Mahaut of Albon

Notes:

Also called Matilda.

Mahaut married Amadeo III in 1123. Amadeo (son of Umberto II of Savoy and Gisela of Burgundy) was born about 1095; died on 30 Aug 1148 in Cyprus; was buried in Church of St. Croix, Nicosia, Cyprus. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William I of Geneva. William (son of Amadeus I and Matilda of Cuiseaux) was born in 1130; died on 25 Jul 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alix Elise; Auxilie Alise.

Alix married Humbert III de Beaujeu about 1140. Humbert (son of Guichard III de Beaujeu and Lucienne de Rochefort-Montlhéry) was born in 1137; died in 1194. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Dec 1157, Coimbra, Portugal

Notes:

Also called Mahaut; Maud; Matilda; Mafalda de Saboia.

Mafalda married Affonso I Henriques, King of Portugal in 1146. Affonso (son of Henry of Burgundy and Teresa of León And Castile) was born on 15 Jul 1110; died on 6 Dec 1185 in Coimbra, Portugal; was buried in Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Humbert. Count of Savoy, Maurienne, and Turin.

From Tom Major's "Saint of the Day" site:

March 4 -- Feast of Blessed Umberto III of Savoy

Humbert Humbert is the creepy stepfather narrating Nabokov's Lolita. He has a thing for young girls--nymphets, he calls them.

Humbert III had an opposite problem. He had a monastic vocation. Christopher Cope's The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy says that he "was disconsolate at being a prince and preferred the seclusion of the monastery." Unfortunately for him, he was the only son of Amadeus, Duke of Savoy. When Amadeus died, the thirteen-year-old Umberto was plunked on the throne, like it or not, shut up and put your crown back on, Your Grace.

The primary responsibility of any landed nobleman in the feudal age was to have a son, of course. This would mean that inheritance was clear and no wars for succession would be fought. There's nothing wrong with young Faidiva of Toulouse, Your Grace. Now do your duty and get into bed. Sadly, poor Faidiva died young. Eighteen-year-old Umberto, having done his best, entered a Carthusian monastery.

Not so fast, your Grace. Blood will run through the streets of Cambrai if you don't come back and get married again. Here's lovely Gertrude of Flanders. I know you two will hit it off. Oh my, it's getting late. Off to bed with the two of you.

They didn't 'hit it off.' In fact, Umberto divorced her and locked her up. Bishop Robert kindly let her out and sent her back to her brother, the Count of Flanders, but still there was no heir.

Your Grace, we know you haven't had much joy in marriage. No, we're not suggesting anything. We just think it is worth trying again. Third times a charm, they say. And take a look at Clementia of Zahringen! She's the divorced wife of Henry the Lion of Saxony. Now, now. You're divorced yourself, you know. And besides, she's got a track record. A son and two daughters by Henry. Not another word about it, Your Grace. Now get busy.

Clementia made a valiant effort, bearing two daughters before her death. Despondent over the loss of another wife, Henry thought about withdrawing to a monastery in grief but wiser heads prevailed.

The way of all flesh, Your Grace. Speaking of which, you yourself are not getting any younger, you know. You turned forty this year, sir, and we still don't have an heir. Have you met Beatrice of Viennois? Yes, she's thirty-eight, but there's plenty of child-bearing time left. Well, not plenty, but enough. If Your Grace gets the lead out.

Tommaso of Savoy was born in 1178. Saint Anthelm himself had blessed Umberto three times to help bring young Thomas (named for Thomas á Becket) into the world. Tommaso was about ten when Umberto, having founded the Monastery of Sant'Antonio di Ranverso, died.

When I read about Humbert's divorce and imprisonment of his ex-wife, I wondered how this guy got beatified. But on reflection, he plainly had a divine vocation, and he sacrificed that for the sake of temporal responsibilities. It might seem to be the opposite of Jesus' advice to the rich young ruler in Luke 18:18-27, but perhaps it is not. Maybe the act of sacrifice, whether one is giving up the riches of the palace or the austerity of the monastery, is what stores up treasure in the Kingdom of Heaven.

*****

Note that Umberto and his fourth wife Beatrice were second cousins once removed, as William "The Great" of Burgundy (d. 1087) was his great-grandfather and her great-great grandfather. Presumably a papal dispensation was obtained.

Umberto married Beatrice de Mâcon about 1175. Beatrice (daughter of Gerard I of Burgundy and Guyonne de Salins) died before 8 Apr 1230 in Champagne-et-Fontaine, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humbert married Agnes de Thiern about 1160. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1151

Notes:

"Su última aparición en la documentación medieval fue en 1211 cuando donó a la Catedral de Zamora la villa de Castrotorafe que había recibido como parte de las arras entregadas por rey Fernando en 1165." [Spanish-language Wikipedia]

Urraca married Fernando II, King of Leon, Galicia, and Extremadura in 1165. Fernando (son of Alfonso VII, King of Leon and Castile and Berenguela of Barcelona) was born in 1137; died on 22 Jan 1188 in Benavente, Italy; was buried in Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sancho married Dulce of Barcelona in 1174. Dulce (daughter of Ramon IV Berengar and Petronila of Aragón, Queen of Aragón) was born about 1159; died on 1 Sep 1198 in Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1178, Aiguebelle, Savoy
• Alternate birth: 20 May 1178
• Alternate death: 1 Mar 1233, Moncalieri, Piedmont, Italy

Notes:

Count of Savoy. He was named after Thomas Becket.

Tomaso married Margaret of Geneva in May 1195. Margaret (daughter of William I of Geneva and Beatrice de Faucigny) died on 13 Apr 1236. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guichard married Sybille de Hainaut in 1196. Sybille (daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders and Marguerite of Lorraine) was born in 1179; died in 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1166

Notes:

Called "el Baboso," "the Slobberer," supposedly because he was subject to fits of rage during which he foamed at the mouth. Despite this, he is also notable for having founded the University of Salamanca and for convening what was arguably the first parliament in Western Europe that included representatives of the urban bourgeoisie. Our theory is that he was a marooned time-traveler from the future: if you found yourself stuck in twelfth-century Spain, you'd foam at the mouth once in a while too.

From Wikipedia:

In spite of the democratic precedent represented by the Cortes and the founding of the University of Salamanca, Alfonso is often chiefly remembered for the difficulties his successive marriages caused between him with Pope Celestine III. He was first married in 1191 to his first cousin, Theresa of Portugal, who bore him two daughters, and a son who died young. The marriage was declared null by the papal legate Cardinal Gregory for consanguinity.

After Alfonso VIII of Castile was defeated at the Battle of Alarcos, Alfonso IX invaded Castile with the aid of Muslim troops. He was summarily excommunicated by Pope Celestine III. In 1197, Alfonso IX married his first cousin once removed, Berengaria of Castile, to cement peace between León and Castile. For this second act of consanguinity, the king and the kingdom were placed under interdict by representatives of the Pope. In 1198, Pope Innocent III declared Alfonso and Berengaria's marriage invalid, but they stayed together until 1204. The annulment of this marriage by the pope drove the younger Alfonso to again attack his cousin in 1204, but treaties made in 1205, 1207, and 1209 each forced him to concede further territories and rights. The treaty in 1207 is the first existing public document in the Castilian dialect.

The Pope was, however, compelled to modify his measures by the threat that, if the people could not obtain the services of religion, they would not support the clergy, and that heresy would spread. The king was left under interdict personally, but to that he showed himself indifferent, and he had the support of his clergy. Berengaria left him after the birth of five children, and the king then returned to Theresa, to whose daughters he left his kingdom in his will.

