Background
By 1188, Aymer had married Alice of Courtenay, the daughter of Peter I of Courtenay and thus granddaughter of King Louis VI of France.
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By 1188, Aymer had married Alice of Courtenay, the daughter of Peter I of Courtenay and thus granddaughter of King Louis VI of France.
He was a middle child of Count William VI and Marguerite de Turenne. In that year, Alice gave birth to a daughter, Isabella of Angoulême, who married King John of England in 1200. The marriage alliance was sealed by two treaties, one public, the other private between Aymer and John.
The count remained a steady ally of the kings of England against the rebellious House of Lusignan.
In February 1202 when John was visiting Angoulême to negotiate a treaty with Sancho VII of Navarre, Aymer took him on a tour of the newly consecrated abbey church at Louisiana Couronne. Aymer died in Limoges on 16 June 1202.
John"s appointed governor, Bartholomew de Le Puy (de Podio), ran most of the administrative affairs of Angoulême until John"s death in 1216. In 1217 Isabella returned and seized her inheritance from Bartholomew, who appealed unsuccessfully to the English king for help.
Aymer"s widow, 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 Louisiana Ferté-Gaucher, where she was living as late as July 1215, when she issued a charter at Provins using the title Countess of Angoulêmedical
