Alice of Courtenay

Alice of Courtenay, Countess of Angoulme was a French noblewoman of the House of Courtenay. Her father was Peter I of Courtenay and her brother was Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople. Alice married twice by her second husband, Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulme, she was the mother of Isabella of Angoulme, who was Queen consort of England, as the wife of King John.

Alice was born in 1160, the second eldest daughter and one of the ten children of Peter I of Courtenay and Elisabeth of Courtenay, daughter of Renauld de Courtenay and Hawise du Donjon. Her family was one of the most illustrious in France and her paternal grandparents were King Louis VI of France and Adlaide de Maurienne. Her eldest brother Peter became the Latin Emperor of Constantinople in 1216. In addition to Peter, she had three more brothers, Philippe de Courtenay, Robert, Seigneur of Champignelles, and William, Seigneur of Tanlay and five sisters, Eustacie, Clemence, Isabelle, Constance, and another whose name is unknown.

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