Edward Plantagenet of England III 
Edward was born on November 13th, 1312 in Windsor Castle, London, England.1 Edward's father was Edward Plantagenet of England II and his mother was Isabella Capet of France. His paternal grandparents were Edward (Longshanks) Plantagenet of England I and Princess Eleanor of Castile; his maternal grandparents were King Philip (The Fair) Capet of France IV and Jeanne of Narvarre. He had a brother and two sisters, named John, Eleanor and Joan. He was the oldest of the four children. He died at the age of 64 on June 21st, 1377 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.2 1 General Notes
Edward III (1312-1377), king of England (1327-1377), who initiated the long, drawn-out struggle with France called the Hundred Years' War.
Edward was born at Windsor on November 13, 1312, the elder son of King Edward II, of the house of Plantagenet. Involved by his mother, Isabella of France, in her intrigues against his father, he was proclaimed king after the latter was forced to abdicate in 1327. During Edward's minority, England was nominally ruled by a council of regency, but the actual power was in the hands of Isabella and her paramour, Roger de Mortimer. In 1330, however, the young king staged a palace coup and took the power into his own hands. He had Mortimer hanged and confined his mother to her home.
Edward began a series of wars almost directly after he had control of England. Taking advantage of civil war in Scotland in 1333, he invaded the country, defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill, England, and restored Edward de Baliol to the throne of Scotland. Baliol, however, was soon deposed, and later attempts by Edward to establish him permanently as king of Scotland were unsuccessful. In 1337 France came to the aid of Scotland. This action was the culminating point in a series of disagreements between France and England, and Edward declared war on Philip VI of France. In 1340 the English fleet destroyed a larger French fleet off Sluis, the Netherlands. The action resulted in a truce that, although occasionally disturbed, lasted for six years.
War broke out again in 1346. Edward, accompanied by his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, invaded Normandy (Normandie) and won a great victory over France in the Battle of Crécy. He captured Calais in 1347, and a truce was reestablished. Edward returned to England, where he maintained one of the most magnificent courts in Europe. The war with France was renewed in 1355, and again the English armies were successful. The Peace of Calais, in 1360, gave England all of Aquitaine, and Edward in return renounced his claim, first made in 1328, to the French throne.
Edward continued to assert his will both domestically and abroad. In 1363 he concluded an agreement with his brother-in-law, David II of Scotland, uniting the two kingdoms in the event of David's death without male issue. Three years later Edward repudiated the papacy's feudal supremacy over England, held in fief since 1213. He renewed his war with France, disavowing the Peace of Calais. This time, however, the English armies were unsuccessful. After the truce of 1375, Edward retained few of his previously vast possessions in France.
The king had, by this time, become senile. He was completely in the power of an avaricious mistress, Alice Perrers, who, along with his fourth son, John of Gaunt, dominated England. Perrers was banished by Parliament in 1376, and Edward himself died at Sheen (now Richmond) on June 21, 1377. He was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, London, England
- b.1160 in Angoileme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, France d.31 May 1245 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Gali, France d.1218 in France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-San, Cumberland, England
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1180 d.1209
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.25 Apr 1284 in Carnavon Castle, Carnavon, Caernarvonshire, Wales d.21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1137 d.22 Jan 1188 in Benavente
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Valladolid, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaveuva da Sarria
- b.1139 d.16 Oct 1188
- b.1199 d.1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.1180 d.08 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.1244 d.28 Nov 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1135 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, England
- b.1180 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France
- b.1138 in Ponthieu, Ain, France d.Oct 1200
- d.16 Mar 1279
- b.1179 d.06 Oct 1221
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Normandie d.Sep 1250 in Normandie
- b.1170 d.18 Jul 1218
- b.13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, London, England d.21 Jun 1377 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, England
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Tunis, Africa
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1221 in St. Maime B, Forcalquier, Bourgogne, France d.21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1270 in Royal Palace of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France d.29 Oct 1314
- b.1174 in Zaragoza, Spain d.12 Dec 1213 in Haute-Garonne, France
- b.1208 d.1276
- b.1178 in Montpelier, Herault, France d.21 Jan 1213 in Rome, Italy
- b.1247 in Barcelona, Spain d.28 Jan 1271 in Consenza, Italy
- b.1176 in Esztergom, Komaron-Esztergom, Hungary d.21 Sep 1235 in Eger, Heves, Hungary
- b.1219 in Esztergom, Hungary d.09 Oct 1251 in Huesca, Spain
- b.1198 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1232
- b.1292 d.1358
- b.13 May 1179 d.24 May 1201
- b.1201 d.1253
- b.1244 d.Jun 1274
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- b.Jan 1272 d.02 Apr 1305
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.25 Sep 1216 in Paris, France d.08 Feb 1248 in Monsoure, Egypt
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.1248 in Paris, Seine, France d.02 May 1302 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1207 in Brabant, France d.01 Feb 1248 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1224 in Brabant, France d.Sep 1288 in Artois, France
- b.1208 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1235 in Leuven, Belgium
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Details of Edward's family with Countess Phillipa of Hainault
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