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Alice de Lusignan, Countess of Gloucester

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Alice was described as being very beautiful with dark hair and dark eyes. She was also flirtatious and provocative. She was said to strongly resemble her grandmother Queen Isabella. In the late summer of 1259, she formed a friendship with her half first cousin, Prince Edward, who would later ascend
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on 14 May 1264 King Henry's forces were defeated by those led by Simon and Gloucester who commanded the second line of battle. After the victory, Gilbert and his brother Thomas were both knighted. Simon de Montfort became the
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She arrived in England on an unrecorded date. On 6 April 1250, her father was killed in
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It was rumoured that she became the mistress of her half first cousin
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was in France at the time. Alice was released shortly afterward.
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ruler of England. On 20 October the Earl of Gloucester was
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broke out and the barons rose up against the King led by
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Alice de Lusigan was born sometime after October 1236 in
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Isabel de Clare (10 March 1263 – 1333), married firstly
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Yolande de Dreux, Countess of Penthièvre and of Porhoet
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Thomas B. Costain "The Magnificent Century", Page236
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by whom she had issue, and secondly Gervase Avenel.
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Index

Alice de Lusignan (disambiguation)
Angoulême
Poitou
Noble family
Lusignan
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Hugh XI of Lusignan
Yolande de Dreux, Countess of Penthièvre and of Porhoet
Marcher
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Henry III of England
Prince Edward
Angoulême
Charente
Hugh XI of Lusignan
Count of La Marche
Angoulême
Yolande of Brittany
Hugh XII of Lusignan
Isabella of Angoulême
John of England
Henry III
battle at Fariskur
Egypt
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford
Maud de Lacy
Guy de Beauchamp
Earl of Warwick
Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley

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