Lionel Plantagenet , KG, Duke of Clarence 
Lionel was born on November 29th, 1338 in Antwerp, Belgium. Lionel's father was Edward III Plantagenet King of England and his mother was Philippa d' Avesnes , of Hainault. His paternal grandparents were Edward II Plantagenet King of England and Isabella Princess of France; his maternal grandparents were William III d' Avesnes , Count of Hainault and Jeanne de Valois. He had four brothers named Edward "The Black" Prince of, Edmund, Thomas and John Plantagenet of. He died at the age of 29 on October 17th, 1368 in Alba, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy (dspm). He was buried in Augustine Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England.General Notes
Lionel Plantagenet, b. 29 November, 1338 (of Antwerp), 3rd son of King Henry III, who became jure uxoris, Earl of Ulster, and was created 15 September, 1362, Duke of Clarence.* The prince was likewise a knight of the Garter, he had an only child by the heiress of Ulster, Philippa Plantagenet, who m. Edmond Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March. About four years after the death of the Duchess Elizabeth (25 April, 1368), King Edward concluded the terms of a new marriage for his son, the Duke of Clarence, with Violanta, or Jolantis, the dau. of Galeas, prince of Milan, and sister to John Galeas, who subsequently became 1st Duke of Milan. The bargain, for such it was in the strictest meaning of the word, was struck at Windsor, upon which occasion the wealthy and munificent Prince Galeas paid down for his daughter's dowry, the sum of 100,000 florins. This, however, was but a prelude to the unbounded munificence with which he received his son-in-law and his small but chosen retinue of English nobles, who in number amounted to about 200. When the duke married his affianced bride on 15 June, 1368, the luxury of the various feasts that followed upon the nuptial and the richness of the gifts presented by Galeas to the bridegroom and his followers were such as fairly to confound the imagination. The whole scene, as described by Paulus Jovius, is only to be paralleled by the wild dreamings of some eastern story. At one banquet, when the celebrated Petrarch was present, thirty courses succeeded each other, all composed of the choicest viands that the earth or sea could supply, and between each course, as many rare gifts were brought in by Galeas himself and presented by him to Clarence.
"But not five months after, the Duke of Clarence (having lived with this new wife after the manner of his own country, forgetting, or not regarding the change of air, and addicting himself to immoderate feasting), spent and consumed with a lingering disease, departed this world at Alba Pompeia, called also Longuevil, in the Marquisate of Montserrat, in Piedmont, on the vigil of St. Luke the Evangelist, viz., the 17th day of October, anno 1368."
The duke was first buried in the city of Pavia, but was afterwards brought over to England by Thomas Narbonne and others of the retinue, who had accompanied him in his nuptial expedition. The body was then conveyed to the church of the Augustine Friars, at Clare, in Suffolk, and finally deposited near the remains of his 1st wife, Elizabeth de Burgh. Violanta herself was afterwards m. to Otho, Marquis of Montserrat, but as the chronicler quaintly observes, her 2nd marriage was not more fortunate than her first; -- Otho soon perished ignobly in the mountains, being slain by a country stable-keeper.
At the death of Lionel, the Dukedom of Clarence became extinct.
* The title of Clarence was derived from the honour of Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 434, Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence]
----------
Lionel of Antwerp, duke of Clarence, also called (1346-62) EARL OF ULSTER (b. Nov. 29, 1338, Antwerp--d. Oct. 17, 1368, Alba, Italy), second surviving son of King Edward III of England and ancestor of Edward IV.
Before he was four years of age Lionel was betrothed to Elizabeth (d. 1363), daughter and heiress of William de Burgh, earl of Ulster (d. 1333), and he entered nominally into possession of her great Irish inheritance. Having been named as his father's representative in England in 1345 and again in 1346, Lionel was created earl of Ulster and joined (in 1355) an expedition into France, but his chief energies were reserved for the affairs of Ireland. Appointed governor of that country, he landed at Dublin in September 1361. In November 1362 he was created duke of Clarence and in the following year his father made an abortive attempt to secure for him the succession to the crown of Scotland.
