Isabella, Countess of Gloucester

Isabella
Isabella
Countess of Gloucester and Essex
Born	c.1160–1166
Died	October 1217
Burial	unknown
Spouses	; John, King of England (m. 1189; ann. 1200) ; Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex (m. 1214; died 1216) ; Hubert de Burgh (m. 1217)
Father	William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
Mother	Hawise of Leicester

Isabella, Countess of Gloucester (c. 1160–1166 – October 1217),^[1] was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman who was the first wife of King John of England.

^ Nicholas Vincent has speculated she could have been born as early as 1160. Nicholas Vincent, ‘A Queen in Rebel London, 1215–17’, in A Verray Parfit Praktisour, Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe, ed. by Elizabeth Danbury & Linda Clark (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), p.33.

[1] Nicholas Vincent has speculated she could have been born as early as 1160. Nicholas Vincent, ‘A Queen in Rebel London, 1215–17’, in A Verray Parfit Praktisour, Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe, ed. by Elizabeth Danbury & Linda Clark (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), p.33.

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Isabella
Countess of Gloucester and Essex
Born	c.1160–1166
Died	October 1217
Burial	unknown
Spouses	John, King of England (m. 1189; ann. 1200) Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex (m. 1214; died 1216) Hubert de Burgh (m. 1217)
Father	William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
Mother	Hawise of Leicester

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Isabella, Countess of Gloucester

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