Eleanor Of BRITTANY

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• Residence: A nun at Amesbury, Abbess of Fontevrault

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• Also Known As: Jean II De Dtrux
• Fact: 1st Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond

Notes:

John was also known as Earl of Richmond, 1st Duke of Brittany. He is the son of John I Rufus (Le Roux) Of Brittany and Blance (daughter of Theobald IV, Count of Champagne and King of Navarre).

They had 3 sons and 3 daughters:
John Of rittany
Mary of Brittany
Aruther II
Eleanor

John married Beatrice Of ENGLAND on 22 Jan 1260 in Abbey of St. Denis, Paris. Beatrice (daughter of Henry III King Of ENGLAND and Eleanor Of PROVENCE) was born on 25 Jun 1242 in Bordeaux, Gascogne, France; died on 24 Mar 1274/5 in Bretagne, France; was buried in Grey Friars, Newgate, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Beatrice was buried at Grey Friars Church, Newgate, London, however, her heart was buried in Fontevrault Abbey in Anjou.

John married Blanche DE CHAMPAGNE. Blanche (daughter of Theobald IV King Of NAVARRE and Marguerite DE BOURBON) was born about 1220 in Navarra, Spain; died on 11 Aug 1283; was buried in Abbaye De La Joie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 10 Oct 1206/7, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England
• Crowned: 28 Oct 1216, Gloucester Cathedral
• Crowned: 17 May 1220, Westerminster Abbey

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Reigned 1216-1272. A minor when he took the throne he did not take the reigns of Government himself until 1234. Baronian discontent simmered, boiling over in 1258 when Henry facing financial disaster attempted to raise large sums from his magnates. Reforms were agreed upon but then renouced by Henry. Simon de Montford lead a rebellion against the King (the Barons Wars) which was defeated after initial success, thereafter Hnery ceeded much of his power to his son. Burke say he was born 10 Oct 1206 and married 14 Jan, crowned 1216.Henry III was buried at Westminster abbey, however, his heart was buried at Fontevrault.

According to "Blood Royal": it is extremely unlikely that Henry III had any mistresses, and no illegitimate issue for him is recorded. Through 36 years of married life, until Henry's death (at 65), he and his Queen remained devoted to one another.

Name:
Henry III of England (of Winchester), King of England, son and heir, was born at Winchester Castle on 1 Oct 1207. He was crowned, aged nine, at Gloucester on 28 Oct 1216. Henry assumed personal rule when he declared himself to be of full age in January 1227, and sought to recover the lands in France lost by his father. Henry's personal rule in the direction of royal finances without the participation of the barons provoked discontent. The barons were further repelled by the influence over his government by his Queen's Savoyard kinsmen. His Lusignan half-brothers involved him in a disastrous foray in France. Henry's need for financial support compelled him in 1258 to agree to the creation of a privy council of barons to advise him and to oversee the administration of government. Henry sought help fro the French king, Louis IX,and in 1259 made peace abandoning claim to the lost lands in France (the titles of Duc de Normandie and Comte d'Anjou in 1259, also renouncing claims to the counties of Maine, Touraine, and Poitou) and agreeing to hold the province still in his hands, the Duchy of Gascony, as a feudal vassal of Louis and his successors. His major baronial opponent by 1264 was his brother-in-law Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. In the ensuing civil war Montfort captured Henry and his eldest son, Edward, at the battle of Lewes in Sussex on 14 May 1264. Montfort ruled England in Henry's name until he was defeated and killed at the battle of Evesham on 4 Aug 1265 by Henry's son, the future King Edward I who assumed effective control of the government.

Henry married Eleanor Of PROVENCE on 04 Jan 1236 in Canterbury, C, England. Eleanor (daughter of Raymond IV BERENGAR and Beatrice Of SAVOY) was born between 1217 and 1222 in Aix-en-Provence, France; died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elbeonore Countess Of Provence
• Birth: Abt 1223, Aix-en-Provence, France
• Crowned: 20 Jan 1236, Westminster Abbey

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Elbeonore was buried at Convent Church, Amesbury, however, hr heart was buried in the Church of Friars Minors (Minories), London.

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• Fact: Count of Brie and Bar-sur-Seine
• Fact: A Crusader
• Name: Theobald I King Of Navarre

Theobald married Marguerite DE BOURBON on 22 Sep 1232. Marguerite (daughter of Seigneur de Bourbon Archambaud IX Lord Of BOURBON and Beatrice DE MONTCULON) was born about 1211 in Navarra, Spain; died on 12 Apr 1256 in Provins, Brie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret Of Bourbon

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• Also Known As: John Plantagenet
• Fact: Between 1199 and 1216, King of England
• Crowned: 27 May 1199, Westminster Abbey

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Reigned 1199-1216. Signed Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede. His reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom he has lost several continental possesions including Normandy by 1205. He came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna Carta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160. King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester.Called Lackland because by the time he was born, his older brothers' inheritances had been decided, and there was little left for him (Warren, King John, pg 28). Barber, The Devil's Crown, pg 53 states: that "no provision was made for John, who, born nine years after the last son's birth, was too young to be considered in an age when infant mortality was very high."

