Elbeanor De CHATELLERAULT

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Ancestral File Number: 8XPZ-HX

Elbeanor married Guillaume X Duke Of AQUITAINE, Poitou Guillaume in 1121 in Of, , , France. Guillaume (son of Guillaume VII (Ix) Duke Of AQUITAINE and Philippa (Mathilde Or Maude), Countess Of TOULOUSE) was born in 1099 in Aquitaine, France; died on 19 Apr 1137 in St James At Compostella, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact 10: They Had 8 Children; Fact 10
• FamilySearch ID: 9C8T-V1R
• Name: DETAILLEFER
• _UID: 485FD2AD6746498BB76C6BACA5826F87FEF2
• ACCEDED: 12 Dec 1154

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From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled Eleanor of Aquitaine:

"also called ELEANOR OF GUYENNE, French ?EL?EONORE, OR ALI?ENOR, D'AQUITAINE, OR DEGUYENNE, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (in 1137-52) and Henry II of England (in 1152-1204) and mother of Richard I the Lion-Heart and John of England. She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe.

"She died in 1204 at the monastery at Fontevrault, Anjou, where she had retired after the campaign at Mirebeau. Her contribution to England extended beyond her own lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the old Norman territories that remained loyal to England. She has been misjudged by many French historians who have noted only her youthful frivolity, ignoring the tenacity, political wisdom, and energy that characterized the years of her maturity. "She was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant"; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology: a queen "who surpassed almost all the queens of the world."ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122-1204) was one of the most important rulers of Medieval Europe.

Many noblewomen in the Middle Ages were well-educated. but Eleanor had the chance to use her education at a time when European politics was dominated by men.

When she was just fifteen, Eleanor's father died, and she inherited Aquitaine. the largest kingdom in France. That same year she married King Louis VII and became Queen of France. Although still a teenager, Eleanor was an impressive figure--beautiful, very well-educated, and fearlessly independent.
When Louis went off on the Crusades, she went with him, traveling thousands of miles, much of it through hostile lands.

But Eleanor and Louis had no male heir, and tensions developed between them. The Pope granted them a divorce when Eleanor was twenty-nine. Within months. Eleanor married Henry Plantagent, her ex-husband's main rival. Two years later Henry became King of England--and Eleanor was a queen again.

However, Henry soon fell in love with another woman, and Eleanor left England to set up her own court in Aquitaine, which she still ruled. Troubadours from all over France flocked to her palace at Poitiers, where Eleanor acted as patron of the arts. Many of the ideas of chivalry that we associate with the Middle Ages were developed in Eleanor's court..

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Some say King Lewis carried her into the Holy Land, where she carried herself not very holily, but led a licentious life; and, which is the worst kind of licentiousness, in carnal familiarity with a Turk.

Birth:
Some sources states that she was born in 1123.

Family/Spouse: Prince Of Antioch Raymond I DE POITIERS, Prince Of Antioch. Raymond was born about 1100; died on 27 Jun 1149. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Louis VII "The Younger" CAPET, King Of France on 25 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Louis (son of Louis "The Fat" VI CAPET, King Of France and Alix (Adbelahide) Countess Of SAVOY, of Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Rheims, Champagne, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Isle DE France, France; was buried on 19 Sep 1180 in Abbey Barbeaux, Melun, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King Henry II PLANTAGENET on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Henry (son of Count Geoffrey V "Le Bon" PLANTAGENET and Emporess Maud Matilda ANGEVIN, Queen Of England) was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France; was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Le Hardi
• _UID: 206D9C08082144C6BAA4ABD42D5495207728

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Ancestral File Number: 1RGV-496

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Ancestral File Number: 1RGV-480

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: D630E60EEAC54F61B9937948C74A5033FA40

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Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-SD

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• CAUSED BY DEA: Wounded From An Arrow.
• FamilySearch ID: L8T2-WWR
• Name: The Lionhearted
• _UID: DDA393DEB0404A2694703493E0D7F126EABB
• RULED: Between 1189 and 1199, King Of England
• ACCEDED: 3 Sep 1189, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England

