Mathilda von Ebersburg

Family/Spouse: Rapoto IV von Cham. Rapoto (son of Diepold I von Amgstau) was born in 1032 in Cham, Oberpfalz, Bavaria; died about 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adelaide von Fratenhausen. Adelaide was born in 1057; died about 1109. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Utha von Sulzbach
• Birth: Abt 1065, of Passau, Germany

Utha married Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Istre II Engelbert before 1105 in Germany. II (son of Count of Lavanthal I Engelbert and Countess of Flinsbach Hedwig von Eppenstein) was born about 1065 in Karnten, Austria; died on 13 Apr 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mathilde (Maude)
• Birth: Abt 1097, of Karnten, Austria
• Death: 13 Dec 1160

Mathilde married Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois in 1123 in Blois, Loir-et-cher, France. Theobald (son of Count of Blois Stephen Henry II (Etienne Henri) "The Sage" and Adela (Adelle)) was born on 2 Apr 1093 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died on 8 Jan 1151/52; was buried on 10 Jan 1152. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adele married King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet on 18 Oct 1160. Louis (son of King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet and Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Notre Dame de Barbeau, Fontainebleau, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Theobald married Alix Capet in 1164. Alix (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born in 1151; died in 1197/98. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of France Marie Capet. Marie (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born in 1145; died on 11 Mar 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Duke of Burgundy II Eudes about 1145 in Burgundy, France. II (son of Duke of Burgundy Hugh II "the Peaceful" and Maud de Turenne) was born in 1118 in Burgundy, France; died on 27 Sep 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Isabella d'Hainaut on 28 Apr 1180 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 5 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, Paris, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thibault married Queen of Navarre Blanche on 1 Jul 1199. Blanche (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1180 in Navarre, Spain; died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Marie married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut VI on 6 Jun 1186. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 11 Jul 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 11 Jun 1205 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Family/Spouse: Isabella d'Anjou. Isabella (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Maria Comnena) was born in 1172; died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Duchess of Bourgogne Beatrix de Viennois about 1183 in Savoy, France. Beatrix was born in 1161 in France; died on 15 Dec 1228 in Chateau de Vizil, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Lorraine Alix about 1165 in Lorraine, France. Alix (daughter of Duke of Lorraine I Matthias and Bertha von Hohenstaufen) was born about 1144 in Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married of Castile Blanche on 23 May 1200 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of King of Castile VIII Alfonso and Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet) was born on 4 Mar 1187/88 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; died on 30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louver, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Between 1191 and 1280, Flanders and the neighboring region of Hainaut were ruled as a united countship. In 1280, following the death of Margaret of Flanders, the union was dissolved. Margaret's son, Guy de Dampierre, succeeded to the countship of Flanders, and her grandson, John II of Avesnes, became count of Hainaut. In the early 14th century, Flanders was invaded and subjugated by King Philip IV of France. Although the countship was acknowledged nominally, France became the real ruler of Flanders. In 1369 Bourgogne acquired Flanders through the marriage of Philip the Bold, duke of Bourgogne, to Margaret of Flanders, daughter of Louis II, count of Flanders. The history of Flanders as an independent state ceased that year. In 1477 Flanders passed to the house of Habsburg.

