Isabel de Beaumont, Duchess of Lancaster, of the
House of Brienne
The County of Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château.
Counts of Brienne
* Engelbert I
* Engelbert II
* Engelbert III
* Engelbert IV
* Walter I (? – c. 1090)
* Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?)
* Walter II ...
( – 1361) was an English noblewoman, being the youngest daughter and child of
Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan
Henry de Beaumont (before 1280 – 10 March 1340), ''jure uxoris'' 4th Earl of Buchan and ''suo jure'' 1st Baron Beaumont, was a key figure in the Anglo-Scots wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, known as the Wars of Scottish Inde ...
and
Alice Comyn
Alice Comyn, Earl of Buchan, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont (1289 – 3 July 1349) was a Scottish noblewoman, a member of the powerful Comyn family which supported the House of Balliol, Balliols, claimants to the disputed Scottish throne agai ...
.
Family
Isabel was born in about 1320. She had nine older siblings, including John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont. Isabel's paternal grandparents were Louis of Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont, and Agnes, Viscountess de Beaumont. Her maternal grandparents were
Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen and Joan le Latimer. Louis of Brienne was a younger son of
John of Brienne
John of Brienne ( 1170 – 19–23 March 1237), also known as John I, was King of Jerusalem from 1210 to 1225 and Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1229 to 1237. He was the youngest son of Erard II of Brienne, a wealthy nobleman in Champag ...
by his third wife,
Berengaria of Leon
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* Berengaria of Barcelona (1116–1149), queen consort of Castile, León and Galicia
* Berengaria of Navarre (c.1165–1230), queen consort to Richard ...
while Alexander Comyn was a younger brother of
John Comyn, Earl of Buchan
John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan (circa 1260 – 1308) was a chief opponent of Robert the Bruce in the civil war that paralleled the War of Scottish Independence. He should not be confused with the better known John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch ...
.
Marriage and children
She married
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1337. Isabel bore Henry two daughters who would eventually inherit their father's estates:
*
Maud, Countess of Leicester
Maud of Lancaster (4 April 1340 – 10 April 1362), also known as Matilda, Countess of Hainault, was a 14th-century English noblewoman who married into the Bavarian ducal family.
The eldest daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster ...
(4 April 1339 – 10 April 1362), married
William V, Count of Hainaut. Died without surviving issue.
*
Blanche, Countess of Lancaster (25 March 1345 – 12 September 1369), married
John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English royal prince, military leader, and statesman. He was the fourth son (third to survive infancy as William of Hatfield died shortly after birth) of King Edward ...
, son of
Edward III of England
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, by whom she had three surviving children. Blanche inherited all her father's estates after the death of her sister.
Isabel died of the
plague
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Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
*Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis''
* An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural)
* A pandemic caused by such a disease
* A swarm of pes ...
in 1361 at
Leicester Castle
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. She was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester. Her husband also died of the plague in March 1361.
Through Blanche, Isabel was an ancestress of Englands's Royal
House of Lancaster
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancasterfrom which the house was namedfor his second son Edmund Crouchback in 126 ...
, with
Henry IV of England
Henry IV ( April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philip IV of France, to the Kingdom of F ...
being her grandson.
Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal and the Algarve and
Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter
Elizabeth of Lancaster (bf. 21 February 1363 – 24 November 1426) was the third child of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his first wife Blanche of Lancaster. Elizabeth was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378.
Life
Some sources list her ...
were also her grandchildren.
Daughters of Scottish earls
Lancaster
House of Brienne
1361 deaths
Year of birth unknown
14th-century deaths from plague (disease)
14th-century English nobility
14th-century English women
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