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Richard I, called Coeur de Lion or Lion-Hearted (1157-1199), king of England (1189-1199), third son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, born in Oxford. When he was an infant, Richard was betrothed to a daughter of the French king Louis VII, and in 1172 he was given the duchy of Aquitaine in France, his mother's inheritance. His early years were spent in warring against his father to protect his own interests; he emerged a brilliant soldier. In 1189 he became king of England and shortly thereafter set out on the Third Crusade. He was accompanied by the young Philip II, king of France, son of Louis VII. The Crusade proved a failure almost from the start, mainly because of the lack of harmony between the two kings. In Sicily Richard quarreled with Philip and refused to marry Philip's sister as planned. Instead he married Berengaria of Navarre on Cyprus, which he conquered in 1191. After capturing Acre (now 'Akko) from the Saracens that same year, Richard executed 2700 Muslim prisoners of war. It was Richard's personal valor in the Holy Land, however, rather than his ruthlessness, that made his name famous in legend. Conflict over policy in the Holy Land resulted in a break between the two, and Philip returned to France alone. Richard spent months in indecisive contests against Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, before making a truce by which Jerusalem was left in Saladin's hands. Captured en route to England by Leopold V, duke of Austria, Richard was handed over to Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI. He was released in 1194 only after paying a heavy ransom. Richard returned to England and there made peace with his brother, John, later king of England, who in his absence had been conspiring with Philip to usurp the English throne. Leaving the government of England to the care of the able administrator Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, Richard went to France in 1194 to wage war against the French king. Campaigns in defense of his European lands continued for five years. Victor in most of the warfare in which he engaged, Richard was fatally wounded by an arrow during an insignificant skirmish in 1199. As king, Richard had chosen able ministers, to whom he left most matters of administration. Under his rule, however, England suffered heavy taxation, levied to support his expeditions. Sometimes cruel, sometimes magnanimous, and always courageous, Richard was well versed in the knightly accomplishments of his age and was also a poet. He was to become the hero of many legendary tales.

AKA (2):
"Lionheart"

Richard married Queen Consort Berengaria Of NAVARRE in 1191 in Lemes?s (Limassol), Cyprus. Berengaria (daughter of King Sancho VI Of NAVARRE) was born in 1165; died in 1230 in Le Mans, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• CAUSED BY DEA: Killed At A Tournament By His Horse.
• FamilySearch ID: LT3S-M72
• RULED: Earl Of Bretagne; Earl Of Richmond
• _UID: 9C4F080AA6B1461683C54B5EF3DF95B3BB91
• ACCEDED: 1166

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Ancestral File Number: 8WKQ-5R

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• FamilySearch ID: G3L3-VM8
• _UID: EDD5891B05674D319E9B1B753323BC3F6A90

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Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-X3

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• FamilySearch ID: LZ1V-V82
• Name: Eleanor
• _UID: 4888ABA98390466CA52FEF5CF3CCC270F93E

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Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-Z8

Alianor married King Alfonso "The Noble" SANCHEZ, VIII on 22 Sep 1177 in Castile, Burgos, Spain. Alfonso (son of Sancho Alfonsez III SANCHEZ, King Of Castille and Princess Blanche Garcia RAMIREZ, Of Navarre) was born on 11 Nov 1155 in Castilla, Castilla, Spain; died on 6 Oct 1214 in Gutierre, Munoz, Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• CAUSED BY DEA: In Childbirth
• FamilySearch ID: K48T-V4D
• _UID: E8068BF3C4B64FB89B16318E39D268E3B3C6

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Died:
She died from childbirth complications.

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• Affiliation: ; House of Plantagenet
• CAUSED BY DEA: Probably From Dysentery
• FamilySearch ID: LBYQ-Z26
• Name: Lackland
• _UID: 65CCDAABBD1F4C5CA4AF7F3CB2656D441068
• RULED: Between 1199 and 1216, King Of England
• ACCEDED: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England
• Coronation: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey
• Signed Magna Carta: 15 Jun 1215, England
• Interment: Oct 1216, Worcestershire, England; Worcester Cathedral

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John was born on Christmas Eve 1167. His parents drifted apart after his birth; his youth was divided between his eldest brother Henry's house, where he learned the art of knighthood, and the house of his father's justiciar, Ranulf Glanvil, where he learned the business of government. As the fourth child, inherited lands were not available to him, giving rise to his nickname, Lackland. His first marriage lasted but ten years and was fruitless, but his second wife, Isabella of Angouleme, bore him two sons and three daughters. He also had an illegitimate daughter, Joan, who married Llywelyn the Great, Ruler of All Wales, from which the Tudor line of monarchs was descended. The survival of the English government during John's reign is a testament to the reforms of his father, as John taxed the system socially, economically, and judicially.