Margaret married Bouchard d'Avesnes, Lord of Avesnes and Étrœungt IV before 23 Jul 1212, and was divorced in 1221. Bouchard (son of Jacques d'Avesnes, Seigneur de Avensnes and Adela de Guise) was born in 1182 in Avesnes, Pas-De-Calais, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France; died on 7 Sep 1244 in Rupelmonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried in Arlon, Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Alice de Vergy about 1199 in France. Alice was born about 1178 in France; died on 3 Mar 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Princess of Portugal Tereza Affonsez in Feb 1194 in Coimbra, Portugal. Tereza was born in 1157 in of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; died on 12 May 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Matilde de Brabant on 14 Jun 1237. Matilde (daughter of Duke of Brabant II Henry and Marie von Hohenstaufen) was born in 1224 in Brabant, France; died on 29 Sep 1288 in Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Marguerite Berenguer in 1234 in Sens, Yvonne, France. Marguerite (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born about 1221 in St Maime, Alpes, France; died on 21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beatrice Berenguer. Beatrice (daughter of Count of Provence Ramon IV Berenguer and Beatrice de Savoy) was born in 1234 in Provence, France; died on 12 Jul 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married of Artois Blanche Capet in 1269. Blanche (daughter of Count of Artois Robert I Capet and Matilde de Brabant) was born in 1248 in Arras, Hautes-Pyrenees, Midi-Pyrenees, France; died on 2 May 1302 in Hotel Crequy, Paris, Ile-De-France, France; was buried in Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Aleida Van Holland on 9 Oct 1246. Aleida (daughter of Floris Van Holland Count of Holland, IV and Mathilde de Brabant) was born in 1230 in 's-Hertogenbosch, S-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; died on 9 Apr 1283 in Valenciennes, Pas-De-Calais, France; was buried in Flines-lez-Rachedu, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IV married Yolande de Dreux in 1229 in Burgundy, France. Yolande (daughter of Robert III de Dreux and Leonore de St. Valery) was born about 1212 in France; died on 30 Oct 1248 in Citeaux, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married King of Navarre Henry I "The Fat" in 1269. Henry (son of King of Navarre Thibault V (Theobald)) was born about 1244 in Troyes, Aube, France; died on 22 Jul 1274 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster before 3 Feb 1275/76 in Paris, Seine, France. Edmund (son of King of England Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanor Berenguer) was born on 16 Jan 1245 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 5 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France; was buried on 15 Jul 1296 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married of Aragon Isabelle de Aragon on 28 May 1262 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-et-Dome, France. Isabelle (daughter of King of Aragon Jaime I "The Conqueror" and of Hungary Violant) was born in 1247 in Montpellier, Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died on 28 Jan 1271 in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy; was buried in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married of Brabant Maria (Mary) in 1274. Maria (daughter of Duke of Brabant III Henry and of Bourgogne Alix) was born in 1260 in Louvain, Brabrant, Belgium; died on 12 Jun 1321 in Murel, France; was buried in Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Princess of Hungary Maria (Mary) Arpad about 1270. Maria (daughter of King of Hungary Stephen (Istvan), V and Princess of Cumania Elizabeth (Erzsebet)) was born in 1257 in Budapest, Hungary; died on 25 Mar 1323. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeanne married Philip IV "The Fair" Capet, King of France in 1284. Philip (son of King of France Philip III "The Bold" Capet and of Aragon Isabelle de Aragon) was born on 28 May 1268 in Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Departement de Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Philippa Luxembourg in 1270 in Luxembourg. Philippa (daughter of Henry V Luxembourg and Margaret Bar) was born in 1252 in Luxembourg; died on 6 Apr 1311 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Duke of Brabant III Henry about 1250 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. III (son of Duke of Brabant II Henry and Marie von Hohenstaufen) was born about 1226 in Brabant, Louvain, France; died on 28 Feb 1261. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jeanne married Philip IV "The Fair" Capet, King of France in 1284. Philip (son of King of France Philip III "The Bold" Capet and of Aragon Isabelle de Aragon) was born on 28 May 1268 in Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Departement de Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 - March 22, 1322) was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Edward II of England. Thomas was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois. His paternal grandparents were Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. His maternal grandparents were Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant. Matilda was a daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant. From his father Thomas inherited the Earldoms of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby. By his marriage to Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, he became Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Salisbury and the 11th Baron of Halton upon the death of his father-in-law in 1311. Master of five earldoms, he was one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in England. He served in the coronation of his cousin, King Edward II of England, on February 25, 1308, carrying Curtana, the sword of St Edward the Confessor. At the beginning of the king's reign, Lancaster openly supported Edward, but as the conflict between the king and the nobles wore on, Lancaster's allegiances changed. He despised the royal favourite, Piers Gaveston, who mocked him as "the Fiddler", and swore revenge when Gaveston demanded that the king dismiss one of Lancaster's retainers. Lancaster was one of the Lords Ordainers who demanded the banishment of Gaveston and the establishment of a baronial oligarchy. His private army helped separate the king and Gaveston, and Lancaster was one of the "judges" who convicted Gaveston and saw him executed. His marriage to Alice de Lacy was not successful. They had no children, though he had two illegitimate sons. In 1317 she was abducted from her manor at Canford, Dorset by Richard de St Martin, a knight in the service of John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey. This incident caused a feud between Lancaster and Surrey; Lancaster divorced his wife and seized two of Surrey's castles in retaliation. King Edward then intervened, and the two earls came to an uneasy truce. Although divorced from his wife, he continued to hold the powerful earldoms of Lincoln and Salisbury. This was due to the marriage contract the two families had agreed, in effect upon the death of his father-in-law, Earl Thomas held these earldoms in his own right, not in right of his wife. Coats of Arms of Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, and his successors.After the disaster at Bannockburn in 1314, Edward submitted to Lancaster, who in effect became ruler of England. He attempted to govern for the next four years, but was unable to keep order or prevent the Scots from raiding and retaking territory in the North. In 1318 a new faction of barons arose, and Lancaster was deposed from office. Pontefract Castle, Lancaster's favourite residence.The new leadership, eventually headed by Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh the younger Despenser, proved no more popular with the baronage, and in 1321 Lancaster was again at the head of a rebellion. This time, however, he was defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and taken prisoner. He was tried by a tribunal consisting of, among others, the two Despensers, Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, and King Edward. Lancaster was not allowed to speak in his own defence, nor was he allowed to have anyone to speak for him. Because of their kinship and Lancaster's royal blood, the king commuted the sentence to mere beheading (as opposed to being drawn, quartered, and beheaded) and Lancaster was convicted of treason and executed near Pontefract Castle. Upon his death his titles and estates were forfeited, but in 1323 his younger brother Henry successfully petitioned to take possession of the Earldom of Leicester. In 1326 or 1327 Parliament posthumously reversed Thomas's conviction, and Henry was further permitted to take possession of the Earldoms of Lancaster, Derby, Salisbury and Lincoln. Thomas became venerated as a martyr and saint within a few months of his death. Hagiographies were written about him, and Edward III wrote three times to the Pope requesting his canonisation. He was never canonised, though rumours to that effect arose in the 1390s, when his cult experienced something of a revival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Died:
Beheaded

