1st Earl of Chester, Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward III of England Edward, III^[1]

1312 - 1377  (64 years)

• Name	Edward
  Title	1st Earl of Chester, Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward III of England
  Suffix	III
  Born	13 Nov 1312	Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom   [1]
  Christened	20 Nov 1312
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Jun 1377	Shene Palace, , Surrey, England, United Kingdom   [1]
  Buried	Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
  Person ID	I5658461337	Master Tree
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2010

  
  

  Father	Comte de Ponthieu et Montreuil, 1st Earl of Chester, Prince of Wales, Duc d'Aquitaine, King Edward II of England Edward, II,   b. 25 Apr 1284, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Caernarvonshire, Wales, United Kingdom ,   d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Queen of England, Princess of France Isabelle de France,   b. 1292, Paris, Île-de-France, France ,   d. 22 Aug 1358, Hertford Castle, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 66 years)
  Married	28 Jan 1307 and 1308	Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France
  Family ID	F5259605395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Queen of England Phillipa De Hainaut,   b. 24 Jun 1311, Mons, Hainault, Belgium ,   d. 15 Aug 1369, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 58 years)
  Married	24 Jan 1327 and 1328	York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom   [2]
  Children	+ 1. 1st Earl of Chester, 1st Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales, Prince of Aquitaine, Lord of Biscay and Castro Urdiales Edward of Woodstock,   b. 15 Jun 1330, Woodstock Palance, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 08 Jun 1376, Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom  (Age 45 years) + 2. Countess of Bedford, Lady Companion, Order of the Garter Isabella of England,   b. 16 Jun 1332, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Bef 4 May 1379, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom  (Age 46 years)   3. Joan of England,   b. Feb 1334 and 1335, Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 2 Sep 1348  (Age ~ 14 years)   4. William of Hatfield,   b. Bef 16 Feb 1336 and 1337, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Bef 8 Jul 1337, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age ~ 1 years) + 5. Earl of Ulster, 1st Duke of Clarence Lionel of Antwerp,   b. 29 Nov 1338, Antwerp, Belgium ,   d. 17 Oct 1368, Alba, Cuneo, Italy  (Age 29 years) + 6. Earl of Richmond, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lancaster, Lord of Beaufort and Nogent, Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Derby, Duke of Lancaster, Lord de Bergerac et Roche-sur-Yon, Duke of Aquitaine John de Gaunt,   b. Mar 1340, Gent, Flanders, Belgium ,   d. 3 Feb 1398 and 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom  (Age ~ 57 years) + 7. 1st Earl of Cambridge, 1st Duke of York Edmund of Langley,   b. 5 Jun 1341, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 1 Aug 1402, Langley, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom  (Age 61 years)   8. Blanche de la Tour Plantagenet,   b. Mar 1342 and 1343, Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Mar 1342 and 1343, Tower Of London, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom  (Age ~ 0 years)   9. Mary of England,   b. 10 Oct 1344, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Bet. 1361 and 1362, Spain  (Age 16 years)   10. Margaret of England,   b. 20 Jul 1346, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Aft 1 Oct 1361, Spain  (Age 15 years)   11. Thomas of England,   b. 1347, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. Abt. 1348  (Age 1 years)   12. William of Windsor,   b. Bef 24 Jun 1348, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom ,   bur. 5 Sep 1348  (Age ~ 0 years) + 13. 1st Earl of Buckingham, Earl of Essex, 1st Duke of Gloucester Thomas of Woodstock,   b. 7 Jan 1354 and 1355, Woodstock Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 9 Sep 1397, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Normandy, France  (Age 43 years)
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2010
  Family ID	F5259600019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Alice Perrers,   b. Abt. 1348,   d. 1400  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Children	1. Joan   2. Jane   3. Nicholas Lytlington,   d. 1386   4. Sir John de Southeray,   b. Abt. 1364,   d. Aft. 1383  (Age ~ 20 years)
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2010
  Family ID	F16053349417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 13 Nov 1312 - Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom Married - 24 Jan 1327 and 1328 - York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Died - 21 Jun 1377 - Shene Palace, , Surrey, England, United Kingdom Buried - - Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Edward III (1312-77), king of England (1327-77), 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 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. "Edward III," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  
  

• Sources

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