The Angevin family feuds profoundly marked John. He and Richard clashed in 1184 following Richard's refusal to honor his father's wishes surrender Aquitane to John. The following year Henry II sent John to rule Ireland, but John alienated both the native Irish and the transplanted Anglo-Normans who emigrated to carve out new lordships for themselves; the experiment was a total failure and John returned home within six months. After Richard gained the throne in 1189, he gave John vast estates in an unsuccessful attempt to appease his younger brother. John failed to overthrow Richard's administrators during the German captivity and conspired with Philip II in another failed coup attempt. Upon Richard's release from captivity in 1194, John was forced to sue for pardon and he spent the next five years in his brother's shadow.

John's reign was troubled in many respects. A quarrel with the Church resulted in England being placed under an interdict in 1207, with John actually excommunicated two years later. The dispute centered on John's stubborn refusal to install the papal candidate, Stephen Langdon, as Archbishop of Canterbury; the issue was not resolved until John surrendered to the wishes of Pope Innocent III and paid tribute for England as the Pope's vassal.

John proved extremely unpopular with his subjects. In addition to the Irish debacle, he inflamed his French vassals by orchestrating the murder of his popular nephew, Arthur of Brittany. By spring 1205, he lost the last of his French possessions and returned to England. The final ten years of his reign were occupied with failed attempts to regain these territories. After levying a number of new taxes upon the barons to pay for his dismal campaigns, the discontented barons revolted, capturing London in May 1215. At Runnymeade in the following June, John succumbed to pressure from the barons, the Church, and the English people at-large, and signed the Magna Carta. The document, a declaration of feudal rights, stressed three points. First, the Church was free to make ecclesiastic appointments. Second, larger-than-normal amounts of money could only be collected with the consent of the king's feudal tenants. Third, no freeman was to be punished except within the context of common law. Magna Carta, although a testament to John's complete failure as monarch, was the forerunner of modern constitutions. John only signed the document as a means of buying time and his hesitance to implement its principles compelled the nobility to seek French assistance. The barons offered the throne to Philip II's son, Louis. John died in the midst of invasion from the French in the South and rebellion from his barons in the North.

John was remembered in elegant fashion by Sir Richard Baker in A Chronicle of the Kings of England: ". . .his works of piety were very many . . . as for his actions, he neither came to the crown by justice, nor held it with any honour, nor left it peace."

MAGNA CARTA
The Great Charter of English liberty granted (under considerable duress) by King John at Runnymede on June 15, 1215 John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, greeting.

Know that before God, for the health of our soul and those of our ancestors and heirs, to the honour of God, the exaltation of the holy Church, and the better ordering of our kingdom, at the advice of our reverend fathers Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry archbishop of Dublin, William bishop of London, Peter bishop of Winchester, Jocelin bishop of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh bishop of Lincoln, Walter Bishop of Worcester, William bishop of Coventry, Benedict bishop of Rochester, Master Pandulf subdeacon and member of the papal household, Brother Aymeric master of the Knights of the Temple in England, William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William earl of Salisbury, William earl of Warren, William earl of Arundel, Alan de Galloway constable of Scotland, Warin Fitz Gerald, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert de Burgh seneschal of Poitou, Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip Daubeny, Robert de Roppeley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and other loyal subjects:


In French JEAN SANS TERRE king of England from 1199 to 1216. In a war with the French king Philip II, he lost Normandy and almost all his other possessions in France. In England, after a revolt of the barons, he was forced to seal the Magna Carta (1215).