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John of England (Lackland), brother and heir, youngest son, was born at Oxford on 24 Dec 1167. His father's attempt to provide territory in France for him provoked rebellion by is older brothers. His father granted him the lordship of Ireland in 1177, and arranged his succession to the earldom of Gloucester. His father's continued favour to him contributed to the rebellion of John's older brother Richard I, though at the end of Henry's reign John deserted his father to support Richard who, on accession as King in 1189, made John Comte de Mortagne in Normandy. John was married for the first tine at Marlebridge on 29 Aug 1189 to Isabel of Gloucester, Countess of Gloucester, youngest daughter and co-heiress of William FitzRobert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Henry had arranged the marriage before his death, but it was delayed because Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, had forbidden it on account of consanguinity (the were both great-grandchildren of King Henry I). On appeal to Rome the papal legate in England annulled the Archbishop's interdict. John became Earl of Gloucester 'jure uxoris'. Richard, who was childless, acknowledged that his successor as King of England was his and John's nephew Arthur, son of their deceased brother Geoffrey. While Richard was on crusade John broke his promise not to enter England during Richard's absence and, on learning of Richard's imprisonment in Germany, attempted, though unsuccessfully, to seize control of England. On Richard's return John was banished and disinherited though he was pardoned and recognized as heir when Arthur fell into the hands of the king of France, Philippe II. On the death of Richard in 1199, John took the Throne, and was crowned King of England on Ascension Day 27 May 1199. In 1199, through the Archbishop of Bordeaux and the Bishops of Poitier and Saintonge, and after a ten-year childless marriage, John obtained a divorce from his wife on the grounds of consanguinity. This enraged the Roman Curia as presuming to dissolve what had been joined by their authority. He intervened in the politics of his county of Poitou, and in trying to settle the quarrel between the rival families of Lusignan and Angouleme, was married for the second time at Bordeaux on 24 Aug 1200 to Isabelle D'Angouleme, daughter and heiress of Aymer Taillefer, Comte d'Angouleme, by Alice, daughter of Pierre de France, Seigneur de Courtenay. She was born in 1188, and had been betrothed to Hugues IX de Lusignan, Cote de La Marche. She was crowned on 8 Oct 1200. War with France followed John's refusal to appear before Philippe II concerning the grievance of the Lusignans. At first John was successful in defending his Frence lands, capturing his nephew Arthur (who died in custody), but in 1204 lost Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Touraine to the French king. For the next ten years John resided almost permanently in England (the first such Angevin king) and attempted to restore his finances for further warfare in France by determined taxation and exploitation of his feudal prerogatives (later the basis for the charge of tyranny). When he insisted on his, rather the Pope's right to nominate the Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope Innocent III in 1208 imposed an Interdict on England suspending all religious services, and excommunicating King John. After five years of amassing the revenues of vacant or appropriated sees and abbeys, John agreed to become a vassal to the Pope for an annual tribute of one thousand marks, with absolution from excommunication and the lifting of the Interdict. John continued his fight with the French, now with the Pope as his ally, but attempts finally collapsed with the defeat of his continental allies at Bouvines in 1214. An alliance of barons took advantage of this defeat to launch a rebellion which was successful in forcing John to a comprehensive and humiliating Magna Charta ensuring the feudal rights of the barons and the reinstatement of English law, signed at Runnymede on 19 June 1215. John soon repudiated the charter and civil war resumed. John of England, King of England, died suddenly in the midst of campaigning at Newark on 19 Oct 1216, and was buried at Worcester Cathedral where his effigy is to be seen on his tomb.

John's loss of the French dominions, his disputes with Rome, and a high level of taxation had the English nobility up in arms against him. In 1215 they forced the King to sign the Magna Carta, guaranteeing their rights in relation to those of the crown. This led to civil war, which only ended with John's death.

Despite his problems with France and the English barons, recent historical research suggests that John was a keen administrator, a good general, an astute diplomat, and a hard-working and intelligent ruler with a strong sense of justice.

John married Isabella Of ANGOULEME on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Aymer "Taillifer" DE VALENCE and Alice DE COURTENAY) was born in 1188 in Angouleme; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevraud; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Isabella De Taillefer
• Name: Isabelle Of Angouleme
• Crowned: 08 Oct 1200, Westminster Abbey

Notes:

Isabella, "as a penance for her sins", she desired to be buried humbly in a common cemetary at Fontevrault.
Her son, Henry III "some years later" had her body moved into the Abbey and ordered an effigy for her tomb.

Isabella's varying situations demonstrate the modern-day definitions of the different kinds of queens. When she was married to the reigning king, she was a queen consort. When John died, she became a queen dowager, and if she had ruled for her young son, Henry III, she would also have been a queen regent.

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• Also Known As: Count of Provence and Forcalquier
• Lineage: Count of Provence
• Name: Raymond V Berenger

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Berenger was the last and most illustrious of the Royal ProvenÁal Counts; and, even had he not been the sovereign of the land of song, his own verses would have entitled him to a distinguised rank among the Troubadour poets. He was relatively impoverished count who could provide little dowry for his
daughters.

Raymond married Beatrice Of SAVOY on 05 Jun 1219. Beatrice (daughter of Thomas I of SAVOY and Beatrix Of GENEVA) was born in 1198 in Chambbery, Savoie, France; died in Dec 1266 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 1226

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Celebrated with her husband for learning and literary taste.