King of England Edward PLANTAGENET, I

Male 1239 - 1307  (68 years)


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  • Name Edward PLANTAGENET 
    Title King of England 
    Suffix
    Born 17 Jun 1239  Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died 7 Jul 1307  Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19846  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Henry PLANTAGENET, III,   b. 10 Oct 1206, Winchester, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1272, Westminster, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Eleanor of PROVENCE,   d. 24 Jun 1291 
    Married 4 Jan 1235/36  [1
    Family ID F07534  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Eleanor of CASTILE,   b. 1241,   d. 27 Nov 1290  (Age 49 years) 
    Married 1 Nov 1254  Monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
     1. Joan of ACRE,   b. 1272,   d. 10 May 1305  (Age 33 years)
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F07531  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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

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