From the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled "John:"

"John's reputation, bad at his death, was further depressed by writers of the next generation. Of all centuries prior to the present, only the 16th, mindful of his quarrel with Rome, recognized some of his quality. He was suspicious, vengeful, and treacherous; Arthur I of Brittany was probably murdered in captivity, and Matilda de Braose, the wife of a recalcitrant Marcher baron, was starved to death with her son in a royal prison. But John was cultured and literate. Conventional in his religion rather than devout, he was remembered for his benefactions to the church of Coventry, to Reading Abbey, and to Worcester, where he was buried and where his effigy still survives. He was extraordinarily active, with a great love of hunting and a readiness to travel that gave him a knowledge of England matched by few other monarchs. He took a personal interest in judicial and financial administration, and his reign saw important advances at the Exchequer, in the administration of justice, in the importance of the privy seal and the royal household, in methods of taxation and military organization, and in the grant of chartered privileges to towns. If his character was unreliable, his political judgment was acute. In 1215 many barons, including some of the most distinguished, fought on his side."


"Lackland" refered to John's status as the youngest son, resulting in no significant inherited fiefs from his Father. His titles included King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester. John succeeded his brother Richard I as King in 1199. In 1215 he put his seal on the Magna Carta (Great Charter). The Magna Carta is the foundation of English Constitutional law and liberties and placed the King, like the subjects he ruled, subject to the rule of law. He is Interred in Worcester Cathedral. "The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages" Norman F. Cantor, General Editor.

AKA (2):
"Lackland"

Family/Spouse: Agatha DE FERRERS. Agatha (daughter of Sybil DE BRAOSE) was born about 1168 in Chartley, Stafforshire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Suzanne DE WARENNE. Suzanne was born about 1170; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hawise DE TRACY. Hawise was born in 1168; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Avisa (Isabella) Of GLOUCESTER on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Avisa (daughter of William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT,, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Hawise Mabel Avis BEAUMONT, [Countess]) was born about 1173 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Isabella FITZROBERT, Of Gloucester on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Isabella (daughter of Earl William "Mafonache" FITZROBERT and Mabel (Hawise) DE BEAUMONT) was born about 1158 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217 in Kent, Jefferson County, Indiana; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent Co., England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married D'angouleme Isabella DE TAILLEFER, Queen Of England on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Count Of Valence & Angouleme Aymer DE TAILLEFER, Earl Of Glocester and Alice Alix DE COURTENAY) was born about 1180 in Angouleme, Charente-Maritime, France; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontrevrault, Marie-Et-Loire, France; was buried in Jun 1246 in Fontevrault-L'abbaye, Maine-Et-Loire, Pays De La Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: E435FB6AA57A4DD7815343B7C426BF19518D

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She was the Queen of Castile. Title: La Granda

Berengaria married King Alfonso Fernandez CASTILE AND LEON, IX in 1197 in Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain. Alfonso (son of King Ferdinand Alfonsez II Of LEON and Princess Urraca Alfonsez Of PORTUGAL, Of Portugal) was born on 15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain; died on 24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva DE Soria, Castilla, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJR1-KZK
• _UID: A78000EDF7E041B288ACB6C33B9C82D5B999
• ACCEDED: 1217

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• _UID: 216853B7B92E49CE85C802DBC9FD9CE300E4

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• _UID: 85C37CEBC9124AF097FC9436E61BBFE2C365

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From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled "Blanche of Castile:"

"French BLANCHE DE CASTILLE, Spanish BLANCA DE CASTILLA, wife of Louis VIII of France, mother of Louis IX (St. Louis), and twice regent of France (1226-34, 1248-52), who by wars and marital alliances did much to secure and unify French territories. Blanche was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor, who was the daughter of Henry II of England. Her grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of
England, traveled to Spain to take the 11-year-old Blanche to France, where a marriage treaty was concluded with Louis, the young son of King Philip II Augustus. This politically motivated marriage had been arranged by Blanche's uncle, King John of England, and was celebrated in 1200 at Portsmouth, Hampshire. It represented only a brief truce in the struggle between England and France for control over certain French territories.

"Blanche, who became French through marriage, was gradually to become French in spirit as well. Although she did not cease to be concerned for her family, among them her uncle John and his allies, her brother-in-law Ferrand of Portugal, and her cousin Otto of Brunswick (later Holy Roman emperor Otto IV), she rejoiced at the French victory over Otto and the English at Bouvines in 1214, marking the first stage of French unification, a goal for which she was constantly to strive. In the same year, she gave
birth to Louis, the future king of France. Upon John of England's death, Blanche boldly tried to seize the English throne: in 1216 Louis of France invaded England on her behalf. The English stood firm against him, and John's nine-year-old son was finally crowned Henry III.