Family/Spouse: Aldonza Martinez da Silva. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo before 17 Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Berenguela (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born about 1180; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Urraca of Castile. Urraca (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born between 1186 and 1187; died on 3 Nov 1220 in Coimbra, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Infanta de Portugal.

Berengaria married Valdemar II Sejr, King of Denmark between 1213 and 1214. Valdemar (son of Valdemar I den Store, King of Denmark and Sofie of Polotsk) was born on 28 Jun 1170; died on 28 Mar 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Raymond Berenger on 5 Dec 1220. Raymond (son of Alfonso II and Garsenda of Sabran) was born about 1195; died on 19 Aug 1245 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; was buried in Church of the Knights of St. John, Aix-en-Provence, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Béatrix di Fiesco. Béatrix (daughter of Tedisio di Fiesco) died on 15 Jul 1283. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Jul 1253, Montmelian, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
• Alternate death: 13 Jul 1253

Notes:

Also called Amadeo, Amadeus. Count of Savoy. "Generally a supporter of Friedrich II in Italy, who made him Duke of Chablais in 1238, but after his death a supporter of the pope; with the financial help of Henry III of England won additional lands to provide for his brothers; curtailed the power of local lords by enhancing that of appointed officials." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Amedee married Marguerite of Burgundy in 1222. Marguerite (daughter of Hugh III of Burgundy and Beatrice of Albon) was born in 1192; died in 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnès married Thibaut IV and I, King of Navarre in 1222. Thibaut (son of Thibaut III of Champagne and Blanca de Navarre) was born about 30 May 1201; died about 7 Jul 1253 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain; was buried in Pamplona Cathedral, Pamplona, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1 Aug 1250, Syria

Notes:

First Prince of Dombes and eleventh lord of Beaujeu. He fought alongside Louis VIII during the Albigensian crusade. In 1226, following the sudden death of the king, he was made governor of Languedoc. In 1232 he accomanied his nephew Baldwin II to Constantinople for Baldwin's coronation as Latin Emperor.

In 1247, Louis IX made him constable for the Egyptian campaign in the following year. During the siege of Mansura he tried unsuccessfully to save the king's brother Robert I, Count of Artois. He died in Syria.

Humbert married Marguerite de Baugé on 22 Sep 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1204

Bérenguère married Jeane de Brienne, King of Jerusalem; Latin Emperor of Constantinople in 1223 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Jeane (son of Erard II de Brienne and Agnès) was born about 1175; died on 23 Mar 1237 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1199
• Alternate birth: 1200
• Alternate birth: 30 Jul 1201, Monte de Valparaíso, Spain
• Alternate birth: Between 5 Aug 1201 and 19 Aug 1201, En route between Salamanca and Zamora
• Alternate birth: 5 Aug 1201, Monte de Valparaíso, Spain
• Alternate death: 15 Mar 1252
• Alternate death: 30 May 1253

Notes:

"[H]e was born near but not at at the monastery [of Valparaíso], which was moved to his birthplace afterwards. Ferdinand was called 'montesino' because he was born on the mountain, by the road between Salamanca and Zamora." [Peter Stewart, citation details below]

Canonized in 1671 by Clement X. His feast day is 30 May.

Fernando married Elizabeth von Hohenstaufen on 30 Nov 1219 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Elizabeth (daughter of Philip II, King of Germany and Irene Angelina) was born between Mar 1205 and May 1205; died on 30 Nov 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Jeanne de Dammartin before 31 Oct 1237 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Jeanne (daughter of Simon II de Dammartin and Marie of Ponthieu) was born about 1220; died on 15 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Infante de Castilla. Señor de Molina y Mesa.

Alfonso married Mayor Afonso de Meneses after 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also Count of Boulogne.

Afonso married Beatriz of Castile in 1253. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erik married Jutta of Saxony on 17 Nov 1239. Jutta (daughter of Albrecht I of Saxony and Agnes of Austria) was born about 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sophie married Johann I of Brandenburg in 1236. Johann (son of Albrecht II of Brandenburg and Mathilde von Nieder-Lausitz) was born in 1213; died on 4 Apr 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abel married Mechtilde von Holstein on 25 Apr 1237. Mechtilde (daughter of Adolf IV of Holstein and Hedwig von der Lippe) was born in 1225; died in 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christoffer married Margarete Tczewsko-Lubiszewska in 1248 in Fehmarn, Ostholstein, Germany. Margarete (daughter of Sambor II of Eastern Pomerania and Mechtild von Mecklenburg) was born between 1230 and 1234; died in Dec 1282 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Jun 1291, Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

"She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. The exact site of her grave at the abbey is unknown making her the only English queen without a marked grave. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory." [Wikipedia]

Eleanor married Henry III, King of England on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. Henry (son of John, King of England and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born on 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 16 Nov 1272 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 9 Nov 1262, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England

Notes:

Also called Sancha de Provence.

Sancie married Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans on 23 Nov 1243 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Richard (son of John, King of England and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born on 5 Jan 1209 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 2 Apr 1272 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married St. Louis IX, King of France on 27 May 1234 in Sens, Yonne, France. Louis (son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France) was born on 25 Apr 1214 in Castle of Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; died on 25 Aug 1270 in near Tunis, Africa; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Charles I Etienne, King of Naples and Sicily on 31 Jan 1246. Charles (son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France) was born in Mar 1226; died on 7 Jan 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Baldwin de Revières in 1257. Baldwin (son of Baldwin de Revières and Amice de Clare) was born on 1 Jan 1236; died before 13 Sep 1262 in France; was buried in Breamore Priory, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Robert Aguillon in 1269. Robert (son of William Aguillon and Joan) was born in of Addington, Surrey, England; died on 15 Feb 1286. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margereta married Boniface II on 9 Dec 1235. Boniface (son of Guillermo VIII-VI and Berta de Clavesena) was born about 1202; died between 12 Jun 1253 and 10 Dec 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Manfredo III di Saluzzo in Mar 1233. Manfredo (son of Bonifacio di Saluzzo and Maria di Torres) was born about 1204; died before 12 Oct 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Manfredo, King of Sicily about 1248. Manfredo (son of Friedrich II, Holy Roman Emperor and Bianca Lancia) was born in 1232; died on 26 Feb 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Jean I on 16 Jan 1235. Jean (son of Pierre de Braine and Alix de Thouars) was born in 1217; died on 8 Oct 1286. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

French-language Wikipedia says she is "sometimes wrongly referred to as 'Florie.'"

Family/Spouse: Aimar III de Poitiers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jean d'Acre. Count of Montfort jure uxoris.

"Grand butler of France, 1258?; guardian and councillor, with his 2nd wife, Marie de Coucy, queen mother of Scotland, of Alexander III of Scotland 1257-1259; ambassador to Spain, 1275; administered Champagne for Blanche d'Artois and her 2nd husband Edmund of Lancaster, 1276-1284." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Jean married Jeanne de Châteaudun in 1251. Jeanne (daughter of Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun and Clémence des Roches) died about 1254; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jure uxoris viscount of Beaumont.

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Beaumont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maria Guillen de Guzmán. Maria (daughter of Guillen Pérez de Guzmán and Maria González Girón) died in 1262. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Yolande of Aragón on 26 Nov 1248 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Yolande (daughter of James I, King of Aragón and Violant of Hungary) was born before Jan 1238; died in 1301 in Roncevalles, Navarre, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1241, Burgos, Castile, Spain
• Alternate birth: Abt 1241

Notes:

Countess of Ponthieu.

