Isabella of Hainault

Isabella of Hainaut (French: Isabelle de Hainaut ) (* probably on April 23, 1170 in Lille, † March 15, 1190 in Paris) was Queen of France from 1180.

Life

Isabella was the daughter of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut and Margaret I of Flanders, sister of Count Philip I of Flanders.

King Louis VII of France at the end of 1179 already dying and appointed his first five year-old son Philip successor, who should climb as Philip II Augustus the French throne soon. This still wanted as Dauphin shake the dominant influence of his mother Adela of Champagne and of their four brothers at the court and sought the Count of Flanders support, who taught him his niece Isabella to marry. The heir apparent at first concealed his marriage intentions before his mother and traveled to Flanders. Its run by the bishops, Roger of Laon and Henry of Senlis wedding with only ten years of Isabella took place in the Abbey of Sainte Trinité at Bapaume on April 28, 1180. The bride brought the Artois, and other areas in southern Flanders as considerable dowry into the marriage, but was allowed to continue to rule her uncle in these lands for life. Left Back in Paris Philipp ( II ) announce his neugeschlossene marriage. Adela resisted with their Champagne Party and even called the King of England, Henry II, in vain, to support, but eventually had to accept her son's decision. Baldwin V emphasized to underline the Standesmäßigkeit his daughter Isabella, that he was a descendant of Charlemagne; thus the historians of his time in this marriage saw a union of the Carolingian and Capetian. For France, was also important that the Count of Flanders was childless and thus without heirs.

Ascension Day (May 29 ) 1180 crowned by the Archbishop of Sens Isabella in the Basilica of Saint- Denis. It was when Louis VII died on September 19, 1180 Queen of France. Her hair was blonde and she had delicate features. Supposedly she admired her husband, but could not win his affection. His ambition was especially true of politics. Troubadours from the Champagne and Provence, about Helimont, sang the young Queen in honor songs and organized for them, " courts of love ". In Paris, they often paid the churches from visits and donated a lot for the poor.

As Philip Augustus was always confident govern independently, ganged up on him yet in 1180 the Champagne Party and the Count of Flanders; There were acts of war. But gradually, the opposing coalition could blow up the French king. 1183 was essentially only Philip left of Flanders as an enemy, but still supported by Baldwin V of Hainault. His father now threatened to Philip Augustus, to violate his wife. Isabella had to leave the Royal Palace and spend some time in Senlis. A synod convened there should annul the marriage ( in March 1184 ). Served as the pretext that the King had not yet consummated the marriage with Isabella. The Queen often visited the churches of Senlis and pulled calling as a penitent, God's grace, through the streets. This could increase their popularity among subjects so that her husband, paternal pressure on his uncle, Robert of Dreux, came off of a divorce. Isabella edited her father, whom she met in Pontoise, in the sense of her husband. Soon after, Baldwin also visited his son- in Berthily castle. The Count of Flanders, who had been repeatedly beaten militarily, accepted the Treaty of Boves ( July 1185 ) that the French king still retained the reversion of the Artois and Amiens, as well as areas in Vermandois took possession.

The first child Isabella was born on September 5, 1187 and later as Louis VIII King of France. The 20-year old Isabella died on March 15, 1190 one day after the birth of twin sons ( who also just four days survived ). She was wearing a gold-embroidered chasuble, in one of Maurice de Sully, who represented the absent French king, led the ceremony with much pomp at Notre Dame de Paris buried.

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