fitz Warin, of Alveston, Gloucestershire, Chipping Lambourn, Berkshire, Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, Alberbury, Shropshire, and Broad Blunsdon, Stanton, and Westbury, Wiltshire, by Hawise, daughter and co-heiress of Josce de Dinan [see Nichols Hist. & Antiqs. of Leicestershire 2(1) (1795): 333-334; Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 7 (1858): 66-86; 11 (1860): 33 11; Brandin Fouke FitzWarin, Roman du XIV Siècle (Les Classiques Français du Moyen-age) (1920): 53, 83; VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 251-266; Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 240-243.]:
i. OLIVER FITZ ROY. In October 1215 he was granted a tun of wine by his father the king. He defended Wolvesey Castle for Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, in June 1216. In July 1216 he was granted the dwelling of Erdington. In March 1217 he took part with Hubert de Burgh in the defense of Dover against the French. In 1217 he was granted the lands formerly held by Peter Fitz Herbert to sustain him in the king's service. In March 1218 he was granted Hannington,Wiltshire to hold "until Eve de Tracy, who claims it, shall have made satisfaction for the same with 60 marks." He raised 100 marks on a wardship given to him by his father, in order to go on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1218 he arrived with other English knights at Damietta in the company of Papal legate, Pelayo. He died at Damietta the following year, but whether by disease or in battle is unknown. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of Engiand (1677): 87. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 315-321. Matthew of Paris and Roger of Wendover Chronica Majora 3 (1876): 40-41. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 42-43, 92. D.N.B. 14 (1909): 1035 (biog. of Oliver). Painter Reign of King John (1949): 232-233. Medievalia et Humanistica 8 (1954): 17-19. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 210 243. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 128-130. Powell Anatomy of a Crusade (1986): 235. Tyerman England & the Crusades 1095-1588 (1996): 201. Vincent Peter des Roches (1996): 71, 175. Wolff & Hazard Hist. of the Crusades 2 (2005): 402.
Illegitimate children of John of England, by an unknown mistress (or mistresses):
i. GEOFFREY FITZ ROY. He first occurs in the records in 1200. In 1204 he received a loan by the pledge of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, and Peter de Stokes. In 1205 he led an expedition into Poitou and died the same year. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 88 ("... was sent over with the ...Army to Rochell, and there died"). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 315-321. Hardy Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati (1835): 52-53. Hardy Rotuli de Liberate ac de Miris et Præstitis Regnante Johanne (1844). Curia Regis Rolls 3 (1926): 321 (suit dated 1205: "... quam du predictus Radulfus [de Trublevill] fuerit in servicio nostro in Pictavia cum Gaufrido filio nostro"). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1204 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 18) (1940): xxxv-xxxvj, xlj, 33, 60, 87, 131. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1205 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 19) (1941): xviij-xix, 19, 79-80. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 232-233. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 242. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102.
ii. JOHN FITZ ROY, apparently a cleric, supported by the custodians of the See of Lincoln in 1201. He was presented to the church of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire in 1215 by his father the king. In 1216 he was presented to the church of Tredington, Worcestershire by his father the king. His subsequent history is unknown. Hardy Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati (1835): 117. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1201 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 14) (1936): xix, 192-193. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 232-233. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 242. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 194, footnote 100.