Eleanor of Castile, first wife of Edward I, was a daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, and the French noblewoman Jeanne de Dammartin, suo jure Countess of Ponthieu. Although her marriage (in 1254) to then-prince Edward was a political match designed to affirm English control of Gascony, the couple were unusually close; she even accompanied Edward on the Fourth Crusade, where he was wounded at Acre in Palestine. She was notably well-educated and maintained her own scriptorium, the only one in northern Europe at the time. Her preference for Spanish-style home decorations, kitchen utensils, and personal comforts had a great influence on English domestic life. She brought a considerable personal fortune to her marriage, and increased it all her life through shrewd purchases of lands and manors. Although this had a negative effect on her personal popularity, her husband always encouraged her in it.

Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory of Blackfriars in London, along with that of her son Alphonso. Her entrails were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

Eleanor married Edward I, King of England on 18 Oct 1254 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. Edward (son of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence, Queen Consort of England) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England; was christened on 21 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Regent of Castile.

Maria married Sancho IV, King of Castile and León in 1281. Sancho (son of Alfonso X, King of Castile and León and Yolande of Aragón) was born on 13 May 1258; died on 25 Apr 1295 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Diniz married St. Isabel of Portugal on 24 Jun 1282 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Isabel (daughter of Pedro III, King Of Aragón; King Of Sicily and Constance of Sicily) was born on 4 Jan 1271 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain; died on 4 Jul 1336. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sofia married Valdemar Birgersson, King of Sweden in 1260. Valdemar (son of Birger Magnusson and Ingeborg Eriksdotter) was born in 1237; died on 26 Dec 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margrave of Brandenburg.

Konrad married Konstancja of Poland in 1260. Konstancja (daughter of Przmyslaw I and Elisabeth von Schlesien) was born between 1245 and 1246; died on 10 Oct 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bernhard I of Anhalt. Bernhard (son of Heinrich I von Anhalt and Irmgard von Thüringen) was born about 1220; died between 1286 and 1287. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eric married Agnes of Brandenburg on 11 Nov 1273. Agnes (daughter of Johann I of Brandenburg and Jutta of Saxony) was born between 1256 and 1261; died in Oct 1304; was buried in Ringsted, Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 18 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Alternate death: 8 Jul 1307, Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England

Notes:

Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots, conqueror of Wales. Although he is acclaimed for his many administrative accomplishments and for establishing Parliament as a permanent institution, he also expelled the Jews from England; significant numbers of them returned only 350 years later. He was tall (6' 4"), personally intimidating, and rigid in personal morality, in marked contrast to most earlier post-Conquest English rulers.

Edward married Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England on 18 Oct 1254 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville and Jeanne de Dammartin) was born in 1240; died on 28 Nov 1290 in Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Marguerite of France, Queen Consort of England on 8 Sep 1299 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Marguerite (daughter of Philippe III, King of France and Marie of Brabant, Queen Consort of France) was born in 1279; died on 14 Feb 1317 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, Engand; was buried in Christ Church Greyfriars, Newgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Jean II on 22 Jan 1260 in St.-Denis, Paris, France. Jean (son of Jean I and Blanche de Champagne) was born on 4 Jan 1239; died on 18 Nov 1309 in Lyons, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Leicester; Earl of Lancaster; Earl of Derby. Steward of England 1265; Keeper of the Isle of Lundy 1266; Warden of Sherborne Castle 1267; Lieutenant of Pothieu 1291; Lieutenant of Gascony 1296.

Nearly King of Sicily.

Summoned to Parliament by writ 24 Jun 1295; definitely far from the most interesting thing that ever happened to him.

From Wikipedia (as of 5 Dec 2023):

Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster (16 January 1245 – 5 June 1296), also known by his epithet Edmund Crouchback, was a member of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty and the founder of the first House of Lancaster. He was Earl of Leicester (1265–1296), Lancaster (1267–1296) and Derby (1269–1296) in England, and Count Palatine of Champagne (1276–1284) in France.

Named after the 9th-century saint, Edmund was the second surviving son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence and the younger brother of King Edward I of England, to whom he was loyal as a diplomat and warrior. In 1254, the 9-year-old Edmund became involved in the "Sicilian business", in which his father accepted a papal offer granting the Kingdom of Sicily to Edmund, who made preparations to become king. However, Henry III could not provide funds for the operation, prompting the Papacy to withdraw the grant and give it to Edmund's uncle, Charles I of Anjou. The "Sicilian business" outraged the barons led by the Earl of Leicester and Edmund's uncle, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and was cited as one of the reasons for limiting Henry's power. Deterioration of relations between the barons and the king resulted in the Second Barons' War, in which the royal government, supported by Edmund, triumphed over the baronage following the death of Montfort in the Battle of Evesham in 1265.

Edmund received the lands and titles of Montfort and the defeated barons Nicholas Segrave, 1st Baron Segrave and Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, and became Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby. Primarily known as the earl of the first county, he eventually became the most powerful baron of England. Later, Edmund accompanied his elder brother Edward on his crusade in the Holy Land, where his epithet "Crouchback" originated from a corruption of 'cross back', referring to him wearing a stitched cross on his garments. Following the death of his first wife, Aveline de Forz, Edmund's aunt and Dowager Queen of France Margaret of Provence arranged his second marriage to Blanche of Artois, the recently widowed Queen Dowager of Navarre and the Countess of Champagne. With his second wife Blanche, Edmund governed Champagne as count palatine in the name of his stepdaughter Joan until she came of age. Edmund was active in supporting his family members, such as assisting Edward in conquering Wales, advocating for the claims of his aunt Margaret against his uncle Charles I of Anjou in his mother and aunt's homeland of Provence and managing Ponthieu on behalf of his sister-in-law, Eleanor of Castile.

When Edmund's stepson-in-law, King Philip IV of France, demanded Edward, who was also his vassal through Gascony, to come to Paris to answer charges of damages caused by English mariners in 1293, Edward sent Edmund to mediate the crisis to avert war. Edmund negotiated an agreement with Philip where France would occupy Gascony for 40 days, and Edward would marry Philip's half-sister, Margaret. When the 40 days were over, Philip tricked Edward and Edmund by refusing to relinquish control over Gascony, calling Edward to again answer for his charges. Edmund and Edward then renounced their homages to Philip and prepared for war against France. Edmund sailed for Gascony with his army and besieged the city of Bordeaux. Unable to pay his troops, Edmund was deserted by his army and retreated to Bayonne, where he died from illness in 1296. Edmund's body was brought back to England, where he was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1301.

Edmund married Blanche of Artois on 18 Jan 1276 in Paris, France. Blanche (daughter of Robert of France and Mahaut of Brabant) was born about 1248; died on 2 May 1302 in Paris, France; was buried in Church of the Cordeliers, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 30 Apr 1245

Notes:

Nicknamed "The Bold".

Philippe married Isabella of Aragon, Queen Consort of France on 28 May 1262 in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Isabella (daughter of James I, King of Aragón and Violant of Hungary) was born between 1243 and 1247; died on 28 Jan 1271 in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Marie of Brabant, Queen Consort of France on 21 Aug 1274. Marie (daughter of Henri III of Brabant and Alix of Burgundy) was born about 1256 in Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders; died on 12 Jan 1322 in Les Mureaux, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Church of the Franciscans, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Clermont.

Robert married Beatrix of Burgundy in 1272 in Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Oise, France. Beatrix (daughter of Jean of Burgundy and Agnès de Dampierre) was born about 1257; died on 1 Oct 1310 in Château de Murat, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Cordeliers de Champaigue, Bourbonnais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Robert II of Burgundy in 1279. Robert (son of Hugh IV of Burgundy and Yolande of Dreux) was born about 1248; died on 21 Mar 1306 in Vernon-sur-Seine, Eure, Normandy, France; was buried in Abbey of Cîteaux, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 6 May 1309

Notes:

Also count of Anjou.