"A devout Roman Catholic, Blanche soon became involved in what she sincerely believed to be a holy war against the heretical Cathari, a sect founded on the belief that good and evil had two separate creators, which was flourishing throughout southern France. Her husband, who became Louis VIII in 1223, took part in a crusade against the Cathari but suffered a fatal attack of dysentery upon returning to the north of France in 1226. In accordance with her husband's will, Blanche became both guardian of the 12-year-old Louis and regent of France. She zealously pressed to have Louis crowned immediately, and the coronation took place at Reims three weeks after Louis VIII's death.

"Her most pressing problem was to deal with a rebellion of the great barons, organized by Philip Hurepel, the illegitimate son of King Philip II Augustus, and supported by King Henry III of England. In the face of such adversity, Blanche showed herself by turns a delicate diplomat, a clever negotiator, and a strong leader. Dressed in white, on a white palfrey draped in the same colour, she rode into battle at the head of her troops. After an attempted abduction of the young king, Blanche did not hesitate to
replace rebel noble associates with commoners if she thought it necessary. She also created local militias. Blanche was gradually able to subdue the revolt, establish a new truce with England, and, in 1229, pacify the south of France by signing the Treaty of Paris with Raymond VII, count of Toulouse. France then entered an era of domestic stability, which saw the construction of many cathedrals throughout the country.

"On only one occasion did Blanche fail to exhibit diplomatic conduct. In 1229 a dispute between an innkeeper and some students took place in the Latin Quarter in Paris. The police were summoned, and the students were beaten and thrown into the Seine; such intervention in the Latin Quarter, however, was contrary to the prerogatives granted to the university, and the faculty and students threatened to strike if the university's privileges were not respected. Badly advised, Blanche held firm, but the university closed its doors, and the faculty and students left Paris for the provinces and abroad. It was to take four years and the intervention of the pope before the university would return to Paris with new prerogatives, this time granted by Blanche herself.

"Although Louis IX came of age on April 25, 1236, Blanche remained at his side as his most loyal and steadfast supporter. She lacked tact, however, with regard to her son's private life. Although Blanche herself had selected Margaret of Provence to be Louis's wife, she treated Margaret with considerable severity. In 1244, after Louis recovered from a serious illness, he and his wife, much against Blanche's wishes, made a vow to go on a crusade against the Muslims. They embarked in 1248, and once again the kingdom was entrusted to Blanche. Informed of Louis's defeat at Al-Mansurah, Egypt, and his subsequent imprisonment, Blanche herself went to seek his ransom and that of the French army. She petitioned her parents, her allies, and the pope for funds and supplies, but interest in the crusade had dwindled.

"Although weakened by a heart ailment, Blanche did not neglect her obligations as a regent. Continuing to preside over council meetings, she signed laws and watched over the poor of Paris. When some of the poor were mistreated by the cathedral chapter, she herself rode, as formerly, to open the gates to their prison. On her way to the Abbey of the Lys, one of her favourite retreats, Blanche suffered an attack of the heart ailment that was to take her life. She was returned to the palace of the Louvre, dressed in a nun's habit, and laid on a bed of hay. There, after begging forgiveness of all and having received the last sacraments, she died. She was buried at Maubuisson Abbey and her heart taken to the Abbey of the Lys. Louis IX was in Jaffa when he learned of his mother's death. The news distressed him greatly, for he was aware that he had lost not only an incomparable parent but also the strongest supporter of his
kingship."

