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AETHELRED 2ndly m EMMA (AELGIFU) of Normandy, remains with those of King CNUT in Winchester Cathedral, dau of RICHARD I, Duke of Normandy (see under Normandy for ancestors). After ETHELRED died she married in 1017 King Cnut Sveinsson who d 1035, and they had a son King Harthacnut and a dau Gunhild who m HEINRICH III, Holy Roman Emp (1039-56)
GODA (GODGIFU), m 1stly DROGO (Dreux) Count of Amiens and Vexin (they had Walter de Mantes, Count of the Vexin, and RALPH “the Timid” Earl of
Hereford, d 1057, (see under Ewyas for descendants) and ADÉLE who m ALBERIC de COUCY - (see under Coucy for descendants).
GODGIFU 2ndly m EUSTACE II of Lens, Comte de Boulogne
Alfred the Atheling, blinded by Earl GODWIN and d in prison 1036
Edward III, “the Confessor”, b ca 1003, King (1042-66), remains in Westminster Abbey, m Eadgyth, dau of GODWIN, Earl of Wessex.
King EDMUND II “Ironside”, b ca 989, (ruled Apr-30 Nov 1016 when murdered at Oxford by Edric Streona’s son who had fixed a bow and arrow to be triggered upwards when EDMUND sat over a toilet hole ). He m ALGITHA, dau of WULFRIC (see under Mercia for ancestors), widow of Siegferth, Ealdorman and High Reeve of Danes of the seven boroughs.
Edmund, b 1016, m Agatha (Hedwig), dau of St. Stephen I, King of Hungary and Gisla dau of Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor
EDWARD “the Atheling”
EDWARD “the Atheling”, b 1017 after death of father, exiled in Hungary, m AGATHA von BRAUNSCHWEIG (who died a nun), dau of LUDWIG von BRAUNSCHWEIG (see under Braunschweig for ancestors)
EADGAR “the Exile”, m a dau of Great Prince VSÉVOLOD of Kiev (see under Kiev for ancestors)
MATILDA, m AMADEO III, Comte de Maurienne (see under Savoie for descendants)
St. MARGARET, m as 2nd wife of MALCOLM III “Canmore”, King of the Scots, great grandparents of King HENRY II
CHRISTIANA, m RALPH de LIMESI, nephew of the Conqueror (see under Limesi for descendants); she held land in her own name @ Domesday, later became Abbess
at Romsey,Hants and after that at Wilton.
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GODWIN WULFNOTHSSON, Earl of Kent and Wessex (see under Mercia for ancestors), d 1053, 1stly m Thyra (994-1018) daughter of King SWEYN Forkbeard of Denmark. GODWIN was the leader of the Danish Party and the real ruler of England under Edward the Confessor, d 1053
GODWIN 2ndly m GYTHA, dau of THORGILS SPRAKALEG (see under Uppsala for ancestors) and sister of Jarl Ulf who had m King Cnut’s sister Estrith
Sweyn, seduced abbess of Leominster 1046, murdered his cousin Beorn in 1049, d 1052 while on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. May have had a son Haakon
Eadgyth (Edith), d 1074, nominally m King Edward III “the Confessor”
Eadgifu
HAROLD GODWINSON
DRIELLA, m DONOUGH O’BRIEN, King of Munster and High King of Ireland (see under O’Brien for descendants)
TOSTIG, received Earldom of Northumbria from King Edward, displacing the previous Earl, m as 1st husband of JUDITH, dau of BAUDOUIN IV, Comte de Flandres,
and later rebelled and with King Harold Hardrada of Scandinavia ,sailed up the Humber and beat the forces of Earls Edwin and Morcar. However five days later Tostig
and Hardrada were both killed 1066 at Battle of Stamford Bridge by King HAROLD’s forces.
Skuli
Ketil
Gyrth, succeeded HAROLD as Earl of East Anglia, d before Harold at Battle of Hastings
Leofwine, appointed to new Earldom comprising Essex, Herts, Surrey, Kent and Bucks, d before HAROLD at Battle of Hastings
Gunnhildr, d a nun at Bruges
Aelgifu
Aelgar? a monk at Rheims
GODWIN also had an illegitimate son Wulfnoth who with his son Hakom were given as hostages to WILLIAM the Conqueror
HAROLD GODWINSON, b 1022, Earl of East Anglia and later King HAROLD II, d 14.10.1066 at Battle of Hastings, buried at Waltham Abbey which he founded. His offer to Harald Sigurdson invading England with Tostig (see above) was to ‘give him seven feet of English ground, or as much as he may be taller than other men.’ HAROLD by his Danish law wife (uxor more Danico) and great landowner EDITH SWANNEHALS (Swan’s Neck) had five children.
