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Birth:          ABT 1160 of Angouleme, Charente, France
Death:          16 Jun 1202 Abbey la Couroun, Limoges, France
Burial:         Abbey la Couroun, France

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Crusader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymer_of_Angoul%C3%AAme
Aymer (also Aymar, Adhemar, Ademar, or Adomar; c. 1160 – 16 June 1202) was the last 
Count of Angoulême of the House of Taillefer. He was a middle child of Count William 
VI and Marguerite de Turenne. Two of his elder brothers, Wulgrin III and William VII, 
became Counts of Angoulême in succession after the death of their father in 1179.

Aymer succeeded his brother in 1186, and soon after was at the court of Richard the 
Lionheart, then Duke of Aquitaine and thus Aymer's lord, to receive recognition of his 
accession.[1] By 1188, Aymer had married Alice of Courtenay, the daughter of Peter I 
of Courtenay and thus granddaughter of King Louis VI of France.[2] In that year, Alice 
gave birth to a daughter, Isabella of Angoulême, who married King John of England in 
1200. The marriage alliance was sealed by two treaties, one public, the other private 
between Aymer and John. The count remained a steady ally of the kings of England 
against the rebellious House of Lusignan.[3]

Aymer had a claim to the County of La Marche, where in 1199 or 1200 he was 
exercising authority, perhaps on behalf of his son-in-law, and issued a charter to some 
monks of Aubignac.[4] In February 1202 when John was visiting Angoulême to 
negotiate a treaty with Sancho VII of Navarre, Aymer took him on a tour of the newly 
consecrated abbey church at La Couronne.[3] The role of Aymer's daughter in John's 
continued refusal to properly care for his brother Richard the Lionheart's widow, 
Berengaria of Navarre, may explain the Count of Angoulême's proximity to the 
negotiations between the two kingdoms.[5]

Aymer died in Limoges on 16 June 1202. His daughter and only child succeeded him 
as Countess of Angoulême. Her title, however, was largely empty since her husband 
denied her control of her inheritance as well as her marriage dowry and dower. John's 
appointed governor, Bartholomew de Le Puy (de Podio), ran most of the administrative 
affairs of Angoulême until John's death in 1216.[6] In 1217 Isabella returned and 
seized her inheritance from Bartholomew, who appealed unsuccessfully to the English 
king for help.

Aymer's widow, Alice, ruled the city of Angoulême until March 1203, when John 
summoned her to court and granted her a monthly pension of 50 livres d'Anjou in 
return for her dower rights. She thereafter retired from public life to her estate at La 
Ferté-Gaucher, where she was living as late as July 1215, when she issued a charter 
at Provins using the title Countess of Angoulême.[3]

Parents
TAILLEFER William (Guillaume) IV (ABT 1134 - 7 Aug 1179)
DE TURENNE Marguerite (ABT 1135 - )

Siblings
TAILLEFER Wulgrim III (ABT 1153 - )
DE TAILLEFER DE VALENCE Aymer (ABT 1160 - 16 Jun 1202)

Marriage To DE COURTENAY Alice (Adelaide) (ABT 1160 - 14 Sep 1218)
    m. Apr 1186 

Notes

Parents
____ Peter I (Pierre) (Sep 1126 - 10 Apr 1183)
DE COURTENAY (Elizabeth) Isabelle (1127 - AFT 14 Sep 1205)

Children by DE COURTENAY Alice (Adelaide) ABT 1160 - 14 Sep 1218
DE TAILLEFER OF ANGOULEME Isabella (1188 - 31 May 1246)

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