Isabel de Vescy

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Isabel de Vescy (also Isabelle de Beaumont ) († before November 1, 1334 ) was a Franco-English noblewoman.

Origin and marriage to John de Vescy

Isabel de Vescy came from the French Brienne family . She was the daughter of Louis de Brienne and his wife Agnes, Vicomtesse de Beaumont . She married the English nobleman John de Vescy in 1279 or 1280 . Her husband died in 1289, the marriage had remained childless.

Queen Isabelle's favorite

After Edward II became King of England in 1307, Isabel was one of the ladies-in-waiting for the new Queen Isabelle from France in 1308 . Together with her brother Henry , Isabel quickly became one of the queen's closest friends, and she also enjoyed the king's favor. In 1311 the Lords Ordainers demanded that she and her brother leave the royal court as they were receiving too many presents from the king. In November 1311, Isabel was still part of the Queen's entourage, but the Lords Ordainers then managed to have her retire to her estates in Yorkshire. The queen kept in contact with her and sent her game and French cheese as gifts. During the further negotiations about the validity of the reform program of the Ordinances , their banishment from the royal court was lifted on October 4, 1313. Together with her brother Henry, Isabel was part of the Queen's entourage when she set out on a visit to France on February 28, 1314. In February 1315 parliament again pushed Isabel's removal from the royal court, but the queen kept in touch with her through letters or messengers. After the death of Bishop Richard Kellaw of Durham in 1316, the queen, probably influenced by her favorites Isabel de Vescy and Henry de Beaumont, proposed their brother Louis de Beaumont as the new bishop, which was probably a deliberate affront to Thomas of Lancaster . In fact, Louis de Beaumont eventually became bishop of the northern English diocese. After the defeat by the Scots in the Battle of Byland , Edward II accused Bishop Louis de Beaumont of failing to ward off Scottish attacks in February 1323. The royal favorite Hugh le Despenser took advantage of this to discredit Queen Isabelle, who had promoted the election of the bishop, with her husband. As a result, Isabel de Vescy and Henry de Beaumont lost the king's longstanding favor.

Next life

At the end of 1326 Queen Isabelle was able to overthrow the tyrannical rule of her husband and his favorite Despenser. As a result, Isabelle and her lover Roger Mortimer took over the actual reign of England. Henry de Beaumont had initially supported the overthrow of Edward II, but from 1328 at the latest he supported the opposition to the regime of the Queen and of Mortimer. Apparently Isabel de Vescy also changed sides. 1330 accused the Earl of Kent in addition to the Bishops Melton of York and Gravesend of London, Isabel and her brother, of supporting the conspiracy to free the supposedly still imprisoned Edward II. Indeed, Isabel's confessor had served as messenger between the Earl of Kent and Archbishop Melton. However, since the Queen and Mortimer were ousted in the same year, this had no further consequences for Isabel de Vescy. In 1332 she apparently supported her brother Henry when he, along with Edward Balliol and other so-called disinherited people , invaded Scotland to overthrow the underage King David II . In June 1332, the English government allowed her to pledge her properties in Folkingham , Barton and Edenham in Lincolnshire to finance the project . After the apparently successful seizure of power in Scotland, she and her brother Henry renewed a donation in favor of the Bridlington Priory on June 16, 1334 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 29.
  2. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 203.
  3. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , pp. 179, n291.
  4. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 59.
  5. ↑ John Roland Seymour Phillips: Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, 1307-1324. Baronial politics in the reign of Edward II. Clarendon, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-822359-5 , p. 66.
  6. ↑ Seymour Phillips: Edward II . New Haven, Yale University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 , p. 221.
  7. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 104.
  8. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 108.
  9. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 151.
  10. ↑ Natalie Fryde: The tyranny and fall of Edward II, 1321-1326 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0-521-54806-3 , p. 225.
  11. ↑ Alison Weir: Isabella. She-Wolf of France, Queen of England . London, Pimlico 2006, ISBN 0-7126-4194-7 , p. 331.
  12. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 78.
  13. ^ Ranald Nicholson: Edward III and the Scots. The formative Years of a Military Career . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1965, p. 160.
personal data
SURNAME De Vescy, Isabel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaumont, Isabelle de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-French nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH before November 1, 1334