RAMON, Berenguer I

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Barcelona
• Name: the Crooked or the Hunchback

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Count of Barcelona

Family/Spouse: LA MARCHE, Almodis of. Almodis was born in 1020; died on 16 Oct 1071. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Historical Importance: Count of Barcelona
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Barcelona
• Name: the Towhead

Ramon married APULIA, Maud of in 1078. Maud (daughter of GUISCARD, Robert and SIKELGAITA) was born in 1060; died in 1112. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Barcelona

Ramon married DOUCE, I on 3 Feb 1112. I (daughter of Living and GERBERGA) was born in 1090; died in 1127. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen consort of León and Castile

Notes:

"She was a very beautiful and extremely graceful young girl who loved chastity and truth and all God-fearing people."

Family/Spouse: CASTILE, Alfonso VII of Leon and. Alfonso (son of BURGUNDY, Raymond of and LEÓN, Urraca of) was born on 1 Mar 1105; died on 21 Aug 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Barcelona

Family/Spouse: ARAGON, Petronilla of. Petronilla (daughter of ARAGON, Ramiro II of and AQUITAINE, Agnes of) was born on 29 Jun 1136 in Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 15 Oct 1173 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: called the Desired (el Deseado)
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1157 and 1158; King of Castile and Toledo

Notes:

Sancho was the eldest son of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile and Berengaria of Barcelona.[6] He was endowed with the "Kingdom of Nájera" in 1152, and according to Carolina Carl never appears in documents as "king of Nájera".[7] His father's will partitioned the kingdom between his two sons: Sancho inherited the kingdoms of Castile and Toledo, and Ferdinand inherited León.[8] The two brothers had just signed a treaty when Sancho suddenly died in the summer of 1158, being buried at Toledo.

Family/Spouse: NAVARRE, Blanche of. Blanche (daughter of NAVARRE, García Ramírez of and L'AIGLE, Margaret of) was born after 1133 in Laguardia, Alava, Pais Vasco, Spain; died on 12 Aug 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of León and Galicia

Family/Spouse: PORTUGAL, Urraca of. Urraca (daughter of PORTUGAL, Afonso I of and SAVOY, Matilda of) was born in 1148; died in 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: the Chaste or the Troubadour

Alfonso married CASTILE, Sancha of on 18 Jan 1174. Sancha (daughter of CASTILE, Alfonso VII of Leon and and POLAND, Richeza of) was born on 21 Sep 1154; died on 25 Apr 1196. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of the Navas (el de las Navas)
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 1158 and 1214; King of Castile and Toledo

Family/Spouse: ENGLAND, Eleanor of. Eleanor (daughter of HENRY, II and OF AQUITAINE, Duchess of Acquitaine Eleanor) was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 31 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of León and Galicia

Family/Spouse: CASTILE, Berengaria of. Berengaria (daughter of CASTILE, Alfonso VIII of and ENGLAND, Eleanor of) was born in 1179; died on 8 Nov 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona

Peter married MONTPELLIER, Maria of on 15 Jun 1204. Maria (daughter of MONTPELLIER, William VIII of and KOMNENE, Eudokia) was born in 1182; died on 12 Apr 1213 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Provence

Notes:

Died:
Alfonso II died in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, while accompanying his sister Constance to her wedding with Frederick II, Holy Roman Empero

II married SABRAN, Gersenda II of in 1193. Gersenda was born in 1180; died in 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: FRANCE, King of France King Louis VIII of. King (son of FRANCE, King of France King Philip II Augustus and OF HAINAUT, Isabelle) was born on 5 Sep 1187; died on 8 Nov 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of Castile and Toledo; Queen consort of Leon

Family/Spouse: LEON, Alfonso IX of. Alfonso (son of LEON, Ferdinand II of and PORTUGAL, Urraca of) was born on 15 Aug 1171; died on 24 Sep 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Between 31 Aug 1217 and 30 May 1252; King of Castile and Toledo

Family/Spouse: DAMMARTIN, Joan of. Joan was born in 1220; died on 16 Mar 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of Aragon
• Name: James I the Conqueror

Family/Spouse: HUNGARY, Violant of. Violant was born in 1215; died in 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Provence

Family/Spouse: SAVOY, Beatrice of. Beatrice was born in 1198; died in 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Robert the Good

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France
• Name: Saint Louis

Notes:

Louis IX commonly known as Saint Louis, was King of France, the ninth from the House of Capet, and is a canonized Catholic and Anglican saint.

