Lady Companion, Order of the Garter Constance Langley

Constance married 6th Lord Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester Thomas Le Despenser in Bet. 16 Apr 1378 and 7 Nov 1389. Thomas was born on 22 Sep 1373; died on 13 Jan 1400; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward Le Despenser
2. Elizabeth Le Despenser was born in Abt. 1398; died in Abt. 1398.
3. Lord le Despenser, 4th Lord Burghersh Sir Richard Le Despenser was born in 1396; died on 07 Oct 1414 in Merton, Surrey, England, United Kingdom; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.
4. Hugh Le Despenser was born in Abt. 1400; died in Abt. 1401.
5. 5th Baroness Burghersh Isabel Le Despenser was born on 26 Jul 1400 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom; died on 27 Dec 1439 in Minoresses' Convent, Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; was buried on 13 Jan 1440 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom.

Family/Spouse: 4th Earl of Kent Edmund De Holand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Baroness Audley Eleanor De Holland was born in Abt. 1406.

Edmund married Lady Companion, Order of the Garter Isabella de Castilla after 1 Jan 1371 and 1372 in Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Isabella was born in Abt. 1355 in Morales de Toro, Zamora, Castile and León, Spain; died on 23 Dec 1392; was buried on 14 Jan 1392/93 in Church of the Dominicans, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward III (1312-77), king of England (1327-77), who initiated the long, drawn-out struggle with France called the Hundred Years' War.Edward was born at Windsor on November 13, 1312, the elder son of King Edward II, of the house of Plantagenet. Involved by his mother, Isabella of France, in her intrigues against his father, he was proclaimed king after the latter was forced to abdicate in 1327. During Edward's minority, England was nominally ruled by a council of regency, but the actual power was in the hands of Isabella and her paramour, Roger de Mortimer. In 1330, however, the young king staged a palace coup and took the power into his own hands. He had Mortimer hanged and confined his mother to her home.Edward began a series of wars almost directly after he had control of England. Taking advantage of civil war in Scotland in 1333, he invaded the country, defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill, England, and restored Edward de Baliol to the throne of Scotland. Baliol, however, was soon deposed, and later attempts by Edward to establish him permanently as king of Scotland were unsuccessful. In 1337 France came to the aid of Scotland. This action was the culminating point in a series of disagreements between France and England, and Edward declared war on Philip VI of France. In 1340 the English fleet destroyed a larger French fleet off Sluis, the Netherlands. The action resulted in a truce that, although occasionally disturbed, lasted for six years.War broke out again in 1346. Edward, accompanied by his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, invaded Normandy and won a great victory over France in the Battle of Crécy. He captured Calais in 1347, and a truce was reestablished. Edward returned to England, where he maintained one of the most magnificent courts in Europe. The war with France was renewed in 1355, and again the English armies were successful. The Peace of Calais, in 1360, gave England all of Aquitaine, and Edward in return renounced his claim, first made in 1328, to the French throne.Edward continued to assert his will both domestically and abroad. In 1363 he concluded an agreement with his brother-in-law, David II of Scotland, uniting the two kingdoms in the event of David's death without male issue. Three years later Edward repudiated the papacy's feudal supremacy over England, held in fief since 1213. He renewed his war with France, disavowing the Peace of Calais. This time, however, the English armies were unsuccessful. After the truce of 1375, Edward retained few of his previously vast possessions in France.The king had, by this time, become senile. He was completely in the power of an avaricious mistress, Alice Perrers, who, along with his fourth son, John of Gaunt, dominated England. Perrers was banished by Parliament in 1376, and Edward himself died at Sheen (now Richmond) on June 21, 1377. He was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.
