Isabella of England

• Preferred Name: Isabella of England^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}
  
• Alternate Name: Isabella Yolanda Yolande de Brienne
  
• Alternate Name: Isabella Princess of England
  
• Gender: F
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: EmpressBET 1235 AND 1241 in Holy Roman Empire at LATI: N9.5 LONG: E0 with note: Title
  
• Cause+of+Death: 1 DEC 1241 in Foggia, Apulia, Italy at LATI: N1.541 LONG: E5.5394 with note: Description: Died in childbirth wikipedia
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen in Sicily at LATI: N7.75 LONG: E4.25
  
• FSID: KZFZ-71Z
  
• Death: 1 DEC 1241 in Foggia, Puglia, Italy at LATI: N1.541 LONG: E5.5394 with note:
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen of JerusalemBET 1212 AND 1228
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Holy Roman Empress - Queen Consort of GermanyBET 1225 AND 1228
  
• Birth: 1214 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.0691 LONG: E1.3204 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Nickname:
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen Consort of SicilyBET 1225 AND 1228
  
• MARR: 15 JUL 1235 in Worms Cathedral with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial: MAY 1241 in Andria Cathedral, Andria, Bari, Puglia, Sicilia at LATI: N1.223 LONG: E6.2984
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Isabella II (1212 – 4 May 1228), also known as Yolande of Brienne, was a princess of French origin, the daughter of Maria, the queen-regnant of Jerusalem, and her husband, John of Brienne. She was reigning Queen of Jerusalem from 1212 until her death in 1228. By marriage to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Isabella also became Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Sicily and Germany. Isabella II was born in Andria, in the southern Italian Kingdom of Sicily. She was the only child of Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem, and John of Brienne. Maria was the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem by her second husband Conrad I, and heiress, on her mother's death, of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Maria died shortly after giving birth to Isabella II in 1212, possibly by puerperal fever. Because of this, Isabella II was proclaimed Queen of Jerusalem when she was only a few days old. Because her father John did not have a direct claim on the throne, he ruled as regent. During a meeting between John of Brienne, Pope Honorius III and Frederick II in the city of Ferentino in 1223, Isabella's fate was decided: Frederick accepted to finally go to the Crusade, but only as the legitimate King of Jerusalem, and this was only possible if he agreed to take the young Queen Isabella II as his wife (by this time, Frederick was a widower). This was planned by the Pope, who hoped by this bond to attach the Emperor firmly to the Sixth Crusade. The betrothal was confirmed, but the Emperor still delayed his departure until August 1225, when he and Isabella were married by proxy in the City of Acre. Days later, Isabella II was crowned as Queen of Jerusalem. Isabella arrived in Italy with twenty galleys sent by Frederick II to bring her to her father and married in person to Frederick II in the cathedral of Brindisi, on 9 November 1225. During the ceremony, Frederick declared himself King of Jerusalem and immediately saw to it that his new father-in-law John of Brienne, the current regent of Jerusalem, was dispossessed and his rights transferred to him. The contemporary chronicles described the exotic wedding celebrations, which took place in the Castle of Oria, and the indignant reaction of her father John of Brienne, now without royal authority. After the wedding, Isabella was kept in seclusion by her husband, in Palermo. Aged 14, in November 1226, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter (referred to by some sources as Margaret); the baby died in August 1227. Isabella died 4 May after giving birth to her second child, a son, Conrad, in Andria, Bari, on 25 April 1228. She was buried in the Andria Cathedral. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_II_of_Jerusalem ========== Isabel de Brienne, Queen of Jerusalem was born circa 1212.1 She was the daughter of Jean I de Brienne, Emperor of Constantinople and Maria de Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem.2,1 She married Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich VI Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor and Costanza I di Sicilia, Regina di Sicilia, in 1225.2 She died on 30 April 1228.1 She was also known as Yolande.1 She succeeded as the Queen Isabel II of Jerusalem in 1212.1,3 Child of Isabel de Brienne, Queen of Jerusalem and Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor Conrad IV von Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily+2 b. 28 Apr 1228, d. 21 May 1254 Citations [S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 227. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8] [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 113. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession. [S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World:Isabella of England (1214 – 1 December 1241) was an English princess of the House of Plantagenet. She became Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Sicily, Italy and Germany from 1235 until her death as the third wife of Emperor Frederick II.
  