iii. HENRY FITZ ROY, Knt., of Waltham, Ashby, Brigsley, Gonerby Hatcliffe), Hawerby, and North Coates, Lincolnshire, and Chilham, Kent. He was sent as a student to the Prior of Kenilworth in 1207. In 1215 he was granted the lands of Robert Fitz Walter in Cornwall. In 1217 he and Ralph de Raleigh were granted the manor of Waltham, Lincolnshire formerly held by Alan Fitz Count to sustain them in royal service. In 1231 he was granted all of the land of Henri de Avaugor, a Norman, in Waltham, Lincolnshire. He married before 1236 EVE DE BLANCHMINSTER (or WHITCHURCH), widow of William de Champernoun (or Chaumbernoun) (living 1235), of Umberleigh (in Atherington) and High Bickington, Devon, Hampton Gay and Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire, etc., and daughter and heiress of Reynold de Blanchminster (or Whitchurch) (living 1248), of Shrivenham and Winterboume (in Chieveley), Berkshire, and Bolney, Oxfordshire, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Nicholas de Bolney. They had no issue. SIR HENRY FITZ ROY died shortly before 8 April 1245. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) before 30 June 1252 GILES DE CLIFFORD (living 1276-7), of Columbjohn, Everleigh, Combe-in-Teignhead, and Godford (in Awliscombe), Devonshire, younger son of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford, Herefordshire, by Agnes, daughter and heiress of Roger de Condet. They had one son, Reynold. He witnessed a charter of his brother, Walter de Clifford, dated c.1225. In 1257 Giles and his wife, Eve, quitclaimed land in Shrivenham Hundred in Berkshire to William de Valence and his wife, Joan, in exchange for a quitclaim to the plot of land where the manor of Stauelpeth was built. In 1258 he and his wife, Eve, gave 1 mark to have a plea in Wiltshire. Giles presented to the church of Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon in 1259. In 1266 he was pardoned by the king due to his non-observance of the Provisions of Oxford. In 1274 he and the heirs of Thomas de Hauterive [or Dautry] were recorded as the owners of Shrivenham Hundred in Berkshire. In 1274 the king appointed a commission of oyer and terminer on complaint by Henry son of Adam de Cotes who stated that he had previously impleaded Richard Bernard and another in the court of William de Valence, Giles de Clifford, and Isabel de Hauteryve (or Dautry) of Shrivenham, Berkshire by writ of King Henry III touching a two virgates of land in Kyngescotes and on his complaint of a false judgment. In 1274-5 Joan de Champernoun [his step-daughter] arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him and Reginald de Clifford touching three messuages and land in Godford Awliscombe), Combe[-in-Teignhead], and Rocombe, Devon In 1275-6 Joan de Champernoun arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching rent in Figheldean, Wiltshire. In the same period, Reynold son of Giles de Clifford arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Over Rocombe and Stoke, Devon. In 1276-7 Alice de Ralegh arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Giles de Clifford and others touching a tenement in Combe-in-Teignhead, Devon. In 1276-7 Reginald son of Giles de Clifford arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Alice widow of Giles de Clifford and Wymund de Raleye touching a tenement in Over Rocombe and Stoke, Devon. Kennett Parochial Antiqs. of Ambrosden, Burcester 1 (1818): 213 (charter of William de Champernoun). Catholic Spectator 1 (1824): 371. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 2 (1836): 274. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropsbury 5 (1857): 203 (charter of Walter de Clifford). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 115; 45 (1885): 172, 290; 46 (1886): 136, 268. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 160. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 4 (1899): 212. Gerard Particular Desc. of the County of Somerset (Somerset Rec. Soc. 15) (1900): 6. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 128, 574 ("Henricus filius regis"). C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 114-115. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 51. C.Ch.R 1(1903): 137 ("Henry the king's brother"), 286. C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 311 ("Henricus frater regis"), 357, 441. C.P.R. 1232- 1247 (1906): 20, 296, 450. Cal. IPM 5 (1908): 344. C.C.R. 1234-1237 (1908): 219 ("Henrico fratri regis"). C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 46. C.C.R. 1237-1242 (1911): 511 ("Henricum filium regis"). C.P.R. 1266-1272 (1913): 222. Cal. Liberate Rolls 1(1916): 35, 105, 137, 143, 172, 242, 304, 347, 425; 2(1930): 2. Book of Fees 1(1920): 362 ("Henricus frater regis"), 617 ("Henricus filius regis"); 2 (1923): 660, 675, 1021 (instances of "Henricus filius Regis"). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 1 (1923): 66. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 424; 4 (1924): 63, 513, 533. C.C.R. 1251-1253 (1927): 116. Salter Cartulary of Oseney Abbey (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1929): 55. Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls (1930): 261. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 232-233. Brown Memoranda Roll for the 10th Year of King John 1207-8 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 31) (1957): 137 (Henry called "our son" [filio nostro] by King John). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 133: 4 (sub Clifford). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 645 (sub Wilington). VCH Oxford 6 (1959): 152-159, 182-195. Curia Regis Rolls 13 (1959): 138, 215, 283 ("Henricus filius regis John), 290, 364-365, 371, 514, 542; 15 (1972): 83, 449 (styled "Henricum filium le Rey"). Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls (1960): 261. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 242. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 375. Clifford House of Clifford (1987): 29, 238-240. Church Household Knights of King John (1999): 127. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 1112 (2008): 276.
