Margerite of Provence

Notes:

Death: She may have died on 21 December 1285.

Margerite married Saint Louis IX, King of France on 27 May 1234 in Sens, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Louis (son of Louis VIII "the Lion", King of France and Blanche of Castile, Princess of Castile, Queen of France) was born on 25 Apr 1215 in Poissy, Île-de-France, France; died on 25 Aug 1270 in near Tunis; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 1270; He was crowned the King of France in 1270.
• Reign: From 1270 to 1285; King of France (House of Capet)

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Philip married Isabella of Aragon on 28 May 1262 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Isabella (daughter of James I "the Conqueror", King of Aragon and Yolande of Hungary, Princess of Hungary) was born on 1243 or 1247; died on 28 Jan 1271 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; was buried in Basilica of Saint-Denis, St. Denis, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Marie of Brabant in 1274. Marie (daughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Alix of Burgundy) was born in 1256; died in 1321. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Crowned: 1285; He was crowned the King of France in 1285.
• Reign: From 1285 to 1314; King of France (House of Capet)

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Philip married Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of France and Navarre on 16 Aug 1284 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Jeanne (daughter of Henry I, King of Navarre and Blanche of Artois) was born in Jan 1272 in France; died on 2 Apr 1305 in Château-de-Vincennes, Vincennes, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Marguerite, Princess of Naples and Sicily on 16 Aug 1290 in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. Marguerite (daughter of Charles II "le Boiteax", King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem and Princess Maria of Hungary) was born about 1273; died on 31 Dec 1299. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marguerite married Edward I "Longshanks", King of England on 10 Sep 1299 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Edward (son of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England; was buried after 7 Jul 1307 in Westminster Abbey, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Rudolph III, Duke of Austria in 1300. Rudolph was born in 1281; died in 1307. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: Verity (2006) gives her birth year as 1296.

Isabella married Edward II, King of England on 25 Jan 1308/09 in Basilica of Notre-Dame, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Edward (son of Edward I "Longshanks", King of England and Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England) was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales; died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; was buried after 21 Sep 1327 in Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Death: Weis (1982) gives her death as about 1352.

Jeanne married William III d'Avêsnes "le Bon", Count of Hainault and Holland on 19 May 1305 in Chauny, Hauts-de-France, France. William (son of Jean II d'Avêsnes, Count of Hainault and Holland and Philippa of Luxemburg) was born about 1286 in Hainault, Belgium; died on 7 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: 1313
• Offices Held: 10 Feb 1316
• Offices Held: Spring 1319
• Knighted: 15 Jul 1319
• Travel: 1320
• Miscellaneous: From 1321 to 1322
• Legal: 3 Aug 1321
• Land/House: Aug 1323
• Offices Held: say 1325
• Military: 1326
• Miscellaneous: 3 Mar 1327
• Military: 1328
• Miscellaneous: Feb 1330
• Military: 1333
• Military: 1337
• Miscellaneous: 1337
• Offices Held: 25 May 1337
• Offices Held: 1338
• Will: 4 Aug 1338, Framlingham, Suffolk, England

Notes:

Birth:
Edward I, his new young wife Margaret, who turned twenty-one that year and was pregnant with their first child, and the royal household, set out north from St Albans on 15 April 1300. The army had been summoned to Carlisle for mid-summer, for a new Scottish campaign. Queen Margaret parted company with the main household at Stamford on 5 May, and continued her own journey northward. Preparations had been made for her to use Cawood Castle, a residence of the Archbishop of York, for her confinement. She stopped in the village of Brotherton to hunt late that month, and went into labor, early and unexpectedly. Margaret had married Edward I on 10 September 1299 and, if conception occurred immediately, she was in her 38th week, but as she was apparently hunting and had not yet reached Cawood, she may have been a week or two earlier in her pregnancy. The labor was difficult, and Margaret reportedly called on St Thomas of Canterbury for assistance. The baby was delivered on 1 June, and named for the saint. Edward I rushed over to the village as soon as he was given the news, and stayed there until 9 June.

Military:
Thomas received a summons for military service in Scotland, but it was shortly afterwards remitted by the king (Waugh, 2004) and the young earl of Norfolk appears to have missed completely the disastrous battle of Bannockburn in June 1314.