  Birth and early years
  Isabella was born around 1214 as the fourth child and second daughter of John, King of England and his second wife Isabella of Angoulême. Her exact date of birth is unknown, and the year is calculated based on the fact that Matthew Paris reported that the princess got married at the age of 21. By the time Isabella was born, her parents' marriage had already started to unravel, and the princess spent most of the time with her mother. After the death of King John in 1216, Isabella remained in the full care of her mother and was with her until 1220, when Isabella of Angouleme remarried and left the English court.
  
  The princess was raised from an early age by the "nurse and governess" Margaret Biset, who received for her services from 1219, by order of her brother King Henry III, one penny a day "from the hands of the Viscount Hereford"; she remained within Isabella's household and accompanied her to Germany sixteen years later, when the princess married. The services of the rest of the princess's servants (cook, stableman and others) were also paid by her brother, and by his order, when some of Isabella's servants retired from her service, they were assigned a generous pension. The first years of Isabella's life were spent in Gloucester Castle. Later, when the problems that accompanied the early years of the her brother's reign ended, she was transported to the court, at first located in Woodstock and then in Westminster. From time to time, the princess with her family visited other royal residences: Winchester, Marlborough, Northampton, York and others.
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  Marriage
  
  In 1234, Isabella left seclusion and settled in the Tower of London. In November, the twice-widowed Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor at a friendly meeting at Rieti, received the advice of Pope Gregory IX to ask Isabella's hand, and in February 1235 he sent an embassy to King Henry III headed by his chancellor Pietro della Vigna. The marriage of Isabella and Emperor Frederick II was designed to strengthen the political alliance of England and the Holy Roman Empire against France. After three days of discussion, King Henry III agreed to the marriage; Isabella was brought from her quarters in the Tower to the Palace of Westminster, where she met with the ambassadors, who "declared her the most worthy of the imperial brides", put a wedding ring on her finger and greeted her as their Empress.
  
  On 22 February 1235, an agreement was signed, according to which King Henry III provided his sister with a dowry of 30,000 marks (an amount sought by the Emperor in order to fund his wars in northern Italy), which was to be paid within two years, and as a wedding gift he gave her all the necessary utensils, jewelry, horses and rich clothes, all made according to the latest German fashion; also, the princess received patent letters from the Emperor, giving Isabella, as Queen of Sicily and Holy Roman Empress the possession of the lands due to her. On 27 February both parties signed the marriage contract: the marriage of the English princess with the Holy Roman Emperor was greeted with enthusiasm by both King Henry III and by the common people, although the latter was greatly disappointed by the enormous "help" required of him on this occasion: the King had to levy an unpopular tax of two marks of silver per hide in order to afford Isabella's dowry.
  
  In early May 1235, Archbishop Heinrich I of Cologne and Duke Henry I of Brabant arrived in England to fetch the bride to her new homeland; Isabella departed from London on 7 May under the care and tutelage of the Bishop of Exeter, William Briwere. The princess's brothers accompanied her from Canterbury to Sandwich, from where Isabella sailed on 11 May; four days later they landed at Antwerp. Before Isabella's departure from England, the Emperor's ambassadors swore to King Henry III that if the Emperor died before marriage to the princess could be completed, she would return home without hindrance and in complete safety. It was rumored that on the way, the Emperor's enemies, allied with the French king, tried to kidnap Isabella, but the escort provided by Emperor Frederick II was able to protect the princess. In 22 or 24 May, Isabella arrived in Cologne and stayed at the house of provost of St. Gereon, where the princess had to spend six weeks, while the Emperor was at war with his own son.
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  Issue
  Sources are at variance concerning Isabella's issue, including the number of children she had, their names, and their birth order:
  
  Kate Norgate names three children:
  1. Margaret (February 1237 – 1270),
  2. Henry (18 February 1238 - 1254) and
  3. a child who died in childbirth in December 1241.
  Later researchers mentioned as the first child of Isabella a son called Jordanus (b. 1236), but Norgate believes that contemporary sources of Isabella do not confirm this; moreover, the Emperor announced the birth of Margaret to his Italian subjects, from which it follows that she was the first child of the couple. Norgate writes that Henry, after the death of his father, became the titular king of Jerusalem, and Margaret was married to Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, and became in one of the ancestors of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
  
  Alison Weir names four children:
  1. Jordanus (born and died in 1236),
  2. Agnes (born and died in 1237),
  3. Henry (titular king of Jerusalem; 1238 - 1253) and
  4. Margaret (wife of the Landgrave Albert II of Thuringia; 1241-1270).
  Weir wrote about Isabella's death in childbirth, but does not report what happened to the child; perhaps this child was Margaret —and this belief is the most commonly accepted among websites and genealogical investigations.
  
