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Why was King John’s marriage to Isabella of Gloucester dissolved?
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King John’s marriage to Isabella of Gloucester was dissolved in 1199 on the grounds of consanguinity. Both John and Isabella were great-grandchildren of Henry I, making them close relatives under the ecclesiastical laws of the time.1