 1314 - 1369 (55 years)
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| Name |
Philippa d'Avesnes [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Title |
of Hainault |
| Birth |
24 Jun 1314 |
Le Quesnoy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France  [1, 2, 3, 5] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Name |
Philippa of Hainault [5] |
| Death |
15 Aug 1369 |
Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England [1, 2, 3, 5] |
| Burial |
Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England [1, 3] |
| Person ID |
I8491 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
William I "The Good" d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut, b. 1 Nov 1286, Avesnes, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 7 Jun 1337, Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 50 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Jeanne de Valois, b. Abt 1294, Fontainebelau, Seine-et-Marne, France d. 7 Mar 1342, Fontenelle, Yonne, France (Age 48 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
29 May 1305 |
Chanay, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France [3] |
| Family ID |
F3331 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Edward Plantagenet, King of England III, b. 13 Nov 1312, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England d. 21 Jun 1377, Shene Palace On-The-Thames, Richmond, Surrey, England (Age 64 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Jan 1327 |
York Minster, Deangate, Yorkshire, England [3, 4] |
| Children |
| | 1. John "of Gaunt" Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, b. 6 Mar 1340, St Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England (Age 58 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Prince of Wales Edward "The Black Prince" Plantagenet, b. 15 Jun 1330, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d. 8 Jun 1376, Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England (Age 45 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Isabella Plantagenet, b. 16 Jun 1332, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d. 4 May 1379, Grey Friars Newgate, Middlesex, England (Age 46 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Joan (Joanna) Plantagenet, b. Feb 1333, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d. 2 Sep 1348, Bayonne, Aquitaine, France (Age 15 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Lionel "of Antwerp" Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, b. 29 Nov 1338, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium d. 17 Oct 1368, Alba, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy (Age 29 years) [natural] |
| | 6. 1st Duke of York Edmund "of Langley" Plantagenet, Duke of York, b. 5 Jun 1341, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England d. 1 Aug 1402, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England (Age 61 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Thomas "of Woodstock" Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Gloucester 1st Earl of Buckingham 1st Earl of Essex, b. 7 Jan 1354, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d. 9 Sep 1397, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 43 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3321 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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 | Birth - 24 Jun 1314 - Le Quesnoy, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
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| 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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| Sources |
- [S230] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
- [S4] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
- [S40] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).
- [S91] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: The royal lineage of the Hamlins : being the branch of the Hamlin family descended through Mary Dunham, who was born 1642, probably at Plymouth, Mass., and married Nov. 20, 1662, James Hamlin, Jr. of Bartstable, Mass.
- [S235] Ancestry.com, Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data - Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. London, England: Oxf;).
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