Charles married Maria I, Queen of Hungary in 1270. Maria (daughter of Istvan V, King of Hungary and Erszebet of Kumania) was born about 1257; died on 25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Campania, Italy; was buried in Santa Maria Donna Regina, Naples, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alessina married Albrecht I on 1 Nov 1266. Albrecht (son of Otto I of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Matilde von Brandenburg) was born in 1236; died on 15 Aug 1279. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Edmund de Lacy in May 1247 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Edmund (son of John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy) was born about 1230; died on 2 Jun 1258; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1240, of Saluzzo, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
• Alternate birth: 1244
• Alternate death: 1299

Notes:

Fourth marquis of Saluzzo. "Built a great palace for his family in 1270. In the battle of Roccavione in 1275 he caused Charles d'Anjou to lose Piedmont; fought Savoy in 1290." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Tomasso married Aluigia del Vasto in 1258. Aluigia (daughter of Giorgio del Vasto and Menzia) died on 22 Aug 1291. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Pedro III, King Of Aragón; King Of Sicily on 13 Jun 1262 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. Pedro (son of James I, King of Aragón and Violant of Hungary) was born in Jul 1240; died on 11 Nov 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Brittany. Earl of Richmond.

Jean married Beatrice of England on 22 Jan 1260 in St.-Denis, Paris, France. Beatrice (daughter of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence, Queen Consort of England) was born on 25 Jun 1242 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France; died on 24 Mar 1275 in London, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Greenwich, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Valentinois and Diois.

Aimar married Marguerite of Geneva in 1288. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Guillaume de Fiennes between 18 Jan 1266 and Feb 1267. Guillaume (son of Enguerrand de Fiennes and (Unknown) de Condé) was born in of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 11 Jul 1302 in Kortrijk, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Buchan.

From Wikipedia (accessed 10 Jan 2024):

Henry de Beaumont [...] jure uxoris 4th Earl of Buchan and suo jure 1st Baron Beaumont, was a key figure in the Anglo-Scots wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, known as the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Henry de Beaumont was a veteran campaigner who participated in every major engagement, from the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 to the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. Although not now a widely known figure, he was, nevertheless, of considerable military and political importance. His long experience in the Scottish wars led him to develop a battle technique later used to great effect at Crécy and Agincourt.

As one of a group of Anglo-Scots nobles later known as the "disinherited" -- Englishmen whose Scottish lands had been forfeited -- he was to do much to overturn the peace between England and Scotland established by the Treaty of Northampton and bring about a Second War of Scottish Independence.

By his marriage, shortly before 14 July 1310, to Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan (died 3 July 1349), the niece and heir of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, he was recognised as earl in right of his wife.

Henry married Alice Comyn before 14 Jul 1310. Alice (daughter of Alexander Comyn and Joanna Latimer) died before 10 Aug 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatriz married Afonso III, King of Portugal in 1253. Afonso (son of Afonso II, King of Portugal and Urraca of Castile) was born on 5 May 1210 in Coimbra, Portugal; died on 16 Feb 1279 in Lisbon, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Brave."

Sancho married Maria de Molina in 1281. Maria (daughter of Alfonso and Mayor Afonso de Meneses) was born about 1262; died on 17 Jul 1321 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 7 Apr 1307
• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England

Notes:

Also called Joan of England.

"The agreement for Joan's marriage to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Hertford and Gloucester, was made in 1283. Gilbert and his first wife, Alice de la Marche, had had only two daughters; this marriage was dissolved in 1285, and a papal dispensation for the marriage to Joan was obtained four years later. Gilbert surrendered all his lands to the king, and they were settled jointly on Gilbert and Joan for their lives, and were then to pass to their children; if however the marriage was childless, the lands were to pass to Joan's children by any later marriage. The wedding took place at Westminster in early May 1290." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Because of this agreement, Joan remained in control of the estates following Gilbert's death in 1295. Her father intended for her to marry Amadeus V of Savoy, but instead she secretly married Ralph de Monthermer, a squire of Earl Gilbert's household whom she had previously persuaded her father to knight. "She is reputed to have said 'It is not ignominious or shameful for a great and powerful earl to marry a poor and weak woman; in the reverse case it is neither reprehensible or difficult for a countess to promote a vigorous young man.'" [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] Her enraged father slapped de Monthermer into prison and seized all of Joan's lands, but through the mediation of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, father and daughter were reconciled and her estates restored to her. Subsequently the king "became much attached to his new son-in-law, who was summoned to Parliament as Earl of Gloucester and Hertford during the minority of his step-son Gilbert de Clare." [Royal Ancestry] De Monthermer went on to serve in a variety of offices and military roles.

Joan married Gilbert de Clare in May 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Gilbert (son of Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Ralph de Monthermer about 1296. Ralph died on 5 Apr 1325; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Jan II of Brabant on 9 Jul 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Jan (son of Jan I of Brabant and Margarethe of Flanders) was born on 27 Sep 1275; died on 27 Oct 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Johann I. Johann died on 10 Nov 1299 in Haarlem, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Humphrey de Bohun on 14 Nov 1302 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud de Fiennes) was born about 1276; died on 16 Mar 1322 in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Church of the Dominican Friars, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

He is widely held to have died 21 (or 22) Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, but Ian Mortimer has presented arguments to the contrary that seem to us not easily dismissed.

Edward married Isabella of France, Queen Consort of England on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Isabella (daughter of Philippe IV "the Fair", King of France; King of Navarre and Joan, Queen of Navarre; Queen Consort of France) was born in 1292 in Boulogne, France; died on 22 Aug 1358 in Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Costanza of Portugal in Jan 1302 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Costanza (daughter of Diniz, King of Portugal and St. Isabel of Portugal) was born on 3 Jan 1290; died on 23 Nov 1313 in Sahagún, León, Spain; was buried in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatriz married Afonso IV, King of Portugal on 12 Sep 1309 in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. Afonso (son of Diniz, King of Portugal and St. Isabel of Portugal) was born on 8 Feb 1291 in Lisbon, Portugal; died on 28 May 1357 in Lisbon, Portugal; was buried in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Costanza married Fernando IV, King of Castile in Jan 1302 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Fernando (son of Sancho IV, King of Castile and León and Maria de Molina) was born on 6 Dec 1285 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain; died on 7 Sep 1312 in Jaén, Andalusia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Afonso married Beatriz of Castile on 12 Sep 1309 in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. Beatriz (daughter of Sancho IV, King of Castile and León and Maria de Molina) was born in 1293 in Toro, Castile, Spain; died on 25 Oct 1359 in Lisbon, Portugal; was buried in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ingeborg married Gerhard II of Holstein on 12 Dec 1275 in Lödöse, Sweden. Gerhard (son of Gerhard I of Holstein and Elizabeth von Mecklenburg) was born before 1 Nov 1253; died on 25 Oct 1312; was buried in Hamburg Cathedral, Hamburg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Albrecht I of Anhalt in 1300. Albrecht (son of Siegfried I of Anhalt and Katarina of Sweden) died between 17 Aug 1316 and 2 Mar 1317. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Prince of Anhalt in Bernburg. Count Palatine of Saxony. Count of Brehna.

Bernhard married Helene of Rügen before 27 Dec 1302. Helene (daughter of Wizlaw II of Rügen and Agnes of Brunswick-Lüneburg) died on 9 Aug 1315; was buried in Wiederstedt Cloister, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sophie married Dietrich II of Honstein before 28 Nov 1282. Dietrich (son of Heinrich II of Honstein and Mechtild von Regenstein) died between 28 May 1309 and 11 Aug 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 27 Oct 1308

Richza married Nikolaus II of Werle before 1301. Nikolaus (son of Johann I of Werle and Sofie von Lindau-Ruppin) was born about 1265; died on 12 Oct 1316. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Aug 1338
• Alternate death: 23 Aug 1338, Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, England

Notes:

Earl of Norfolk. Marshal of England. Warden of St. John's Town of Perth.

