Isabella of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England

Isabella of Angoulême is our maternal great-grandmother (29 generations back)*.
She is one of the very many interesting persons in our extended family tree. Isabella was born about 1188 in Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France to Alice "Alix" of Courtenay and Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême.

Angoulême, France - city hall

Alice's brother Peter II of Courtenay was Latin Emperor of Constantinople.

Coat of Arms - the Capetian House of Courtenay

Isabella's great-grandparents were King Louis VI (The Fat) of France and his second wife Adelaide De Maurienne who was of the Savoy royal family.

Thanks to Isabella's marriage (24 August 1200) to King John I of England she connects us to Plantagenets. After the matrimony, Isabella became Queen Consort of England and Countess of Angoulême (1202). However, it is her second husband Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, who is our direct maternal ancestor.

An interesting fact is that the second spouse was the son of Isabella's fiance, Hugh IX, whom she was engaged to before the marriage with King John.

Hugh X was born about 1185. Both Hugh IX and Hugh X were of the royal family of Lusignan.

House of  Lusignan - Lusignan Armorial

Isabella and Hugh X's son William (born about 1225, Cistercian Abbey, Rhone-Alpes, Valence, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) is our direct family line. William was a half-brother of King Henry III who he supported as well as the king's son Prince Edward. William was also Edward I's uncle.

Coat of Arms of  William de Valence (before he became 1st Earl of Pembroke)

William de Valence married Joan de Munchesi, Lady of Swanscombe, a granddaughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, a knight who served King Henry II, King Henry, Richard I, King John and Henry III. William Marshal was also an uncle of King Edward I of England.

Coat of Arms of  the de Valence Earls of Pembroke

William and Joan's daughter Joan married Sir John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Lord of Lochaber, and Lord of Annandale (our direct ancestor 27 generations back). He was the one who was stabbed to death by Robert the Bruce. Sir John's maternal ancestry line leads us to another noble lady - I wrote about it here.

William de Valence died in 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. He was buried in Westminster Abbey in London. His wife Joan lived thirteen years longer. She passed on 20 Sept. 1307 in Valence, Charente, France.

Summary 

Isabella's ancestors - click on the poster to view it's original size.

Poster made with MyHeritage software

Our ancestry line*

Isabella of Angoulême
⇒ her son William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke
⇒ his daughter Joan (de Valence) Comyn (b. between 1273 and 1278, Leicester, England/d. July 1326, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales)

Remains of Abergavenny Castle, Wales

⇒ her son William McCumin (b. about 1290)
⇒ his son Fergus McCumin (b. about 1315)
⇒ his son John MakCubyn (b. about 1345)
⇒ his son John Fergus MakCubyn (b. about 1365)
⇒ his son John MakCubyn (b. about 1390)
⇒ his son Fergus MakCubyn (b. about 1415)
⇒ his son Dougal MakCubyn (b. about 1440)
⇒ his son Sir Fergus MakCubyn (b. about 1465)
⇒ his son John MakCumbyn (b. 1490/d. 1542 Scotland)
⇒ his son Lord Fergus MakCumbyn (b. about 1513, Dunscore, Dumfriesshire and Galloway, Scotland/d. Battle of  Pinkie Cleugh, About 10 Sep. 1547)
⇒ his son John MacCubbins (b. about 1533, Dunscore, Scotland/d. 1580, Scotland)
⇒ his son Fergus MacCubbins (b. abt. 1558, Galloway, Scotland/d. 1615, Parish Ayrshire, Scotland)
⇒ his son John MacCubbins (b. abt. 1579, Maccubbinstone, Dunscoir, Scotland/d. 1631)
⇒ his son John Fergus MacCubbins (b. 1603 Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland/d. 1686, Ayrshire, Scotland)
⇒ his son John MacCubbins (b. about 1630, Knockdolian, Ayrshire, Scotland, South Ayrshire, Scotland/d. about 1686, Anne Arundel County, Maryland)
⇒ his daughter Sarah Griffith nee MacCubbins (b. 1659, Cardigan, Wales/d. Oct 23 1699, Middle Neck Hundred, Anne Arundel County, Maryland)
⇒ her son Orlando Griffith (b. 17 Oct. 1688, Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland/d. 15 March 1757, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland)
⇒ his daughter Sarah A Dorsey nee Griffith ( b. 1712, Majors, Maryland/d. 28 May 1780, Maryland)
⇒ her daughter Rachel Anne Holbrook nee Dorsey (b. 15 Feb. 1737, Eldersburg, Baltimore, Maryland/d. 15 August 1804, Kentucky)
⇒ her son William Holbrook (b. 1765, Rowan Co., NC/d. 13 Jan. 1844, Forsyth, Georgia)
⇒ his son Samuel Asberry Holbrook (b. 25 May 1787, Rowan, NC/d. 13 Dec. 1845, Forsyth Georgia)
⇒ his daughter Mary Hagood nee Holbrook (b. 1816, Cherokee, Georgia/d. 10 Feb. 1883, Cherokee, Georgia)
⇒ her daughter Hannah E Ledbetter nee Hagood/Haygood (b. 1838, Georgia) - our great-great-grandmother


Pictures:

• Angoulême City Hall: By Jack ma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7213876
• Capetian Coat of Arms: By Odejea, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4147599
•  Lusignan Armorial: By SsireImage created for the Blazon Project of the French Wikipedia. - Own workiThe source code of this SVG is valid. This vector image was created with Inkscape by Ssire., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3717875
• William de Valence Coat of Arms: By OrrorImage created for the Blazon Project of the French Wikipedia. - Own workiThe source code of this SVG is valid. This vector image was created with Inkscape by Orror., CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1313177
• De Valence Coat of Arms: By OrrorImage created for the Blazon Project of the French Wikipedia. - Own workiThe source code of this SVG is valid. This vector image was created with Inkscape by Orror., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1313129
• Abergavenny Castle: By Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4534628 

Resources:
*my MyHeritage research;
geni.com