Louis was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the death of his father Louis VIII the Lion, although his mother, Blanche of Castile, ruled the kingdom until he reached maturity. During Louis' childhood, Blanche dealt with the opposition of rebellious vassals and put an end to the Albigensian Crusade which had started 20 years earlier.

As an adult, Louis IX faced recurring conflicts with some of the most-powerful nobles, such as Hugh X of Lusignan and Peter of Dreux. Simultaneously, Henry III of England tried to restore his continental possessions, but was utterly defeated at the battle of Taillebourg. His reign saw the annexation of several provinces, notably Normandy, Maine and Provence.

Louis IX was a reformer and developed French royal justice, in which the king was the supreme judge to whom anyone could appeal to seek the amendment of a judgment. He banned trials by ordeal, tried to prevent the private wars that were plaguing the country, and introduced the presumption of innocence in criminal procedure. To enforce the application of this new legal system, Louis IX created provosts and bailiffs.

Following a vow he made after a serious illness and confirmed after a miraculous cure, Louis IX took an active part in the Seventh and Eighth Crusades. He died from dysentery during the latter crusade, and was succeeded by his son Philip III.

Louis's actions were inspired by Christian zeal and Catholic devotion. He decided to severely punish blasphemy (for which he set the punishment to mutilation of the tongue and lips),[1] gambling, interest-bearing loans and prostitution. He spent exorbitant sums on presumed relics of Christ, for which he built the Sainte-Chapelle, and he expanded the scope of the Inquisition and ordered the burning of Talmuds and other Jewish books. He is the only canonized king of France, and there are consequently many places named after him.

Died:
During his second crusade, Louis died of Dysentery

Family/Spouse: PROVENCE, Margaret of. Margaret was born in 1221; died on 20 Dec 1295. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: OF PROVENCE, Beatrice. Beatrice was born in 1229; died on 23 Sep 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Between 31 Aug 1217 and 30 May 1252; King of Castile and Toledo

Family/Spouse: DAMMARTIN, Joan of. Joan was born in 1220; died on 16 Mar 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of England

Notes:

First queen consort of Edward I of England, whom she married as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony.

The marriage was known to be particularly close, and Eleanor travelled extensively with her husband. She was with him on the Eighth Crusade, when he was wounded at Acre, but the popular story of her saving his life by sucking out the poison has long been discredited. When she died, near Lincoln, her husband famously ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on the journey to London, ending at Charing Cross.

Family/Spouse: ENGLAND, Edward I of. Edward (son of ENGLAND, Henry III and PROVENCE, Eleanor of) was born on 17 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of France

Family/Spouse: FRANCE, King of France Phillip III of. Phillip (son of FRANCE, Louis IX of and PROVENCE, Margaret of) was born on 30 Apr 1245 in Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; died on 5 Oct 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: The Damask Rose
• Books About: The Silken Rose
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of England
• Name: Ailenor

Notes:

Although Eleanor was completely devoted to her husband King Henry III, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

Family/Spouse: ENGLAND, Henry III. Henry (son of ENGLAND, King John of and ANGOULEME, Isabella of) was born on 1 Oct 1207; died on 16 Nov 1272. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: HENRY, I. I (son of NAVARRE, Theobald I of and BOURBON, Margaret of) was born in 1244; died on 22 Jul 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CROUCHBACK, Edmund. Edmund (son of ENGLAND, Henry III and PROVENCE, Eleanor of) was born on 16 Jan 1245 in London, England; died on 5 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France
• Name: King Philippe III of France
• Name: the Bold
• Birth: 1 May 1245
• Death: 1285

Family/Spouse: ARAGON, Isabella of. Isabella (daughter of ARAGON, James I of and HUNGARY, Violant of) was born in 1248; died on 28 Jan 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BRABANT, Maria of. Maria was born on 13 May 1254; died on 12 Jan 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: OF HUNGARY, Maria. Maria was born in 1257; died on 25 Mar 1323. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: Eleanor Of Castile: The Shadow Queen
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of England

Notes:

First queen consort of Edward I of England, whom she married as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony.

The marriage was known to be particularly close, and Eleanor travelled extensively with her husband. She was with him on the Eighth Crusade, when he was wounded at Acre, but the popular story of her saving his life by sucking out the poison has long been discredited. When she died, near Lincoln, her husband famously ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on the journey to London, ending at Charing Cross.

