“Longshanks”
King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine
Events
Date of Birth: The night of 17-18 June 1239.
Place of Birth: Westminster.
The date and place are given by Prestwich (ODNB article) and Morris (p. 2).
Date of Baptism: 21 June 1239.
The date is given by The Complete Peerage (3:170).
Date of Death: 7 July 1307.
Place of Death: Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England,
The date and place are given by Prestwich (ODNB article), and Morris (p. 362).
Date of Burial: 27 October 1307.
Place of Burial: Westminster Abbey.
The date and place are given by Prestwich (ODNB article).
Relationships
Father: Henry III of England (1207 - 1272).
This relationship is given by Prestwich (ODNB) and The Complete Peerage (3:170).
Mother: Éléonore de Provence (about 1223 - 1291).
This relationship is given by Prestwich (ODNB) and The Complete Peerage (3:170).
Spouse: Leonor de Castilla. Married 1 November 1254 in Las Huelgas.
The date and place are given by Prestwich (Edward I, p. 20). Cawley gives 12 October 1254 at Burgos.
Spouse: Marguerite de France (1279? - 1318). Married 10 September 1299 at Canterbury.
This relationship is given by Parsons (ODNB).
Children (by Leonor):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Prestwich’s Edward I and Cawley.)
Katherine (born 1261 - 1263, died September 1264)
Joan (Jan 1265 - September 1265)
John (July 1266 - August 1271)
Henry (May 1268 - October 1274)
Eleanor (June 1269 - August 1298) married (1) Alfonso III, King of Aragon by proxy 15 August 1290 in Westminster Abbey (not consummated); married (2) Henri III, count of Bar, 20 September 1293 in Bristol.
daughter (about 1271 - 1271 or 1272)
Joan “of Acre” (1272 - April 1307) married (1) Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 30 April 1290; married (2) Ralph de Monthermer 1297.
Alphonso (November 1273 - August 1284)
Margaret (March 1275 - about 1333) married Jean de Brabant 8 July 1290.
Berengaria (May 1276 - 1277 or 1278)
child (January 1278 - 1278)
Mary (March 1279 - 1332) became a nun.
Elizabeth “of Rhuddlan” (August 1282 - 5 May 1316) married (1) Jan I van Holland 18 January 1297 in Ipswich; married (2) Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex 14 November 1302 in Westminster Abbey.
Edward “of Caernarvon” (Edward II of England) (25 April 1284 - murdered 21 September 1327) married Isabelle de France 22 January 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Children (by Marguerite):
Thomas “of Brotherton” (1300 - 1338) married (1) Alice Halys; married (2) Mary de Brewes. Thomas was created Earl of Norfolk in 1321.
Edmund “of Woodstock” (1301 - 1330) married Margaret Wake. Edmund was created Earl of Kent in 1321.
Eleanor (1306 - 1310).
References
Cawley, Charles. “Edward” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 3.
Morris, Marc. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. (London : Hutchinson, 2008.)
Parsons, John Carmi. “Margaret (1279? - 1318)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Prestwich, Michael. Edward I. (University of California Press, 1988).
Prestwich, Michael, ‘Edward I (1239–1307)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.