Isabel Marshal

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Isabel Marshal, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford (also Isabella Marshal ) (born October 9, 1200 in Pembroke Castle , † January 17, 1240 in Berkhamsted Castle ) was an English noblewoman. She was first the wife of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and after his death the wife of the future German King Richard of Cornwall .

Origin and family

Isabel came from the Anglo-Norman Marshal family . She was the seventh child and second daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and his wife Isabel de Clare .

First marriage to Gilbert de Clare

Isabel was married to her cousin Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 1st Earl of Gloucester in October 1214. Gilbert de Clare was a wealthy magnate and about twenty years her senior. With him she had three sons and two daughters:

Her husband died in 1230 during a campaign in Brittany.

Second marriage to Richard of Cornwall

On March 30, 1231, six months after the death of her first husband, Isabel married Richard of Cornwall, who was almost nine years her junior. For Richard of Cornwall, younger brother of King Henry III. it was the first marriage. The marriage took place in Fawley by Henley , a marshals estate in Oxfordshire. Isabel received Sundon in Bedfordshire as a dowry , but Richard of Cornwall wanted to secure the political support of Isabel's brother William Marshal , with whom he was related by marriage through his sister. William Marshal died just a few weeks after the wedding. The king had initially been against the marriage because he had wanted a higher-ranking bride for his brother. Isabel maintained a close relationship with the Clare family after her second marriage and with their children from their first marriage, especially their daughter Isabel. Together with her eldest son Richard and with the help of her brother Gilbert Marshal , she arranged for her two daughters to marry appropriately. She and her second husband had four children, three of whom died early:

  • John of Cornwall (1232-1233)
  • Isabella of Cornwall (1233-1234)
  • Henry of Almain (1235-1271)
  • Nicholas of Cornwall (* / † January 17, 1240), was buried next to his mother.

Isabel died in childbed after giving birth to a stillborn son. She wanted to be buried with her first husband at Tewkesbury Abbey , but Richard of Cornwall had her buried at Beaulieu Abbey . Only her heart was buried at Tewkesbury to grant her last wish.

heritage

After Isabel's brothers had all died childless by 1245, their son Richard de Clare became part of the property of the Marshal family. From the inheritance he mainly received the rule of Kilkenny in Ireland. Sundon, the property she had received as a dowry, remained in the possession of Richard of Cornwall. After his death in 1272 it fell to Isabel's grandson Gilbert de Clare, 3rd Earl of Gloucester .

literature

  • George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant . Alan Sutton, 2000. volume II, page 359 & volume III, page 244

Web links

Commons : Isabel Marshal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 55
  2. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 31
  3. ^ N. Denholm-Young: Richard of Cornwall. Salloch, New York 1947, p. 18
  4. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 55
  5. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 34
  6. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 284
personal data
SURNAME Marshal, Isabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marshal, Isabella; Marshal, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Hereford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1200
PLACE OF BIRTH Pembroke Castle
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1240
Place of death Berkhamsted Castle