Richard of Cornwall Earl of Cornwall 
Richard of Cornwall was born in Winchester Castle, Hampshire. Richard of Cornwall's father was John Lackland Plantagenet King of England and his mother was Isabella Taillefer de AngoulIme. His paternal grandparents were Henry II "Curt Mantel" King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He had a brother and three sisters, named Henry III Plantagenet, Joan, Isabella and Eleanor. He had fourteen half-brothers and eight half-sisters, named Oliver, Richard, Geoffrey, Sir John FitzJohn, Odo (Eudo), Ivo, Henry, Osbert, Hugh de Lusignan, Guy de Lusignan, Geoffrey le Brun, Sir William de Valence, Aymer Ademar de Valence, Henri de la Marche, Isabella, Joanna, Matilda, Alice, Isabella, Marguerite, Agnes and Isabella. He died on April 2nd, 1272 in Berkhamsetad Castle, Hertfordshire.Death Notes
Apoplectic siezure.
General Notes
Weir says died Berkhampstead Castle & buried Hayles Abbey.
REF: "Falls the Shadow" Sharon Kay Penman: During Simon de Montfort's barons war, March 31, 1264 Londoners riot (London was very pro de Montfort), burn townhouses of the hated William de Lusignan, also prominent Royalist Lord Philip Basset, also Richard of Cornwall's Westminster manor, & his beloved Isleworth manor 7 miles away. Richard overnight goes from trying to mediate a solution to, like Edward, ardently desiring a battlefield confrontation.
Richard was not popular with his brother Henry III's subjects as he was intelligent, pragmatic, had business acumen, & a lack of rancor; these qualities were disdained in favor of reckless courage, battlefield prowess, & open-handed generosity, which was expected of Lords. Richard's courage was never suspect; but he was not an innovative nor brilliant military commander. At Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, Richard commanded the left flank of the Royalist forces. After Prince Edward left the battle to pursue with unwholesome savagery the rebel Londoner flank of Montfort's forces, Montfort, keeping a reserve force (a tactic unheard of) came in & attacked Henry & obliterated his force; Henry fleed to the priory. Gilbert de Clare's center column forces met Richard's & took the day. Richard with his son Edmund fled into a windmill. When de Clare's forces captured the, they jeered "come out king of the millers". John Giffard's squire was the one who officially accepted Richard's royal surrender, adding to Richard's discomposure (that he had surrendered to a squire rather than a knight). Upon his presentation to Simon de Montfort, Simon made the lad, John Befs of Tewkesbury, a knight.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1043 in Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.14 FEB 1116/17 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1075 in Fleche, Sarthe, France d.1110 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1097 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.~ 1075 in Chateau du Loir, Sarthe, Maine/Pays de la Loire, France d.1099
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria, England (slain besieging)
- b.Oct 1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Lincolnshire
- b.~ 1024 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Aquitaine, France
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1126/27 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1044 in Bourgogne, France d.> 1104
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.~ 1040 in Huesca, Spain d.1093 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.~ 1073 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.28 Nov 1117
- b.~ 1066 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France d.1080 in Huesca, Spain
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.1050 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.1092 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1075 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.07 Nov 1151 in As monk at Notre Dame de Noyers
- b.1054 in Thouars, Anjou, France
- b.~ 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.AFT MAR 1130/31
- b.1049 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.1079 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.1053 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.5 JAN 1208/09 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire d.02 Apr 1272 in Berkhamsetad Castle, Hertfordshire
- b.1188 in AngoulIme, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault L'Abbe, Maine-et-Loire, France
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Richard of Cornwall and Sanchia Berenger were married in a religious ceremony on November 23rd, 1243 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Richard of Cornwall were married in a religious ceremony in Fawley Church, Buckinghamshire. He had four biological sons and a biological daughter, named Henry, Richard, Nicholas, John and Isabella.
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Children
Death Notes
Murdered by the sons of Simon de Montfort.
Isabella Plantagenet
Isabella was born on September 9th, 1233 in Marlowe-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire. She died at the age of 1 on October 10th, 1234 in Marlowe-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire.
Henry Plantagenet of Almaine
Henry was born on November 2nd, 1235 in Haughley Castle, Suffolk. He died in Church de St. Silvestro, Viterbo, Latium, Italy.
Richard Plantagenet
Richard was born in 1237 in of Cornwall, England. He died at the age of 9 in 1246.
Nicholas Plantagenet
Nicholas was born in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire. He died in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire.
John Plantagenet
John was born in Marlowe-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire. He died on September 22nd, 1233 in Marlowe-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire.
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