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Birth:          1212 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Foug
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Craon
Isabelle de Craon, Dame de Fougères (born 1212), was a French noblewoman, being 
the daughter of Amaury I, Sire de Craon, a wealthy baron who was the possessor of 
many lordships in Anjou and Maine. She was the wife of Raoul III, Sire de Fougères, 
by whom she had one daughter, Jeanne de Fougères, who became the heiress to her 
father's seigneury.

Family[edit]

Isabelle was born in 1212, the youngest daughter of Amaury I, Sire de Craon and 
Jeanne des Roches (c.1195- 28 September 1238).[1] She had a younger brother, 
Maurice IV, Sire de Craon (1213–1250), who married Isabelle de Lusignan, a half-sister 
of King Henry III of England by whom he had three children. She had an elder sister, 
Jeanne who was bethrothed to the three-year-old Arthur of Brittany in 1223. Arthur 
died that same year, and nothing further is known about Jeanne.

Isabelle's paternal grandparents were Maurice II de Craon and Isabelle de Meulan. 
Her maternal grandparents were Guillaume des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou and 
Marguerite de Sablé. Being the husband of Jeanne, eldest daughter of Guillaume des 
Roches, the hereditary seneschalship of Anjou and the vast Sablé barony passed to 
Isabelle's father upon the death of her maternal grandfather on 15 July 1222. Amaury 
died in 1226, when Isabelle was fourteen years old.

Marriage and issue[edit]

On an unknown date sometime before 1230, Isabelle married Raoul III, Sire de 
Fougères, the son of Geoffrey, Seigneur de Fougères and Mathilde de Porhoet. The 
marriage was documented in a charter dated February 1233.[1] The chateau of 
Fougères in Brittany became their principal residence.

Together Raoul and Isabelle had two children:[1]
Jean de Fougeres (born and died 6 December 1230)
Jeanne de Fougères, suo jure Dame de Fougères (died after 1273), on 29 January 
1254 married Hugh XII of Lusignan, Count of La Marche, Count of Angoulême, by 
whom she had six children.

Isabelle died on an unknown date. Her husband Raoul died on 24 February 1256, and 
his seigneury of Fougères was inherited by their only surviving child, Jeanne who 
thereafter held the title of suo jure Dame de Fougères.

Parents
DE CRAON Amaury I (1170 - 2 May 1226)
DES ROCHES Jeanne (ABT 1195 - 28 Sep 1238)

Siblings
DE CRAON Isabelle (1212 - )

Marriage To DE FOUGERES Raoul III (ABT 1210 - 24 Feb 1256)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE FOUGERES Geoffrey ()
DE PORHOET Mathilde ()

Children by DE FOUGERES Raoul III ABT 1210 - 24 Feb 1256
DE FOUGERES Jeanne (ABT 1242 - 1274)

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