Alice OF COURTENAY

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  General Notes:

Alice, ruled the city of Angoulême until March 1203, when John summoned her to court and granted her a monthly pension of 50 livres d'Anjou in return for her dower rights. She thereafter retired from public life to her estate at La Ferté-Gaucher, where she was living as late as July 1215, when she issued a charter at Provins using the title Countess of Angoulême.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Clan: Capetian House of Courtenay,,.

2. Title of Nobility: Countess of Vexin,,. ¹²⁴³

3. Title of Nobility: Countess of Angoulême, in 1186,. ¹²⁴³

Alice married Aymer TAILLEFER Count of Angoulême, son of William VI TAILLEFER Count of Angoulême and Marguerite OF TURENNE, in 1186 in Angoulême, Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. (Aymer TAILLEFER Count of Angoulême was born on 23 August 1160 in Angoulême, Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France,¹²⁴² died on 16 June 1202 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France and was buried after 16 June 1202 in La Couronne, Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France ¹²⁴².)