Thomas married Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln in 1294, and was divorced in 1319. Alice (daughter of Henry de Lacy and Margaret Longespee, Countess of Salisbury) was born on 25 Dec 1281 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England; died on 2 Oct 1348 in Barlings Abbey, Birling, Kent, England; was buried in Barlings, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Princess of Sicily Margaret d'Anjou. Margaret (daughter of King of Naples Charles II "The Lame" d'Anjou and Princess of Hungary Maria (Mary) Arpad) was born in 1273 in Sicily; died on 31 Dec 1299; was buried in Jacobins, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Matilda de Châtillon. Matilda died on 3 Oct 1358. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Queen of Navarre Jeanne I de Navarre in 1284. Jeanne (daughter of King of Navarre Henry I "The Fat" and of Artois Blanche Capet) was born on 14 Jan 1273 in Bar-sur-Seine, l'Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 4 Apr 1305 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marguerite married Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England on 10 Sep 1299. Edward (son of King of England Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanor Berenguer) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Northumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Duke of Anjou Charles III de Valois. Charles (son of King of France Philip III "The Bold" Capet and of Aragon Isabelle de Aragon) was born on 12 Mar 1270 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 15 Dec 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married King of England Edward Plantagenet, King of England II on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales; died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in St Peter's Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Maria married King of France Philip III "The Bold" Capet in 1274. Philip (son of King of France Louis IX "St. Louis" Capet and Marguerite Berenguer) was born on 1 May 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, Ile-De-France, France; died on 5 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; was buried in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married King of England Edward Plantagenet, King of England II on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Eleanor "of Castile", Countess de Ponthieu) was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales; died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in St Peter's Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married 3rd Earl of Ulster William "The Brown" de Burgh on 1 May 1327 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Northern Ireland. William (son of John de Burgh and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 13 Sep 1312 in Ulster, Ulster, Ireland; died on 6 Jun 1333 in Le Ford, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married 3rd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray about 28 Feb 1326/27. John (son of 2nd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray and Aline de Braose) was born on 29 Nov 1310 in Hovingham, Malton, North Ride, Yorkshire, England; died on 4 Oct 1361 in York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Percy

Family/Spouse: Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy. Henry (son of 2nd Baron Percy Henry de Percy and Lady Alnwick Idonea de Clifford) was born in 1320 in Seamer, North Riding, Yorkshire, England; died about 18 May 1368 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; was buried in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1318, Arundel, Sussex, England

Notes:

Died:
Age: 54

Eleanor married John de Beaumont on 23 Aug 1337 in Marr, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) was born about 1318 in Falkenham, Suffolk, England; died on 14 Apr 1342 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; was buried in Lewes, East Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married 10th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Buckingham. Richard (son of Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Isabel de Beaumont about 1335. Isabel (daughter of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) was born in 1298/1322; died in 1361 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Jeanne married William I "The Good" d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut on 29 May 1305 in Chanay, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France. William (son of John d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut Holland and Zeeland II and Philippa Luxembourg) was born on 1 Nov 1286 in Avesnes, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France; died on 7 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Duke of Bourbonnais Peter I de Bourbon on 25 Jan 1336. Peter was born in 1311; died on 19 Sep 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Alice de Hales about 1316. Alice died in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edmund held the castle of Arundel, after the execution and forfeiture of the 7th Earl, from 1327 until his own execution in 1330, but does not himself appear to have been styled Earl of Arundel.