His efforts to secure an effective authority over his Irish lands were only moderately successful, and after holding a parliament at Kilkenny, which passed the celebrated Statute of Kilkenny in 1366, he threw up his task in disgust and returned to England. At Milan, on May 28, 1368, he married Violante, only daughter of Galeazzo Visconti, lord of Pavia, who brought him a rich dowry. Several months were then spent in festivities, during which Lionel was taken ill and died at Alba.
His only child, Philippa (1355-81), a daughter by his first wife, married in 1368 Edmund Mortimer (1352-81), 3rd earl of March, and through this union Clarence became an ancestor of Edward IV. [EncyclopEdia Britannica CD '97]
-
Ancestor Pedigree Chart
-
*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoy, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales d.21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England (murdered)
- b.15 Aug 1166 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva de Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.~Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine d.08 Nov 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine
- b.1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.28 Nov 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, France
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France d.Sep 1250 in Normandy, France
- b.13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England d.21 Jun 1377 in Shene Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Near Tunis, Tunisia
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, France
- b.~ 1221 in St Maime B, France d.21 Dec 1285 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1268 in Fontainebleau, France d.29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau, France
- b.2 FEB 1207/08 in Montpellier, Toulouse, France d.27 Jul 1276 in Valencia, Spain
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 JAN 1270/71 in As a result of miscarriage
- b.~ 1216 in Hungary d.12 Oct 1251 in Huesca, Spain
- b.1292 in Paris, Seine, France d.22 Aug 1358 in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England
- b.30 May 1201 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France d.07 Jul 1253 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
- b.~ 1210 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France d.22 Jul 1274 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
- b.~ 1216 in Foix, Ariege, France d.12 Apr 1256 in Provins, Brie, France
- b.JAN 1271/72 in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain d.02 Apr 1305 in Chateau-de-Vincennes, France
- b.Sep 1216 in Paris, Seine, France d.ABT 8 FEB 1249/50 in Egypt
- b.1248 in Arras, Paris, France d.02 May 1302 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.~ 1224 in Brabant, Lorraine, France d.29 Sep 1288
- b.29 Nov 1338 in Antwerp, Belgium d.17 Oct 1368 in Alba, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy (dspm)
- b.~ 1182 in Oizy, Namur, Belgium d.~ 1244 in Clairefontaine, Autelbas, Luxembourg, Belgium
- b.~ 1215 in Oizy, Namur, Belgium d.1256 in Holland
- b.02 Jun 1202 in Constantinople, Turkey d.10 FEB 1279/80 in Valenciennes, Nord, France
- b.~ 1250 in Hainault, Flanders, Beglium d.1304
- b.1210 in Holland d.1245
- b.~ 1225 in Holland d.~ 1284
- b.1210 in Brabant, Lorraine, France
- b.~ 1280 in Avesnes, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, France
- b.~ 1176 in Limburg, Belgium d.02 Jul 1226
- b.1217 in Luxemburg d.24 Nov 1281
- b.Jul 1186 in Namur, Luxemburg d.17 FEB 1246/47
- b.~ 1255 in Luxemburg d.1311
- b.~ 1190 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France d.13 Nov 1239 in Gaza, Palestine
- b.~ 1222 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France d.23 Nov 1275
- b.~ 1192 in Braine, France d.17 MAR 1241/42 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France
- b.24 Jun 1311 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.15 Aug 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Near Tunis, Tunisia
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy near Paris, Seine, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, France
- b.~ 1221 in St Maime B, France d.21 Dec 1285 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.12 MAR 1269/70 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France d.16 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
- b.2 FEB 1207/08 in Montpellier, Toulouse, France d.27 Jul 1276 in Valencia, Spain
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 JAN 1270/71 in As a result of miscarriage
- b.~ 1216 in Hungary d.12 Oct 1251 in Huesca, Spain
- b.~ 1291 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.7 MAR 1351/52 in Fontenelle, France
- b.1220 in Anjou, France d.1285 in Naples, Italy
- b.~ 1248 in Naples, Italy d.06 May 1309 in Cassanova near Naples, Italy
- b.~ 1227 in Provence, France
- b.~ 1273 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~ 1240 in Hungary d.01 Aug 1272 in Hungary
- b.~ 1257 in Budapest, Hungary d.25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Italy
- b.1240 in Kuthen, Hungary
-
Page last modified