ID: I15012
Name: *Edward I "Longshanks" of ENGLAND
Sex: M
Birth: 17 JUN 1239 in Westministor, London, Middlesex, England 1
Birth: 18 JUN 1239 in Palace of Westminster 1
Death: 7 JUL 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands, Cumberland, England 1
Burial: Westminster Abbey
Occupation: BET 1272 AND 1307 King of England 1
Event: Coronation 18 AUG 1274 2
Will: 18 JUN 1272 3
Note:
Earl of Chester
Edward I Plantagenet nicknamed "Longshanks" due to his great height and stature,was perhaps the most successful of the medieval monarchs. The first twenty years of his reign marked a high point of cooperation between crown and community. In these years, Edward made great strides in reforming government, consolidating territory, and defining foreign policy. He possessed the strength his father lacked and reasserted royal prerogative. Edward fathered many children as well : sixteen by Eleanor of Castille before her death in 1290, and three more by Margaret. Edward concentrated on an aggressive foreign policy. A major campaign to control Llywelyn ap Gruffydd of Wales began in 1277 and lasted until Llywelyn's death in 1282. Wales was divide d in to shires, English civil law was introduced, and the region was administered by appointed justices. In the manner of earlier monarchs, Edward constructed many new castles to ensure his conquest. In 1301, the king's eldest son was named Prince of Wales. Edward found limited success in extending English influence into Ireland: he introduced a Parliament in Dublin and increased commerce in a few coastal towns, but most of the country was controlled by independent barons or Celtic tribal chieftains .He retained English holdings in France through diplomacy, but was drawn into war by the incursions of Philip IV in Gascony. He negotiated a peace with France in 1303 and retained those areas England held before the war. Edward's involvement in Scotland had far reaching effects. The country had developed a feudal kingdom similar to England in the Lowlands the Celtic tribal culture dispersed to the Highlands. After the death of the Scottish king, Alexander III, Edward negotiated a treaty whereby Margaret, Maid of Norway and legitimate heir to the Scottish crown,would be brought to England to marry his oldest son, the future Edward II.Margaret, however, died in 1290 enroute to England, leaving a disputed succession in Scotland; Edward claimed the right to intercede as feudal lord of the Scottish kings through their Anglo-Normanroots. Edward arbitrated between thirteen different claimants and chose John Baliol. Baliol did homage to Edward as his lord , but the Scots resisted Edward's demands for military service. In 1296, Edward invaded Scotland and soundly defeated the Scots under Baliol. Baliol was forced to abdicate and the Scottish bar ons did homage to Edward as their king.William Wallace incited a rebellion in 1297, defeated the English army at Stirling, and harassed England's northern counties. The next year,Edward defeated Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk but encountered continued resistance until Wallace's capture and execution in 1304. Robert Bruce, the grandson of a claimant to the throne in 1290, instigated another revolt in 1306 and would ultimately defeat the army of Edward II at Bannockburn. Edward's campaigns in Scotland were ruthless and aroused in the Scots a hatred of England that would endure for generations.
(Wikipedia)

Will:
In the name, &c. We, Edward, eldest son of the noble King of England, make our Will the Saturday next after Pentecost, in the year of our Lord 1272. First, we bequeath our soul to God, to our Lady, and to all the Saints; and our body to be buried where our executors, that is to say, Sir John de Bretagne, Sir William de Valence, Sir Roger de Clifford, Sir Payse de Chautros, Sir Robert de Tiletot, Sir Otes de Graundison, Robert Burnett, and Anthony Bek, shall appoint; who are also to hold the profits of all our lands in England, Ireland, and Gascony, until our children become of age. And if it should so happen (which God forbid!) that our Lord the King, our father, die whilst our children be under age, we will that the realm of England, and all other lands which should descend to our children, remain in the hands of our executors before named, and also in those of our dear father the Archbishop of York, and Sir Rog. and other great men of the kingdom, until they become of full age. And for the dowry of our dear wife Eleanor, &c. In testimony of which we have placed our seal to this Will, having requested John Archbishop of Sur, and Vicar of the Holy Church of Jerusalem, and the honorable fathers, Frere Hugh Revel, Master of the Hospital, and Frere Thomas Brerard, Master of the Temple, likewise to place their seals in witness hereof. Dated at Acre, the Saturday before named, the 18th June, in the year of the reign of the King our Father the 55th.
(Abstracts of Wills, Plantagenet Era)


Father: *Henry III of ENGLAND b: 1 OCT 1207 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
Mother: *Eleanor BERENGAR b: 1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France

Marriage 1 *Eleanor of CASTILLE b: 1241
Married: 18 OCT 1254 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
Children
Katherine PLANTAGENET b: BEF 17 JUN 1264
Joan PLANTAGENET b: JAN 1265
John of Anjou PLANTAGENET b: 10 JUL 1266
Henry of Anjou PLANTAGENET b: BEF 6 MAY 1268
*Eleanor PLANTAGENET b: ABT 18 JUN 1269
*Joan of ACRE b: MAY 1271 in Akko, Galilee, Isreal
Alphonso of ANJOU b: 24 NOV 1273 in Bayonne, Gascony
*Margaret PLANTAGENET b: 15 MAR 1275
Berengaria PLANTAGENET b: 1 MAY 1276
Mary PLANTAGENET b: 11 MAR 1279
*Elizabeth of RHUDDLAN b: 7 AUG 1282 in Rhudlan Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales
*Edward II of ENGLAND b: 25 APR 1284 in Caemarvon Castle, Caemarvonshire, Wales

Marriage 2 *Marguerite of FRANCE b: 1282
Married: 8 SEP 1299 in Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England 1
Children
Eleanor PLANTAGENET
*Thomas of BROTHERTON b: 1 JUN 1300
*Edmund PLANTAGENET b: 5 AUG 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

Sources:
Title: 1Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Title: Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith
Page: 368
Title: Abstracts of Wills, Plantagenet Era