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. The three were the only children of the first margrave Guy. In 1278, the year of her succession, Isabella was requested by her new lord,

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, to do homage to his new ''

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'' at Glarentsa. When the barons of the

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, of which the ruler of Bodonitsa was chiefest of twelve peers, refused to do homage to the ''bailli'' Galeran d'Ivry as

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, the primary reason was the absenteeism of their ''primus inter pares'', Isabella. Isabella was old at her accession and did not live long thereafter. She died childless and left open a succession dispute, which was eventually solved by the arbitration of William I of Athens, then acting bailiff of Achaea, in favour of her cousin

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. According to an unfounded conjecture by Karl Hopf, pp. 199–200. she was married to Anthony le Flamenc. She is possibly the

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