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• Name: Blanche DE CASTILE

Blanche married Louis VIII CAPET, Roi de France on 23 May 1200 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, Normandy, France. Louis (son of King Phillippe CAPET, Of France and Isabelle DE HAINAUT, Reine de France) was born on 5 Sep 1187 in Ch?teau de Poiss, Poissy, Yvelmes, Ile-de-France, Paris, France; died on 8 Nov 1226 in Ch?teau de Montpensier, Puy-de-D?me, Auvergne, France; was buried in 1226 in Saint Denis Basilica, Seine, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Notes:

Following from Leo van de Pas in a posting to soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup, 23 Feb 1999:

I found the following about Joan bastard of England, after her death she was buried at Llanfaes but, at the dissolution of the monastery, her coffin was removed. In the 19th century it was discovered that it was being used as a horse trough. Rescued from this use, it was placed in Baron Hill Park, near Beaumaris in Anglesey. The most recent location is given as the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas in Beaumaris.

Joan married in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Llewelyn Ap IORWERTH, Prince Of Wales in 1206. Llewelyn (son of Iorwerth "Drwyndwn" Ap OWAIN, Prince North Wales and Marared Verch MADOG) was born in 1173 in Aberffraw Castle, Aberffraw, Anglesy, Wales; died on 11 Apr 1240 in Conwy, Caernarfonshire, Wales; was buried in Apr 1240 in Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Caernarfonshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 96261D8B17254AEF80EC41FA2F8A9F1DF5C6

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Title (Facts Pg):
Lord Chilham

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Affiliation: ; House of Plantagenet
• FamilySearch ID: 9SS7-5BT
• _UID: D4BD16507F644F278F04EA01D4A8B4F6F407
• RULED: Between 1216 and 1272, Was A Weak And Incompetent Rulers.
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1216 and 1272; King of England
• ACCEDED: 28 Oct 1216, Gloucester Cathedral, England

Notes:

Barons rebelled against his rule under Simond de Montfort.

He was the King of England from 1216 to 1272. In the 24 years (1234-58) during which he had effective control of the government, he displayed such indifference to tradition that the barons finally forced him to agree to a series of major reforms, the Provisions of Oxford (1258).

The elder son and heir of King John (ruled 1199-1216), Henry was nine years old when his father died. At that time London and much of eastern England were in the hands of rebel barons led by Prince Louis (later King Louis VIII of France), son of the French king Philip II Augustus. A council of regency presided over by the venerable William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was formed to rule for Henry; by 1217 the rebels had been defeated and Louis forced to withdraw from England. After Pembroke's death in 1219 Hubert de Burgh ran the government until he was dismissed by Henry in 1232. Two ambitious Frenchmen, Peter des Roches and Peter des Rivaux, then dominated Henry's regime until the barons brought about their expulsion in1234. That event marked the beginning of Henry's personal rule.

Although Henry was charitable and cultured, he lacked the ability to rule effectively. In diplomatic and military affairs he proved to be arrogant yet cowardly, ambitious yet impractical. The breach between the King and his barons began as earlyas 1237, when the barons expressed outrage at the influence exercised over the government by Henry's Savoyard relatives. The marriage arranged (1238) by Henry between his sister, Eleanor, and his brilliant young French favourite, Simon deMontfort, Earl of Leicester, increased foreign influence and further aroused the nobility's hostility. In 1242 Henry's Lusignan half brothers involved him in a costly and disastrous military venture in France. The barons then began to demand avoice in selecting Henry's counsellors, but the King repeatedly rejected their proposal. Finally, in 1254 Henry made a serious blunder. He concluded an agreement with Pope Innocent IV (pope 1243-54), offering to finance papal wars in Sicily if thePope would grant his infant son, Edmund, the Sicilian crown. Four years later Pope Alexander IV (pope 1254-61) threatened to excommunicate Henry for failing to meet this financial obligation. Henry appealed to the barons for funds, but they agreedto cooperate only if he would accept far-reaching reforms. These measures, the Provisions of Oxford, provided for the creation of a 15-member privy council, selected (indirectly) by the barons, to advise the King and oversee the entireadministration. The barons, however, soon quarrelled among themselves, and Henry seized the opportunity to renounce the Provisions (1261). In April 1264 Montfort, who had emerged as Henry's major baronial opponent, raised a rebellion; thefollowing month he defeated and captured the King and his eldest son, Edward, at the Battle of Lewes (May 14, 1264), Sussex. Montfort ruled England in Henry's name until he was defeated and killed by Edward at the Battle of Evesham, Worcestershire, in August 1265. Henry, weak and senile, then allowed Edward to take charge of the government. After the King's death, Edward ascended the throne as King Edward I.