  Mary-Anne Everett Green also names four children:
  1. Jordanus (born and died in 1236),
  2. Agnes (born and died in 1237),
  3. Henry (born 18 February 1238) and
  4. Margaret (born 1 December 1241).
  
  James Panton writes about Isabella's giving birth to four or five children, but does not mention their names.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_England
  
  === Empress of Germany ===
  Empress of Germany
  
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  === OCCUPATION: Princess of England; Empress ===
  OCCUPATION: Princess of England; Empress of Germany FILE: The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England by Antonia Fraser p. 24-25
  
  === !#552-T683 Les Brienne III: 1210-1228 Ko ===
  !#552-T683 Les Brienne III: 1210-1228 Konige von Jerusalem, 1229-1237 Kaiser von Konstantinopel; Queen Jerusalem 1225; md (dispens 4th degree, 5 Aug 1223) Brindisi, Frederick II; Yolanda also known as Isabella b.1211; !#12109-p177; Frederick sent her to the harem that he kept at Palermo; and there she lived in seclusion. On 25 Apr 1228 she gave birth to a son, Conrad, and having done her duty, she died six days later. She was not yet seventeen. !#11400-p26; Died in childbirth 1228, leaving an infant son, Conrad, who at the age of 7 days became lawful King of Jerusalem;
  
  === [[Category: House of Brienne]] ===
  [[Category: House of Brienne]]
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  Isabella II of Jerusalem (1212 – 25 Apr 1228 Andria, Italy).
  
  alias: Yolande of Brienne
  ==Titles==
  
  {{Euro Aristo 742-1499}}
  
  * Queen of Jerusalem
  * Holy Roman Empress
  * Queen consort of Sicily
  ==Parents==
  * Father: John I of Brienne
  * Mother: Maria de Montferrat
  ==Marriage==m. (09 Nov 1225 Brindisi, Apulia.) Frederick II (Hohenstaufen).[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#Family]
  ==Sources==[[Wikipedia: Isabella II of Jerusalem]]; [[Wikipedia: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor#Family]]
  
  === Isabella II
  
  born 1212 died May 1, 1228, ===
  Isabella II
  
  born 1212 died May 1, 1228, Palermo
  
  original name Yolande De Brienne queen of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem (1212-28) and consort of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II.
  
  The daughter of John of Brienne and Mary (Marie) of Montferrat, Isabella inherited the throne on her mother's death in 1212, but her father ruled as regent and guardian and even continued to style himself as king (though he had been legally only king consort).
  
  In 1225 Isabella married the emperor Frederick II, the Pope hoping by this bond to attach the Emperor firmly to the crusade in the Holy Land. Immediately upon his marriage, Frederick demanded all the rights of sovereignty in the kingdom of Jerusalem, which he claimed to exercise in his wife's name. His action led to difficulties with John of Brienne, who did not relish the loss of his position. When Isabella died in 1228 after the birth of a son, Conrad, her husband Frederick then continued to rule, though not without opposition. [Encyclopædia Britannica, online ]
  
  === !#11400-p26; In 1234 Frederick married h ===
  !#11400-p26; In 1234 Frederick married his third wife, Isabella of England, sister of King Henry III; She too predeceased her husband and left one son, also called Henry; !The Thirteenth Century, Oxford History of England, Powicke, p.48,59,72,83,593;
  
  === !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Cen ===
  !Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. The Descent from the later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III of Emigrants from Scotland and Wales to the North American Colonies before 1701 By David Faris First Edition
  
  === She died in childbirth ===
  She died in childbirth
  
  === Acceded 20 Jul 1235, Worms Cathedral, Ge ===
  Acceded 20 Jul 1235, Worms Cathedral, Germany, As Empress Of Germany
  
  Aft Her Wedding, Kept Cloistered & Guarded By Eunuchs At Orders Of Her Husband
  
  Banned From Her Husband's Court & Never Seen In Public.
  Her Confinement Was Luxurious.
  
