Isabella of Scotland

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Isabella of Scotland , Countess of Norfolk († after 1263) was a Scottish king's daughter.

Origin and youth in England

Isabella came from the Scottish royal family Dunkeld . She was a younger daughter of King Wilhelm I and his Anglo-Norman wife Ermengarde . According to the Treaty of Norham , she and her sister Margaret were brought to Carlisle in August 1209 , where they were given to the English justiciar Geoffrey fitz Peter . As a result, they grew up at the court of the English King Johann Ohneland . It was originally agreed that the sisters would marry an English prince, but this did not take place. Johann Ohneland used the Scottish royal daughters rather than leverage against their father. In the Magna Carta , Johann Ohneland had to agree in Article 59 in 1215 that the two sisters were allowed to return to their homeland, which was probably included in the document at the instigation of Isabella's brother King Alexander II . But Johann Ohneland did not implement this promise either. Isabella did not return to Scotland unmarried until 1223.

Marriage to Roger Bigod

In May 1225 she married the young English magnate Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, in Alnwick . Her husband was still a minor and much younger than her. In 1226 Isabella's brother, King Alexander II, became Bigod's guardian. Probably around 1233 Bigod returned to England and inherited his inheritance. The marriage to Isabella remained childless, and in 1245 Bigod disowned his wife. He tried in vain to have the marriage annulled because of too close relatives. After the English bishops finally refused to annul his marriage in 1253, he had to take Isabella back as a wife.

Isabella was still alive in October 1263, but the year of her death is unknown. Like her younger sister Marjorie, she was buried in the Dominican Church in London .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WW Scott: Ermengarde (d. 1233). 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. ^ Robert C. Stacey: Bigod, Roger (III), fourth earl of Norfolk (c.1212-1270). 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
personal data
SURNAME Isabella of Scotland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isabella of Scotland, Countess of Norfolk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish princess
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1263