"In 1310 Edward II assigned to his brothers Thomas and Edmund jointly the estates of Roger Bigod, late Earl of Norfolk; and on 16 Dec. 1312 Thomas was cr. Earl of Norfolk, and sum. to Parl. as such 8 Jan 1312/3. On 10 Feb. 1315/6 he was cr. Marshal of England." [Complete Peerage]

"Brotherton, Yorkshire, a small village twenty-two miles outside of the city of York, was part of the honour of Pontefract. Prior to 1300, it had never been a royal residence, or the site of a royal birth, nor has it been one since. It was not even expected to have been one in 1300. Edward I, his new young wife Margaret, who turned twenty-one that year and was pregnant with their first child, and the royal household, set out north from St Albans on 15 April 1300. The army had been summoned to Carlisle for mid-summer, for a new Scottish campaign. Queen Margaret parted company with the main household at Stamford on 5 May, and continued her own journey northward. Preparations had been made for her to use Cawood Castle, a residence of the Archbishop of York, for her confinement. She stopped in the village of Brotherton to hunt late that month, and went into labour, early and unexpectedly. Margaret had married Edward I on 10 September 1299 and, if conception occurred immediately, she was in her 38th week, but as she was apparently hunting and had not yet reached Cawood, she may have been a week or two earlier in her pregnancy. The labour was difficult, and Margaret reportedly called on St Thomas of Canterbury for assistance. The baby was delivered on 1 June, and named for the saint. Edward I rushed over to the village as soon as he was given the news, and stayed there until 9 June (Waugh, 2004; Johnstone, 1946). Thomas was likely baptised in Brotherton's church of St Edward the Confessor, which lay very close to the original manor house." ["Love Matches and Contracted Misery: Thomas of Brotherton and His Daughters (Part 1)," by Brad Verity. Foundations, journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 2, number 2, July 2006.]

"Many sources relay a date of September 1338, for Thomas's death, using testimony from the Proof of Age of his granddaughter Elizabeth de Segrave as a source (see CIPM 1352-1361, p.115). But Watson's date of 23 August appears to be correct, for the king ordered the seizure of Thomas's goods and chattels on 28 August (see Archer, 1987, p.205 n.9)." ["Love Matches and Contracted Misery: Thomas of Brotherton and His Daughters (Part 1)," by Brad Verity. Foundations, journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 2, number 2, July 2006.] ?

Thomas married Alice de Hales after Jun 1321. Alice (daughter of Roger de Hales and Alice) was born after 1303 in Norfolk, England; died between 8 May 1326 and 12 Oct 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st Earl of Kent. "[S]erved his brother Edward II in his war against the barons, turned against him in 1326, granted Arundel Castle (1327) by Edward III, opposed the ascendancy of the queen and Roger Mortimer, who lured him into a conspiracy, and then had him condemned and beheaded as a traitor." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Edmund married Margaret Wake about 25 Dec 1325. Margaret (daughter of John Wake and Joan de Fiennes) was born about 1299; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Guy III de Châtillon on 22 Jul 1292. Guy (son of Guy II de Châtillon and Mahaut of Brabant) was born in 1265; died on 6 Apr 1317; was buried in Abbey of Cercamp, Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Philippe d'Artois after Nov 1281. Philippe (son of Robert II and Amicie de Courtenay) was born about 1269; died on 11 Sep 1298; was buried in St. Jacques, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Beheaded in his own manor for rebelling against Edward II.

Family/Spouse: Alice Lacy. Alice (daughter of Henry Lacy and Margaret de Longespée) was born on 25 Dec 1281; died on 1 Oct 1348. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1281, Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales

Notes:

Also called "Tortcol"; also called Henry Plantagenet.

Earl of Lancaster. Earl of Leicester.

Steward of England; Constable of Abergavenny and Kenilworth Castles 1326; Chief Guardian of the King 1327; Captain-General of the Marches towards Scotland 1327; Councillor of Regency 1345.

Summoned to Parliament by writs 6 Feb 1299 onward.

"Served against the Scots and in Flanders, at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300, among the barons forcing restrictions on Edward II's powers, joined the queen's party in 1326 and captured the king later that year, knighted Edward III at his coronation, became blind in about 1330, but continued to participate in public affairs and as a counselor of the king." [Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below.]

Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth were great-grandparents of both Henry IV and his queen, Mary de Bohun.

Henry married Maud de Chaworth before 2 Mar 1297. Maud (daughter of Patrick de Chaworth and Isabel de Beauchamp) was born on 2 Feb 1282; died before 3 Dec 1322; was buried in Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King of Navarre as Philip I, 1284-1305. King of France as Philip (Philippe) IV, 1285-1314.

Philippe married Joan, Queen of Navarre; Queen Consort of France on 16 Aug 1284 in Notre-Dame, Paris, France. Joan (daughter of Enrique I, King of Navarre and Blanche of Artois) was born on 14 Jan 1272 in Bar-sur-Seine, France; died on 2 Apr 1305 in Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Valois. Count of Anjou by his marriage to Margaret of Anjou. Through his later marriage to Catherine I, titular empress of the Latin Empire, he was titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1301 to 1307, though he ruled from exile and exerted authority only over the Crusader states in Greece.

"[A]n irresponsible adventurer, he did the papal cause little good when campaigning in Sicily as Captain-General for the Church." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Charles married Margaret of Anjou on 16 Aug 1290 in Corbeil, near Paris, France. Margaret (daughter of Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem and Maria I, Queen of Hungary) was born in 1272; died on 31 Dec 1299; was buried in Church of St. Jacques, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Mahaut de Châtillon-sur-Marne in Jun 1308 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. Mahaut (daughter of Guy III de Châtillon and Marie of Brittany) was born in 1293; died on 3 Oct 1358; was buried in Cordeliers de Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Evreux and Etampes.

Louis married Marguerite d'Artois in 1300. Marguerite (daughter of Philippe d'Artois and Blanche de Bretagne) was born about 1285; died on 24 Apr 1311. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1275
• Alternate birth: Abt 1282
• Alternate death: 14 Feb 1318, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, Engand

Marguerite married Edward I, King of England on 8 Sep 1299 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Edward (son of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence, Queen Consort of England) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England; was christened on 21 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Jan 1342

Notes:

"Le Boîteux" (the Lame). Duke of Bourbon.

Louis married Marie of Hainault and Holland in Sep 1310 in Pontoise, Vexin, France. Marie (daughter of Jean II d'Avesnes and Philippine de Luxemburg) died between 31 Aug 1354 and 4 Sep 1354 in Château de Murat, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Church of the Franciscans, Champaigue, Bourbonnais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "la Boiteuse" (the Lame). Died of the plague.

"[I]ntelligent, educated, strong-willed, venemous, frequently consulted by her husband, regent of France 1338." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Jean married Philip VI, King of France in Jul 1313 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Philip (son of Charles of France and Margaret of Anjou) was born in 1293; died on 22 Aug 1350 in Abbey of Coulombs near Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1273

Notes:

Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right; Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres, and Perche by marriage.

