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25 Southam Street, Kineton, Warwickshire, England
Widow, Lodger with Henry and Elizabeth Cadd

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1861 - UK Census Record
Situate in the Parish of Kineton, page 10 RG 9 / 2228
1861 England Census Record for John Townsend

Number on schedule: 59, Market Place, New Inn
John Townsend Head Mar Male 59 Ag Lab Born Warwickshire, Tysoe
Phebe Townsend Wife Mar Female 57 Born Northamptonshire, Daventry
Richard Townsend Son Un Male 24 Ag Lab Born Warwickshire, Kineton
Ann Flowers Mother-in-law W Female 84 Born Oxfordshire, Banbury
Henry Harris Lodger Mar Male 23 Ag Lab Born Gloucestershire, Mickelton
Emma Harris Wife Mar Female 19 Born Warwickshire, Kineton
John Harris Son Male 1 Born Warwickshire, Kineton

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NSW BDM - Death Cert
10350/1954 - SOMMERVILLE, WILLIAM - ROBERT - HARRIET - NEWTOWN
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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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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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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