Family/Spouse: ENGLAND, Edward I of. Edward (son of ENGLAND, Henry III and PROVENCE, Eleanor of) was born on 17 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of England
• Name: Edward of Caernarfon

Notes:

Edward was an unusual character by medieval standards. Edward looked the part of a Plantagenet king to perfection. He was tall, athletic, and wildly popular at the beginning of his reign.[18] He rejected most of the traditional pursuits of a king for the period-jousting, hunting and warfare-and instead enjoyed music, poetry and many rural crafts.[19] Furthermore, there is the question of Edward's sexuality in a period when homosexuality of any sort was considered a serious crime, but there is no direct evidence of his sexual orientation. However, contemporary chroniclers made much of his close affinity with a succession of male favourites; some condemned Edward for loving them "beyond measure" and "uniquely", others explicitly referring to an "illicit and sinful union".

Edward married Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married FRANCE, Isabella of on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of FRANCE, Philip IV of and NAVARRE, Jeanne de) was born in 1295 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 22 Aug 1358. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: (Elizabeth Plantagenet), daughter of King Edward I of England

Family/Spouse: DE BOHUN, Humphrey. Humphrey (son of DE BOHUN, Humphrey VI and DE FIENNES, Maud) was born in 1276 in Pleshey, Essex, England; died on 16 Mar 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: Daughters of Edward I
• Royalty & Nobility: English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.
• Name: Plantagenet; Joan of Acre

Notes:

Joan of Acre (April 1272 - 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.[2] The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade.

Joan is most notable for the claim that miracles have allegedly taken place at her grave, and for the multiple references to her in literature.

Joan’s burial place has been the cause of some interest and debate. She is interred in the Augustinian priory at Clare, which had been founded by her first husband's ancestors and where many of them were also buried. Allegedly, in 1357, Joan’s daughter, Elizabeth De Burgh, claimed to have “inspected her mother's body and found the corpse to be intact”,[32] which in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church is an indication of sanctity. This claim was only recorded in a fifteenth-century chronicle, however, and its details are uncertain, especially the statement that her corpse was in such a state of preservation that "when her paps [breasts] were pressed with hands, they rose up again." Some sources further claim that miracles took place at Joan's tomb,[32] but no cause for her beatification or canonization has ever been introduced.

Joan of Acre makes an appearance in Virginia Henley's historical romance Infamous. In the book, Joan, known as Joanna, is described as a promiscuous young princess, vain, shallow and spoiled. In the novel she is only given one daughter, when she historically had eight children. There is no evidence that supports this picture of Joan.[33]

In The Love Knot by Vanessa Alexander, Joan of Acre is an important character. The author portrays a completely different view of the princess from the one in Henley’s novel. The Love Knot tells the story of the love affair between Ralph de Monthermer and Joan of Acre through the discovery of a series of letters the two had written to each other.[34]

Between historians and novelists, Joan has appeared in various texts as either an independent and spirited woman or a spoiled brat. In Lives of the Princesses of England by Mary Anne Everett Green, Joan is portrayed as a “giddy princess” and neglectful mother.[35] Many have agreed to this characterization; however, some authors think there is little evidence to support the assumption that Joan of Acre was a neglectful or uncaring mother

Joan married CLARE, Gilbert on 23 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Gilbert (son of CLARE, Richard and LACY, Maud) was born on 2 Sep 1242 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DE MONTHERMER, Ralph. Ralph was born in 1270; died on 5 Apr 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

Notes:

King Philip, known as "le Bel" (the Fair) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man; one contemporary described him as "neither a man nor a beast, but a statue"

Family/Spouse: NAVARRE, Jeanne de. Jeanne (daughter of HENRY, I and OF ARTOIS, Blanche) was born in 1273; died in 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
• Royalty & Nobility: King of England
• Name: Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots

Family/Spouse: FRANCE, Margaret of. Margaret (daughter of FRANCE, King of France Phillip III of and BRABANT, Maria of) was born in 1279; died in 1318. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: CASTILE, Queen Consort of England, Coronation date Eleanor of. Eleanor (daughter of CASTILE, Ferdinand III of and DAMMARTIN, Joan of) was born in 1241 in Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain; died on 28 Nov 1290. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: OF ARTOIS, Blanche. Blanche (daughter of ARTOIS, Robert I Count of and Living) was born in 1248; died on 2 May 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of France