Margaret married Charles of France on 16 Aug 1290 in Corbeil, near Paris, France. Charles (son of Philippe III, King of France and Isabella of Aragon, Queen Consort of France) was born on 12 Mar 1270 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France; died on 16 Dec 1325 in Le Perray-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Eglise de Jacobins, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanora married Federico II of Aragón, King of Sicily in May 1303 in Messina, Sicily. Federico (son of Pedro III, King Of Aragón; King Of Sicily and Constance of Sicily) was born on 13 Dec 1272; died on 25 Jun 1337 in Palermo, Sicily; was buried in Catania, Sicily. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

Heinrich married Agnes von Meissen in 1282. Agnes (daughter of Albrecht II of Meissen and Margarethe von Hohenstaufen) was born before 1264; died after 1 Feb 1332. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Der Feiste" (the Fat). Duke of Brunswick.

Albrecht married Richza of Werle on 10 Jan 1284. Richza (daughter of Heinrich I of Werle and Richeza Birgersdotter) died after 2 Oct 1312; was buried in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duchess of Brunswick.

Matilde married Henryk I-III von Schliesen before Apr 1290. Henryk (son of Konrad I and Salomea of Poland) was born between 1251 and 1260; died on 9 Dec 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married George de Cantelowe after 1 Sep 1254. George (son of William III de Cantelowe and Eve de Briouze) was born on 29 Mar 1252 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 18 Oct 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1311

Notes:

Earl of Lincoln. Constable of Cheshire.

Henry married Margaret de Longespée about 25 Dec 1256. Margaret (daughter of William Longespée and Maud de Clifford) died in 1310. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Alasia di Saluzzo; Alasia del Vasto di Saluzzo.

"Along with her aunt Alasia de Saluzzo who married Edmund de Lacy, 2nd earl of Lincoln, in 1247, Alasia was one of the first Italian women to marry into an English noble family. Her marriage had been arranged by the late King Henry III's widowed queen consort Eleanor de Provence." [Leo van de Pas]

CP has her buried at Todingham Priory, but Chris Phillips's compilation of corrections to CP includes Douglas Richardson's note in Jan 2002 that "the bodies of both Richard and Alesia were at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, by 1341, when provision was made for 12 candles to burn in the church of Haughmond around their tombs."

Alice married Richard Fitz Alan in Nov 1282. Richard (son of John Fitz Alan and Isabella de Mortimer) was born on 3 Feb 1267 in of Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 9 Mar 1302; was buried in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Diniz, King of Portugal on 24 Jun 1282 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Diniz (son of Afonso III, King of Portugal and Beatriz of Castile) was born on 9 Oct 1261 in Lisbon, Portugal; died on 7 Jan 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Fadrique.

Federico married Eleanora d'Anjou in May 1303 in Messina, Sicily. Eleanora (daughter of Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem and Maria I, Queen of Hungary) was born in Aug 1289; died on 9 Aug 1341 in Catania, Sicily. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Guy III de Châtillon on 22 Jul 1292. Guy (son of Guy II de Châtillon and Mahaut of Brabant) was born in 1265; died on 6 Apr 1317; was buried in Abbey of Cercamp, Artois, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Philippe d'Artois after Nov 1281. Philippe (son of Robert II and Amicie de Courtenay) was born about 1269; died on 11 Sep 1298; was buried in St. Jacques, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Jean dit Dauphinet de Clermont on 22 May 1313. Jean (son of Robert III de Clermont and Alixente de Mercoeur) was born about 1280; died on 10 Mar 1351. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1333 and 1344

Margaret married Edmund de Mortimer before 12 Dec 1285. Edmund (son of Roger de Mortimer and Maud de Briouze) was born between 1251 and 1254 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married John Wake before 24 Aug 1291. John (son of Baldwin Wake and Hawise de Quincy) was born about 1268; died about 10 Apr 1300. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Châtelain de Bourbourg, Seigneur de Tingry.

Jean married Isabelle de Dampierre in 1307. Isabelle (daughter of Guy de Dampierre and Isabelle of Luxembourg) died in 1323. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She outlived her husband.

Isabel married Henry of Grosmont about 1337. Henry (son of Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1314; died on 24 Mar 1361 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He served on an expedition to France in 1339. He was summoned to Parliament 23 Feb 1342. He died at a tournament.

John married Eleanor of Lancaster before Jun 1337. Eleanor (daughter of Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born about 1318; died on 11 Jan 1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Diniz married St. Isabel of Portugal on 24 Jun 1282 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Isabel (daughter of Pedro III, King Of Aragón; King Of Sicily and Constance of Sicily) was born on 4 Jan 1271 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain; died on 4 Jul 1336. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fernando married Costanza of Portugal in Jan 1302 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Costanza (daughter of Diniz, King of Portugal and St. Isabel of Portugal) was born on 3 Jan 1290; died on 23 Nov 1313 in Sahagún, León, Spain; was buried in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatriz married Afonso IV, King of Portugal on 12 Sep 1309 in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. Afonso (son of Diniz, King of Portugal and St. Isabel of Portugal) was born on 8 Feb 1291 in Lisbon, Portugal; died on 28 May 1357 in Lisbon, Portugal; was buried in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1293
• Alternate birth: Between Aug 1293 and Nov 1294
• Alternate death: 13 Apr 1342, France

Margaret married Piers de Gaveston on 1 Nov 1307 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. Piers (son of Arnaud de Gaveston and Claramonde de Marsan) was born before Sep 1283 in Gabaston, Bearn, Gascony, France; died on 19 Jun 1312 in Blacklow Hill near Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Hugh de Audley on 28 Apr 1317 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Hugh (son of Hugh de Audley and Isolde le Rous) was born about 1289 in of Great Marcle, Herefordshire, England; died on 10 Nov 1347; was buried in Tonbridge Priory, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 23 Nov 1292, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales

Notes:

"She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, 17 Nov 1326, later released, and had her lands restored to her, 22 Apr 1328. Before 26 Jan 1329 she was abducted from Hanley Castle by Sir William la Zouche who subsequently married her. She was imprisoned again in the Tower, shortly after 5 Feb 1329, and then in Devizes Castle, until after 6 Jan 1330 as a result of accompanying her husband in his siege of her castle of Caerphilly." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Eleanor married Hugh le Despenser after 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Hugh (son of Hugh le Despenser and Isabel de Beauchamp) was born in of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England; died on 24 Nov 1326 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married William la Zouche before 26 Jan 1329. William (son of Robert de Mortimer and Joyce la Zouche) was born in of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire, England; died on 28 Feb 1337; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John de Burgh on 30 Sep 1308 in Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. John (son of Richard de Burgh and Margaret) died on 18 Jun 1313 in Galway, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thebaud de Verdun on 4 Feb 1316 in near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Thebaud (son of Thebaud de Verdun and Margery de Bohun) was born on 8 Sep 1278 in of Alton, Staffordshire, England; died on 27 Jul 1316 in Alton, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Roger Damory before 3 May 1317. Roger (son of Robert Damory) was born in of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire, England; died on 13 Mar 1322 in Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Ware, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret de Brewes. Margaret (daughter of Peter de Brewes and Agnes) was born about 1303; died in 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Brabant and Limburg.

Jan married Marie d'Evreux about 19 Jul 1311. Marie (daughter of Louis and Marguerite d'Artois) was born about 1303; died on 31 Oct 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married James le Boteler in 1327. James (son of Edmund le Boteler and Joan fitz John) was born about 1305 in of Knocktopher, Kilkenney, Ireland; died between Jan 1338 and Feb 1338; was buried in Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Hugh de Courtenay on 11 Aug 1325. Hugh (son of Hugh de Courtenay and Agnes de St. John) was born on 12 Jul 1303 in of Okehampton, Devon, England; died on 2 May 1377 in Tiverton, Devon, England; was buried in Exeter Cathedral, Exeter, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Northampton. Fought at Crecy and at the siege of Calais. One of those who asisted at the arrest of Roger Mortimer. A trsuted friend and counselor of Edward III.

