Matilde de Brabant

Matilde married Count of Artois Robert I Capet on 14 Jun 1237. Robert (son of King of France Louis VIII "The Lion" Capet and of Castile Blanche) was born in Sep 1216; died on 9 Feb 1249/50. [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]

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]

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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]

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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]

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

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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]