Family/Spouse: FRANCE, Philip IV of. Philip (son of FRANCE, King of France Phillip III of and ARAGON, Isabella of) was born in 1268; died in 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Henry Plantagent

Notes:

Died:
buried Newark Abbey, Nottinghamshire

Family/Spouse: CHAWORTH, Maud. Maud (daughter of DE CHAWORTH, Patrick and DE BEAUCHAMP, Lady Isabella) was born on 2 Feb 1282; died on 3 Dec 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

Notes:

King Philip, known as "le Bel" (the Fair) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man; one contemporary described him as "neither a man nor a beast, but a statue"

Family/Spouse: NAVARRE, Jeanne de. Jeanne (daughter of HENRY, I and OF ARTOIS, Blanche) was born in 1273; died in 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen Consort of England

Family/Spouse: ENGLAND, Edward I of. Edward (son of ENGLAND, Henry III and PROVENCE, Eleanor of) was born on 17 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: OF VALOIS, Charles. Charles was born on 12 Mar 1270; died on 16 Dec 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of England
• Name: Edward of Caernarfon

Notes:

Edward was an unusual character by medieval standards. Edward looked the part of a Plantagenet king to perfection. He was tall, athletic, and wildly popular at the beginning of his reign.[18] He rejected most of the traditional pursuits of a king for the period-jousting, hunting and warfare-and instead enjoyed music, poetry and many rural crafts.[19] Furthermore, there is the question of Edward's sexuality in a period when homosexuality of any sort was considered a serious crime, but there is no direct evidence of his sexual orientation. However, contemporary chroniclers made much of his close affinity with a succession of male favourites; some condemned Edward for loving them "beyond measure" and "uniquely", others explicitly referring to an "illicit and sinful union".

Edward married Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married FRANCE, Isabella of on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of FRANCE, Philip IV of and NAVARRE, Jeanne de) was born in 1295 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 22 Aug 1358. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: (Elizabeth Plantagenet), daughter of King Edward I of England

Family/Spouse: DE BOHUN, Humphrey. Humphrey (son of DE BOHUN, Humphrey VI and DE FIENNES, Maud) was born in 1276 in Pleshey, Essex, England; died on 16 Mar 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Books About: Daughters of Edward I
• Royalty & Nobility: English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.
• Name: Plantagenet; Joan of Acre

Notes:

Joan of Acre (April 1272 - 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile.[2] The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade.

Joan is most notable for the claim that miracles have allegedly taken place at her grave, and for the multiple references to her in literature.

Joan’s burial place has been the cause of some interest and debate. She is interred in the Augustinian priory at Clare, which had been founded by her first husband's ancestors and where many of them were also buried. Allegedly, in 1357, Joan’s daughter, Elizabeth De Burgh, claimed to have “inspected her mother's body and found the corpse to be intact”,[32] which in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church is an indication of sanctity. This claim was only recorded in a fifteenth-century chronicle, however, and its details are uncertain, especially the statement that her corpse was in such a state of preservation that "when her paps [breasts] were pressed with hands, they rose up again." Some sources further claim that miracles took place at Joan's tomb,[32] but no cause for her beatification or canonization has ever been introduced.

Joan of Acre makes an appearance in Virginia Henley's historical romance Infamous. In the book, Joan, known as Joanna, is described as a promiscuous young princess, vain, shallow and spoiled. In the novel she is only given one daughter, when she historically had eight children. There is no evidence that supports this picture of Joan.[33]

In The Love Knot by Vanessa Alexander, Joan of Acre is an important character. The author portrays a completely different view of the princess from the one in Henley’s novel. The Love Knot tells the story of the love affair between Ralph de Monthermer and Joan of Acre through the discovery of a series of letters the two had written to each other.[34]

Between historians and novelists, Joan has appeared in various texts as either an independent and spirited woman or a spoiled brat. In Lives of the Princesses of England by Mary Anne Everett Green, Joan is portrayed as a “giddy princess” and neglectful mother.[35] Many have agreed to this characterization; however, some authors think there is little evidence to support the assumption that Joan of Acre was a neglectful or uncaring mother

Joan married CLARE, Gilbert on 23 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Gilbert (son of CLARE, Richard and LACY, Maud) was born on 2 Sep 1242 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DE MONTHERMER, Ralph. Ralph was born in 1270; died on 5 Apr 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of England

Notes:

King Edward III is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His long reign of fifty years was the second longest in medieval England and saw vital developments in legislation and government-in particular the evolution of the English parliament-as well as the ravages of the Black Death.