iv. OSBERT GIFFORD. In 1215 he received the lands of Thomas de Arderne in Oxfordshire. In 1216 he likewise received Arderde's lands in Bundes, Norfolk, and elsewhere in Suffolk, Essex, and Sussex, and as well as the lands of Amaury le Despenser, Roger Fitz Nicholas, and Ralph Bluet in Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 87. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 40-42. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 315-321. Ancestor 3 (1902): 223-228 (his arms: Ermine two bars gules, on a chief gales a leopard or). Colls. Hist. Stes. n.s. 5 (1902): 60-64 (identifies Osbert Giffard, bastard son of King John, as "identical with Osbert Giffard who married Isabella de Freville."). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 37 (1905): 452, footnote 41. Genealogist n.s. 28 (1912): 128-129. NEHGR 75 (1921): 57-63; 119 (1965): 94-102. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 232-233. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 242. Trernlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 47. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 72.
v. EUDES (or IVES) FITZ ROY, of Canewdon, Essex. In 1233 he was granted lands in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, formerly belonging to William d'Avranches, to have during the minority of the heir. He had an exchequer fee of £20 granted to him in 1237. In the period, c.1227-41, he witnessed a charter for his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Launceston Priory in Cornwall. In 1240 he joined Earl Richard on a crusade to the Holy Land. EUDES FITZ ROY died there testate shortly before 21 Jan. 1241/2. His lands in Essex were granted to Giles de Chanceaux in 1242. No known descendants. Oliver Monasticon Diocesis Exonienses (1846): 23. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 210 ("Eudoni filio regis"). C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 179 ("Eudo the king's brother"), 270 ("Eudo son of R. the king's brother"), 314 ("Eudo the king's brother"). C.C.R. 1237-1242 (1911): 73 ("Eudoni fratri regis"), 386-387 ("Eudonis fratris regis"), 387 ("Ivonis fratris dornini regis"), 532 ("Eudonis fratris nostri"). Cal. Liberate Rolls 1 (1916): 263; 2 (1930): 80. Denholm-Young Richard of Cornwall (1947): 41, 112. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987) 12 ("Yvo brother of the earl" [Richard, Earl of Cornwall]). English Hist. Rev. 115 (2000): 21-38. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 528 (Eudes styled "brother of the king" in a fine roll item dated 1233).
vi. BARTHOLOMEW FITZ ROY, clerk, papal chaplain, member of the order of Friars Preachers, living August 1254. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 281 ("brother of king Henry, being an illegitimate son of king John"), 286 ("the king's brother"), 305.
vii. FITZ ROY, unknown daughter. She married ___ DE MEULAN,* by whom she had one son, Roger [Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield]. (* There is a remote possibility that this lady's husband was Ralph (or Raoul) de Meulan, Knt., son and heir of Waleran de Meulan, by Marguerite, daughter of Raoul de Fougeres. Ralph de Meulan recovered the manor of Ipplepen, Devon (his mother's maritagium) for a time in the 1220's. After Ralph refused to join the king's army in Brittany, the manor of Ipplepen was granted by King Henry III to Nicholas de Lettres in 1230. In consequence of a "querimonia" [complaint] in 1247, King Louis IX of France granted Courseulles-sur-Mer and Bernières-sur-Mer in Calvados in Aug. 1255 to Ralph and the heirs of the bodies of himself and his wife, with reversion upon failure of such heirs to the king and his heirs. In return Ralph quitclaimed to the king all his right, title, and interest in Beaumont-le-Roger and Brionne. Méms. de la Soc. des Antiqs. de Normandie (1828): 432-433 (Raoul de Meulan identified as nephew of Jeanne de Meulan, wife of Robert de Harcourt ["neveu de Jeanne"], sister of Waleran de Meulan)
|
Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1188 - 1246 (58 years)