Hawise, Countess of Aumale

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Hawise, Countess of Aumale (also Havoise or Hadwisa de Aumale ; † between 1213 and March 8, 1214) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman from the House of Blois .

Origin and heritage

Hawise was a daughter and heiress of Count William le Gros of Aumale and Cecily de Rumily, daughter and heiress of William FitzDuncan , Earl of Moray , and Alice de Rumily. Her father was the Earl of Aumale , a county in northeast Normandy , and Lord of Holderness in Yorkshire with ten Knight's fees alone , and he owned Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire and other estates in other parts of England. Hawise had an illegitimate brother, Geoffrey, and possibly a sister named Amice, but inherited his possessions after her father's death in 1179. From her mother, who died between 1188 and 1190, she inherited Skipton and Copeland in Cumberland .

In 1196 Aumale was conquered by the French King Philip II , the property was finally lost through the French conquest of the whole of Normandy during the Franco-English War in 1204. Hawise and her husband mainly lived in England, but continued to claim the title Count of Aumale .

Marriages

When her father died, she was still a minor and therefore became a royal ward. On January 14, 1180, she was married in Pleshey Castle to William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex , who then also bore the title of Earl of Aumale. Her husband died on November 14, 1189, the marriage had remained childless. After the death of her husband, King Richard the Lionheart wanted to marry her to his favorite Guillaume de Forz , an adventurer from Fors in Poitou . Hawise resisted the marriage, whereupon the king confiscated her property until she consented to the marriage. Before the end of September 1190, Hawise traveled with Queen Eleanor on the royal galley to Normandy, possibly even to Sicily. Before the end of 1190 she married Forz, who then took part in the king's crusade and died in 1195. After his death, she was married in Sées in 1195 in third marriage to Baudouin de Béthune , a knight of the royal household from Flanders. Béthune died in the autumn of 1212 and was buried in Meaux Abbey , donated by Hawise's father .

After the death of her third husband, Hawise was ready to pay 5,000 marks to King Johann Ohneland in order to preserve her inheritance and widow's property and to avoid being forced to another marriage. However, she did not pay this sum in full until her death. Perhaps she had been a lover of King John for a while.

progeny

From her marriage to Guillaume de Forz she had a son:

From her marriage to Baudouin de Béthune she had a daughter:

Her son William became her heir.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John T. Appleby: Johann "Ohneland". King of England . Riederer, Stuttgart 1965, p. 241
  2. Wilfred L. Warren: King John . University of California Press, Berkeley 1978, ISBN 0-520-03494-5 , p. 189