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

Family/Spouse: HAINAULT, Philippa of. Philippa (daughter of WILLIAM, Count of Hainaut I and OF VALOIS, Countess of Hainaut Joan) was born on 24 Jun 1315; died on 15 Aug 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Cornwall

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: English princess and the duchess of Guelders

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of Scotland

Joan married SCOTLAND, David II of on 17 Jul 1328. David (son of BRUCE, Robert the) was born on 5 Mar 1324; died on 22 Feb 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BUTLER, 1st Earl of Ormond James. James was born on 7 Oct 1304 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland; died on 6 Jan 1338 in Gowran Grange, Kildare, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall
• Name: de Clare, Gaveston

Notes:

Margaret de Clare, countess of Gloucester, was the second daughter of Gilbert de Clare and his wife, Joan of Acre. [1] She was reportedly 22 years old at the time of death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314.

She was married first to Piers Gaveston, Knight, Earl of Cornwall, on 1 November 1307 [2] at Berkhamsted. They had one daughter, Joan, [3] who was born on 12 January 1312 in York (she died on 13 January 1325). Piers was executed (beheaded) 19 June 1312, [4] and in September the king endowed the widowed Margaret de Clare with lands valued at 2000 marks per annum.

In 1314, Margaret was co-heiress to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knight, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the Castle, borough, and lordship of Newport, and manors of Wentlloog and Machen, Monmouthshire, the Castle and manor of Tonbridge, Kent, and manors in many other counties, including Chipping Ongar, Essex, Campden and Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Naseby, Rothwell, and Whiston, Northamptonshire, Rotherhithe, Surrey, etc. [5]

King Edward II was Margaret's uncle. [6]On 28 April 1317, at King's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England, she married her second husband, Hugh Audley the younger. [7] Margaret predeceased her husband, dying on 9 April 1342. [8] At the time of her death she still held several manors in Devon and Newport in Essex as dower lands from her marriage to Gaveston. Her heir was her daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph Stafford, first earl of Stafford, said at the time of her mother's death to be aged, variously, eighteen or twenty years and more.

Margaret was buried at Queenhithe, London.[9] Wealth at death: 2000 marks p.a. in jointure with Hugh Audley; share of Clare lands; £1500 p.a. The burial location referred to by Richardson in both Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry is actually St. Michael Queenhithe, a church in the City of London in what is now Upper Thomas Street. First recorded in the 12th century, the church was destroyed during the Great London Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by famed 17th century architect Sir Christopher Wren, the church was demolished in 1876.

Margaret married AUDLEY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley Hugh on 28 Apr 1317 in King's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Hugh (son of DE AUDLEY, Hugh and LE ROUS, Isolde) was born in 1289 in Oxfordshire, England; died on 10 Nov 1347 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married GAVESTON, 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers on 1 Nov 1307. Piers was born in 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Baron Monthermer

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Queen Isabella was notable at the time for her beauty, diplomatic skills, and intelligence.
• Misc: Described by Geoffrey of Paris as "the beauty of beauties... in the kingdom if not in all Europe."
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of England
• Name: She-Wolf of France; Isabella the Fair
• Residence: 1307, England; Isabella arrived in England at the age of 12[2] during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions.

Notes:

Isabella was slender and pale-skinned, although the fashion at the time was for blonde, slightly full-faced women, and Isabella may well have followed this stereotype instead.[14] Throughout her career, Isabella was noted as charming and diplomatic, with a particular skill at convincing people to follow her courses of action.[15] Unusual for the medieval period, contemporaries also commented on her high intelligence.[16]

Isabella married ENGLAND, Edward II of on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of ENGLAND, Edward I of and CASTILE, Queen Consort of England, Coronation date Eleanor of, son of ENGLAND, Edward I of) was born on 25 Apr 1284; died on 21 Sep 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Norfolk

Thomas married DE HALYS, Alice on 8 Jan 1326. Alice (daughter of Living and Living) died in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Kent

Notes:

Died:
executed for treason

Family/Spouse: WAKE, Margaret. Margaret (daughter of WAKE, John and Living) was born in 1297; died on 19 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Differentiator: Queen Isabella was notable at the time for her beauty, diplomatic skills, and intelligence.
• Misc: Described by Geoffrey of Paris as "the beauty of beauties... in the kingdom if not in all Europe."
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of England
• Name: She-Wolf of France; Isabella the Fair
• Residence: 1307, England; Isabella arrived in England at the age of 12[2] during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions.

