#isabella of angouleme

[cesareeborgia]

↳ Historical Ladies Name: Isabella/Isabelle

[0urgraciousqueen]

wives of english kings who remarried after their deaths

[wonder-worker]

Queen of England, Countess of Angoulême, mother of fourteen surviving children, Isabella of Angoulême was a woman who spent most of her life in a position of power. Her reputation was ultimately shaped by the failings of her husband. She became an easy target for misogynistic tropes and topoi deployed by monastic chroniclers interested in explaining John’s failures as King. Yet a more careful analysis of the surviving historical record reveals a Queen who was anything but vanished who, from the age of just 12, performed an active and important role at the royal court and who, even after the death of her first husband, continued to wield power and hold influence. Up until her death, Isabella acted in a way which suggests she fully understood how to wield power and expected to be afforded the dignity and reverence which her position as queen consort was due.

-Sally Spong, "Isabella of Angouleme: The Vanished Queen", "Norman to Early Plantagenet Consorts: Power, Influence and Dynasty"

[angevinyaoiz]

John’s little booknook bookmobile + Isabella of Angouleme (Retrospring requests)

[world-of-wales]

CONSORTS OF ENGLAND SINCE THE NORMAN INVASION (1/5) ♚

Matilda of Flanders (December 1066 - November 1083)

Matilda of Scotland (November 1100 - May 1118)

Adeliza of Louvain (January 1121 - December 1135)

Geoffrey V of Angou (April 1141 - 1148)

Matilda of Boulogne (December 1135 - May 1152)

Eleanor of Aquitaine (December 1154 - July 1189)

Margaret of France (1170 - June 1183)

Berengaria of Navarre (May 1191 - April 1199)

Isabella of Angoulême (August 1200 - October 1216)

Eleanor of Provence (January 1236 - November 1272)

[baublecoded]

— Nicholas Vincent, ‘Isabella of Angouleme: John’s Jezebel?’, King John: New Interpretations (ed. Stephen Church)

[rikrgif]

&&& CLICK THE SOURCE LINK to be directed towards 62 gifs of LEA SEYDOUX as ISABELLA OF ANGOULEME in ROBIN HOOD. lea was born in 1985 and is french.

setting: medieval england

contains: christian imagery, war, violence, weapons, lack of clothes, kissing.

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[travelwithflere]

Reclining effigies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, of her husband Henry 2nd, of their son Richard the Lionheart and Isabella of Angouleme. Commissioned by Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1204, they rest in the central nave of the abbey church of Fontevraud. Richard rests in foreground and Eleanor diagonally behind, reading a book. She wanted to be remembered as an intellectual. #effigies #gisants #gisantsdesplantagenêts #plantageneteffigies #fontevraudabbey #abbayedefontevraud #fontevraud #carnetdevoyage #loirevalley #valleedelaloire #watercolor #aquarelle #fredericlere (at Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRk3u0oJp5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pastedpast]

Browsing the shelves at York City Library. Am happy to report that the section where the history books are kept is nice and peaceful!

The queens related to the Norman Conquest during the period 1066 to 1167 were:

Matilda of Flanders (William I 'the Conqueror)

Matilda of Scotland (1st wife of Henry I)

Adeliza of Lovain (2nd wife of Henry I)

Matilda of Boulogne (Stephen)

The Empress Maud (daughter of Henry I and wife of (i) Heinrich V Holy Roman Emperor & (ii) Geoffrey 'Plantagenet')

The queens of the Crusades during the period 1154 to 1291 were:

Eleanor of Aquitaine (Henry II)

Berengaria of Navarre (Richard I)

Isabella of Angouleme (John)

Alienor of Provence (Henry III)

Eleanor of Castile (Edward I)

CHECK OVERLAP BETWEEN 1154 & 1167.

[raisab332012]

Answer to Did King John ever love his wife, Isabella of Angouleme? by Jade Welch https://www.quora.com/Did-King-John-ever-love-his-wife-Isabella-of-Angouleme/answer/Jade-Welch-1?ch=18&oid=1477743688146618&share=dd939474&srid=7KVRc&target_type=answer

[cesareeborgia]

Queen Consorts of England + Isabella

[catherinesvalois]

Isabella d’Angoulême and King John of England

“Contemporaries were at a loss to explain John’s action in offending the Lusignan family, important lords in lower Poitou. They attributed his marriage to “a mad infatuation with a beautiful princess,” already the prize of another. A strange passion it was, since she was all of twelve years old. While some modern writers continue to accept this romantic version of the marriage, other see it as “calculated and passionless.”

- King John: England’s Evil King? Ralph V Turner

[portrayed by  Léa Seydoux and Oscar Isaac in Robin Hood (2010)]

[wonder-worker]

most interesting English queens?

Hi! The ones I personally find the most interesting to study and read about are: Elizabeth Woodville/Elizabeth of York/Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, Matilda of Scotland and Anne Boleyn.

I also find some “quasi-queens” like Alice Perrers and Eleanor Cobham extremely fascinating – I’m actually far more interested in them than all the queens listed above other than the first three.

I’m not sure if Empress Matilda counts, but I’m very interested in her as well.

[heartofstanding]

David Green "‘A woman given to slippery ways’? The reputation of Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent", People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of W. Mark Ormrod (Routledge, 2021, eds. Gwilym Dodd, Helen Lacey, Anthony Musson)

[stonelord1]

ANOTHER MISSING QUEEN: JOAN OF SCOTLAND

ANOTHER MISSING QUEEN: JOAN OF SCOTLAND

[writingsfromtheeyeofthebeholder]

What's a Girl Without her Crown?