William married Elizabeth de Badlesmere on 13 Nov 1335. Elizabeth (daughter of Bartholomew de Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare) was born about 1313; died on 8 Jun 1356 in Rochford, Essex, England; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of England on 24 Jan 1328 in York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England. Philippa (daughter of William III of Hainault and Jeanne de Valois) was born about 1314; died on 15 Aug 1359 in Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called "Joan of the Tower."

Joan married David II, King of Scotland on 17 Jul 1328 in Berwick, Northumberland, England. David (son of Robert de Brus, King of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh) was born on 5 Mar 1324 in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland; died on 22 Feb 1371 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Maria of Portugal in Sep 1328. Maria (daughter of Afonso IV, King of Portugal and Beatriz of Castile) was born about 1313; died on 13 Jan 1357 in Évora, Alentejo, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 18 Jan 1357, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal

Maria married Alfonso XI, King of Castile and Leon in Sep 1328. Alfonso (son of Fernando IV, King of Castile and Costanza of Portugal) was born on 13 Aug 1311 in Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; died on 26 Mar 1350 in Gibraltar, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Holstein in Segeberg.

Gerard married Anastasia of Schwerin-Wittenburg between 30 Jul 1313 and 21 Oct 1313. Anastasia (daughter of Nikolaus I of Schwerin-Wittenburg and Miroslava of Pomerania) died after 7 Jun 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Countess of Anhalt in Zerbst.

Mathilde married Bernhard III of Anhalt about 1339. Bernhard (son of Bernhard II of Anhalt and Helene of Rügen) died on 20 Aug 1348. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Prince of Anhalt in Bernburg.

Bernhard married Mathilde of Anhalt about 1339. Mathilde (daughter of Albrecht I of Anhalt and Agnes of Brandenburg) died about 1342. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Honstein in Klettenberg.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth of Waldeck. Elizabeth (daughter of Otto I of Waldeck and Sophia of Hesse) died after 1370. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sophia married Gerhard III of Holstein about 1314. Gerhard (son of Heinrich I of Holstein and Heilwig von Bronkhorst) was born about 1293; died on 1 Apr 1340 in Sankt Mortens, Randers, Denmark; was buried in Steinberg Cloister, Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1322
• Alternate death: 24 Mar 1400

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Also called Margaret of Norfolk. She was Countess of Norfolk by right. In 1338 she succeeded to the earldom of Norfolk as well, acquiring, by right of that title, the office of Earl Marshal of England. On 29 Sep 1397 she was created Duchess of Norfolk for life.

Sometimes called "Lady Manny", presumably after her second husband. Also sometimes (albeit inaccurately) called "Margaret Plantagenet."

Margaret married John de Segrave after 3 Mar 1327. John (son of Stephen de Segrave and Alice de Arundel) was born on 4 May 1315; died on 1 Apr 1353 in Bretby, Repton, Derbyshire, England; was buried in Chacombe Priory, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Walter de Mauny before 30 May 1354. Walter (son of Jean le Borgne de Mauny and Jeanne de Jenlain) was born about 1310; died in Jan 1372; was buried in Charterhouse, Smithfield, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The "Fair Maid of Kent."

Family/Spouse: Edward of Woodstock. Edward (son of Edward III, King of England and Philippa of Hainault, Queen Consort of England) was born on 15 Jun 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England; died on 8 Jun 1376 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Thomas de Holand in 1340. Thomas (son of Robert de Holand and Maud la Zouche) died on 26 Dec 1360 in Normandy, France; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1344

Notes:

Count of St. Pol.

Jean married Jeanne de Fiennes in Dec 1329. Jeanne (daughter of Jean de Fiennes and Isabelle de Dampierre) died after 7 Jun 1353. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mahaut married Charles of France in Jun 1308 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. Charles (son of Philippe III, King of France and Isabella of Aragon, Queen Consort of France) was born on 12 Mar 1270 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France; died on 16 Dec 1325 in Le Perray-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Eglise de Jacobins, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heiress of Brie-Comte-Robert.

Marguerite married Louis in 1300. Louis (son of Philippe III, King of France and Marie of Brabant, Queen Consort of France) was born in May 1276; died on 19 May 1319 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Jean I de Dampierre on 6 May 1309 in Paris, France. Jean (son of Guy de Dampierre and Isabelle of Luxembourg) was born about Oct 1267; died in Jan 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married William de Burgh before 16 Nov 1327. William (son of John de Burgh and Elizabeth de Clare) was born on 17 Sep 1312; died on 6 Jun 1333 in Le Ford (now Belfast), Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1345
• Alternate death: 7 Jul 1349

Notes:

Also called Joan Plantagenet.

Died of the plague.

Joan married John de Mowbray between 28 Feb 1327 and 4 Jun 1328. John (son of John de Mowbray and Aline de Brewes) was born on 29 Nov 1310 in Hovingham, Yorkshire, England; died on 4 Oct 1361 in York, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Friars Minor, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 23 Mar 1361

Notes:

He succeeded to the titles of Earl of Lancaster and of Leicester. "[C]reated Earl of Derby (1337), Earl of Lincoln (1349), Duke of Lancaster (1351), England's foremost military commander during the early stages of the Hundred Years War, the richest and most powerful man in the kingdom after Edward III, and his most trusted cousnelor, he was esteemed by his contemporaries as a perfect knight." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

He died of the plague.

Henry married Isabel de Beaumont about 1337. Isabel (daughter of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) died after 24 Mar 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1341 she was granted £100 yearly for life in consideration of her long attendance on Queen Philippe. She was also granted license to have one course with greyhounds any time she passed through the King's English forests, parks, and warrens, and to carry away any deer taken at that course.

Eleanor married John de Beaumont before Jun 1337. John (son of Henry de Beaumont and Alice Comyn) was born about 1318; died on 14 Apr 1342 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Richard Fitz Alan on 5 Apr 1345. Richard (son of Edmund Fitz Alan and Alice de Warenne) was born about 1313 in of Arundel, Sussex, England; died on 24 Jan 1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Henry de Percy before 5 Sep 1334. Henry (son of Henry de Percy and Idoine de Clifford) was born between 1322 and 1325 in of Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died about 18 May 1368 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England; was buried in Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married Jeanne of Burgundy in Jan 1306. Jeanne (daughter of Otto V and Mathilde d'Artois) was born between 1291 and 2 Mar 1294; died on 21 Jan 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Edward II, King of England on 25 Jan 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England) was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caenarfon, Gwynedd, Wales; died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[F]irst of the Valois kings, he declared in 1337 that Guyenne was foreited, initiating the Hundred Years War, at his defeat by Edward III at Crécy the slain included over 1500 of his lords and nobles, Calais was lost to the English the following year, the spread of the Black Death in 1348 and 1349 overshadowed the final years of his reign." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Philip married Jean of Burgundy, Queen Consort of France in Jul 1313 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Jean (daughter of Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France) was born in 1293; died on 12 Dec 1349 in Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a widow she became abbess of Fontenelles.

Jeanne married William III of Hainault on 19 May 1305 in Chauny, Aisne, France. William (son of John II of Hainault and Philippa of Luxembourg) was born about 1286; died on 7 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Church of the Franciscans, Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Pierre I de Bourbon on 25 Jan 1337. Pierre (son of Louis I de Bourbon and Marie of Hainault and Holland) was born in 1311; died on 19 Sep 1356 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; was buried in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Jan III of Brabant about 19 Jul 1311. Jan (son of Jan II of Brabant and Margaret of England) was born in 1300; died on 5 Dec 1355 in Brussels, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 4 Aug 1338
• Alternate death: 23 Aug 1338, Redenhall with Harleston, Norfolk, England

Notes:

Earl of Norfolk. Marshal of England. Warden of St. John's Town of Perth.

