Holinshed's Chronicles

Isabella of Gloucester

Also known as: Isabell · Family: England · Role: wife of King John · First appears: King John 4

Life events

  • c. 1200 · King John was divorced from Isabella of Gloucester because of their close blood relationship.(King John 4 · 📍 Normandie)
    • With: King John
    • “At length also, when he had got togither a great masse of monie, he went ouer againe into Normandie, where by Helias archbishop of Burdeaux, and the bishop of Poictiers and Scone, he was diuorsed from his wife Isabell, that was the daughter of Robert earle of Glocester, bicause of the néerenesse of bloud, as touching hir in the third degrée.”

King John 4

  • married with King John “he was diuorsed from his wife Isabell, that was the daughter of Robert earle of Glocester”
  • parent: Robert, Earl of Gloucester “his wife Isabell, that was the daughter of Robert earle of Glocester”

Also listed in England — Minor Figures

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