Godwine
Edmund
Magnus
Gunnhilda, forced into nunnery at Wilton by Abbess CHRISTIANA (see above), abducted in 1093 by Count Alan “the Red” of Richmond, Yorks, and his brother Alan “the
Black”
GYTHA, m as 1st wife of VLADIMIR II of Kiev (see under Kiev for descendants)
Then in 1064 HAROLD m ALGATHA (EDITH), widow of GRUFFYDD ap LLYWELYN (who died in 1063) and sister of Earls Morcar and Edwin (see under Mercia for her ancestors)
Harold, b after Battle of Hastings, alive 1098
By an unknown mother
Ulf, alive 1087
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King WILLIAM I (1066-9.9.1087), illegitimate son of ROBERT II, Duke of Normandy, (see under Normandy for ancestors) b at Falaise 1025, m ca 1050 MATILDA (she was only just over 4 ft tall & d 1083 at Caen) dau of BAUDOUIN V, Count of Flanders (see under Flanders for ancestors)
ROBERT III “Curthose”, Duke of Normandy, b 1051/4, went on 1st Crusade, later kept as a prisoner in Cardiff Castle where he died 1134 (buried in Gloucester
Cathedral), m 1stly Margaret, dau of Comte Herbert II; m 2ndly SIBYLLA of Conversana by whom he had
WILLIAM CLITO, Count of Flanders (see under Normandy for descendants)
Agatha, engaged but not married to HAROLD GODWINSSON, Earl of Wessex; then possibly engaged to Herbert, Comte de Maine; finally engaged to
Alphonse of León; but died a virgin
Richard, Duke of Bernay in Normandy, b ca 1054, died 1075 hunting in the New Forest
King William II “Rufus”, b 1056/60, (1087-1100), shot dead with arrow by Sir Walter Tirel
Cecily, Abbess of Holy Trinity at Caen, b bef 1066, d 1126/7
Matilda, may have been engaged to Edwin of Mercia
Constance, d 1090, m 1086 ALAN IV, Duke of Brittany
Adeliza, apparently d a nun
ADELA, d 1137, m 1080 STEPHEN II, Count of Blois (d 1102), and had son King STEPHEN (1135-1154) see below
King HENRY I, b 1068 (see below)
Although the tall WILLIAM has often been considered as a remarkably faithful husband to his tiny wife MATILDA he was aged 25 when they married and may have had several pre-marital illegitimate offspring, including:
SYLVIA, who m LOUIS de BOURNONVILLE (see under Bournonville for descendants)
By MAUD FITZINGELRIC (whom he later married off to Ranulph Peverell) WILLIAM had
WILLIAM PEVEREL, d 1113, a companion of the Conqueror and his possibly also his brother
Robert Peverel (see under Peverel for descendants)
WILLIAM I was also said to have had an illegitimate son
Robert Bastard, held land in Devon 1086
Another dau, possibly illegitimate, m Comte Geoffrey Martel of Anjou
King William II, “Rufus” (1087-2.8.1100), who was predominantly homosexual may have had an illegitimate son Berstrand
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King HENRY I “Beauclerc”, (1100-1135) b 1068 at Selby, Yorks, d when “against his doctor’s orders” he ate a surfeit of lampreys and then went out hunting, m EADGYTH, (EDITH and also renamed for her marriage MATILDA, jointly crowned with HENRY I), d 1118, dau of MALCOLM CANMORE III, King of the Scots (see under Scotland, Kings, for ancestors) and St. MARGARET (d 1093, canonised 1161)
William “the Aethling”, drowned 1120 in the White Ship disaster, m Matilda, dau of FULK d’Anjou. She became Abbess of Fontrevault.
MATILDA “the Empress Maud”, b 1102, d 1167, m 1stly Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor when she was only 12 (see under Brunswick for descendants); at age 26 she
m 2ndly GEOFFREY V Plantagenet, Comte d’Anjou (see under Anjou for descendants)
HENRY 2ndly m in 1121 ADELIZA (b 1103, d 1151), dau of GODFREY I of Brabant, Duke of Lower Lorraine (see under Lorraine for ancestors). She 2ndly m WILLIAM de ALBINI (see under Albini for descendants)
HENRY had at least 20 illegitimate children, 9 sons and 11 daughters, including:
By a “woman of Caen”
ROBERT FITZROY “the Consul”, b ca 1090, created Earl of Gloucester 1122, d 1147, m MABEL, (see under FitzRoy for ancestors and under Gloucester for other
descendants) whose son WILLIAM succeeded him (see under FitzHamon, Earls of Gloucester for descendants) and whose dau MAUD m RANULPH de
MESCHINES (see under Meschines for descendants)
By Ansfride, widow of Anskill of Abingdon HENRY had
Richard “the King’s son”, b ca 1101, drowned in the White Ship disaster 25 Nov 1120
Fulk “the King’s son”, became a monk at Abingdon and d young
Juliane, m in 1103 Eustace de Pacy, Seigneur de Bréteuil & Pacy, d 1136, illegitimate son of William de Bréteuil, 1st son of WILLIAM FitzOSBERN, 1st Earl of Hereford.
Eustace and Juliane rebelled after their two daughters were blinded with HENRY’s concurrence. Besieged in a castle by her father she tried unsuccessfully to shoot him with
a crossbow. He ordered her to jump from the castle wall into the icy moat, which she did after exposing her bare buttocks to him.