"In 1310 Edward II assigned to his brothers Thomas and Edmund jointly the estates of Roger Bigod, late Earl of Norfolk; and on 16 Dec. 1312 Thomas was cr. Earl of Norfolk, and sum. to Parl. as such 8 Jan 1312/3. On 10 Feb. 1315/6 he was cr. Marshal of England." [Complete Peerage]

"Brotherton, Yorkshire, a small village twenty-two miles outside of the city of York, was part of the honour of Pontefract. Prior to 1300, it had never been a royal residence, or the site of a royal birth, nor has it been one since. It was not even expected to have been one in 1300. Edward I, his new young wife Margaret, who turned twenty-one that year and was pregnant with their first child, and the royal household, set out north from St Albans on 15 April 1300. The army had been summoned to Carlisle for mid-summer, for a new Scottish campaign. Queen Margaret parted company with the main household at Stamford on 5 May, and continued her own journey northward. Preparations had been made for her to use Cawood Castle, a residence of the Archbishop of York, for her confinement. She stopped in the village of Brotherton to hunt late that month, and went into labour, early and unexpectedly. Margaret had married Edward I on 10 September 1299 and, if conception occurred immediately, she was in her 38th week, but as she was apparently hunting and had not yet reached Cawood, she may have been a week or two earlier in her pregnancy. The labour was difficult, and Margaret reportedly called on St Thomas of Canterbury for assistance. The baby was delivered on 1 June, and named for the saint. Edward I rushed over to the village as soon as he was given the news, and stayed there until 9 June (Waugh, 2004; Johnstone, 1946). Thomas was likely baptised in Brotherton's church of St Edward the Confessor, which lay very close to the original manor house." ["Love Matches and Contracted Misery: Thomas of Brotherton and His Daughters (Part 1)," by Brad Verity. Foundations, journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 2, number 2, July 2006.]

"Many sources relay a date of September 1338, for Thomas's death, using testimony from the Proof of Age of his granddaughter Elizabeth de Segrave as a source (see CIPM 1352-1361, p.115). But Watson's date of 23 August appears to be correct, for the king ordered the seizure of Thomas's goods and chattels on 28 August (see Archer, 1987, p.205 n.9)." ["Love Matches and Contracted Misery: Thomas of Brotherton and His Daughters (Part 1)," by Brad Verity. Foundations, journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 2, number 2, July 2006.] ?

Thomas married Alice de Hales after Jun 1321. Alice (daughter of Roger de Hales and Alice) was born after 1303 in Norfolk, England; died between 8 May 1326 and 12 Oct 1330. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st Earl of Kent. "[S]erved his brother Edward II in his war against the barons, turned against him in 1326, granted Arundel Castle (1327) by Edward III, opposed the ascendancy of the queen and Roger Mortimer, who lured him into a conspiracy, and then had him condemned and beheaded as a traitor." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Edmund married Margaret Wake about 25 Dec 1325. Margaret (daughter of John Wake and Joan de Fiennes) was born about 1299; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Bourbon. Fought at Crécy and the siege of Calais. Killed at Poitiers.

Pierre married Isabel de Valois on 25 Jan 1337. Isabel (daughter of Charles of France and Mahaut de Châtillon-sur-Marne) was born about 1313; died on 26 Jul 1383 in Paris, France; was buried in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Jutta de Luxemburg on 28 Jul 1332 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Jutta (daughter of John, King of Bohemia and Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia) was born on 20 May 1315 in Prague, Bohemia; died on 11 Sep 1349 in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pietro married Elisabeth of Carinthia on 23 Apr 1322. Elisabeth (daughter of Otto II of Carinthia and Euphemia of Silesia and Breslau) was born about 1298; died in 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Elisabeth or Isabella of Sicily.

Elisabeth married Stephan II of Bavaria on 27 Jun 1328. Stephan (son of Ludwig IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrix von Schlesien-Glogau) was born on 22 Dec 1313; died on 19 May 1375 in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany; was buried in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen in Osterode.

Ernst married Adelheid of Everstein about 1335. Adelheid (daughter of Hermann II of Everstein and Adelheid zur Lippe) died after 1376. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Der Fromme" (the Pious). Duke of Brunswick.

Magnus married Sophia of Brandenburg about 1327. Sophia (daughter of Heinrich I of Brandenburg and Agnes of Bavaria) was born about 1300; died in 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen.

Ernst married Elizabeth von Hessen in 1339. Elizabeth (daughter of Heinrich II von Hessen and Elisabeth of Meissen) died on 7 Mar 1390. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1291 and 1293

Notes:

Duke of Silesia in Sagan.

Heinrich married Mechtilde of Brandenburg between 5 Jan 1310 and 29 Feb 1312. Mechtilde (daughter of Hermann of Brandenburg and Anna of Austria) was born between 1298 and 1300; died between Jul 1325 and 31 Mar 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas of Lancaster. Thomas (son of Edmund "Crouchback" and Blanche of Artois) died on 22 Mar 1322 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 31 Mar 1342

Alice married Stephen de Segrave before 27 Jan 1314. Stephen (son of John de Segrave and Christian de Plessets) was born about 1285 in of West Hatch, Wiltshire, England; died before 12 Dec 1325 in Aquitaine, France; was buried in Chaucombe Priory, Chaucombe, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William le Boteler. William (son of William le Boteler and Beatrice) was born on 8 Sep 1298 in of Wem, Shropshire, England; died on 22 Dec 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry de Percy. Henry (son of Henry de Percy and Eleanor de Warenne) was born on 25 Mar 1273 in Petworth, Sussex, England; died on 2 Oct 1314 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England; was buried in Fountain Abbey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 May 1285, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Also called Edmund Arundel. Earl of Arundel. An opponent of Gaveston, he became one of the Lords Ordainers, and one of those before whom Gaveston was tried before he was killed. Edmund Fitz Alan was also among the magnates who refused to help Edward II against Scotland, resulting in the disaster at Bannockburn. However, around the time his son Richard was betrothed to Hugh Dispenser the Younger's daughter Isabel, Fitz Alan began a rapprochement with the king. This would ultimately result in Fitz Alan's execution on the order of Roger Mortimer. According to a one account, a blunt sword was ordered, and his beheading took 22 strokes.

"Though he was never canonised, a cult emerged around the late earl in the 1390s, associating him with the 9th-century martyr king St Edmund. This veneration may have been inspired by a similar cult around his grandson, Richard Fitz Alan, 11th Earl of Arundel, who was executed by Richard II in 1397." [Wikipedia]

Just to drive home the point that association with the Despensers never works out for anybody, in 1344 his son Richard sought and obtained an anullment from his marriage to Isabel le Despenser, on the grounds that the betrothal had been inflicted on him in childhood and without his consent.

Edmund married Alice de Warenne after 30 Dec 1304. Alice (daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere) died between 1330 and 23 May 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Costanza married Fernando IV, King of Castile in Jan 1302 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Fernando (son of Sancho IV, King of Castile and León and Maria de Molina) was born on 6 Dec 1285 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain; died on 7 Sep 1312 in Jaén, Andalusia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Afonso married Beatriz of Castile on 12 Sep 1309 in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. Beatriz (daughter of Sancho IV, King of Castile and León and Maria de Molina) was born in 1293 in Toro, Castile, Spain; died on 25 Oct 1359 in Lisbon, Portugal; was buried in Lisbon Cathedral, Lisbon, Portugal. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]