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Personal data Isabel Marshal 

• She was born on October 9, 1200 in Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
• She was christened April 1206 in Saint Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
• (MARR) on October 9, 1217 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, England.
• (MARR) on March 30, 1231 in Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England.
• She died on January 17, 1240 in Berkhamsted Castle, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, she was 39 years old.
• Alternative: She died on January 17, 1240 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England, she was 39 years old.

  Isabel died of liver failure, contracted while in childbirth

• She is buried January 1240 in Beaulieu Abbey, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England.

Household of Isabel Marshal

(1) She has/had a relationship with Gilbert de Clare.

Child(ren):

1. Agnes de Clare  1218-1261
2. Amice de Clare  1220-1284
3. Richard de Clare  1222-1262
4. Isobel of Glousester de Clare  1226-1264 
5. William de Clare  1228-1258
6. Gilbert de Clare  1229-1241

Child(ren):

1. John of Cornwall  1232-1233
2. Isabel of Cornwall  1233-1234
3. Henry of Almain  1235-1271
4. Nicholas of Cornwall  1240-1240

Notes about Isabel Marshal

Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240) was a medieval English countess. She was the wife of both Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (son of King John of England). With the former, she was a great grandmother of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.ughter, of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare. She had 9 siblings: 4 sisters and 5 brothers, who included the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Earls of Pembroke; each of her brothers dying without a legitimate male heir, thus passing the title on to the next brother in line. Her last brother to hold the title of Earl of Pembroke died without legitimate issue, and the title was passed down through the family of Isabel's younger sister Joan. Her sisters married, respectively, the Earls of Norfolk, Surrey, and Derby; the Lord of Abergavenny and the Lord of Swanscombe.iagey one, despite the age difference, and the couple had six children:ford (1222–1262)the Bruceenrose, in that duchy. His body was conveyed home by way of Plymouth and Cranborne, to Tewkesbury, where he was buried at the abbey.ad proven childbearing ability and the ability to bear healthy sons; as evidenced by her six young children, three of whom were sons. These were most likely the reasons for both the proposal of marriage from Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and Isabel's acceptance of it, despite the fact that her husband had been dead for only five months. The two were married on 30 March 1231 at Fawley Church, much to the displeasure of Richard's brother King Henry, who had been arranging a more advantageous match for Richard. Isabel and Richard got along well enough, though Richard had a reputation as a womanizer and is known to have had mistresses during the marriage. They were the parents of four children, three of whom died in the cradle. and died at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, buried at Reading Abbey of Almain (2 November 1235 – 13 March 1271), murdered by his cousins Guy and Simon de Montfort, buried at Hailes Abbey.ortly after birth, buried at Beaulieu Abbey with his motherold.ver, he sent her heart, in a silver-gilt casket, to Tewkesbury.tudy in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):180. ... He married 9 October 1217 ISABEL MARSHAL, 2nd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. She was born at Pembroke Castle 9 October 1200. Hertford], October 1230, and was buried 11 November 1230 before the high altar at Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire. ... of Cornwall, Count of Poitou [see CORNWALL 6], Lieutenant of Guienne, 1226-7, Keeper of Castle and Honour of Wallingford, 1230-1, Lord of the Manor, Castle, and Honour of Knaresborough, 1235, Lord of the Manor and Castle of Lideford, 1239, Commander-in-Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-1, Privy Councillor, 1253, Joint Guardian of England, 1253-4, younger son of John, King of England, by his 2nd wife, Isabel, daughter of Ademar, Count of Angoulême [see ENGLAND 5 for his ancestry]. borough of Wilton, Wiltshire by his brother, King Henry III, on the occasion of his marriage. In 1232-3 he fought in Wales against Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. In 1237 he openly rebuked his brother the king for his greed and maladmininistration. He was on an embassy to Emperor Frederick in 1237. By March 1233 he had driven Llywelyn back and strongly fortified Radnor Castle. e at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire in childbed of jaundice 17 Jan. 1239/40. Her body was buried at Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, her bowels went to Missenden, and her heart was sent to Tewkesbury Abbey for burial in her 1st husband's grave.

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