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184:, with clause 59 promising to do justice to the Scottish king in respect of "the sisters and hostages of Alexander, king of Scotland, his liberties and his rights". Despite this legal concession, John failed to honour his word and the marriages had still not taken place by 1220. King Alexander demanded that his sisters be married as had been agreed, with the concessions that they were only required to be found 'suitable' husbands and not the royal princes that were originally promised. 251: 175:
Isabella and Margaret were both intended in marriage to John's sons and the Scots made a payment of 15,000 marks, equivalent in modern values to tens of millions of pounds, to pay for these royal weddings. The marriages of legitimate daughters should have been a powerful diplomatic and dynastic tool
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The ladies were sometimes allowed to ride out under the strictest guard and were treated in good form as befitted their rank, but Isabella and Margaret's potential marriages continued to be delayed by John throughout the 1210s and early 1220s, demonstrating of his power over Scotland. This was
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granted Isabella property when she married Roger in May 1225. Roger became a ward of his new brother-in-law King Alexander; he held the position until 1228. Roger and Isabella's marriage was childless.
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In 1245, Roger repudiated Isabella on grounds of consanguinity, but was compelled by an ecclesiastical sentence to take Isabella back in 1253. She is called "filiam regis Scotiæ" (but not named) by
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Isabella was second-in-line to the Scottish throne (after her sister Margaret) until 1227 when Margaret's daughter and namesake was born. By 1241 she was fourth in line upon the birth of her nephew
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Isabella was at least 27 years old when she married. Roger was roughly fourteen years Isabella's junior and was legally underage when they couple were betrothed. King John's son and successor
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Bennett, Matthew; Weikert, Katherine (13 September 2016). "The princesses who might have been hostages: the custody and marriages of Margaret and Isabella of Scotland, 1209–1220s".
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Isabella was born before 1195 and was the second of four children born to her father by his marriage to Ermengarde de Beaumont. Her older sister was
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Isabella died in 1270 and she was buried at the Church of the Black Friars, London. Roger died later the same year. He was succeeded by his nephew
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and her younger sister was Marjorie, Countess of Pembroke. Isabella also had many illegitimate half-siblings from her father.
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for William but they were now in John's control. William died on 4 December 1214 and was succeeded by his son.
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King William's legitimate line through his four children became extinct by 1290, leading to a
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Medieval Hostageship c.700-c.1500: Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
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Upon Isabella's release, she was required to marry English noble
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when he recorded her husband's resumption of their marriage.
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Ancestors of Isabella of Scotland, Countess of Norfolk
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Index

Isabella of Scotland
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk
House
House of Dunkeld
William I of Scotland
Ermengarde de Beaumont
William the Lion
King of Scotland
Ermengarde de Beaumont
House of Dunkeld
Margaret, Countess of Kent
King Alexander II of Scotland
William the Lion
Henry II of England
John of England
Corfe Castle
Eleanor, the Fair Maid of Brittany
England
Magna Carta
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk
Princess Joan
King John.
Henry III of England
Prince Alexander
Matthew Paris
Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk
Succession crisis

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