Read Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy Online
Authors: Alison Weir
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Royalty, #History, #General, #Historical, #Reference, #Genealogy & Heraldry, #Non Fiction
Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (23 page)
Blanche
She was the daughter of Robert I, Count of Artois, by Matilda, daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant, and she was born around
c
.1245/50. She married firstly Henry I, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne (
d
.1274), in 1269, and had issue:
1 Joan, Queen of Navarre (1273–1305); she married Philip IV, King of France (1268–1314), and had issue, including Isabella, wife of Edward II.
2 Theobald (
d
.young).
Blanche died on 2 May, 1302, in Paris, and was probably buried in the Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London.
Issue of marriage:
| (i) | Thomas |
| He was born around 1277/80. He became Earl of Lincoln in right of his wife on or before 28 October, 1294. He succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester on 8 September, 1298. He was styled Earl Ferrers (Derby) from 1301. He renounced the earldom of Lincoln when he divorced his wife in c .1318. Thomas was executed on 22 March, 1322, at Pontefract, Yorkshire, by order of Edward II. He was buried in the Priory of St John at Pontefract. | |
| Thomas married, on or before 28 October, 1294 (?), or perhaps as late as c. 1310 (although no record exists as to where): | |
| Alice | |
| She was the daughter of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, by Margaret, daughter of Sir William Longespee of Amesbury, Wiltshire, a descendant of Henry II. Alice was born on 25 December, 1281, probably at Denbigh Castle, Denbighshire, and succeeded her father as Countess of Lincoln on 5 February, 1311; she succeeded her mother as Countess of Salisbury before 20 September, 1311. Lancaster divorced her in c .1318 on account of her adultery with the Earl of Surrey’s squire, Sir Eubulo Lestraunge, whom she married as her second husband before 10 November, 1324. Eubulo died in 1335. Alice married thirdly Hugh de Freyne, Baron Freyne ( d. 1336/7), before 23 March, 1336. She died on 2 October, 1348, and was buried in Barlings Abbey, Birling, Kent. She had no issue from any of her marriages. | |
| (ii) | Henry |
| He was born in c .1281 at Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire. He was restored to the earldom of Leicester on 29 March, 1324, two years after his brother’s execution for treason, and styled Earl of Lancaster from 26 October, 1326, being restored formally to that earldom on 3 February, 1327. He succeeded his brother John as Lord of Beaufort and Nogent in France in 1336 (?). Henry died on 22 September, 1345, at Leicester, and was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester. | |
| Henry married, before 2 March, 1297 (although no evidence exists as to where): | |
| Matilda | |
| She was the daughter of Sir Patrick de Chaworth of Kidwelly, by Isabella, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Warwick. She was born in 1282 or 1288, and died before 3 December, 1322, being buried at Mottisfont Priory. | |
| Issue of marriage: |
| (a) | Henry |
| He was born between 1299 and 1314 at Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire. He was created Earl of Derby on 16 March, 1337, and succeeded his father as Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester and Lord of Beaufort and Nogent on 22 September, 1345. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1348, created Earl of Lincoln on 20 August, 1349, and created Duke of Lancaster on 6 March, 1351. He was created Earl of Moray on 5 April, 1359, but never so styled. Henry died on 23/24 March, 1361, at Leicester Castle of the Black Death (bubonic plague), and was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester. | |
| Henry married, in c. 1334/7 (although no record exists as to where): | |
| Isabella | |
| She was the daughter of Henry, 1st Baron de Beaumont and Earl of Buchan, by Alice, daughter of Sir Alexander Comyn. She died in 1361 at Leicester of the Black Death (bubonic plague), and was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester. | |
| Issue of marriage: |
| (i) | Matilda |
| She was born on 4 April, c. 1339 or 1341. She married firstly Ralph de Stafford ( d .1347/9) on 1 November, 1344. She married secondly William V, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Holland, Hainault and Zeeland (1327–1389), in 1352 at the King’s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. She succeeded her father as Countess of Leicester on 23 March, 1361, but died on 10 April, 1362, in England, of the Black Death (bubonic plague) (although some sources say she was poisoned). | |
| (ii) | Blanche |
She married John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (under Edward III, see here). |
| (b) | Blanche |
