Isabella of Hainault

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Isabella of Hainault

Isabella of Hainault
Queen consort of France
Tenure	28 April 1180–15 March 1190
Coronation	28 May 1180

Spouse	Philip II of France
Issue
Louis VIII of France
House	House of Hainaut (by birth) House of Capet (by marriage)
Father	Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut
Mother	Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
Born	(1170-04-05)5 April 1170 Valenciennes
Died	15 March 1190(1190-03-15) (aged 19) Paris, France
Burial	Basilica of St Denis
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Isabella of Hainault (Valenciennes,^[1] 5 April 1170 – 15 March 1190, Paris) was Queen consort of France as the first wife of King Philip II of France.

Early life

Isabella was born in Valenciennes^[2] on 5 April 1170, the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, and Margaret I, Countess of Flanders. At the age of one, her father had her betrothed to Henry, the future Count of Champagne.^[3] He was the nephew of Adèle of Champagne, who was Queen of France. In 1179, both their fathers swore that they would proceed with the marriage, but her father later agreed to her marrying Philip II of France.

Queen of France

She married King Philip on 28 April 1180 at Bapaume and brought as her dowry the county of Artois. The marriage was arranged by her maternal uncle Philip, Count of Flanders, who was advisor to the King.^[4]

Seal of Isabella, currently in the British Museum

Isabella was crowned Queen of France at Saint Denis on 28 May 1180. As Baldwin V rightly claimed to be a descendant of Charlemagne, the chroniclers of the time saw in this marriage a union of the Carolingian and Capetian dynasties.

The wedding did not please the queen mother, since it had meant the rejection of her nephew and the lessening of influence for her kinsmen. Though she received extravagant praise from certain annalists, she failed to win the affections of Philip due to her inability to provide him with an heir; although she was only 14 years old at the time.^[5] Meanwhile, King Philip in 1184, was waging war against Flanders, and angered at seeing his wife's father, Baldwin, support his enemies, he called a council at Sens for the purpose of repudiating her. According to Gislebert of Mons, Isabella then appeared barefooted and dressed as a penitent in the town's churches and thus gained the sympathy of the people. Her appeals angered them so much that they went to the palace and started shouting loud enough to be heard inside.^[6]

Robert, the king's uncle, successfully interposed and no repudiation followed as repudiating her would also have meant the loss of Artois to the French crown.^[7]

Finally, on 5 September 1187, she gave birth to the needed heir, the future King Louis VIII of France.

Death

Her second pregnancy was extremely difficult; on 14 March 1190, Isabella gave birth to twin boys named Robert and Philip. Due to complications in childbirth, Isabella died the next day, and was buried in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. She was not quite 20 years old and was mourned for greatly in the capital, since she had been a popular queen.^[8]

The twins lived only four days, both having died on 18 March 1190.^[9] Her son Louis succeeded her as Count of Artois. Isabella's dowry of Artois eventually returned to the French Crown following the death of King Philip, when her son Louis became king.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Isabella of Hainault

16. Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut

8. Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut

17. Ida of Leuven

4. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

18. Gerard I, Count of Guelders

9. Yolande de Wassenberg

19. Clemence of Poitou

2. Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut

20. Albert III, Count of Namur

10. Godfrey I, Count of Namur

21. Ida of Saxony

5. Alice of Namur

22. Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg

11. Ermesinda of Luxembourg

23. Clementia of Aquitaine

1. Isabella of Hainault

24. Gerard, Duke of Lorraine

12. Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine

25. Hedwige de Namur

6. Thierry, Count of Flanders

26. Robert I, Count of Flanders

13. Gertrude of Flanders

27. Gertrude of Saxony

3. Margaret I, Countess of Flanders

28. Fulk IV, Count of Anjou

14. Fulk V of Anjou

29. Bertrade de Montfort

7. Sibylla of Anjou

30. Elias I, Count of Maine

15. Ermengarde, Countess of Maine

31. Mathilda of Château-du-Loire

Notes

↑ World Roots Genealogy Archive
↑ Note:Some online sources such as Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands give her birthdate as 23 April 1170 and her birthplace as Lille
↑ Nolan. p. 79. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ Cawley: Medieval Lands
↑ Cawley, Charles, Isabelle de Hainaut, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012 ,
↑ Nolan. p. 83. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ Christian Bouyer, Les reines de France, Perrin, 1992
↑ Nolan. p. 87. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ http://membres.lycos.fr/behgnam/

Sources

Cawley, Charles, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy |accessdate= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help),
Nolan, Kathleen D. Capetian Women, 2003.
Worldroots.com

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

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Persondata
Name	Isabelle Of Hainaut
Alternative names
Short description	French Queen consort
Date of birth	5 April 1170
Place of birth
Date of death	15 March 1190
Place of death	Paris

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