The death of Catherine's mother Isabella of Castile, however, meant that her "value" in the marriage market decreased.
When the boy-king Edward III came to the throne in 1327 he gave the manor to his mother Isabella.
Caught in the throes of the war between his father, Edward II, and mother Isabella, his growing years were turbulent.
He succeeded his mother Isabella, Countess of Foix.
Her mother Isabella was a granddaughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria.
A car bomb attack meant for Santi had supposedly killed Manuel II, along with his mother Isabella, but in truth, both had survived.
Brooks' father died only weeks before the outbreak of World War I, and his mother Isabella died eighteen months later, on Christmas Eve 1915.
Joanna's siblings and her mother Isabella bid her farewell.
After his father's death, George's mother Isabella and sister Eleanor moved into his home.
Her mother Isabella worked as a draper and had a shop on Colombo Street, Christchurch.