Offices Held:
He was made the Marshal of England.

Offices Held:
He served as keeper of the realm while the king was on a Scottish military campaign.

Travel:
He accompanied the king to France in June and July, travelling with a large retinue.

Miscellaneous:
Thomas remained strongly supportive of Edward II during the baronial rebellion of 1321-1322, but failed in the one task he assumed on his own, an attempt to arrange negotiations with the earl of Hereford in March 1321. His other roles during that time were ceremonial and undertaken with fellow peers.

Legal:
Rigaud de Asserio, bishop of Winchester, wrote to Roger de Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, authorizing the latter to absolve Thomas of Brotherton from a sentence of excommunication. Thomas had incurred this by violently assaulting a clerk of the bishop - one Deodatus de Pyno - within the diocese of Winchester. Unfortunately the date of the assault is not mentioned, so it is not known how long Thomas was under excommunication. The assault could have happened shortly before the date of the letter, or possibly as early as the spring of 1319, when Thomas was acting as keeper of the realm and working in close conjunction with John de Sandale, the prior bishop of Winchester who was also chancellor of England.

Land/House:
He negotiated with the earl of Norfolk to take control for life of the lordship of Chepstow for a rent of £200 a year,20 and the following year, purchased the lordship outright for only £800. Chepstow was worth far more, so Thomas came out much the worse in this transaction, and many historians surmise he was forced into it, another victim of the Despenser tyranny. Yet the rest of the victims of the Despensers were widows, minor heirs, and those lower down on the social order. The earl of Norfolk was a young man in his early twenties, a peer of the realm and the brother of the king. The fact that Despenser was able to take such advantage of him is another indication of the low regard in which he was held

Offices Held:
The king confiscated the one office he was holding, marshal of England, because Thomas had failed to have someone execute the office on his behalf in Lancashire, when royal justices arrived there to hold the king's pleas. Thomas offered a fine of £100 to recover the office, which Edward II pardoned, but not without a public verbal rebuke, threatening his younger brother with punishment should he again fail to perform the duties of marshal properly.

Military:
On 24 September 1326, Queen Isabella and her son Edmund, landed on the Suffolk Coast. Thomas immediately joined them. While the usurpation was successful, he received little reward.

Miscellaneous:
He was granted the wardship and marriage of John de Segrave, the 12-year-old heir to the barony of Segrave.

Military:
In the Summer of 1328, Thomas participated in Edward Ill's disastrous Weardale campaign against the Scots.

Miscellaneous:
Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock led Edward III's young wife Queen Philippa to her coronation dressed as simple grooms.

Military:
Thomas commanded a contingent of royal forces in the Scottish campaign culminating in the battle of Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333.

Military:
He joined the King in the Scottish campaign, and was named the keeper of Perth. Yet he was not given a leadership position (there are no payments to him as a captain on the pay roll) which had to be humbling for the former Marshal of England. At some point in December 1337, Thomas left the campaign and returned to England, apparently without first informing the king.

Miscellaneous:
In the spring of 1337, Edward III appointed Sir Constantine Mortimer, lord of Attleborough in Norfolk, to restore the Brotherton household to order.

Offices Held:
The office of Marshal was taken from Thomas.

Offices Held:
The office of Marshal of England was resorted to Thomas.

Thomas married Alice de Hales in 1321 in Bungay Castle, Bungay, Suffolk, England. Alice (daughter of Sir Roger de Hales and Alice Skogan) was born in 1305; died before 12 Oct 1330 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary de Braose, Countess of Norfolk in 1334. Mary was born in 1305/06; died on 11 Jun 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Title(s): 28 Jul 1321

Notes:

Title(s):
He became the Earl of Kent.

Died:
Having become convinced that his brother, Edward II, had survived the summer of 1327 at Berkeley Castle, Edmund fell into a trap set by Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, was accused of treason in March 1330, and executed by beheading outside the gates of Winchester.

Edumnd married Margaret Wake, Baroness Wake on 25 Dec 1325. Margaret (daughter of Sir John Wake, Lord Wake and Joanna de Fiennes) was born about 1298; died on 29 Sep 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]