Notes:

Isabella was slender and pale-skinned, although the fashion at the time was for blonde, slightly full-faced women, and Isabella may well have followed this stereotype instead.[14] Throughout her career, Isabella was noted as charming and diplomatic, with a particular skill at convincing people to follow her courses of action.[15] Unusual for the medieval period, contemporaries also commented on her high intelligence.[16]

Isabella married ENGLAND, Edward II of on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of ENGLAND, Edward I of and CASTILE, Queen Consort of England, Coronation date Eleanor of, son of ENGLAND, Edward I of) was born on 25 Apr 1284; died on 21 Sep 1327. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

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• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

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• Royalty & Nobility: King of France

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• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Arundel
• Name: Eleanor Plantagenet

Notes:

Eleanor died at Arundel and was buried at Lewes Priory in Lewes, Sussex, England. Her husband survived her by four years, and was buried beside her; in his will Richard requests to be buried "near to the tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster, my wife; and I desire that my tomb be no higher than hers, that no men at arms, horses, hearse, or other pomp, be used at my funeral, but only five torches...as was about the corpse of my wife, be allowed."

Eleanor married FITZALAN, Richard on 5 Feb 1345 in Ditton, Buckinghamshire, England. Richard (son of FITZALAN, Edmund and DE WARENNE, Alice) was born in 1313 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Joan Plantagenet

Family/Spouse: DE MOWBRAY, 3rd Baron Mowbray John. John (son of DE MOWBRAY, Sir John and DE BREWES, Aline) was born on 29 Nov 1310 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England; died on 4 Oct 1361 in York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Norfolk

Thomas married DE HALYS, Alice on 8 Jan 1326. Alice (daughter of Living and Living) died in 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Kent

Notes:

Died:
executed for treason

Family/Spouse: WAKE, Margaret. Margaret (daughter of WAKE, John and Living) was born in 1297; died on 19 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married WILLIAM, Count of Hainaut I on 19 May 1305. I (son of JOHN, II and LUXEMBOURG, Philippa of) was born in 1286; died on 7 Jun 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: King of England

Notes:

King Edward III is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His long reign of fifty years was the second longest in medieval England and saw vital developments in legislation and government-in particular the evolution of the English parliament-as well as the ravages of the Black Death.

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

Family/Spouse: HAINAULT, Philippa of. Philippa (daughter of WILLIAM, Count of Hainaut I and OF VALOIS, Countess of Hainaut Joan) was born on 24 Jun 1315; died on 15 Aug 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Earl of Cornwall

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• Royalty & Nobility: English princess and the duchess of Guelders

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• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of Scotland

Joan married SCOTLAND, David II of on 17 Jul 1328. David (son of BRUCE, Robert the) was born on 5 Mar 1324; died on 22 Feb 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BUTLER, 1st Earl of Ormond James. James was born on 7 Oct 1304 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland; died on 6 Jan 1338 in Gowran Grange, Kildare, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Gloucester, Countess of Cornwall
• Name: de Clare, Gaveston

Notes:

Margaret de Clare, countess of Gloucester, was the second daughter of Gilbert de Clare and his wife, Joan of Acre. [1] She was reportedly 22 years old at the time of death of her brother Gilbert at Bannockburn in 1314.

She was married first to Piers Gaveston, Knight, Earl of Cornwall, on 1 November 1307 [2] at Berkhamsted. They had one daughter, Joan, [3] who was born on 12 January 1312 in York (she died on 13 January 1325). Piers was executed (beheaded) 19 June 1312, [4] and in September the king endowed the widowed Margaret de Clare with lands valued at 2000 marks per annum.

In 1314, Margaret was co-heiress to her brother, Gilbert de Clare, Knight, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by which she inherited the Castle, borough, and lordship of Newport, and manors of Wentlloog and Machen, Monmouthshire, the Castle and manor of Tonbridge, Kent, and manors in many other counties, including Chipping Ongar, Essex, Campden and Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Naseby, Rothwell, and Whiston, Northamptonshire, Rotherhithe, Surrey, etc. [5]

King Edward II was Margaret's uncle. [6]On 28 April 1317, at King's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England, she married her second husband, Hugh Audley the younger. [7] Margaret predeceased her husband, dying on 9 April 1342. [8] At the time of her death she still held several manors in Devon and Newport in Essex as dower lands from her marriage to Gaveston. Her heir was her daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph Stafford, first earl of Stafford, said at the time of her mother's death to be aged, variously, eighteen or twenty years and more.

