King of England Edward PLANTAGENET, I

1239 - 1307  (68 years)

• Name	Edward PLANTAGENET
  Title	King of England
  Suffix	I
  Birth	17 Jun 1239	Westminster, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jul 1307	Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Scotland   [1]
  Burial	Westminster, England
  Person ID	I19846	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	King of England Henry PLANTAGENET, III,   b. 10 Oct 1206, Winchester, England d. 16 Nov 1272, Westminster, England (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Eleanor of PROVENCE   d. 24 Jun 1291
  Marriage	4 Jan 1235/36  [1]
  Family ID	F07534	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Princess, Queen Eleanor of CASTILE,   b. 1241   d. 27 Nov 1290 (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	1 Nov 1254	Monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain   [1]
  Children	1. Princess Joan of ACRE,   b. 1272   d. 10 May 1305 (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F07531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret of France
  Marriage	1299
  Family ID	F07538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Edward is often considered to be the most successful of medieval monarchs. He is known as Edward Longshanks; also Hammer of the Scots. He fathered sixteen children by his first wife and three by the second. See: http://royaldescent.blogspot.com/2010/02/plantagenet-1-marriage-of-edward- i-and.html From Wikipedia: "Uncommon for such marriages of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover like his father, Edward was very devoted to his queen and was faithful to her throughout their married lives -- a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was deeply affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so-called Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cort

  
  

• Sources

  [S013457] Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 34.