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Before 28th March 1133 [his father] William V Marquis of Montferrat (age 18) and [his mother] Judith of Babenburg (age 13) were married.
Aroound 1146 Conrad of Montferrat King of Jerusalem was born to [his father] William V Marquis of Montferrat (age 31) and [his mother] Judith of Babenburg (age 26).
In 1190 Conrad of Montferrat King of Jerusalem (age 44) and Isabella Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 18) were married; see Ralph of Coggeshall. The difference in their ages was 26 years. She the daughter of Almaric I King Jerusalem and Maria Komnenos Queen Jerusalem (age 36).
In 1190 [his sister-in-law] Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 30) died. Her half sister [his wife] Isabella (age 18) succeeded Queen Jerusalem.
In 1191 [his father] William V Marquis of Montferrat (age 76) died.
In 1191 [his mother] Judith of Babenburg (age 71) died.
On 28th April 1192 Conrad of Montferrat King of Jerusalem (age 46) died.
On 6th May 1192 Henry of Champagne (age 25) and [his former wife] Isabella Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 20) were married eight days after the assassination of her husband Conrad of Montferrat (deceased). She the daughter of Almaric I King Jerusalem and [his former mother-in-law] Maria Komnenos Queen Jerusalem (age 38). He the son of Henry Blois I Count Champagne and Marie Capet Countess Champagne (age 47). They were half third cousin twice removed. He a great x 2 grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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On 5th April 1205 [his former wife] Isabella Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 33) died.
Chronicum Anglicanum by Ralph Coggeshall. The wife1 of the marquis King Richard gave to his nephew Henry, count of Troyes, together with the kingdom of Jerusalem, for she was the heiress of the whole kingdom, her sister the queen being now dead, with King Guy of Lusignan gladly consenting to this arrangement for the sake of establishing peace. But the island of Cyprus, which he had taken from the emperor, he granted to King Guy, having received his homage.
Uxorem vero marchisii dedit rex Ricardus Henrico nepoti suo, comiti Trecensium, cum regno Hierosolymitano, utpote hæredem totius regni, sorore ejus regina jam defuncta, rege Guidone de Lezinan hoc ipsum pro pacis stabilitate libenter annuente. Insulam autem Cypri, quam ab imperatore obtinuerat, regi Guidoni concessit, accepto ejus homagio.
Note 1. Isabella Anjou Queen Jerusalem and Henry of Champagne were married eight days after her husband Conrad's murder. He, Henry, was a son of Henry I, Count of Champagne, and Marie of France, one of two daughters of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Chronicum Anglicanum by Ralph Coggeshall. After these things had been done, King Philip wished to hand over that city [Acre], and the other cities which were to be taken, to the marquis of Montferrat1, and to establish him as king in the land of Jerusalem, since he had married the younger daughter of King Amalric, whose sister, namely the queen, had already died. But King Richard altogether opposed this plan, asserting that it would be more just to restore the kingdom, long since despoiled, to King Guy, rather than to substitute another while he was still living, since it was clear that Guy had not lost the kingdom through cowardice or sloth, but in hard battle, when, because of the number of the enemy and the fewness of his own forces, he had been captured by the Saracens together with the Lord's Cross. This, indeed, is recognised as having been the seed of an inexorable discord between the aforesaid princes. Yet this discord had first sprouted earlier, at the city of Messina in Sicily, when King Richard had taken that city by armed force, and slain many, while King Philip was staying there, on account of the insults and vexations which the army of the king of France was inflicting on his own army.
His itaque gestis, voluit rex Philippus urbem illam, et reliquas quas capturi erant urbes, marchisio de Monteferrato tradere, eumque in terra Hierosolymitana regem constituere, eo quod juniorem filiam regis Amalarii duxisset in uxorem, sorore ejus, regina scilicet, jam defuncta. Cujus voluntati rex Ricardus prorsus obstitit; asserens justius fore regi Guidoni, regno jampridem spoliato, regnum suum restituere, quam alium, illo adhuc vivente, substituere, cum constaret hunc non per ignaviam vel socordiam regnum amisisse, sed in gravi belli certamine, ob inimicorum numerositatem ac sui exercitus paucitatem, simul cum cruce Dominica a Sarracenis fuisse captum. Quod nimirum inexorabilis discordiæ inter prædictos principes seminarium ibidem fuisse dinoscitur. Cum tamen hæc discordia primo apud Messanam Siciliæ civitatem inter eosdem pullulaverat, cum rex Ricardus eamdem urbem armata manu cepit, plurimosque prostravit, rege Philippo in ea commorante, ob convitia et vexationes quæ exercitus regis Francorum exercitui suo inferebat.
Note 1. Conrad of Montferrat King of Jerusalem had married Isabella following the death of her sister Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem in 1190 and so became, jure uxoris i.e. by right of his wife, King of Jerusalem. King Richard's plan to reinstate Guy had no basis in the laws of succession since Guy was King by right of his wife who had died.