![]() ![]() On her 17th birthday, Isabel was married to Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester, who was 20 years her senior, at Tewkesbury Abbey. Her sisters married, respectively, the Earls of Norfolk, Surrey, and Derby the Lord of Abergavenny and the Lord of Swanscombe. Her last brother to hold the title of Earl of Pembroke died without legitimate issue, and the title was passed down through the family of Isabel's younger sister Joan. She had 9 siblings: 4 sisters and 5 brothers, who included the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Earls of Pembroke each of her brothers dying without a legitimate male heir, thus passing the title on to the next brother in line. ![]() This means that she was a member of the Marshal Family. With the former, she was a great grandmother of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.īorn at Pembroke Castle, Isabel was the seventh child, and second daughter, of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare. ![]() She was the wife of both Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (son of King John of England). Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240) was a medieval English countess. Isabel de Clare, 3rd Countess of Pembroke ![]()
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