Isabella I of Jerusalem
Isabella I of Jerusalem ( * 1170, † 1205 ), out of the house Château -Landon was Queen of Jerusalem from 1192 Due to her second marriage to the Marquis Conrad of Montferrat she was nicknamed La Marquise ("The Countess ").. She was the daughter of King Amalric I and Maria Comnena, grand-niece of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I..
1183 she married Humphrey IV of Toron. On the wedding night her castle of Saladin's army was attacked. Humfrieds mother, Stephanie de Milly, then sent a message to Saladin, in which she informed him of the wedding taking place and reminded of their shared history. The chronicler Ernoul writes:
1192 Isabella was divorced against their will by Humphrey and married to Conrad of Montferrat. Konrad had argued that their (first) marriage was invalid because of their youth; due to his marriage to Isabella Konrad was the nearest male relative of the royal family and the successor in the kingdom. He soon died under mysterious circumstances, stabbed by the assassin, while Isabella to the throne was not saved with the future Queen Maria of Montferrat and pregnant. She hid in the city of Tyre, which was their largest and most secure city. Help she received by Count Henry II of Champagne, a French nobleman, who was a nephew of the king of both England and the King of France. His uncle Richard the Lionheart had sent him as his proxy to Tyre. It is reported that the inhabitants of Tyre was taken by his youth and attractiveness so that it demanded the marriage concluded between him and Isabella, an idea that was supported by Isabella. Henry and Isabella were still married during her pregnancy. Imad ad-Din al - Isfahani, an Islamic chronicler, who attended the wedding, wrote:
Henry died in 1197 after falling from a window. They had two daughters, Alice (* 1196) and Philippa of Champagne. During her marriage to Henry was decided retroactively that her marriage to Humphrey was not actually valid, but the two did not marry again. ( Humphrey died 1192nd ) Instead, Amalric II of Jerusalem ( also Amalric I of Cyprus), brother of Guy of Lusignan, her fourth husband. He died in 1205, shortly before his wife. From this marriage she had two daughters, Sibyl and Melisande of Lusignan, and a son.
My successor was her daughter Maria of Montferrat.