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Robert Summerville 29 aboard "Nineveh" with wife Harriett 28, & children Robert 4, Margaret 2. William 1 died on voyage. Carpenter, Native of Warwick, Church of England, Both read & write.

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NSW - BDM - Death Cert
4217/1880 - SOMMERVILLE, MARGARET - ROBERT - HARRIET - REDFERN
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Residence for 1946-1947 - Lancashire, Isle of Man, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Channel Islands

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Isabel of Gloucester (Isabel de Clare; c. 1173 - 14 October 1217) was the first wife of King John of England. This historical figure is known by an exceptionally large number of alternative names: Hadwisa, Hawisia, Hawise, Joan, Eleanor, Avise and Avisa.

Lineage

Isabel was the daughter of William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and his wife, Hawise. Her paternal grandfather, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was the illegitimate son of Henry I, King of England. Her father died in 1183 at which time she became, in her own right, Countess of Gloucester.

Royal marriage and annulment

She was betrothed to John, Count of Mortain, on 28 September 1176.[1][2] According to the marriage agreement King Henry II agreed to find the best husband possible for Isabel should the pope refuse to grant a dispensation; also Isabel was declared the sole heir to Gloucester, disinheriting her two sisters.[2]

On 29 August 1189 they were married at Marlborough Castle in Wiltshire and he assumed the title in her right.[2][3] Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, declared the marriage null and placed their lands under interdict for marrying within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity (they were second cousins as being great-grandchildren of King Henry I). The interdict was lifted by Pope Clement III. The pope granted a dispensation to marry but forbade the couple from having sexual relations.[3]

Shortly after John's accession as King in 1199, and before the end of August, he had the marriage annulled on the grounds of consanguinity. The annulment was granted by the bishops of Lisieux, Bayeux and Avranches sitting in Normandy.[4] John, however, kept her lands, and Isabel did not contest the annulment.[4]

Earldom of Gloucester

After the divorce King John granted the title of Earl of Gloucester to Isabel's nephew Amaury, count of Evreux. He did this to compensate Amaury for the loss of his French title which was surrendered in the Treaty of Le Goulet. Upon his death without issue in 1213 Isabel once again became Countess of Gloucester.[2]

Later marriages

Isabel later married Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, the Earl of Essex, on 20 January 1214. He died in 1216. A year after Essex's demise she married Hugh de Burgh (later Earl of Kent), later the justiciar of England, in September 1217.[2]

Death and burial

Isabel died just a month later that year, probably at Keynsham Abbey, which was founded by her father, and was interred in Canterbury Cathedral.[2]

Isabel in fiction

A very fanciful depiction of her as a witch appears in The Devil and King John, a historical novel by Philip Lindsay, where she is called Hadwisa.
She also appears as the character Hadwisa in Robin of Sherwood, portrayed by actress Patricia Hodge.
Actress Jessica Raine portrays her in the film Robin Hood.
Featured briefly as Avisa in Virginia Henley's The Falcon and the Flower.

References

^ Alison Weir. Eleanor of Aquitaine: A life, (1999) p. 218 ISBN 0-345-43487-0
^ a b c d e f Robert B. Patterson, ‘Isabella, suo jure countess of Gloucester (c.1160-1217)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 24 Nov 2006
^ a b Weir, p. 252
^ a b Weir, p. 319

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In 1249 he agreed to serve Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, for a year on the Seventh Crusade. Hugh XI was killed 6 April 1250 in Battle of Fariskur, Egypt, which was the last major battle of the Seventh Crusade. He was on crusade with King Louis IX. His son Hugh XII succeeded him as Count of La Marche and Angoulême.

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Hugh XI de Lusignan was uterine half-brother of Henry III of England.

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Manilla General Cemetery - Inscription for William Edward Webster

Cemetery: Manilla General
Family Name: Webster
Given Names: William Edward
Birth Date:
Death Date: 7 Oct 1939
Age: 69y
Remarks: husband; father
Portion: Ang
Row:
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