By his girl friend SIBYLLA CORBET dau of Sir ROBERT CORBET son of CORBEAU who died at Hastings 1066 (see under Corbet for her ancestors). She later m HENRY FITZHERBERT (see under FitzHerbert for their descendants)
William, b bef 1105, “Brother of the Queen”, and possibly not son of HENRY II, m Alice
Sibylla, d 1122, m Alexander I, “the Fierce”, King of Scots (1107-1124)
RAINALD (REGINALD) de Dunstanville, created Earl of Cornwall by Matilda, d 1175, m Beatrice in 1140 (see under Dunstanville for descendants)
Gundredxe
Rohese, m bef 1135 Henry de la Pomerai, a Devonshire baron, d 1167
By NESTA, Princess of Wales, the wife of GERALD (de Windsor) FITZWALTER (see under Wales, Princes and Kings, for further information on NESTA)
HENRY FitzRegis “the King’s son”, killed 1157 in HENRY II’s invasion of Anglesey
Meiler FitzHenry, d 1220, Justiciar of Ireland (1199-1208)
Meiler, an illegitimate son
Robert FitzHenry
AMABILIS, m WALTER de RIDELSFORD (see under Ridelsford for descendants)
By Isabel (Elizabeth) his youngest lover b between 1102 & 1107, dau of ROBERT de BEAUMONT, Comte de Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester. She later m GILBERT de CLARE, and became Countess of Pembroke
Isabel, b ca 1120, d unm
By EDITH (EDE), dau of PHORNE SIGULFSON, Lord of Greystoke, Cumberland, (see under Greystoke for ancestors) and later wife of ROBERT d’OILLI, Constable of Oxford Castle (see under Oilley for descendants)
Robert, “the King’s son”, d 1172, m MAUD, widow of WILLIAM de CURCI, dau and heiress of ROBERT d’AVRANCHES. Their dau Maud, Dame du Sap m as 2nd
wife of RENAUD de COURTENAY
MAUD (MATILDA) II (another), m bef 1113 CONAN III, Duc de Bretagne (see under Brittany for descendants)
By another EDITH (not Greystoke)
MAUD (yet another), died 1120 in the White Ship disaster, m 1103 ROUTROU II, Comte de Perche (ancestors of later Comtes d’ALENÇON)
Adeliza, not known to have married
By unknown mothers
Maud (yet another), Abbess of Montivilliers
Gilbert, b ca 1130
WILLIAM de TRACY, (see under Tracy for descendants)
EUSTACIE (MABEL), m GUILLAUME III GOUET de Montmirail (see under Donzy for descendants)
CONSTANCE (CATHERINE), m bef 1135 ROSCELIN (RICHARD) de BEAUMONT, Vicomte de Maine, parents of ERMENGARDE, Queen of Scots and 1st
wife of King WILLIAM the Lion (see under Scotland, Kings for descendants)
ALICE (ALINE), m MATTHIEU I, Baron de Montmorenci (see under Montmorenci for descendants)
EMMA, m GUY IV de LAVAL (see under Laval for descendants)
ELIZABETH m FERGUS of Galloway, parents of UHTRED (see under Galloway for descendants)
A probable dau SYBIL of Falaise m BALDWIN de BOULERS (see under Boulers for descendants)
A dau (possibly one of the above) whom Henry unsuccessfully betrothed to WILLIAM de WARRENNE, 2nd Earl of Surrey
A dau (possibly one of the above) unsuccessfully betrothed to Hugh FitzGervais
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STEPHEN, Comte de Blois, (see under Blois for ancestors) m ADELA, dau of WILLIAM the Conqueror (see above for ancestors)
Guillaume, m Agnes dau of Giles de Sully
THIBAULT IV “le Grand”, Comte de Blois and Comte THIBAULT II de Champagne (see under Champagne for descendants)
STEPHEN
Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
Matilda, m Richard, Earl of Chester and both drowned 1120 in the White Ship disaster
King STEPHEN (1135-54), b 1104, m in 1125 MAUD (MATILDA) b 1103, d 1151, dau of EUSTACE III, Comte de Boulogne (see under Boulogne for ancestors) and MARY dau of King MALCOLM III of Scotland (see under Scotland for ancestors)
Baldwin, d an infant
Matilda
Eustace, Comte de Boulogne, choked on an egg (or a dish of eels) at Bury St. Edmunds & dsp 1153, m Constance, sister of King LOUIS VII; she 2ndly m Raymond V,
Comte de Toulouse (see under Toulouse for descendants)
William, Comte de Boulogne, Comte de Mortaigne, jure uxoris Earl of Surrey, m Isabella, dau of William de Warrenne, Earl of Surrey
MARIE de Blois, d 1180 as Abbess of Romsey, m in 1160 MATTHIEU d’Alsace, Comte de Boulogne, son of THEODORE, Comte de Flandres, and their dau
MAUD d’Alsace m HENRI I Duc de Brabant (see under Brabant for descendants)
dau 2, (said by some to be illegitimate) m HERVÉ II, Comte de León (see under León, Comtes, for descendants)
Prior to his marriage he also had at least one illegitimate son by Dalmeta, a Norman woman.
