Isabella of Angouleme was born about 1186 as the only daughter of Aymar III, Count ofAngouleme, and Couternay Alice, daughter of Peter I in turn, Couternay Lord, son of King Louis VI of France.
On the day of her marriage to Hugh X of Lusignan, heir to the earldom of Marche, was abducted by King John Lackland (John I of England), whom she married in Bordeaux onJune 24, 1200. She then had 12 years.
In 1189, John had married Elizabeth of Goulcester, daughter and heiress of WilliamFitzRobert, second Earl of Goulcester. They had no children and John asked for theannulment of their marriage, claiming consanguinity Isabel's grandfather was RobertFitzRoy, illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, shortly after his accession, which took place on April 6, 1199, and never acknowledged her as queen. Isabel ofGoulcester then married Geoffrey of Mandeville and Hubert of Burgh in third marriage.
Having obtained the annulment of his first marriage, John Lackland remarry in the French city of Bordeaux with Isabel of Angouleme, just 12 years old, whom he hadabducted the same day of her wedding to Hugh X of Lusignan , heir of the Count de la Marche. The daughter of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. Isabel had with the kingfive children, including two men:
- Henry III (b. Winchester Castle, 1207 - d. Palace of Westminster, 1272) Prince of Wales.
- Ricardo (b. Winchester Castle, 1209 - d. Berkhamstead, 1272) Earl of Cornwall andKing of the Romans elected - elected king of Germany.
- Joan (b. Normandy, 1210 - d. Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, 1238) married Alexander IIof Scotland.
- Eleanor (b. Montargis, France, 1275 - d. Montargis, France, 1275) married first toWilliam Marshall, second Earl of Pembroke, and then Simon of Montfort, sixth Earl ofLeicester.
- Elizabeth of England (b. 1214 - d. 1241) married to Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Emperor of Germany, King of Sicily and Jerusalem.
Two years after their wedding, the death of her father becomes Countess of Angouleme.Dead King John (November 18, 1216), Isabel returns it immediately to the county of Angouleme in France, leaving England to the five children born in marriage to John.
On March 10, 1220, Elizabeth contracted a second marriage with whom was the former fiance of her, now Lugo X de Lusignan, Count of La Marche since November last year.From this marriage would be born 9 children. Accused of conspiring against the king ofFrance in 1244, took refuge in the Abbey of Fontevrault, where he died on May 31, 1246, at 57 years of age, being buried in the cemetery of the abbey.
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