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Revision as of 20:03, 7 November 2008
| Philippa of Hainault | |
|---|---|
| Queen consort of England | |
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| Consort | January 24, 1328 - August 15, 1369 |
| Consort to | Edward III |
| Issue | |
| Edward, the Black Prince Isabella, Lady of Coucy Joan of England Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence John, 1st Duke of Lancaster Edmund, 1st Duke of York Mary, Duchess of Brittany Margaret, Countess of Pembroke Thomas, 1st Duke of Gloucester | |
| Titles | |
| Her Grace The Queen Lady Philippa of Hainault | |
| Royal House | Plantagenet |
| Father | William I, Count of Hainaut |
| Mother | Joan of Valois |
| Born | June 24 1311 Valenciennes |
| Died | 15 August 1369 (aged 58) Windsor Castle |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
Philippa of Hainault (June 24 1311 – August 15 1369) was the Queen consort of Edward III of England.
Life
Philippa was born in Valenciennes (then in Flanders, now France) and was the daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut and Jeanne of Valois, the granddaughter of Philip III of France.
She married Edward at York Minster, on 24 January, 1328, eleven months after his accession to the English throne and, unlike many of her predecessors, she did not alienate the English people by retaining her foreign retinue upon her marriage or bringing large numbers of foreigners to the English court.
Philippa accompanied Edward on his expeditions to the Kingdom of Scotland (1333) and Flanders (1338-40), where she won acclaim for her gentleness and compassion. She is best remembered as the tender-hearted woman who interceded with her husband and persuaded him to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais (1346) whom he had planned to execute as an example to the townspeople following his successful siege. She acted as a regent on several occasions when he was on the continent.
Philippa had grown portly in her later years, and this added to the view most of her English subjects had of her as a friendly, homely, motherly woman whom the nation greatly loved. Philippa outlived 9 of her 14 children; two of whom were lost during the Black Death outbreak (1348).
On 15 August 1369 Philippa died of an illness akin to dropsy in Windsor Castle, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. By all accounts, her 40 year marriage to Edward had been happy, despite his taking a mistress, Alice Perrers, during the later part of it.
Issue
Philippa and Edward had fourteen children, including five sons who lived into adulthood and whose rivalry would eventually bring about the long-running civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses. Their sons are:
- Edward, the Black Prince (1330-76)
- Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338-68)
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-99)
- Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341-1402)
- Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (1355-97)
Another three sons and two daughters died in infancy. There were four surviving daughters:
- Isabella of England (1332-1379)
- Joan of England (1334-1348)
- Mary Plantagenet (1344-1362)
- Margaret Plantagenet (1346-1361)
Legacy
Through her children, Philippa reintroduced the bloodline of an earlier English King, Stephen, into the royal family. She was descended from Stephen through Matilda of Brabant, the wife of Floris IV, Count of Holland. Their daughter Adelaide of Holland married John I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut, Philippa's paternal great-grandfather. Matilda of Brabant in turn was the great-granddaughter of Stephen through her mother Matilda of Boulogne, the wife of Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
Philippa was also a descendant of Harold II of England through his daughter Gytha of Wessex, married to Vladimir II Monomakh of Kiev. His bloodline, however, had been reintroduced to the English royal family by Philippa's mother-in-law, Isabella of France, a granddaughter of Isabella of Aragon, the wife of Philip III of France. Isabella of Aragon's mother, Violant of Hungary, was a daughter of Andrew II of Hungary, a grandson of Géza II by Euphrosyne of Kiev, herself a granddaughter of Gytha. Through her maternal great-grandmother, Maria of Hungary, she was descended from Elisabeth of Bosnia (born before 1241), a daughter of Kuthen, Khan of the Cumens and his Slavic wife, Galicie of Halicz, thus bringing Western Asian blood into the English royal line.[1]
The Queen's College, Oxford is named after Philippa. It was founded by one of her chaplains, Robert de Eglesfield, in her honour.
Ancestry
Notes
- ↑ WorldRoots.com. bt Leo Van de Pas.
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- Ashley, Mike. British Kings & Queens, Carroll & Graf, 2002. ISBN 0-7867-1104-3
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. The Encyclopedia of Amazons. Paragon House, 1991. ISBN 1-55778-420-5
- Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy, The Bodley Head London, U.K., Pimlico, 2002. ISBN 978-0712642866
External links
- World Roots site by Leo van de Pas genealogics.org All links retrieved November 7, 2008.
| English royalty | ||
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| Preceded by: Isabella of France |
Queen Consort of England 24 January 1328 - 15 August 1369 |
Succeeded by: Anne of Bohemia |
George, Duke of Cumberland (1702-1707) · Mary of Modena (1685-1688) · Catherine of Braganza (1662-1685) · Henrietta Maria of France (1625-1649) · Anne of Denmark (1603-1619) · Philip II of Spain (1554-1558) · Lord Guildford Dudley (1553) · Catherine Parr (1543-1547) · Catherine Howard (1540-1542) · Anne of Cleves (1540) · Jane Seymour (1536-1537) · Anne Boleyn (1533-1536) · Catherine of Aragon (1509-1533) · Elizabeth of York (1486-1503) · Anne Neville (1483-1485) · Elizabeth Woodville (1464-1483) · Margaret of Anjou (1445-1471) · Catherine of Valois (1420-1422) · Joanna of Navarre (1403-1413) · Isabella of Valois (1396-1399) · Anne of Bohemia (1383-1394) · Philippa of Hainault (1328-1369) · Isabella of France (1308-1327) · Marguerite of France (1299-1307) · Eleanor of Castile (1272-1290) · Eleanor of Provence (1236-1272) · Isabella of Angoulême (1200-1216) · Berengaria of Navarre (1191-1199) · Eleanor of Aquitaine (1154-1189) · Matilda of Boulogne (1135-1152) · Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (1141) · Adeliza of Louvain (1121-1135) · Matilda of Scotland (1100-1118) · Matilda of Flanders (1066-1083)
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