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1st Earl of Chester, Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward III of England Edward, III

1st Earl of Chester, Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward III of England Edward, III[1]

Male 1312 - 1377  (64 years)

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  • Name Edward  
    Title 1st Earl of Chester, Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward III of England 
    Suffix III 
    Born 13 Nov 1312  Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christened 20 Nov 1312 
    Gender Male 
    Died 21 Jun 1377  Shene Palace, , Surrey, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Buried Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5658461337  Master Tree
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2010 

    Father Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, 1st Earl of Chester, Prince of Wales, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward II of England Edward, II,   b. 25 Apr 1284, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Caernarvonshire, Wales, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Mother Queen of England, Princess of France Isabelle de France,   b. 1292, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1358, Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 28 Jan 1307 and 1308  Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5259605395  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Queen of England Phillipa De Hainaut,   b. 24 Jun 1311, Mons, Hainault, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Aug 1369, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 24 Jan 1327 and 1328  York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
    +1. 1st Earl of Chester, 1st Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales, Prince of Aquitaine, Lord of Biscay and Castro Urdiales Edward of Woodstock,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Woodstock Palance, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Jun 1376, Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years)
    +2. Countess of Bedford, Lady Companion, Order of the Garter Isabella of England,   b. 16 Jun 1332, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 4 May 1379, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
     3. Joan of England,   b. Feb 1334 and 1335, Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1348  (Age ~ 14 years)
     4. William of Hatfield,   b. Bef 16 Feb 1336 and 1337, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 8 Jul 1337, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 1 years)
    +5. Earl of Ulster, 1st Duke of Clarence Lionel of Antwerp,   b. 29 Nov 1338, Antwerp, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Oct 1368, Alba, Cuneo, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
    +6. Earl of Richmond, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lancaster, Lord of Beaufort and Nogent, Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Derby, Duke of Lancaster, Lord de Bergerac et Roche-sur-Yon, Duke of Aquitaine John de Gaunt,   b. Mar 1340, Gent, Flanders, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Feb 1398 and 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
    +7. 1st Earl of Cambridge, 1st Duke of York Edmund of Langley,   b. 5 Jun 1341, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Aug 1402, Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     8. Blanche de la Tour Plantagenet,   b. Mar 1342 and 1343, Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1342 and 1343, Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     9. Mary of England,   b. 10 Oct 1344, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bet. 1361 and 1362, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 16 years)
     10. Margaret of England,   b. 20 Jul 1346, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1 Oct 1361, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 15 years)
     11. Thomas of England,   b. 1347, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1348  (Age 1 years)
     12. William of Windsor,   b. Bef 24 Jun 1348, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 5 Sep 1348  (Age ~ 0 years)
    +13. 1st Earl of Buckingham, Earl of Essex, 1st Duke of Gloucester Thomas of Woodstock,   b. 7 Jan 1354 and 1355, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Sep 1397, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years)
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2010 
    Family ID F5259600019  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Alice Perrers,   b. Abt. 1348,   d. 1400  (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Children 
     1. Joan
     2. Jane
     3. Nicholas Lytlington,   d. 1386
     4. Sir John de Southeray,   b. Abt. 1364,   d. Aft. 1383  (Age ~ 20 years)
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2010 
    Family ID F16053349417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 13 Nov 1312 - Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 24 Jan 1327 and 1328 - York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 21 Jun 1377 - Shene Palace, , Surrey, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5351730431] Mac 14Febxx.FTW.

    2. [S5351729842] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 161-16 (Reliability: 3).