Gervase of Blois, b ca 1115/20, Abbot of Westminster
He had at least two other illegitimate sons, possibly also by Dalmeta, including:
Almaric
Ralph
He may have had an illegitimate son William of Blois who m as 1st husband of Countess ISABEL de WARRENNE and became jure uxoris Earl of Surrey. She 2ndly m HAMELINE PLANTAGENET
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GEOFFREY V (Plantagenet), Count of Anjou and Maine (see under Anjou for his ancestors), d 1151 after bathing in a cold stream, m as 2nd husband of the “Empress” MATILDA (Maud), dau of King HENRY I, d 1169. Her 1st husband had been Henirich V, Holy Roman Emperor (see under Brunswick for descendants)
HENRY II “Henry FitzEmpress”
Geoffrey, d 1158, Comte de Nantes
William Longsword (Longsépée), d 1164, Comte de Poitou
A natural son HAMELINE PLANTAGENET, m 1stly ISABEL de WARRENNE and thus obtained jure uxoris the Earldom of Surrey and assumed the name de Warrenne (see under Warrenne for descendants). Her 1st husband was William de Blois, Comte de Boulogne and Comte de Mortaigne in Normandy, a son (possibly illegitimate) of King STEPHEN (see above).
HENRY II, Duke of Normandy ca 1150, King of England (1154-1189) b 1133, on 18.5.1152 m ELEANOR (ALIÉNOR) of AQUITAINE, b 1122, d 1204, dau and heiress of GUILHEM X, Duke of Aquitaine, Comte de Poitou & Limousin (see under Aquitaine for ancestors) and divorced (18.3.1152)
wife of King LOUIS VII of France (see under France for their descendants).
William b 17.8.1152, d 1156
Henry, “the Young King”, b 1155, crowned 1170 by Archbishop of York, d 1183, m as 1st husband of Margaret, dau of LOUIS VII of France (she left Henry while
pregnant and WILLIAM MARSHAL was suspected of being her lover); she 2ndly m as 2nd wife of King Bela III of Hungary. Henry and Margaret had a son
Arthur, b & d 1177
MATILDA, b 1156, d 1189, m HEINRICH “the Lion”, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (see under Bavaria for descendants)
King Richard I “the Lion-Heart”, (1189-1199), b 1157 m Berengaria, dau of King SANCHO V of Navarre. Richard died from a crossbow bolt in the neck. He was
possibly bi-sexual and had an illegitimate son
Philippe de Cognac (Charente), m Amelie, dau of Seigneur de Cognac
GEOFFREY, b 1158, Aug 1186 trampled to death at a tournament in Paris, made Comte de Bretagne and Earl of Richmond, m as 1st husband of CONSTANCE (d
1241), dau and heiress of CONAN IV Duc de Bretagne, and had dau Eleanor (imprisoned for 40 years) and son Arthur, Comte de Bretagne (who was murdered in 1205
upon the orders of his uncle King JOHN. CONSTANCE 2ndly m Ranulph, Earl of Chester; she 3rdly m GUY, Vicomte de Thouars (see under Thouars for descendants)
ELEANOR, b 1162, d 1215, m 1stly ALFONSO III, King of Castile (see under Castile, Kings, for ancestors and descendants)
Joanna, b 1165, d 1199, m 1stly Guglielmo II, King of Sicily 1166-89, and in 1195 2ndly m as 4th wife of Raymond VI, (d 1222) Count of Toulouse, parents of Raymond VII.
Raymond VI also kept a harem. She d at Fontrevault.
JOHN, b 1167
By the whore Ykenai (Hikenai) HENRY II probably had
Geoffrey ‘Plantagenet’, probably born before 1152, later Archbishop of York (He had a brother Peter who may have had the same mother but possibly not the same father.)
HENRY II was also thought to have had 2 children by his mistress in 1173-6 “the Fair ROSAMOND” CLIFFORD (d 1176, buried at Godstow Priory, see under Clifford for ancestors), including one who d an infant and
WILLIAM LONGSÉPÉE, b ca 1170, (mother uncertain but may have been ROSAMUND) made Earl of Salisbury (see under Longsépée for descendants)
By Nest, the wife of Ralph Bloet HENRY II had
Morgan, probably b ca 1180, provost of Beverley 1201, Bishop elect of Durham 1213
HENRY II also probably seduced ALICE dau of LOUIS VII of France, during her care in the English court while betrothed to his son Richard; and Eudo de Porhöet claimed his daughter had been incestuously seduced by HENRY. His other paramours included Bellebelle (mentioned in 1184)
King JOHN “Lackland” (1199-1216) b 1167, d of dysentery at Newark. “He deflowered the wives and daughters of his nobles: not a woman was spared if he was seized by the desire to defile her in the heat of his lust”. Although engaged to the heiress of Maurienne, he 1stly m in 1189 his 2nd cousin Hawisa (Isabella), granddau of ROBERT of Gloucester, bastard son of HENRY I. After ten years of childless marriage they were divorced in 1199 on grounds of consanguinity. She then 2ndly m Geoffrey de Mandeville, 5th Earl of Essex and one of the 25 peers later enforcing the Magna Carta. She 3rdly m as 1st wife HUBERT de BURGH, 1st Earl of Kent.
2ndly m in 1200 ISABELLA “the Helen of Europe” a 15 yr old dau and heiress of AYMER TAILLEFER, Comte d’Angoulême (see under Angoulême for ancestors). She was already engaged to HUGH X “le Brun” de Lusignan and later married him ca 1220 after King JOHN died (see under Lusignan for descendants). She d 1246. While still m to JOHN he had one of her lovers hanged from the curtain cords at the foot of her bed, but when that failed to restrain her extra-marital activities he sent her to prison.
