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Isabel of Beaumont

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Noble family
  
House of Brienne

Mother
  
Alice Comyn

Name
  
Isabel Beaumont


Father
  
Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan

Role
  
Henry de Beaumont's daughter

Died
  
1361, Leicester Castle, Leicester, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (m. 1337)

Children
  
Blanche of Lancaster, Maud, Countess of Leicester

Parents
  
Henry de Beaumont, Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan

Grandchildren
  
Henry IV of England, Philippa of Lancaster, Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter

Similar People
  
Blanche of Lancaster, Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Henry IV of England, Philippa of Hainault

Isabel de Beaumont, Duchess of Lancaster, of the House of Brienne (c. 1320 – 1361) was an English noblewoman, being the youngest daughter and child of Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan and Alice Comyn.

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Family

Isabel was born in about 1320. She had nine older siblings, including John de Beaumont, 2nd Lord Beaumont. Isabel's paternal grandparents were Louis of Brienne, Viscount de Beaumont, and Agnes, Viscountess de Beaumont. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen and Joan le Latimer.

Marriage and children

She married Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1337. Isabel bore Henry two daughters who would eventually inherit their father's estates:

  • Maud, Countess of Leicester (4 April 1339 – 10 April 1362), married William V, Count of Hainaut. Died without surviving issue.
  • Blanche, Countess of Lancaster (25 March 1345 – 12 September 1369), married John of Gaunt, son of Edward III of England, by whom she had three surviving children. Blanche inherited all her father's estates after the death of her sister.
  • Isabel died of the plague in 1361 at Leicester Castle. She was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester. Her husband also died of the plague in March 1361.

    Through Blanche, Isabel was an ancestress of Englands's Royal House of Lancaster, with Henry IV of England being her grandson. Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal and the Algrave and Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter was also her grandchildren.

    References

    Isabel of Beaumont Wikipedia