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| 12th century births | |
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Isabel (known by other names, including Hawise, Joan, Eleanor and Avisa) was the daughter of the 2nd Earl Of Gloucester and his wife, Hawise. Her father died in 1183 and as he had no male heirs, his title merged in the Crown, but a new creation was granted to her in 1186 and she became Countess of Gloucester. On 29 August 1189 , she married John, Earl of Cornwall at Marlborough Castle in Wiltshire and he assumed the title in her right. Shortly before or after John's accession as king in 1199, he had the marriage Annulled by Pope Boniface VIII on the grounds of Consanguinity (they were second cousins as descendants of King Henry I ) and Isabel was never recognised as queen and her former title merged in the Crown. She later married the 2nd Earl Of Essex on 20 January 1214 and after he died in 1216 , she married Hugh De Burgh (later Earl Of Kent ) in September 1217. Isabel died a month later that year and was Interred in Canterbury Cathedral . |
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