Henry married Countess Eleanor BERENGER, Of Provence on 14 Jan 1236-1237 in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent Co., England. Eleanor (daughter of Count Raymond BERENGER, V and Countess Beatrice DE SAVOIE) was born in 1222 in Aix-En-Provence, Bouches Du Rhone, France; died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried on 25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: 9CNV-S3Y
• HISTORY: Elected King Of The Romans & Of Almaine 1556.
• _UID: CBB397E72D2C469EA0F6E7C807C73B9C2303
• ACCEDED: 30 May 1227, Prince; Created Earl Of Poictiers In 1225. Earl Of Cornwall

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1 NAME Richard /Plantagenet/ 1 DEAT 2 PLAC Cornwall, England

BIOGRAPHY: Richard was very wealthy and used it to be elected Holy Roman Emperor. His reign was not of any substance-pretty much symbolic. Late in life he gave up hope of ever actually ruling.
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BIOGRAPHY: Richard, Count of Poitou by 18 Aug 1225 (renounced c Dec 1243), 1st Earl of Cornwall, so styled from 21 Aug 1227 and King of the Romans (ie. heir presumptive to the Holy Roman Empire), so elected at Frankfurt 13 Jan 1256/7 and crowned at Aachen 17 May 1257 but soon ejected and returned to England, three of the Electors apparently having thrown him over because his monetary inducements to them were too small, PC (1253); Constable of Wallingford Castle 1216; knighted Feb 1224/5 and granted by his brother Henry III 13 Feb 1224/5 the County of Cornwall during the King's pleasure, following which he was presumably invested as Earl of that county; Lt of Guienne 1226-7; Ambassador to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II 1237 and Popes Innocent IV and Alexander IV 1250 and 1259 respectively; went on Crusade 1240-41; Co- or sole Regent during his brother Henry III's campaigns in Gascony 1253-54, fought with his brother Henry III against Simon de Montfort's barons at Battle of Lewes 1264, where he was captured; married 1st 30 March 1230/1 Isabel, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and widow of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, and had three sons (all died young or sp); married 2nd 22 Nov 1243 Sancha, sister of his brother Henry III's wife Eleanor and 3rd daughter and coheir of Raymond Berengar V, Count of Provence, and by her had two or three sons (also died young or sp, including the 2nd and last Earl of Cornwall); married 3rd 16 June 1269 Beatrice, 2nd daughter of Walram de Fauquemont (or Valkenberg, near Mastricht), Seigneur de Montjoie and brother of Engelbert Archbishop of Cologne, and died 2 April 1272, leaving by Jeanne de Valletort, and illegitimate son. [Burke's Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Earl married Joan Or Jane De VALLETORT in Unmarried. Joan (daughter of Reginald De VALLETORT) was born about 1213 in <, Winchester, Hampshire, England>; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Earl married Isabel MARSHALL on 30 Mar 1231 in Fawley Church, Bucks, England. Isabel was born in 1206 in Of, , Pembrokeshire, Wales; was christened in Apr 1206 in , St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 16 Jan 1240 in , Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in , Beaulieu, Southampton, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Earl married Sanchia BERENGER, Comtesse De Provence on 23 Nov 1243 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Sanchia (daughter of Count Raymond BERENGER, V and Countess Beatrice DE SAVOIE) was born about 1225 in Aix-En-Provence, Bouches Du Rhone, France; died on 9 Nov 1261 in Berkhamsted Castle, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried in Hayles Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GN7Q-2DC

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• FamilySearch ID: KZFZ-71Z
• RULED: Empress And Princess
• _UID: 81F672D98A1C4C198736ED966A0F5C563851
• ACCEDED: 20 Jul 1235, Worms Cathedral, Germany

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Ancestral File Number: 8XJ6-21

Princess married on 20 Jul 1235 in Worms, Rhinehessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• CAUSED BY DEA: Natural Causes
• FamilySearch ID: 9MSW-D9T
• _UID: C007238540304FB097919D70CA2874F46D73

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Ancestral File Number: 8WKP-JJ

Eleanor married on 23 Apr 1224 in Kings Chapel, Palace Of Westminster, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married on 7 Jan 1237-1238 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]