Isabel de Clare (noblewoman, 1240)

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Isabel de Clare (* 1240 ; † before 1271) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman.

Isabel de Clare came from the Anglo-Norman family de Clare , which had risen to the richest English aristocratic family in the 13th century. Isabel was the eldest daughter of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and his wife Maud de Lacy .

Her father traveled frequently to France in the 1250s, where he took part in tournaments, among other things. He also tried to get his children married off on an advantageous basis. In 1251 he levied a fee of two marks per Knight's fee from his vassals . This fee was traditionally due to him on the occasion of the marriage of his eldest daughter, although at that time it was not yet clear who Isabel would marry. Eventually de Clare arranged for one of his daughters to marry Margrave Wilhelm von Montferrat . The influential Margraviate of Montferrat in northern Italy was nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire , but it was under the political influence of the County of Provence and the neighboring county of Savoy . England had both counties through the marriage of Eleanor of Provence to King Henry III. had close contacts. Richard de Clare offered the margrave 4,000 marks for the marriage, and the margrave was allowed to choose one of his three daughters as a bride. He chose Isabel, who was eighteen years old, probably because her sisters were much younger. The wedding took place in Lyon in June 1258 . Apparently Isabel never returned to England, and her subsequent life is almost unknown. She had at least one daughter, Margherita di Monferrato († after 1286). Isabel apparently died before 1271, as Wilhelm married again that year.

Isabel's marriage to a northern Italian nobleman, like her brother Gilbert's marriage to a noble from southwestern France, demonstrates her father's close ties with the western European nobility.

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  1. ↑ Michael Altschul: Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford (1222-1262). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  2. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 222
  3. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 35
  4. ↑ Michael Altschul: Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford (1222-1262). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  5. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares . The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Clare, Isabel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Norman nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1240
DATE OF DEATH before 1271