Margaret was buried at Queenhithe, London.[9] Wealth at death: 2000 marks p.a. in jointure with Hugh Audley; share of Clare lands; £1500 p.a. The burial location referred to by Richardson in both Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry is actually St. Michael Queenhithe, a church in the City of London in what is now Upper Thomas Street. First recorded in the 12th century, the church was destroyed during the Great London Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by famed 17th century architect Sir Christopher Wren, the church was demolished in 1876.

Margaret married AUDLEY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley Hugh on 28 Apr 1317 in King's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Hugh (son of DE AUDLEY, Hugh and LE ROUS, Isolde) was born in 1289 in Oxfordshire, England; died on 10 Nov 1347 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married GAVESTON, 1st Earl of Cornwall Piers on 1 Nov 1307. Piers was born in 1284; died on 19 Jun 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Baron Monthermer

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

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• Books About: The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaste
• Differentiator: Due to some generous land grants, John was one of the richest men in his era.
• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Duke of Lancaster

Notes:

Member of the House of Plantagenet, the third of five surviving sons of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault. He was called "John of Gaunt" because he was born in Ghent, then rendered in English as Gaunt. When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth. This story always drove him to fury.

John was the fourth son of King Edward III of England. His first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, was also his third cousin; both were great-great-grandchildren of King Henry III.

Family/Spouse: SWYNFORD, Catherine. Catherine (daughter of ROET, Paon de) was born in 1350; died on 10 May 1403. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: LANCASTER, Blanche of. Blanche was born on 25 Mar 1345; died on 12 Sep 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Duke of York

Family/Spouse: CASTILE, Isabella of. Isabella was born in 1355; died on 23 Dec 1392. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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• Differentiator: Granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
• Differentiator: Margaret was a great-granddaughter of King Edward I by his first consort, Eleanor of Castile
• Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford

Notes:

Ralph abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2,314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. Margaret de Audley and Stafford married before 6 July 1336 and they subsequently had two sons and four daughters:
Sir Ralph Stafford sensationally abducted Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley, daughter of Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Margaret de Clare, who was worth at least £2,314 a year, more than ten times his own estates. Her parents filed a complaint with King Edward III of England, but the King supported Stafford's actions. In compensation, the King appeased Hugh and Margaret by creating Hugh the 1st Earl of Gloucester. Margaret de Audley and Stafford married before 6 July 1336 and they subsequently had two sons and four daughters

Died:
Margaret (de Audley) de Stafford and her husband Ralph de Stafford were both buried at Tonbridge Priory (Priory of St. Mary Magdalene), Kent at the feet of parents.

Family/Spouse: DE STAFFORD, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford Ralph. Ralph (son of Living and Living, son of DE STAFFORD, Edmund and Living) was born on 24 Sep 1301; died on 31 Aug 1372 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: 3rd Baroness Monthermer

Family/Spouse: MONTAGU, John. John was born in 1330; died in 1390. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Royalty & Nobility: Duchess of Norfolk

Notes:

Margaret is a character in Georgette Heyer's last novel My Lord John, where she is portrayed sympathetically as a kindly though outwardly formidable old lady. She is saddened by the death of so many of her children and grandchildren, in particular the death by drowning of her infant son Thomas Mauny. In her last years she is shown as being gravely concerned for the future of England, due to the misrule of her grandnephew King Richard II.

Family/Spouse: DE SEGRAVE, 4th Baron Segrave John. John (son of Living and Living) was born on 4 May 1315; died on 1 Apr 1353. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Books About: A Triple Knot: A Novel
• Books About: The First Princess of Wales: A Novel
• Royalty & Nobility: 4th Countess of Kent and 5th Baroness Wake of Liddell
• Name: The Fair Maiden of Kent

Notes:

Although the French chronicler Jean Froissart called her "the most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving", the appellation "Fair Maid of Kent" does not appear to be contemporary.

Joan married HOLLAND, Thomas in secretly married the 12-year-old Joan of Kent, dau. Thomas (son of HOLLAND, Robert and LA ZOUCHE, Maud) was born in 1314; died on 26 Dec 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: PRINCE, Edward the Black. Edward died in 1367. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]