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Taillefer

William VI, Count of Angouleme,
mar Marguerite of Turenne [dau of Raymond I of Turenne by his wife Mathilde of Perche, dau of Geoffrey II, Count of Perche],
died 1179,
had issue:

Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angouleme,
mar Alice de Courtenay [descendant of Charlemagne],
had issue:

1. Isabella Taillefer.
   She mar 1stly to King John and had issue.
   King John died 1216.
   She mar 2ndly, 1220, to Hugh X of Lusignan and had issue.
   She died 1246.
   She was bur Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France.

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Tomb of Isabella Taillefer, Fontevraud Abbey

Tombs of (left) Isabella Taillefer and (right) her brother-in-law Richard the Lionheart.
Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France.
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Effigy of Isabella Taillefer.
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Effigy of Isabella Taillefer.
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Tomb of Isabella Taillefer.
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