Isabelle de Beaumont-le-Roger, dame de Meulan

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Isabelle de Meulan, Dame de Mayenne, Dame de Craon (born c.1148- 10 May 1220) was a French noblewoman, being the daughter of Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan. Isabelle married twice;[1] firstly to Geoffroy, Seigneur de Mayenne, and secondly to Maurice II, Sire de Craon. Her eldest son Juhel III de Mayenne was a celebrated Crusader.

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1 Family

2 Marriages and issue

3 Ancestry

4 References

[edit] Family

Isabelle was born in about 1148, the eldest daughter of Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan, and Agnès de Montfort, Dame de Gournay-sur-Marne. She had six brothers and two younger sisters. Her father was a powerful Norman magnate with much wealth and political influence. Her paternal grandparents were Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Elisabeth de Vermandois, and her maternal grandparents were Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnès de Garlande, daughter of Anseau de Garlande, Count of Rochefort, and Beatrice de Montlhery.

[edit] Marriages and issue

In 1161 Isabelle married her first husband.[2] He was Geoffroy, Seigneur de Mayenne whose first wife Constance of Brittany had died in 1148, leaving him with one daughter, Mathilde.[3] Together Geoffroy and Isabelle had two children:

Clémence de Mayenne (died before 1209), married Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, by whom she had three children including Marguerite de Sablé, Dame de Sablé.

Juhel III, Seigneur de Mayenne (1168- 12 April 1220), married Gervaise de Vitré, by whom he had three children. A celebrated Crusader, he was killed in battle in 1220 at the age of fifty-two.

Geoffroy died in 1169. Isabelle, aged about twenty-two, married secondly in 1170 Maurice II, Sire de Craon, the son of Hughes I, Sire de Craon. Together they had seven children:

Avoise de Craon (died 1230)

Maurice III, Sire de Craon (died after 1224), married and fathered two sons.

Pierre de Craon (died before 1206)

Philippe de Craon (died young)

Amaury I, Sire de Craon (1175- 1226), married Jeanne des Roches, the daughter of his half-niece, Marguerite de Sablé, by whom he had three children including Isabelle de Craon. This meant that Isabelle de Meulan's daughter-in-law was also her great-granddaughter.

Constance de Craon, a nun at the Abbey of Clarei

Agnes de Craon

Isabelle was appointed guardian of Maurice's lands and their children when he left for Jerusalem on Crusade.[4] The Gesta Guillelm Majoris Andegavensis Episcopi names Isabelle among those present at the burial of the Bishop Guillaume on an unknown date during the reign of King Philip II of France.[4]

Her husband died 12 July 1196. Isabelle herself died on 10 May 1220 at the age of about seventy-two years. Her death occurred just a month after the death in battle of her eldest son, Juhel. She was buried in Savigny.

[edit] Ancestry

[show]v • d • eAncestors of Isabelle de Meulan

 Humphrey de Vielles 

 Roger de Beaumont   

 Albreda de la Haye Auberie 

 Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester   

 Waleran III, Count of Meulan 

 Adeline of Meulan   

 Oda de Conteville 

 Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan   

 Henry I of France 

 Hugh of Vermandois   

 Anna of Kiev 

 Elizabeth of Vermandois   

 Herbert IV of Vermandois 

 Adele of Vixen   

 Adele of Valois 

 Isabelle de Meulan   

 Amaury de Montfort 

 Simon I de Montfort   

 Bertrade de Gometz 

 Amaury III of Montfort, Count of Evreux   

 Richard, Count d'Evreux 

 Agnès d'Evreux   

 Adelaide of Barcelona 

 Agnès de Montfort, Dame de Gournay-sur-Marne   

 Guillaume I de Garlande, Seigneur de Garlande-en-Brie 

 Anseau I de Garlande, Count of Rochefort   

 Havoise 

 Agnès de Garlande   

 Guy II, Sire de Montlhery 

 Beatrice de Montlhery   

 Elizabeth de Corbeil 

[edit] References

1.^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Norman Nobility

2.^ Cawley, Medieval Lands, Norman Nobility

3.^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Anjou

4.^ a b Cawley, Medieval Lands, Anjou

Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Norman Nobility

Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Anjou

Categories: 1148 births | 1220 deaths | French nobility | Medieval women | French Suo jure nobility