Edmund was beheaded for conspiring to rescue King Edward II from prison. He had to wait five hours for an executioner, because nobody wanted to do it.

Edmund married Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell on 13 Dec 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England. Margaret (daughter of 1st Baron Wake of Lydell John) was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Liddel, Chamberlain, England; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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)

Philippa married Edward Plantagenet, King of England III on 24 Jan 1327 in York Minster, Deangate, Yorkshire, England. Edward (son of King of England Edward Plantagenet, King of England II and Isabella Capet) was born on 13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 21 Jun 1377 in Shene Palace On-The-Thames, Richmond, Surrey, England; was buried in Westminster Palace, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marguerite married Edward "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England on 10 Sep 1299. Edward (son of King of England Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanor Berenguer) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Northumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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]

Elizabeth married Lionel "of Antwerp" Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence on 15 Aug 1342 in Tower of London, London, England. Lionel (son of Edward Plantagenet, King of England III and of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes) was born on 29 Nov 1338 in Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium; died on 17 Oct 1368 in Alba, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave in 1349. Elizabeth (daughter of John de Seagrave, 4th Baron Segrave and Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk) was born on 25 Oct 1338; died before 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry de Percy, 4th Lord Percy, of Alnwick, a distinguished military commander in the reign of Edward III, who, assisting as marshal of England at the coronation of King Richard II, was advanced on the same day, 6 July, 1377, to the Earldom of Northumberland, with remainder to his heirs generally, and, like a barony in fee, transmissible, it would appear, to female as well as male heirs. He m. 1st, 1358, Margaret, dau. of Ralph, Lord Nevil, Ro Raby, and had issue. Henry, Thomas, Ralph, Alan, and Margaret. The earl m. 2ndly, Maud, sister and heir of Anthony, Lord Lucy, which Anthony settled upon his lordship and his heirs, the honour and castle of Cockermouth with other great estates, on condition that her arms should be forever quarterd with those of the Percys. In the 7th year of Richard II [1384], the earl having been elected one of the knights of the Garter, the king bestowed upon him the robes of the order out of the royal wardrobe. In some years afterwards, however, being proclaimed a traitor, and his land declared forfeited by King Richard, his lordship, in conjunction with his son, Sir Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, and Henry, Duke of Lancaster, accomplished the dethronement of that monarch and placed the crown upon the head of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, under the title of Henry IV. In requital, the king gave Percy the Isle of Man, by the tenure of carrying in the left hand the sword (which he wore when he landed in Holderness) at the coronation of himself and his successors. Against dissatisfied with the governemnt, the ducke is charged with concerting the rebellion, in which his son, Hotspur, and his brother, the Earl of Worcester, engaged, in 1403, for transferring the sceptre to Mortimer, Earl of March, then a boy. Of these two eminent persons, Sir Henry Percy, the renowned Hotspur, fell performing prodigies of valour, at Battle-field, near Shrewsbury, 21 July, 1403, and Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, was beheaded after the battle at Shrewsbury. The Earl of Northumberland fell subsequently (29 February, 1407-8), in arms against the king, at Bramham Moor, nearl Haslewood, when his honour became forfeited under an attainder, but were restored, in 1414, to his grandson (Hotspur's only son), Henry de Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 423-4, Percy, Barons Percy, Earls of Northumberland, &c.]

Buried:
Alnwick Abbey

Henry married Margaret Neville on 12 Jul 1358 in Brancepeth, Durham, England. Margaret (daughter of Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice d'Audley) was born on 12 Feb 1339 in Raby, Durham, England; died on 12 May 1372 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; was buried in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Maud de Lucy on 3 Oct 1383. Maud was born before 1359; died on 18 Dec 1398. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert Aton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1377 he was Admiral of the West and South, and in 1386 Admiral of all England. In this capacity he defeated a combined Franco-Spanish-Flemish fleet off of Margate in 1387. The following year he was one of the Lords Appellant to Richard II.

In 1397 he was arrested for his opposition to Richard II, and then attainted and beheaded.

