Ancestral Trails 2016 » Isabella MENTEITH (1218-????)

Personal data Isabella MENTEITH 

• She was born in the year 1218 in Menteith, Perth, Scotland.

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-06-1233) below 16 years (15).

• Title: Countess of Menteith
• She died in the year 1271 in Menteith, Perth, Scotland, she was 53 years old.
• A child of Maurice MENTEITH

Household of Isabella MENTEITH

(1) She is married to John RUSSELL.

They got married in the year 1259 at Menteith, Perth, Scotland, she was 41 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Isabella RUSSELL  1260-????

(2) She is married to Walter COMYN.

They got married June 1233 at Menteith, Perth, Scotland, she was 15 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Isabel COMYN  1234-1301 

Notes about Isabella MENTEITH

Isabella, Countess of Menteith (1217 - 1272) was the eldest daughter of Muireadhach II, Mormaer of Menteith. When the old mormaer died without legitimate male heir in 1233, the province passed to Isabella.

Isabella married Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, bringing the mormaerdom temporarily into the hands of the Comyn family. When her husband died in 1258, Isabella married again, this time to an English knight named John Russell. This mediocre marriage left her too weak to protect her status. Already by 1259, Walter Stewart (nicknamed "Ballaich") was claiming the province for his wife, Isabella's sister Mary. By 1261, Isabella was arrested and deposed from rulership of the province on charges of poisoning her late husband.

Isabella may have had one son by Walter Comyn, a man named Henry who witnesses a charter of Maol Domhnaich, Mormaer of Lennox. However, if this Henry was their son, he did not live long enough to inherit from his parents.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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