HENRY III, b 1207
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Earl of Cornwall, said to have become the richest man in Europe, elected King of the Romans 1257, drowned 1272, m 1stly as 2nd
husband of ISABELLA, widow of GILBERT de CLARE and dau of WILLIAM MARSHAL, Earl of Pembroke
John, b 1232, d 1233
Isabella, b 1233, d 1234
Henry “of Almayne”, b 1235, murdered 1271 in Italy by his cousins Simon and Guy de Montfort, m Constance, widow of Alfonso, Infante of Aragón
Nicholas, d & d 1240
RICHARD 2ndly m 1243 Sanchia (d 1261), sister of Queen ELEANOR wife of HENRY III and dau of RAYMOND BERENGAR V, Comte de Provence
Richard, b & d 1246
Edmund “of Almayne”, b 1249, dsp 1300, Earl of Cornwall, m Margaret, dau of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester
Richard (another), b 1252, killed unmrrd 1296
RICHARD 3rdly m Beatrix, dau of Guillaume de Fauquemont, Comte de Montjoye.
RICHARD PLANTAGENET also had an illegitimate son RICHARD of CORNWALL whose dau JOAN m Sir JOHN HOWARD (see under Howard, Dukes of
Norfolk, for descendants)
JOAN “Makepeace”, b 1210, d 1238, engaged to HUGH de Lusignan but m ALEXANDER II of Scotland (see under Scotland for descendants)
Isabella, b 1214, d 1241, m as 3rd wife of FRIEDRICH II, Holy Roman Emperor
ELEANOR, b 1215, d 1235, m 1stly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke & one of the Barons named in the Magna Carta (d 1231); she 2ndly m SIMON de
MONTFORT (b 1206, d 1265, who re-inherited the Earldom of Leicester through his grandmother, and after defeating HENRY III at Lewes in 1264 governed
England for a year until he was slain at Evesham in 1265 (see under Montfort for descendants)
One of King JOHN’s concubines was AGATHA, dau of ROBERT de FERRERS, 4th Earl of Derby (see under Ferrers for ancestors)
JOANE (a “natural dau”), 3rd consort of LLEWELYN FAWR, Prince of Gwynedd, (see under Wales, Princes and Kings, for descendants)
By Hawise, possibly a Tracy, JOHN had
Oliver “the King’s son”, d 1218 on the 5th Crusade
By “Queen” Clementia JOHN had
Joan, m Llewelyn ap Iorweth, Prince of North Wales
By Maud, sister of the Earl of WARENNE
Richard de Dover (de Chilham), m Rohese, heiress of Dover and Chilham Dover
JOHN’s other paramours included Susanna, Alpesia, the wife of Henry Biset, Matilda (Maud) the wife of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Hawise Comtesse d’Aumâle, and Joan (the wife Hugh “the Forester” de Neville) who gave the King two hundred chickens “that she may lie one night with her Lord Hugh de Neville”.
JOHN’s other illegitimate sons included
Geoffrey “the King’s son”, held the honour of Perche, d 1205
John, probably a clerk at Lincoln
Henry FitzRoy, had lands in Cornwall
Osbert Giffardxe "Giffard, son of King John"
Richard (another), Constable of Wallingford Castle in 1216
Eudo FitzRoy
King HENRY III (1216-1272), b 1206, remains in Westminster Abbey, m in 1236 ELEANOR, (b 1223, d 1291 in Amesbury convent), 2nd dau and co-heiress of RAYMOND BERENGAR V, Comte de Provence, by his wife BEATRICE, dau of TOMASSO I, Comte de Savoie (see under Savoie for ancestors)
Henry, d an infant
John, d an infant
EDWARD I, b 1239
MARGARET, b 1240, d 1275, m ALEXANDER III, King of Scotland (see under Scotland for descendants)
William, d an infant
BEATRICE, b 1242, d 1272, m JEAN II de Dreux, Duc de Bretagne, d 1305 (see under Brittany for descendants)
EDMUND PLANTAGENET “Crouchback”, Earl of Lancaster, b 1245, d 1296, remains in Westminster Abbey (see under Plantagenet, Earls of Lancaster for
descendants)
Richard, d an infant
Katherine, b deaf and dumb 1253, d in infancy
King EDWARD I “Longshanks” (1272-July 1307), b 1239, d at Burgh-on-Sands while at war in Scotland, remains in Westminster Abbey. He m 1stly in 1254 ELEANOR of Castile (see under Castile for ancestors) when he was still only 15 and she was still a child, b 1246, d 1290, dau of King FERNANDO III of Castile and his 2nd wife JEANNE (see under Alençon and Ponthieu for ancestors), dau and heiress of SIMON de DAMMARTIN, Comte de Ponthieu et Aumâle. EDWARD I and ELEANOR went on a Crusade together from 1270 to 1272, and she was said to have saved his life by sucking poison from his wounds when he had been stabbed by an assassin. On the way home he and his famous jousting horse Ferrant killed the Comte de Châlons at the famous tournament in Châlons. EDWARD and ELEANOR were thought to have had 17 children, some dying soon after birth and possibly never named
ELEANOR, b 1264, d 1297/8, m 1stly ALPHONSO III Aragón (see under Aragón for descendants) and then m Henri III, Comte de Bar
Joan d an infant 1265
John, b 1266, d 1271
Henry, b 1267, d 1274
Anon, born in Holy Land and soon died
JOANE “of Acre”, b 1272 at Acre, d 1307, raised in Castile by her grandmother, betrothed as a child to son of RICHARD PLANTAGENET, King of the Romans (see
above) but 1stly m as 2nd wife of GILBERT de CLARE, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (see under Clare for descendants); she 2ndly m as 1st wife of RALPH
MONTHERMER, during her life jure uxoris Earl of Gloucester and Hertford (see under Monthermer for descendants)
Alfonso, b 1273, d 1284
Margaret, b 1275, d 1318, m Jean II, Duke of Brabant
Berengaria, b 1276, d 1279
Mary, b 1278, d 1332 a nun
Alice, b 1279, d 1291
EDWARD II (1307-21.9.1327), b 1280 at Carnarvon (see below)
Princess ELIZABETH PLANTAGENET, b 1282, d 1316, buried at Walden Priory (destroyed by order of HENRY VIII and now under Audley End Mansion), m 1stly
Jan II, Count of Holland; she 2ndly m HUMPHREY de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex (see under Bohun for descendants)
Beatrice, b ca 1286, died young
Blanche, b 1290, died young
King EDWARD I 2ndly m MARGUERITE, dau of PHILIPPE III, King of France by his wife MARIE, only dau of HENRI III, Duke of Brabant (see under Brabant for ancestors).
