Phillipa Plantagenet

Phillipa married 3rd Earl of March Edmund "The Good" Mortimer on 15 Feb 1367 in Queen's Chapel, Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. Edmund (son of 2nd Earl of March Roger de Mortimer and Philippa de Montacute) was born on 1 Feb 1350 in Llangoed, Llyswen, Breconshire, Wales; died on 27 Dec 1381 in Dominican Friary, Cork, Ireland; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Mortimer was born on 12 Feb 1369 in Usk, Monmouthshire, England; died on 20 Apr 1417 in Trotton, Sussex, England.
2. 4th Earl of March Roger Mortimer was born on 11 Apr 1374; died on 20 Jul 1398 in Battle of Kells, Ireland.
3. Edmund Mortimer was born on 9 Nov 1376 in Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England; died about 1409 in Harlech Castle, Harlech, Merionteithshire, Wales.
4. Philippa Mortimer

Lionel married Elizabeth de Burgh on 15 Aug 1342 in Tower of London, London, England. Elizabeth (daughter of 3rd Earl of Ulster William "The Brown" de Burgh and Maud Plantagenet) was born on 6 Jul 1332 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Ireland; died on 10 Dec 1363 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; was buried in Clare, Suffolk, 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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Philippa of Hainault

Notes:

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)

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William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, b. 1312, s. his grandfather in 1326, was knighted at London, 1328, and sat in the parliament held in Dublin the following year. He was murdered 6 June, 1333, by Robert FitzRichard Mandeville and others. He m. Maud, 3rd dau. of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, and by her (who m. 2ndly, Sir Ralph de Ufford, lord justice of Ireland), had an only child, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 162, de Burgh, Earl of Ulster]

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William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left an only child and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who married Lionel Plantagenet, 3rd son of King Edward III. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

William married Maud Plantagenet on 1 May 1327 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Maud (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1298 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England; died on 5 May 1377 in Campsey Abbey, Suffolk, England. [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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Married:
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

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John de Burgh m. Elizabeth, 3rd dau. of Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester, by his 2nd wife, the Princess Joan, of Acre, and d. 1313, having had one son, William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 162, de Burgh, Earl of Ulster]

John married Elizabeth de Clare on 30 Sep 1308 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of 7th Earl of Hertford, 3rd Earl of Gloucester Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet) was born on 16 Sep 1295 in Tewkesbury, England; died on 4 Nov 1360; was buried in Convent of Minoresses, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare, (c. 1294-1360), foundress of Clare College, Cambridge, was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1295) by his second marriage to Edward I's daughter Joan of Acre (1271-1307). She was married first to John Burgh (d. 1313), heir to the earldom of Ulster, to whom she bore her only son William. Following the childless death of her only brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314, she became a great heiress and was abducted in 1316, probably with her consent, by Theobald Verdon, who died later the same year and to whom she bore a posthumous daughter Isabel. A daughter Elizabeth was born by her third marriage to Roger Damory, who died in 1321. Still only in her mid-twenties, with dowers from all three husbands and with an inheritance worth at least 2,000 a year, she was an obvious target both for marriage and for molestation by the Despensers, who defrauded her of her lordship of Usk. This was recovered after their overthrow and she did not marry again, taking a vow of chastity by 1344. At her death her inheritance descended to her granddaughter Elizabeth, wife of Edward III's son Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and thence passed to the Mortimers and house of York.

Elizabeth's widowhood is illuminated by the finest set of household accounts still surviving. These reveal that she lived in stately splendour at Clare in Suffolk, where she received a stream of visitors, including her kinsfolk Edward III and Queen Philippa. 250 people received her livery in 1343, many of them members of her household, and at least 3,000 a year and sometimes more was spent by her wardrobe and household. This was not because Elizabeth was extravagant; she ran her household and estates efficiently, obtained value for her money, and took a strong line with poachers. That 93 esquires took her livery indicates her role as a great local aristocrat, particularly in East Anglia, which also emerges from her religious patronage.

As an heiress, Elizabeth held estates in her own right, not for life, and could thus give generously to the Church without first saving up wealth, as her friend Mary of St Pol had to do. Already before her husbands' deaths, she had vowed to go on pilgrimage to Santiago and the Holy Land, a promise she was unable to fulfill, and from the early 1330s was giving property to Ely cathedral priory, Tremenhall and Anglesey priories, and West Dereham Abbey. Her attention was attracted by 1336 to the notoriously under-financed University Hall at Cambridge, which she was persuaded to take over as Clare Hall, to endow (1346), and for which she devised statutes in 1359. All this involved dealing tactfully but firmly with the university and unsatisfactory fellows. Clare College was the first college deliberately planned to include undergraduates. While Elizabeth's example may have prompted Mary of St Pol to found Pembroke College, certainly it was Mary who interested Elizabeth in the Franciscans. In 1343 Elizabeth gave a church to Mary's abbey of Franciscan nuns (Minoresses) at Denney, in 1347 she founded a Franciscan friary at the pilgrimage centre of Walsingham priory, from 1355 (like Mary) she was authorised to stay overnight in Minoress houses, and in 1360 her will asked for burial at the Aldgate house of Minoresses. Her influence helps explain the foundation of the final English house of Minoresses at Bruisyard by her granddaughter and her husband Clarence with nuns from Denney. [Michael Hicks, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd, London, 1991]

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Elizabeth m. 1st, John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had issue, William, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, and left a dau. and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, who m. Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, K.G., and had an only dau. and heiress, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edward Mortimer, Earl of March. Elizabeth, widow of John de Burgh, m. 2ndly, Theobald de Verdon, and 3rdly, Roger d'Amory; by the last she had two daus., Elizabeth, m. to John, Lord Bardolph, and Eleanor, m. to John de Raleigh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 120, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

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Elizabeth de Clare, the youngest sister of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, m. John de Burgh, son of Richard, Earl of Ulster, and through this alliance the honour of Clare came into the possession of the de Burghs. The heiress of Clare left a son, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, who m. Maud, sister of Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]

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Buried:
Newark Abbey

Died:
Age: 64

Henry married Maud de Chaworth before 2 Mar 1297. Maud (daughter of Lord of Kidwelly Patrick de Chaworth and Isabel Beauchamp) was born on 2 Feb 1282 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died on 19 Feb 1320 in Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire, England; was buried in Mottisfont Priory, Hamps, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]