  !#11400-p26; In 1234 Frederick married his third wife, Isabella of England,
  sister of King Henry III; She too predeceased her husband and left one son,
  also called Henry;
  !The Thirteenth Century, Oxford History of England, Powicke, p.48,59,72,83,593;
  
  === 2 SOUR S003611 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of ===
  2 SOUR S003611 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jul 1, 2002 2 SOUR S229184 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Dec 3, 2002 [2 Bryan Thomas.ged] Mary (Marie) died in 1212, and John was named regent for their infant daughter, Yolande de Brienne, who inherited the crown as Isabella II. Queen of Jerusalem between 1225-1228 Isabella/Yolande, , who married Frederick II Hohenstaufen (d.= 1250).[Corrie Hale Families 11-18-02.FTW] [2 Bryan Thomas.ged] Mary (Marie) died in 1212, and John was named regent for their infant daughter, Yolande de Brienne, who inherited the crown as Isabella II. Queen of Jerusalem between 1225-1228 Isabella/Yolande, , who married Frederick II Hohenstaufen (d.= 1250). !NOTE: 2 Bryan Thomas.ged;;;;, Source Media Type: Other. Date of Import: !NOTE: Corrie Hale Families 11-18-02.FTW;;;;, Source Media Type: Other. !NOTE: GEDCOM File : Corrie Hale Families 12-4-02.ged !MARRIAGE: GEDCOM File : Corrie Hale Families 12-4-02.ged
  
  === !BIR-MAR-DEA-BUR: Bk, Medieval Knight by ===
  !BIR-MAR-DEA-BUR: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
  
  === THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
  THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.36; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 351; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

• m. JUL 1235
• m. 20 JUL 1235 in Worms, Stadtkreis Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

1. Margarethe von Staufen Landgräfin von Thüringen, b. Ende 1237 in Foggia, Puglia, Italy     d. 8 AUG 1270 in Frankfort on the Oder, Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Yolanda de Brienne - Published information: death: 25 April 1228; Andria, Bari, Puglia, Italy
   Note: Published information: death: 25 April 1228; Andria, Bari, Puglia, Italy
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244476634
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche - Notes: ;
   Author: Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, Alison Weir, rev. ed, Pimlico Random House, London 1989, 1996 , , Repository: J.H. Garner, Page number: p 70
   Note: Notes: ; Notes: death: 1 December 1241; Foggia, Puglia, Italy birth: 1214; Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031121553
   
3. Title: Norman Kingdom of Sicily
   Publication: Name: https://beyondforeignness.org/5833;
   Note: The Norman Kingdom of Sicily The kingdom that Roger II ruled is not always familiar and so requires introduction. Norman adventurers had began to arrive in southern Italy in the 900s attracted initially as swords for hire in the warfare that raged there. German-Lombard kingdoms, the Roman-Byzantine Empire, maritime city-states such as Amalfi and Naples, and Muslim adventurers were all part of this world. For two hundred years Sicily itself had been the Muslim Emirate of Sicily. Suffice to say that the Normans became part of this world establishing domains that expanded over time. By Roger II’s day, their original paymasters and the old local rivals had been destroyed, driven out or forced into submission. The Norman northern boundary now ended where the lands of the Pope began, and their southern boundary extended to the southern side of the Mediterranean and beyond the boundaries of modern Tunisia.
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabel -
   Author: Family History Library archive record (family group sheet)
   Note: Source: Daughters of England (GS Ser. No. 13702 p. 158), Dictionary of Nat'l. Biography (GS Call No. 920.042 D561n Vol. 29 pp. 402-416), Burke's Peerage 99th Ed. (GS Call No. 942 D22bup prefix p. 253), Researched without positive results; The Complete Peerage. Submitter: Brian Michael Leese
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244547632
   
5. Title: Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche - Notes:
   Author: University of Hull Royal Database England, Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, copyright 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk
   Note: Notes: usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc birth: 1214; Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031121544
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche -
   Author: Jerusalem Kings - MEFHD
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031121549
   
8. Title: John, King of England, in Burke's The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, pg. Part 1, xxii and xxiii [See document in the Memories section]
   Author: Burke's The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, pg. Part 1, xxii and xxiii
   Note: John, King of England, in Burke's The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, pg. Part 1, xxii and xxiii [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: John, King of England, in Burke's The Royal Families of England, Scotland and Wales, pg. Part 1, xxii and xxiii [See document in the Memories section]
   
9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche -
   Author: The Royal Bastards of Medieval England, Chris Given-Wilson & Alice Curteis, 1984, republished by Barnes & Noble in 1995 ,
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031121552
   
10. Title: Isabelle Plantagenet, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-18KQ : 26 July 2019), Isabelle Plantagenet, 1241; Burial, Andria, Provincia di Barletta - Andria - Trani, Puglia, Italy, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Andria; citing record ID 8673125, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV9-18KQ;
    
11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche -
    Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 , , Repository: J.H. Garner, Page number: p 3
    Note: Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6 good to very good
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2031121538
    
12. Title: Wikipedia
    Publication: Name: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_II_de_J%C3%A9rusalem;
    
13. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Isabella La Blanche -
    Author: Human Family Project, Mary Slawson, Chair, Copyright January 2006
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