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ISABELLA OF HAINAUT (117o-1190)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISABELLA OF See also:HAINAUT (117o-1190)  , See also:queen of See also:France, was the (See also:laughter of See also:Baldwin V., See also:count of See also:Hainaut, and See also:Margaret, See also:sister of See also:Philip of See also:Alsace, and was See also:born in 1170 at See also:Lille . She was married to Philip See also:Augustus, and brought to him as her See also:dowry the See also:province of See also:Artois . She was crowned at St See also:Denis on the 29th of May 1180 . As Baldwin V. claimed to be a descendant of See also:Charlemagne, the chroniclers of the See also:time saw in this See also:marriage a See also:union of the Carolingian and Capetian dynasties . Though she received extravagant praise from certain See also:annalists, she failed to win the affections of Philip, who, in 1184, waging See also:war against See also:Flanders, was angered at seeing Baldwin support his enemies, and called a See also:council at See also:Sens for the purpose of repudiating her . See also:Robert, the See also:king's See also:uncle, successfully interposed . She died in childbirth in 119o, and was buried in the See also:church of Notre See also:Dame in See also:Paris . Her son became See also:Louis VIII. of France . See Cartellieri, L'Avenement de Phil . Aug." in Rev. hist . 262 et seq .

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