THOMAS of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England, b 1300, d 1338, m 1stly ALICE, dau of Sir ROGER HAYLES of Harwich.
Edward, b 1319, d 1332, m Beatrix dau of ROGER MORTIMER
MARGARET, cr Duchess of Norfolk, m JOHN, 4th Baron Mowbray (see under Mowbray for descendants)
Alice, m as 1st wife of Edward, 1st Baron Montagu
THOMAS of Brotherton 2ndly m Mary, dau of WILLIAM, 2nd Baron ROS (see under Ros for ancestors). She then 2ndly m RALPH de COBHAM.
EDMUND of Woodstock
Eleanor, 2nd of that name, d young
Before his 1st marriage HENRY III may also have had an illegitimate son Sir John Botetourt, Lord of Mendlesham, d 1324, possibly by the wife of the Earl of Gloucester; and he was said to have later had a brief affair with ALICE his cousin and wife of JOHN de WARRENNE, Earl of Surrey.
EDMUND of Woodstock, b 1301, created Earl of Kent 1321, m MARGARET, Baroness Wake (see under Wake for ancestors), widow of John Comyn, beheaded 1330 for his part in conspiracy to rescue King EDWARD II from prison. He had to wait five hours on the scaffold for someone willing to behead him. xe "COMYN - Earls of Buchan"
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent, b 1326, d 1333
Margaret, m Amaneus, son of Bernard, Lord de la Brette
JOANE “the Fair Maid of Kent”, Countess of Kent, Baroness Woodstock and Baroness Wake, b 1328, d 1385. At age of 12 exchanged vows and had intercourse
with THOMAS HOLLAND. The next year she m 1stly as 1st wife of William de Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. They were divorced and she 2ndly m in 1349 (having
been affianced since 1346) Sir THOMAS de HOLLAND jure uxoris Earl of Kent with whom she had 3 sons and 3daughters (see under Holland for descendants). She
3rdly m the “Black Prince” EDWARD of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, with whom she had 2 sons (see later for descendants)
John, 3rd Earl of Kent, b 1330, d 1352
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King EDWARD II (1307-27), b 1280, remains in Gloucester Cathedral. It was originally intended he should marry Margaret “the Maid of Norway”, grand-dau of King Alexander III of Scotland, and thus unite the two kingdoms. However she was drowned aged only 4 in 1290. He m in 1308 ISABELLA, (d 1358), eldest dau of PHILIPPE IV, King of France by his wife JEANNE I, Queen of Navarre (see under Navarre for ancestors). However EDWARD II was homosexually inclined and the nobles led by Thomas of Lancaster and the Earl of Warwick had his favourite Piers Gaveston exiled in 1311 and beheaded when he unwisely returned. EDWARD II then came under the influence of HUGH DESPENSER the Elder and his bisexual son HUGH DESPENSER. Some of the nobles forced their temporary exile, but EDWARD II called them back and his enraged wife ISABELLA ‘the She-wolf of France’ with her lover ROGER MORTIMER led a rebellion and had them both hanged, drawn and quartered. EDWARD II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327 by red hot irons being thrust through a cow’s horn inserted in his bottom. According to Churchill “his screams were said to have been heard in six counties”.
