Alice de Lusignan († 1290)

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Alice de Lusignan (also Adelheid or Alix ), Countess of Hertford and Countess of Gloucester (* after October 1236; † May 1290 ) was a Franco-English noblewoman.

origin

Alice de Lusignan was a daughter of the French nobleman Count Hugo XI. of Lusignan and Yolande de Bretagne. Her father was a half-brother of the English King Henry III.

Life

In 1252, the half-brothers of King Henry III living in England, including William de Valence , agreed with the powerful English nobleman Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, to marry their niece Alice with his son and heir Gilbert de Clare . The king was prepared to pay Richard de Clare 5,000 marks for the wedding . In the spring of 1253 Richard de Clare traveled with his son and William de Valence to Poitou , where the wedding took place. The marriage, which was supposed to serve as an understanding between the Anglo-Norman aristocracy and the king's French relatives, failed completely. Her husband became the heir of his late father's barons at the beginning of the Second War in 1262 . Despite his marriage to a French relative of the king, he was one of the rebels fighting the influence of the king's French relatives in England. Her husband's demeanor ruined their marriage, and Alice, likely becoming depressed, warned the king in 1267 that her husband was planning to occupy London in favor of the remaining rebels, the so-called disinherited . Allegedly, she is said to have had a relationship with the heir to the throne, Eduard , which is unlikely. In July 1271, Alice and her husband were officially separated. Little is known about her later life. On May 16, 1285, the marriage was annulled , and her ex-husband left her some estates, including Thaxted in Essex , Burford in Oxfordshire , Spenhamland in Berkshire and Wells and Warham in Norfolk , for maintenance . She probably did not live in England, however, but lived with her relatives in south-west France. After her death, her property reverted to her ex-husband, who on April 30, 1290, before her death, had married Johanna of England , a daughter of King Edward I , in his second marriage .

progeny

From her marriage to Gilbert de Clare she had two daughters:

  1. Isabella (1263-1338)
  2. Joan (* between 1264 and 1271; † after 1302)

The marriage contract that Gilbert de Clare had to conclude before his second marriage to the king excluded the two daughters of Alice and Gilbert from their father's inheritance.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 103
  2. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 103
  3. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 118
  4. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 127
  5. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 50
  6. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Alice de Lusignan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alix de Lusignan; Alice de Clare, Countess of Hertford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH between October 1236 and 1241
DATE OF DEATH May 1290