King of England Edward PLANTAGENET, I

1239 - 1307  (68 years)

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

  
  

  Father	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
  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   [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

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