| She was born in c .1305, and married Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell ( d .1349) before 9 October, 1316. She died on 10 July, 1380, and was buried in the Church of the Friars Minor, Stamford, Lines. | |
| (c) | Matilda |
| She was born in c .1310. She married firstly William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (1312–1333), after 1 May, 1327 (date of dispensation), and before 1330, and had issue: | |
| 1 Elizabeth; she married Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (under Edward III,see here ). | |
| Matilda married secondly Ralph de Ufford ( d .1346) before 8 August, 1343, and had issue: | |
| 2 Matilda ( d .1413); she married Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (1336?–1371), and had issue. | |
| Matilda became an Augustinian Canoness at Campsey Abbey, Suffolk (?), between 8 August, 1347, and 25 April, 1348; she transferred to the Poor Clares at Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk (?), in 1364. She died before 5 May, 1377, at Campsey Abbey, Suffolk (?), and was buried in Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk. | |
| (d) | Joan |
| She was born in c .1312. She married John, 3rd Baron Mowbray, Lord of Axholme, Bramber and Gower (1310–1361), after 28 February, 1327, and had issue: | |
| 1 John, 4th Baron Mowbray (1340–killed 1368); he married Elizabeth (1338–by 1368), daughter of John, 4th Baron de Segrave, by Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (under Edward I,see here ), and had issue. | |
| 2 Blanche ( d .1409); she either married John de Segrave of Folkestone ( d .1349) and had issue, or married firstly Robert, Baron Bertram of Bothall ( d .1363/4), secondly Thomas, Baron Poynings ( d .1375), thirdly Sir John Worth ( d .1391) and fourthly Sir John Wiltshire. | |
| 3 Eleanor ( d.c. 1387); she married firstly Roger, Baron de la Warre (1326–1370), and secondly Sir Lewis de Clifford ( d .1404). | |
| Joan died on 7 July, 1345 (?) or 1349 (?), and was buried in Byland Abbey, Yorkshire. | |
| (e) | Isabella |
| She was born in c .1317, and perhaps married Henry de la Dale in her youth. She became a nun at Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, before 6 April, 1337, and was elected Prioress of Amesbury before 23 March, 1344. She died after 1 February, 1347. | |
| (f) | Eleanor |
| She was born in c. 1318. She married firstly John, 2nd Baron de Beaumont ( d .1342), before June, 1337, and had issue: | |
| 1 Henry, 3rd Baron de Beaumont (1340–1369); he married Margaret ( d .1398), daughter of John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford, and had issue. | |
| 2 Joan ( d . after 1400). | |
| Eleanor married secondly Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (1306/13–1376), on 5 February, 1345, at Ditton Church, Stoke Poges, Bucks., and had issue: | |
| 3 Edmund ( c .1346– c .1366). | |
| 4 Joan ( c .1347–1419); she married Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton (1342–1373), and had issue, including Mary, wife of Henry IV, and Eleanor, wife of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester (under Edward III, see here). | |
| 5 Richard, 11th Earl of Arundel ( c .1348–executed 1397); he married firstly Elizabeth ( d .1385), daughter of William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, and had issue, and secondly Philippa Mortimer (under Edward III, see here). | |
| 6 Alice ( c .1350–1414/16); she married Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent ( c .1355–1397), son of Joan, Princess of Wales (under Edward III, see here), and had issue, including Eleanor, Countess of March (under Edward III, see here). | |
| 7 John, Baron of Arundel ( c .1351–drowned 1379); he married Eleanor (1346?–1405), daughter of Sir John Maltravers, and had issue. | |
| 8 Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury (1353–1414). | |
| 9 Mary. | |
| 10 Eleanor ( c .1354/6–before 1366). | |
| Eleanor died on 11 January, 1372, at Arundel Castle, Sussex, and was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex. | |
| (g) | Mary |
| She was born around 1320/21. She married firstly Henry Percy, 3rd Baron of Alnwick (1322?–1368), in c .September, 1334, at Tutbury Castle, and had issue: | |
| 1 Henry, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408); he married Matilda ( d .1372), daughter of Ralph, Baron Neville of Raby, and had issue. He married secondly Matilda ( d .1398), daughter of Thomas, Baron Lucy of Cockermouth. | |
| 2 Thomas, Earl of Worcester (1344?–executed 1403). Had illegitimate issue. | |
| 3 Mary ( b .1360); she married John, Baron Ros of Helmsley. | |
| Mary died on 1/2 September, 1362, and was buried at Alnwick, Northumberland. | |
| Henry, Earl of Lancaster, married secondly, after 1322 (although no evidence exists as to where): | |
| Alice | |
| She was the daughter of John de Joinville, Seneschal of Champagne, by Alice, daughter of Gautier, Seigneur de Risnel. She married firstly John, Seigneur of Arcis-sur-Aube and Chacenay ( d. by 1307). Nothing more is known of her. |
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