EDWARD IIIxe "SCOTLAND - Kings (See also under Baliol and Brus)"
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, b 1316, d unm 1336
ELEANOR, d 1355, m as 2nd wife of RAINALD II, Comte de Gueldres (see under Gueldres for descendants)
Joan, d 1362, m as 1st wife David (Bruce) II, King of Scotland (d 1370), and eventually spent 11 yrs with him in the Tower of London
King EDWARD II also had an illegitimate son
Adam, b ca 1310
King EDWARD III (1327-77), b 1312, founded Order of the Garter 1348, m in Jan 1328 PHILIPPA, 3rd dau of GUILLAUME III, Comte de of Hainault (see under Hainault for ancestors) by his wife JEANNE, 2nd dau of CHARLES, Comte de Valois (and sister of PHILIPPE VI, King of France)
EDWARD of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, b 15.6.1330, d 1376, KG “the Black Prince”, of whom at the age of 16 his father ordered at Crécy “also say to them, that
they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if God be pleased, I woll this journey be his, and the honoure thereof”. Created Earl of Chester 1333, Duke of
Cornwall 1337 (the first English duke) and Prince of Wales 1337. He m as 3rd husband of JOAN “the Fair Maid of Kent” (see above)
Edward, b 1365, dvp 1372
King Richard II (1377-1399), succeeded King EDWARD III, murdered 1400, m 1stly Anne, dau of Emperor Charles IV of Bohemia, and their remains
are in Westminster Abbey; she 2ndly m the Duc d’Orléans. King Richard 2ndly m Isabella, dau of CHARLES VI of France
ELEANOR m THOMAS de MONTAGU, Earl of Salisbury (see under Montagu for descendants)
The Black Prince by his mistress Edith de Willesford also had at least one bastard son Sir Roger de Clarendon (who m Margaret, d 1382, heiress to the Barony of La
Roches), and he was hanged 1402.
The Prince may have had another illegitimate son, John de Galeis
Isabelle, b 16.6.1332, m Enguerrand (Ingelram) de Coucy, a hostage, made Earl of Bedford (see under Coucy for ancestors)
Joan, b Feb 1335, d 1348
William “of Hatfield” b & d 1337
LIONEL “of Antwerp”, b 29.11.1338, Duke of Clarence, Earl of Ulster (see below)
JOHN “of Gaunt”, b Mar 1340 at Ghent, (see below)
EDMUND “of Langley”, b 5.6.1341, Earl of Cambridge, Duke of York, m 1stly ISABELLE illegitimate dau of PEDRO “the Cruel”, King of Castile and León (see
under Castile for her ancestors and see below for their descendants).
Blanche, b & d at Tower of London 1342
Mary, b Oct 1344, m 1361 Jean V, Duc de Bretagne
Margaret, b 20.7.1346, m 1359 John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke
William (of Windsor) b & d 1348
THOMAS “of Woodstock”, Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Gloucester, b 7.1.1355, murdered at Calais by order of Richard II in 1397. He m ELEANOR, heiress &
dau of HUMPHREY de BOHUN, 7th Earl of Hereford.
Humphrey, b 1382, 2nd Duke of Gloucester, d 1399
ANNE, b 1383, m 1stly Thomas, 3rd Earl of Stafford; she 2ndly m EDMUND, 5th Earl of Stafford (see under Stafford for descendants); and she 3rdly
m Sir William Bourchier, Comte d’Eu
Joan, b 1384, d 1400
Isabel, b 1386, d a nun 1402
Philippa, b 1389, d 1399
EDWARD’s mistress ALICE PERRERS (ca 1345-1400) dau of Sir Richard Perrers of Herts, was a damsel of Queen PHILIPPA. She was married off to Sir William Windsor, Viceroy of Ireland (1369-76) after becoming very influential and was eventually impeached with Archbishop Latimer in 1376.
Sir John de Southerey (Surrey), b ca 1364, knighted 1377, m Maud, sister of Henry Lord Percy
Joan, m Robert Skernexe "Skerne", a Kingston-upon-Thames lawyer
Jane, m Richard Northlandxe "Northland"
ALICE PERRERS also had another dau Joan “the younger” sired by Sir William Windsor whom she m in 1377
King EDWARD was said to have lusted after MAUD, Countess of Salisbury while playing chess and then to have raped her.
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LIONEL PLANTAGENET, created 1st Duke of Clarence 1362, (see above), d 1368, d 1368, m 1stly at the Tower of London in 1342 ELIZABETH de BURGH (d 1363) and became jure uxoris Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaught (see under Burgh for her ancestors).
PHILIPPA, b 1355, m EDMUND MORTIMER, 3rd Earl of March (see under Mortimer for descendants) Note: Previté-Orton has her the dau of Violante below.
LIONEL 2ndly m in 1368 Violante (b 1353, d 1382) yngr dau of Visconti Galleazzo II, Lord of Milan. The Duke died and was first buried at Pavia, but his remains were later transferred to Clare Priory, Suffolk.
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EDMUND “of Langley”, created Earl of Cambridge and Duke of York (origin of the “Yorkists”), b 1341 at Langley, d 1402, m 1stly ISABELLA, illegitimate dau of PEDRO I “the Cruel”, King of Castile and León by his mistress MARIA de Padilla (see under Castile for ancestors).
Edward, Earl of Rutland, Duke of Albemarle, succeeded as 2nd Duke of York, killed at Agincourt
1415, m as 3rd husband of Philippa, widow of Sir John Golofre and Walter, 4th Baron FitzWalter,
dau of John de Mohun, 5th Baron of Dunster and his wife Joane de Burghersh.