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Richard married Elizabeth de Bohun about 1359. Elizabeth (daughter of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere) was born in 1330/1348; died on 3 Apr 1385. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philippa Mortimer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Maltravers. Eleanor was born about 1345; died on 12 Jan 1405. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford on 9 Sep 1359 in Norfolk, England. Humphrey (son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere) was born on 24 Mar 1341 in Caldecot, Northamptonshire, England; died on 16 Jan 1372 in Pleshy Castle, Essex, England; was buried in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. Thomas (son of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan Plantagenet, 4th Countess of Kent) was born in 1350 in Upholand, Lancashire, England; died on 25 Apr 1397 in Woodstock, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married John "of Gaunt" Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster on 19 May 1359 in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. John (son of Edward Plantagenet, King of England III and of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes) was born on 6 Mar 1340 in St Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium; died on 3 Feb 1399 in Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 15 Mar 1399 in St. Pauls Cathedral, London, London, 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)

Philippa married Edward Plantagenet, King of England III on 24 Jan 1327 in York Minster, Deangate, Yorkshire, England. Edward (son of King of England Edward Plantagenet, King of England II and Isabella Capet) was born on 13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 21 Jun 1377 in Shene Palace On-The-Thames, Richmond, Surrey, England; was buried in Westminster Palace, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles V "The Wise" de Valois. Charles (son of John II "The Good" de Valois and of Luxemburg Bonne) was born on 21 Jan 1337 in Vincennes, France; died on 16 Sep 1380 in Vincennes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John de Seagrave, 4th Baron Segrave in 1337. John was born on 4 May 1315 in Norfolk, England; died on 1 Apr 1353. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Walter de Mauny, 1st Baron Manny before 30 May 1354. Walter was born about 1310; died on 15 Jan 1372 in Great Chesterford, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Joan "Fair Maid of Kent" Plantagenet

Notes:

Widow of Thomas de Holand and only daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, son of King Edward I.

Joan married Prince of Wales Edward "The Black Prince" Plantagenet on 10 Oct 1361 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Edward (son of Edward Plantagenet, King of England III and of Hainault Philippa d'Avesnes) was born on 15 Jun 1330 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England; died on 8 Jun 1376 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent in 1339 in Upholland, Lancashire, England. Thomas (son of Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand and Maud La Zouche) was born on 5 May 1314 in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 26 Dec 1360 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Montague, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. William (son of William Montague, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison) was born on 28 Jun 1328 in Donyatt, Somerset, England; died on 3 Jun 1397. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a Knight of the Order of the Garter. He was Prince of England, in 1342 he was Earl of Richmond, in 1361 he was Earl of Lancaster, and, in 1362 he was Earl of Derby, Earl of Leicester and Earl of Lincoln. Also he was Titular King of Castile and Leon and Duke of Aquitane. In 1377, he became Earl Palatinate.

Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln, Duke of Aquitaine, Lord of Beaufort and Nogent, Rey de Castilla y Leon, Seigneur de Bergerac et Roche-sur-Yon, Knight of the Garter.

He virtually ran England during his Father's declining years. He was one of the wealthiest men in the realm. --- He had wealth and power over the lives of others of a type we find it hard to even imagine today. His progeny became rich and powerful in his train. Perhaps he mused that he would go down in History as Duke of Lancaster, honored, feared, magnificent and respected. And yet, because William Shakespeare [1564-1616], 200 years after the Duke of Lancaster's death --- writes a play called Richard II [1595-1596] and calls him John of Gaunt, an infant nickname that John enjoyed until the age of three, and not thereafter --- this sobriquet --- corrupted from his birthplace in Ghent, Flanders, Netherlands --- sticks to him forever. Ghent is now in Belgium. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Rey de Castilla y Leon has been dead for almost 600 years --- but Shakespeare's christening wins the historical palm and is the name he sleeps with for the eons. Scribblers are often powerful beyond belief. -- Spencer Hines

He was only able to marry her after Constanza's death, at which time her children by him were retro-actively legitimated. -- Brant Gibbard

The four original Beauforts were born to Katherine Roet Swynford and John of Gaunt while John's second wife was still alive. On her death in 1394 John married Katherine, and in 1397 Richard II, as a favour to John of Gaunt and in order to neutralize John's son Derby (later King Henry IV) legitimatized the children who had been born out of wedlock. Richard's Act of Parliament did not bar the Beauforts or their descendants from the throne. But Henry IV later wrote in, between the lines of the document, a clause excluding the Beauforts from the succession. This interlineation was, bluntly, a forgery of an Act of Parliament, and Henry VII's sccession confounded it. -- from Kings & Queens of England & Scotland (by Allen Andrews, Marshall Cavendish, London 1985)

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), English soldier and statesman, the fourth son of King Edward III of England, and brother of Edward, the Black Prince. John was born in March 1340 in Ghent (M.E., Gaunt), now in Belgium. In 1359 he married Blanche, daughter of Henry, duke of Lancaster; when Henry died, John became duke.

