Isabella, Countess of Gloucester

Isabella
Countess of Gloucester and Essex
Bornc.1160-1166
DiedOctober 1217
Burial
unknown
Spouses
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(m. 1189; ann. 1200)​
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(m. 1214; died 1216)​
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(m. 1217)​
FatherWilliam Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
MotherHawise de Beaumont

Isabella, Countess of Gloucester (c.1160-1166 – October 1217)[1], inherited the vast, and wealthy cross-Channel honor of Gloucester. Married first to John, Count of Mortain (later, King John of England), she was a powerful, elite woman who was a consort, but never a queen.

  1. ^ Nicholas Vincent has speculated she could have been born as early as 1160. Nicholas Vincent, ‘A Queen in Rebel London, 1215-17’, in A Verray Parfit Praktisour, Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe, ed. by Elizabeth Danbury & Linda Clark (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), p.33.