Alix of Courtenay
Alix von Courtenay (also Alice de Courtenay ; * around 1160; † February 12, 1218 ) was successively married to a Countess of Joigny and Angoulême in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. She was a daughter of Peter I von Courtenay († 1180/83) and through this a granddaughter of the French King Louis VI. of the fat one .
Around 1180 Alix was married to Count Wilhelm I von Joigny , from whom they separated again around 1186. With him they had a son, who later became Count Peter von Joigny († 1222).
Shortly after their separation, she married Count Aymar von Angoulême († 1202), with whom she had a daughter. Isabella († May 31, 1246) was married to King John Ohneland of England in 1200 , disregarding a previously agreed engagement with Hugo IX. von Lusignan , whereupon King Philip II August of France opened a trial against John Ohneland. Because Isabella stayed as Queen in England for the following years, Alix took over the administration in Angoulême.
After Johann Ohneland had been declared forfeited of all his possessions and rights in France by judgment in 1204, Alix hurried to take the feudal oath for Angoulême on behalf of her daughter before King Philip II. In this way she was able to protect her daughter's inheritance from threatened expropriation.
Individual proof
- ↑ Layettes du Trésor des Chartes Vol. 1, ed. by Alexandre Teulet (Paris, 1863), no.741, p. 272
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| SURNAME | Alix of Courtenay |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alice de Courtenay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess of Joigny and Angoulême |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1160 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1218 |