EDWARD III OF ENGLAND

EDWARD III PLANTAGENET, King of England was born November 13, 1312 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom and died June 21, 1377 in Sheen Palace, Surrey England of a stoke. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England

He married PHILIPPA OF HAINAUT on January 1, 1328 in York Minster, England, United Kingdom. She was born in 1311 and died 1369 of edema. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_of_Hainault

Children of EDWARD III PLANTAGENET and PHILIPPA OF HAINAUT

I. EDWARD OF WOODSTOCK, Prince of Wales

b. june 15, 1330 Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England

d. June 8, 1376 Palace of Westminster, England

m. JOAN OF KENT October 10, 1361

b. September 29, 1328

d. August 8, 1385

II. ISABELLA DE COUCY

b. June 16, 1332 Woodstock Place, Oxfordshire, England

d. 1382 England

m. ENGUERRAND VII DE COUCY IN 1386

b. 1339

d. February 13, 1397

III. JOAN OF ENGLAND

b. December 19, 1333 Tower o London, London, England

d. July 1, 1348 Loremo, Bordeaux, France

IV. WILLIAM OF HATFIELD

b. February 16, 1337 Hatfield, South Yorkshire, England

d. March 3, 1337

V. LIONEL OF ANTHWERP, 1st Duke of Clarence

b. November 29, 1338 Antwerp, Belgium

d. October 7, 1368 Piedmont, Italy

m ELIZABETH DE BURGH, 4th Countess of Ulster in 1352

b. July 6, 1332

d. 1363

VI. JOHN OF GAUNT, 1st Duke of Lancaster

b. March 6, 1340 Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

d. February 3, 1399 Leicester Castle, Leicestershire, England

m. BLANCE OF LANCASTER May 19, 1359 in Reading, Berkshire

b. March 25, 1345

d. September 12, 1369 in Bolingbroke Castle

VII. EDMUND OF LANGLEY, 1st Duke of York

b. June 5, 1341 Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England

d. August 1, 1402 Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England

m. ISABELLA DE CASTILLA March 1, 1372

b. 1355

d. November 23, 1392 England

VIII. BLANCHE OF ENGLAND

b. 1342

d. 1342

IX. MARY OF ENGLAND

b. October 10, 1344 at Waltham, Hampshire, England

d. December 1362 England

m. JEAN IV DE BRETAGNE

b. 1339

d. November 1, 1399

X. MARGARET OF ENGLAND

b. 1346

d. aft 1361

XI. WILLIAM OF WINDSOR

b. 1348

d. 1348

XII. THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK, 1st Duke of Gloucester

b. January 7, 1355 Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

d. September 9, 1397 in Calais Brittany France

m. ELEANOR DE BOHUN IN 1376

b. 1366

d. October 3, 1399

Edward III Plantagenet became King of England, etc., upon his father's abdication in January 1327. In 1337 he also claimed the title of King of France, although he was never able to make good on the claim. He reigned until his death.

Edward III is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II of England (1284-1327). Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe; his reign also saw vital developments in legislation and government—in particular the evolution of the English parliament—as well as the ravages of the Black Death. He is one of only five British monarchs to have ruled England or its successor kingdoms for more than fifty years.

Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed by his mother and her consort Roger Mortimer. At age seventeen he led a successful coup against Mortimer, the de facto ruler of the country, and began his personal reign. After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337, starting what would become known as the Hundred Years' War.

He ordered his uncle to be beheaded; he usurped his father's throne; he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years, and taxed his people more than any other previous king. Yet for centuries Edward III was celebrated as the most brilliant king England had ever had, and three hundred years after his death it was said that his kingship was perhaps the greatest that the world had ever known.

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