"Edward III," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Edward married Queen of England Phillipa De Hainaut in 24 Jan 1327 and 1328 in York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. Phillipa (daughter of William III De Avesnes, Count Of Hainault and Countess Jeanne De Valois) was born on 24 Jun 1311 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium; died on 15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom; was buried in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1. Edward II, Plantagenet king of England (1307-1327), whose incompetence and distaste for government finally led to his deposition and murder. Edward was the fourth son of King Edward I and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. The deaths of his older brothers made the infant prince heir to the throne; in 1301 he was proclaimed prince of Wales, the first heir apparent in English history to bear that title. The prince was idle and frivolous, with no liking for military campaigning or affairs of state.Believing that the prince's close friend Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight, was a bad influence on the prince, Edward I banished Gaveston. On his father's death, however, Edward II recalled his favorite homosexual lover Piers Gaveston from exile, abandoned the campaign against Robert Bruce, and devoted himself to frivolity.Gaveston incurred the opposition of the powerful English barony. The nobles were particularly angered in 1308, when Edward made Gaveston regent for the period of the king's absence in France, where he went to marry Isabella, 15, daughter of King Philip IV. Gaveston married the king's niece, Margaret of Gloucester, and received the earldom of Cornwall. In 1311 the barons, led by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, forcedthe king to appoint from among them a committee of 21 nobles and prelates, called the lords ordainers. They proclaimed a series of ordinances that transferred the ruling power to themselves and excluded the commons and lower clergy from Parliament. After they had twice forced the king to banish Gaveston, and the king had each time recalled him, the English barons finally had the king's favorite kidnapped and treacherously executed. In the meantime, Robert Bruce had almost completed his re conquest of Scotland, which he had begun shortly after 1305. In 1314 Edward II and his barons raised an army of some 100,000 men with which to crush Bruce,but in the attempt to lift the siege of Stirling they were decisively defeated (Battle of Bannockburn). For the following eight years the earl of Lancaster virtually ruled thekingdom. In 1322, however, with the advice and help of two new royal favorites, the baron Hugh le Despenser, and his son, also Hugh le Despenser, Edward defeated Lancaster in battle and had him executed. The le Despensers thereupon became de facto rulers of England. They summoned a Parliament in which the commons were included and which repealed the ordinances of 1311 on the ground that they had been passed by the barons only. The repeal was a great step forward in English constitutional development, for it meant that thenceforth no law passed by Parliament was valid unless the House of Commons approved it. Edward again futilely invaded Scotland in 1322, and in 1323 signed a 13-year truce with Bruce. In 1325 Queen Isabella accompanied the prince of Wales to France, where, in accordance with feudal custom, he did homage to king Charles IV for the fief of Aquitaine. Isabella, who desired to depose the le Despensers, allied herself with some barons who had been exiled by Edward. In 1326, with their leader, Roger de Mortimer, Isabella raised an army and invaded England. Edward and his favoritesfled, but his wife's army pursued and executed the le Despensers. Edward II was effectively deposed by his wife Isabelle and her lover Mortimer, who had the parliament of Westminster force the king's abdication and replace him with his son of 14, who reigned until 1377 as Edward III. Edward II was captured in 1326, deposed in 1327, imprisoned in Berkeley Castle where he was mistreated in hopes that he would die of disease and malnutrition, but the king had a strong constitution, so he was put to death with cruelty September 21; it was announced that he died of natural causes.

Edward married Queen of England, Princess of France Isabelle de France in 28 Jan 1307 and 1308 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France. Isabelle (daughter of King of France Philip Capet, IV and Queen Of France, Princess Juana Navarre) was born in 1292 in Paris, Île-de-France, France; died on 22 Aug 1358 in Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom; was buried on 27 Nov 1358 in Grey Friars, Newgate, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Countess Jeanne De Valois on 23 May 1305 in Chanay, Ain, France. Jeanne (daughter of Comte Charles III d'Anjou, Comte de Valois Charles de France, I and Princess Marguerite Sicily & Naples) was born about 1291 in Valois, France; died in 7 Mar 1351 and 1352 in Fontenelle, Yonne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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