nanshe-of-nina: WOMEN’S HISTORY † ISABELLA OF ENGLAND, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (16 June 133
nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † ISABELLA OF ENGLAND, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD (16 June 1332 – April 1379 or 17 June/5 October 1382)Isabella of England was the eldest daughter of Edward III of England and Philippa de Hainaut. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Isabelle de France and was, by most accounts, the apple of her father’s eye. When she was three, her father attempted to arrange for her to marry Pedro de Castilla, but the negotations fell through and it was instead arranged that Pedro would marry Isabella’s younger sister. Joan died of plague before the marriage could be performed, however, and Pedro married to Blanche de Bourbon. In 1351, it was arranged that Isabella would marry Bernat de Labrit, the second son of a Gascon lord, but Isabella changed her mind at the last moment and the marriage was called off.In 1359, a number of French nobles were sent to England to serve as hostages to guarantee payment of the ransom for Jehan II de France, who had been captured after the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. Among them was Enguerrand VII de Coucy. According to the chronicler, Jehan Froissart, Isabella fell in love with Enguerrand, who was seven years her junior, and they married on 27 July 1365. In November of 1365, Isabella and Enguerrand returned to the Coucy lands in Picardy where Isabella gave birth to a daughter, Marie, in April 1366. The following month, the couple returned to England and Edward III made his son-in-law the Earl of Bedford and inducted him into the Order of the Garter. In April 1367, Isabella gave birth to another daughter, Philippa, at Eltham Palace in England. Isabella was at her father’s side when he died on 21 June 1377. Following the accession of Richard II (son of Isabella’s older brother, Edward the Black), her husband renounced all his English lands and titles and they seem to have lived separately afterwards. Following Isabella’s death, Enguerrand remarried to Isabelle de Lorraine. Enguerrand finally died shortly after the disastrous Battle of Nicopolis that Jehan sans-Peur and the future Marshal Boucciaut also took part in. -- source link
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