RICHARD of Conisburgh, succeeded as Earl of Cambridge
CONSTANCE, m THOMAS le DESPENSER (see under Despenser for descendants)
"EDMUND 2ndly m JOANE, dau of THOMAS HOLLAND, 2nd Earl of Kent. She 2ndly m as 2nd wife of William, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby; she 3rdly m as the 2nd wife of Henry, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham; and she 4thly m as 2nd wife of Henry Bromflete, Baron Vescy
RICHARD, Earl of Cambridge, b 1376, beheaded for high treason 1415, 1stly m ANNE MORTIMER, dau of ROGER MORTIMER, Earl of March (see under Mortimer for ancestors)
RICHARD, 3rd Duke of York
ISABELLA, m HENRY BOURCHIER, Earl of Essexxe "BOURCHIER - Barons, Earls of Essex" (see under Bourchier for descendants)
RICHARD 2ndly m Maud, dau of Thomas, 4th Baron Clifford. She 2ndly m John Neville, 5th Baron Latimer of Danby
Constance, b 1374, m Thomas, 6th Baron Le Despenser, beheaded 1400
1 son & 2 daus
RICHARD, succeeded his uncle as 3rd Duke of York, Earl of March and Ulster, declared heir to the Crown and killed by Lord Clifford following Battle of Wakefield 30 Dec 1460 and his head displayed over the gates of York, m CICELY NEVILLE who d 1495 (see under Neville for ancestors)
Anne, b 1439, d 1475, m 1stly and had dau by Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter (found dead in English
Channel 1473); she 2ndly m and had a dau by Thomas St. Leger (executed 1483)
Henry, b 1441. d young
EDWARD IV (it was later alleged in the lead up to RICHARD III’s succession that EDWARD was not Duke RICHARD’s son)
Edmund, b 1443, Earl of Rutland, also killed by Lord Clifford after Battle of Wakefield 1460
ELIZABETH, b 1444, m JOHN de la POLE, Duke of Suffolk (see under La Pole for descendants)
Margaret, b 1446, d 1503, m as 3rd wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
William, b 1447, d young
John, b 1448, d young
George, Duke of Clarence, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, b 1449, Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord of Richmond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, executed 1478 in Tower of
London for treason, reputably by drowning in a butt of Malmsey wine, m Isabella, eldest dau and co-heiress of RICHARD NEVILLE, Earl of Warwick
Anne, b 1470, d an infant
Margaret, b 1473, beheaded 1541, made Countess of Salisbury by King Henry VIII, m Sir Richard Pole, KG, had 4 sons & 1 dau
Edward, b 1474, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, beheaded 1499
Richard, b 1476, d 1477
Thomas, b 1450/1, d an infant
Richard III, Duke of Gloucester, succeeded EDWARD V as King of England (1483-85), m as 2nd husband of Anne, d 1485 during an eclipse of the sun, yngr dau and co-
heir of RICHARD NEVILLE, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. She had 1stly been betrothed and possibly m to Edward, son & heir of King Henry VI
Edward, b 1473, dvp 1484
Richard III also had illegitimate children before his marriage, including:
Richard Plantagenet, b ca 1469, after Battle of Bosworth lived as a bricklayer, d 1550
John de Gloucester, “John de Pomfret”, b ca 1470, Captain of Calais, murdered in 1499 by order of HENRY VII
Katherine Plantagenet, m Lord Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon
? Stephen Hawes
Ursula, b 1453/4, d young
King EDWARD IV (1461-70, 1471-83), 4th Duke of York, later alleged to have 1stl been betrothed to Eleanor Butler, he 1stly m 1464 ELIZABETH, widow of Sir John Grey and eldest dau of RICHARD WYDEVILLE, 1st Earl Rivers (see under Wydeville for ancestors)
ELIZABETH, b 1465, d 1503, m HENRY VII (see below for descendants)
Mary, b 1466, d 1482
Cicely, b 1469, d 1507, m 1487 1stly John Viscount Welles, and 2ndly m 1503 Thomas Kyme
Edward V, King of England (1483), b 1470, one of the “Princes in the Tower of London” murdered 1483, possibly by order of his uncle RICHARD III
Margaret, b 1472, m Lord de L’Isle
Richard, Duke of York, b 1473, d 1483, 2nd of the “Princes in the Tower of London” murdered 1483
Anne, b 1475, d 1511, m 1495 as 1st wife of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
George, b 1477, d 1479
Catherine, b 1479, d 1527, m William Courtenay, Earl of Devon
Bridget, b 1480, d 1517, a nun at Dartford.
Probably by Elizabeth Lucy (née Wayte) daughter of a Hampshire landowner. “He loved her well and she was his witty concubine, for she was a wanton wench, and willing and ready to yield herself to the King and to his pleasures without any conditions”.
Arthur Plantagenet, KG, b 1461/4, a favourite of King Henry VIII, created Viscount Lisle, Vice-Admiral of England, Lord Deputy of Calais, m 1stly Elizabeth (by whom he
had 3 daus), widow of Edmund, Lord Dudley, and dau of Edward Grey, Viscount Lisle; he 2ndly m Honor Grenville, widow of Sir John Basset. Arthur and Honor were
arrested 1540, and he died in the Tower 1542. Honor became insane.
Possibly by Elizabeth Lucy he also had an illegitimate daughter Grace
Another of his long term friends was Elizabeth Shore “the merry concubine”, dau of a wealthy London merchant and m to another.xe "Shore" Her intimate services were also made available to EDWARD’s friends.