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Birth:          ABT 1148 
Death:          10 May 1220 
Burial:         Savigny, France

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_de_Sabl%C3%A9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Meulan
Isabelle de Meulan, Dame de Mayenne, Dame de Craon (c. 1148 – 10 May 1220) was 
a French noblewoman, being the daughter of Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of 
Worcester, Count of Meulan. Isabelle married twice;[1] firstly to Geoffroy, Seigneur de 
Mayenne, and secondly to Maurice II, Sire de Craon. Her eldest son Juhel III de 
Mayenne was a celebrated Crusader.
Family[edit]

Isabelle was born in about 1148, the eldest daughter of Waleran de Beaumont, 1st 
Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan, and Agnès de Montfort, Dame de Gournay-sur-
Marne. She had six brothers and two younger sisters. Her father was a powerful 
Norman magnate with much wealth and political influence. Her paternal grandparents 
were Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Elisabeth de Vermandois, and 
her maternal grandparents were Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnès 
de Garlande, daughter of Anseau de Garlande, Count of Rochefort, and Beatrice de 
Montlhery.

Marriages and issue[edit]

In 1161 Isabelle married her first husband.[2] He was Geoffroy, Seigneur de Mayenne 
whose first wife Constance of Brittany had died in 1148, leaving him with one 
daughter, Mathilde.[3] Together Geoffroy and Isabelle had two children:
Clémence de Mayenne (died before 1209), married Robert de Sablé, Grand Master of 
the Knights Templar, by whom she had three children including Marguerite de Sablé, 
Dame de Sablé.
Juhel III, Seigneur de Mayenne (1168 – 12 April 1220), married Gervaise de Vitré, by 
whom he had three children. A celebrated Crusader, he was killed in battle in 1220 at 
the age of fifty-two.

Geoffroy died in 1169. Isabelle, aged about twenty-two, married secondly in 1170 
Maurice II, Sire de Craon, the son of Hughes I, Sire de Craon. Together they had 
seven children:
Avoise de Craon (died 1230), married Guy of Laval and Yves Le Franc.
Maurice III, Sire de Craon (died after 1224), married and fathered two sons.
Pierre de Craon (died before 1206)
Philippe de Craon (died young)
Amaury I, Sire de Craon (1175–1226), married Jeanne des Roches, the daughter of his 
half-niece, Marguerite de Sablé, by whom he had three children including Isabelle de 
Craon. This meant that Isabelle de Meulan's daughter-in-law was also her great-
granddaughter.
Constance de Craon, a nun at the Abbey of Clarei
Agnes de Craon

Isabelle was appointed guardian of Maurice's lands and their children when he left for 
Jerusalem on Crusade.[4] The Gesta Guillelm Majoris Andegavensis Episcopi names 
Isabelle among those present at the burial of the Bishop Guillaume on an unknown 
date during the reign of King Philip II of France.[4]

Her husband died 12 July 1196. Isabelle herself died on 10 May 1220 at the age of 
about seventy-two years. Her death occurred just a month after the death in battle of 
her eldest son, Juhel. She was buried in Savigny.

Parents
DE BEAUMONT Waleran (1104 - 9 Apr 1166)
DE MONTFORT Agnes (Elizabeth) (ABT 1122 - 15 Dec 1181)

Siblings
DE BEAUMONT Robert (ABT 1142 - Oct 1207)
DE MEULAN Isabelle (ABT 1148 - 10 May 1220)

Marriage To DE CRAON Maurice II (ABT 1132 - 1196)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE CRAON Hugues I (1100 - 1140)
____ Marquise ()

Children by DE CRAON Maurice II ABT 1132 - 1196
DE CRAON Amaury I (1170 - 2 May 1226)

Marriage To DE MAYENNE Geoffrey (ABT 1120 - 1169)
    m.  

Notes


Children by DE MAYENNE Geoffrey ABT 1120 - 1169
DE MAYENNE Clemence (ABT 1160 - BEF 1209)

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