 1279 - 1317 (38 years)
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| Name |
Marguerite of France le Hardi [2] |
| Birth |
1279 |
Paris, France  |
| Gender |
Female |
| _FSFTID |
2MCK-P8W |
| _FSLINK |
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=2MCK-P8W |
| Death |
14 Feb 1317 |
Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire |
| Burial |
Grey Friars Church, Newgate, London |
| Notes |
- Notes:
Other sources show her born in 1282
«b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01277
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_France_(died_1318)
Margaret of France«/b» (1279 ?«u»[1]«/u» \endash 14 February 1318«u»[1]«/u»), a daughter of «u»Philip III of France «/u» and «u»Maria of Brabant «/u», was «u»Queen of England «/u» as the second wife of King «u»Edward I of England «/u».
«b»Marriage
«/b»Three years after the death of his beloved first wife, «u»Eleanor of Castile «/u», at the age of 49 in 1290, Edward I was still grieving. But news got to him of the beauty of Blanche, daughter of the late King Philip III. Edward decided that he would marry Blanche at any cost and sent out emissaries to negotiate the marriage with her half-brother, King «u»Philip IV «/u». It was also much to Edward's benefit to make peace with France to free him to pursue his wars in Scotland. Philip agreed to give Blanche to Edward on the following conditions:
A truce was concluded between the two countries.
Edward gave up the province of Gascony.
Edward agreed and sent his brother «u»Edmund Crouchback «/u», «u»Earl of Lancaster «/u», to fetch the new bride. Edward had been deceived, for Blanche was to be married to «u»Rudolph III of Habsburg «/u», the eldest son of King «u»Albert I of Germany «/u». Instead, Philip offered her younger sister Margaret, a young girl of 11, to marry Edward (then 55). Upon hearing this, Edward declared war on «u»France «/u», refusing to marry Margaret. After five years, a «u»truce «/u» was agreed, under the terms of which Edward would marry Margaret, would regain the key city of «u»Guienne «/u», and receive £15,000 owed to Margaret.
Edward was then 60 years old. The wedding took place at «u»Canterbury «/u» on 8 September 1299. Marguerite was never crowned, being the first uncrowned queen since the «u»Conquest «/u».«u»[3]
«/u»
Edward soon returned to the Scottish border to continue his campaigns and left Margaret in «u»London «/u». After several months, bored and lonely, the young queen decided to join her husband. Nothing could have pleased the king more, for Margaret's actions reminded him of his first wife Eleanor, who had had two of her sixteen children abroad.
Margaret soon became firm friends with her stepdaughter Mary, a nun, who was two years older than the young queen. She and her stepson, Edward (who was two years younger than her), also became fond of each other: he once made her a gift of an expensive ruby and gold ring, and she on one occasion rescued many of the Prince's friends from the wrath of the King. In less than a year Margaret gave birth to a son, and then another a year later. It is said that many who fell under the king's wrath were saved from too stern a punishment by the queen's influence over her husband, and the statement, «i»Pardoned solely on the intercession of our dearest consort, queen Margaret of England«/i», appears.
The mismatched couple were blissfully happy. When Blanche died in 1305 (her husband never became Emperor), Edward ordered all the court to go into mourning to please his queen. He had realised the wife he had gained was "a pearl of great price". The same year Margaret gave birth to a girl, Eleanor, named in honour of Edward's first queen, a choice of which surprised many, and showed Margaret's unjealous nature.
«b»Children
«/b»In all, Margaret gave birth to three children:
«tab»«u»Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk «/u» (1300 - 1338)
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«u»«tab»Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent «/u» (1301 \endash 1330)
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«tab»Eleanor of England (4 May 1306 - 1311)
«b»Later life
«/b»She never remarried after Edward's death in 1307, despite being only 26 when widowed. She lived out the remainder of her life in «u»Marlborough Castle «/u», by this time a dower house, and used her immense dowry to relieve people's suffering. Her saying was, «i»"when Edward died, all men died for me"«/i». She died just 10 years after her husband, at the age of 36, and was buried at «u»Greyfriar's Church «/u», «u»Greenwich «/u».
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| Person ID |
I4234 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
5 Oct 2015 |
| Family |
Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet, King of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, London, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-On-The-Sands, Near Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
8 Sep 1299 |
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Thomas of Brotherton Plantagenet, 1st Earl Norfolk, b. 1 Jun 1300, Manor House in Brotherton, Yorkshire, England d. 4 Aug 1338 (Age 38 years) |
| | 2. Edmund of Woodstock Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Kent, b. 5 Aug 1301, Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England d. 19 Mar 1329, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England (Age 27 years) |
| | 3. Eleanor Plantagenet, b. 6 May 1306 d. 1310 (Age 3 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1224 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
- [S27] http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/.
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