John of Gaunt played an important part in the wars of the period between England and France and between England and Spain. He commanded a division of the English army, led by the Black Prince, that defeated the army of Henry (later Henry II, king of Castile and Leon) at N jerera in 1367. As a result of his second marriage, to Constance, daughter of Peter the Cruel (king of Castile and Leon), John laid claim to the throne ofofof Castile. . During the Hundred Years' War, he aided (1370-1371) the Black Prince against France and established English rule over most of southern France. After a severe illness forced the return of the Black Prince to England, John took command of the English armies; by 1380 he had lost much of the territory the English had previously won. In 1386 John invaded Castile, but was defeated by John I, king of Castile and Leon. John of Gaunt gave up his claim to Castile and Leon in 1387, whe when his daughter married d Henry, later Henry III, king of Castile and Leon.

John of Gaunt was also prominent in English affairs. Together with Alice Perrers, his father's mistress, John dominated the English government. He was opposed by Parliament and by the Black Prince. In 1376 Parliament banished Alice Perrers and curtailed John's powers. The death of the Black Prince that year and the dissolution of Parliament, however, enabled John to regain his power. In 1377, on the death of Edward III and the accession of Richard II (John's nephew and son of the Black Prince), John gave up his control of the government and thereafter played the role of peacemaker; he also supported the king, by whom he was made (1390) duke of Aquitaine. In 1396, after the death of his second wife, John married his mistress Catherine Swynford, and Richard legitimized their children the following year. Saddened by the exile (1398) of his son, Henry of Lancaster (later King Henry IV of England), John died on February 3 of the following year.

Birth:
Abbaye De St Bavon, Ghent, Flandre Orientale, Belgium

John married Blanche "of Lancaster" Plantagenet on 19 May 1359 in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. Blanche (daughter of 1st Duke of Lancaster Henry "of Grosmont" Plantagenet and Isabel de Beaumont) was born on 25 Mar 1345 in Castle Grosmont, Grosmont, Monmouthshire, England; died on 12 Sep 1369 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Constance of Castile on 21 Sep 1371. Constance (daughter of King of Castile III Pedro and Maria Juana de Padilla) was born in 1354; died in Jun 1394. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Katherine de Roët on 13 Jan 1396 in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England. Katherine (daughter of Paon de Roët) was born on 25 Nov 1350 in Hainault, Belgium; died on 10 May 1403 in Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He distinguished himself as a military leader during the Hundred Years' War. During his lifetime he was called Edward of Woodstock; the name Black Prince was given him because of the black armor he wore. Parts of his armor still hang in Canterbury Cathedral.

Edward married Joan Plantagenet, 4th Countess of Kent on 10 Oct 1361 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Joan (daughter of Earl of Kent Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Kent and Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell) was born on 29 Sep 1326 in Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England; died on 7 Aug 1385 in Wallingford Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Enguerrand de Courcy, 1st Earl of Bedford VII on 27 Jul 1365 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Enguerrand (son of Ingelram de Coucy, VI and Katharina Habsburg) was born in 1343 in Coucy Le Chateau, Aisne, Picardie, France; died on 18 Feb 1397 in Bursa, Marmara, Anatolia, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

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]

Thomas married Eleanor de Bohun in 1376. Eleanor (daughter of 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford and Joan FitzAlan) was born in 1366 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died on 3 Oct 1399 in Minoresses' Convent, Aldgate, London, England; was buried in Westminster, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Alice de Hales about 1316. Alice died in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edmund held the castle of Arundel, after the execution and forfeiture of the 7th Earl, from 1327 until his own execution in 1330, but does not himself appear to have been styled Earl of Arundel.

Edmund was beheaded for conspiring to rescue King Edward II from prison. He had to wait five hours for an executioner, because nobody wanted to do it.

Edmund married Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell on 13 Dec 1325 in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, England. Margaret (daughter of 1st Baron Wake of Lydell John) was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Liddel, Chamberlain, England; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]