Gabrielle Cizeron

Gabrielle Cizeron was born a Lady of the Lone Islands. She was named a Lady of Hartsmoor after she left her abusive and cheating husband to live with her daughter and son-in-law.
=== Personality ===
Gabrielle was quiet, with a strong retort when provoked. She was kind and motherly to all of her daughters friends. She also helped her daughter raise her grandsons.
=== Biography ===
==== Early Life ====
Gabrielle Margot Cizeron was born on February 3rd, 966. She was the daughter of Baron Henri Cizeron and Baroness Renee Waldorf in the Lone Islands. She was also the 3rd of 6 daughters in her family. Her family had wealth, and an excess of daughters, so they arranged for her to marry the son of a lord in Archenland. On March 17th, 985 (at the age of 19), Gabrielle set out on a ship for Archenland. Alas, the ship hit heavy storms, was blown off course, and sunk off the coast of Narnia. Several passengers and crew were able to escape, including Gabrielle, and they washed ashore just north of the mouth of Glasswater Creek. The group attempted to navigate by land to Archenland, but got turned around in the unfamiliar territory. Unaccustomed to wintry conditions (being from the Lone Islands, where it does not snow), the group was ill dressed and ill prepared. Many died from exposure. Other misfortunes to befall the group included attacks by the White Witch’s Wolves, who were given free reign to attack humans who were moving in unaccounted locations; as well as infighting. By the middle of April, there were only a handful of them left. Half frozen and near starving, the group found themselves in the human settlement of Dancing Lawn. 
One of the people living in Dancing Lawn at that time was Handen Weil, a 26 year old merchant who was down on his luck after having gambled away much of his inherited worth. He saw an opportunity in young Lady Gabrielle. He convinced her that she would never make it to Archenland, and that she should marry him instead. Then, they would write to her parents, who would be so grateful to this man for saving their daughter that they would reward him monetarily. Her parents, worried about the hassle of retrieving Gabrielle from Dancing Lawn and knowing they had more daughters to make the match with the Lord in Archenland, agreed to the marriage. They sent along a dowry (though a much smaller one than what had been sent ahead of Gabrielle to Archenland), and on April 24th of 985, Gabrielle and Handen were married. 
==== Married Life ====
Handen, with some guidance from Gabrielle, got his business back on track. He generally did not fall back into the pit of gambling (though he also learned how to get better at that when he did find the occasion to). Instead, he became rather obsessed with legacy, and having a son to pass his business on to. Gabrielle becomes pregnant rather quickly, and carried her baby to term. But on March 4th of 986, her son, who she named Niall Henri, was delivered stillborn. Gabrielle was devastated, Handen seemed mildly irritated. He told her she was young, and that there would be others, so to move on. The following year, seemingly as a 21st birthday present for Gabrielle, she gave birth to her daughter, Eugenie Victoire, on February 24th. Handen was visibly disappointed that the baby was a girl, but told Gabriella that she was proof that a boy would follow.
Instead, Gabrielle would suffer miscarriages in both 988 and 989. Then, on January 31st of 991, she delivered a stillborn daughter 4 weeks before her due date. She named the baby Claude Isabelle and buried her beside her stillborn brother. Five years into her marriage and only 24 years old, Gabrielle began to despair that she would ever give her husband a son. Handen only ramped up the pressure. He begged her, threatened her, ignored her; all in equal measures.
On April 5th of 993, Gabrielle delivered a second healthy baby girl, named Madeleine Marie. Handen became quite angry, screaming at Gabrielle that the next baby had better be a boy, or else. He threatened to dump her and the girls in the woods, leave them for the wolves while he found himself a new wife that would give him heirs. Gabrielle spit back that the only things he had to pass on came from her, as he would be nothing without her. She would later state that it was the only time she ever thought Handen might actually strike her. Instead, he stalked out of the home and did not return for a week. She found herself quite disappointed when he returned home, as she had hoped some misfortune would befall him in his absence. 
A strained peace settled over the household, as Handen realized he didn’t have as much control over Gabrielle anymore. She was 26 years old now, and she had grown a backbone. But the peace came to an end early in 995, as sickness spread across Dancing Lawn. Both of the Weil daughters became severely ill. While eight year old Eugenie would recover, little Madeleine would not. On April 16th, just after her 2nd birthday, she died. Gabrielle was distraught, inconsolable. She didn’t eat, she barely slept. She ranted and raved about how everyone had abandoned her. Her parents, her children, her husband. Even Aslan had abandoned them, she screamed one night. Handen thought she was going mad, and begged her to come back. He promised her another baby, even a girl, if it would make her come back. Eventually, Gabrielle seemed to realize that she still had Eugenie to care for, and slowly came back to herself.
Handen would give Gabrielle one last baby, a little girl even. On July 2nd, 998, Gabrielle delivered her daughter, Jeanne Renee. But Jeanne was born too early, and only 24 hours after she joined the world, she left it again. After she had buried little Jeanne next to her sisters and brother, she went home and informed Handen that if she lost another child, she would lock all of them in the house and burn it to the ground. She and Handen moved into separate bedrooms that night.
Category:Married
Category:Females
Category:Narnians
Category:Islanders
Category:Members of House Hart
Category:Members of House Cizeron
Category:Ladies