of Courtenay · ◉ direct ancestor
♀Alice of Courtenay
Dates not yet known.
Alice of Courtenay was a noblewoman of France, the wife of the Count of Angoulême and the mother of a queen of England. She was the twenty-fifth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Isabel of Angouleme (died 1246).
She is said to have been a daughter of Pierre of France, lord of Courtenay, Montargis and Châteaurenard, a younger son of King Louis VI of FranceW, and is also written Alais or Alaidis. She married Ademar Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, and their daughter Isabel, the heiress of the county, was married to King John of England. No dates of birth or death are known for Alice, and her mother is not known.
Notes
Source
Everything here comes from one compiled genealogy, Douglas Richardson’s Plantagenet Ancestry (volume I, England 3, p. 25), which gives her parentage, her marriage to Ademar and their daughter Isabel. It is a compiled grade; no record of her own is cited. Burke’s Peerage (1869) calls Isabel the daughter and heiress of Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme, and the second wife of King John.
Spelling
The tree spells her name Alice of Courtenay; the compilation also writes Alais and Alaidis.
Family time line
Parents not yet found. This line is still being traced.
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at | 1160 | France | on record |
Sources
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
- Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011) — about this person, family with Ademar Taillefer
Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.
Line of descent
Descendants
- Isabel of Angouleme –1246
- Henry of England 1207–1272
- Edward of England 1239–1307
- Joan of England 1272–1307
- Edward of England 1239–1307
- Henry of England 1207–1272