2nd Duke of York Edward "of Norwich" Plantagenet

Edmund married Isabella Perez, Princess of Castile and Leon about 1 Mar 1372 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. Isabella (daughter of King of Castile III Pedro and Maria Juana de Padilla) was born in 1355 in Morales, Tordesillas, Spain; died on 23 Dec 1392 in Langley, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 20 Nov 1312

Edward married of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes on 24 Jan 1327 in York Minster, Deangate, Yorkshire, England. Philippa (daughter of William I "The Good" d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and Jeanne de Valois) was born on 24 Jun 1314 in Le Quesnoy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Philippa of Hainault

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Walter of Stapeldon was bishop of Exeter, and in 1319 served on an English diplomatic mission to the Low Countries to negotiate a naval agreement. As part of their responsibilities, the emissaries also visited Hainaut and gave Philippa the once-over. It is interesting that she was even then being considered as a possible future queen of England, nearly a full decade before Queen Isabella finally closed the negotiations.

A document from their trip gives a fairly full physical description of the young girl: she was well built, without any obvious deformity; good hair, neither light nor dark; neat head, with a somewhat bulbous forehead (considered a sign of beauty); her eyes were dark brown, almost black, and fairly close together (NOT a good sign). Her nose was all right, except the tip was a bit broad and the nostrils a tad large. The lips were full, especially the lower one. Her teeth were good, some whiter than others, and the lower row was noticeably irregular while the upper row protruded just a bit--not too much. Her skin was brownish, not the translucent white of a romance heroine. She resembled her father a good deal (a good sign as it suggested she was more masculine and might well have more sons than daughters), both parents were very fond of her, and all the courtiers of Hainaut thought well of her too, as far as the envoys were able to determine.

According to her mother, Philippa would have her ninth birthday at the next feast of the Nativity of St John Baptist (24 June), which puts her birth on or near that day in the year 1310. She was thus about two and one-half years older than her future husband, and would have been about 45 when she bore her last child Thomas in 1355. -- John Carmi Parsons (edited)

III married Maria Juana de Padilla. Maria was born about 1334 in Seville, Andalucia, Spain; died in Jul 1361 in Seville, Andalucia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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http://members.tripod.com/~midgley/edward2.html Edward was the first Prince of Wales. The Welsh after their defeat, complained that they wanted a prince who could speak Welsh. Edward I promised them that he would invest one "who could speak no other".... indeed Edward II was but a child who could not yet speak. This apparently remains a sore point between the English and Welsh even today. As a youth, Edward was extravagant and incompetent and kept unsavoury friends, he was probably homosocial. He was considered a weak king, liking athletic sports, like rowing as well as theatricals and manual crafts. Crowned on the 25th February 1308, Edward as a result of his perceived unsavoury lifestyle, the 'Lords Ordainers', a committeee of 21 led by Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lincoln, was established and drew up 41 articles known as the Ordinances of 1311 to try to control the king. By April 1308 parliament had met and forced Edward to agree to their wishes. Gaveston was sent to Ireland, Edward seeing him off at Bristol. Gaveston had been made a ward of Roger Mortimer in 1303 during the Welsh Wars, Gaveston's father having been a close compatriot of Edward I. Mortimer would have been all too aware of Gaveston's wayward influence on Edward. Edward became unpopular with the barons and in 1310 the aristocracy revolted against him. In 1309 Edward agreed to reforms but managed to achieve the return of Gaveston. Defeated by Robert de Bruce at Bannockburn in 1314 Edward placed England under baronial control.

Edward married Isabella Capet on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of Philip IV "The Fair" Capet, King of France and Queen of Navarre Jeanne I de Navarre) was born on 17 Mar 1292 in Paris, Île-De-France, France; died on 23 Aug 1358 in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Boulogne Cathedral

William married Jeanne de Valois on 29 May 1305 in Chanay, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France. Jeanne (daughter of Duke of Anjou Charles III de Valois and Princess of Sicily Margaret d'Anjou) was born about 1294 in Fontainebelau, Seine-et-Marne, France; died on 7 Mar 1342 in Fontenelle, Yonne, France; was buried in Maing, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 7 Mar 1342, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France