Thomas DE BOTETOURTE

Family/Spouse: Joan DE SOMERY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John DE BOTETOURTE was born in 1318; died on 4 Apr 1386.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1st Lord Botetourte
• Fact: Illeg. son of Edward I

John married Maud FITZ THOMAS before Jun 1292. Maud (daughter of Sir Thomas FITZ OTTO and Beatrice DE BEAUCHAMP) died after 28 May 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Westminster Abbey, London, England
• Name: Edward I Longshanks
• Fact: 1272, Duke of Aquitaine
• Fact: Between 1272 and 1307, King of England
• Fact: 19 Aug 1272, Crowned
• Crowned: 19 Aug 1274, Westerminster Abbey

Notes:

Edward was called the Hammer of the Scots.

Illegitimate Issue: John De Botetourte (d. 25 Nov 1324), 1st Lord Botetourte, is listed by Taute' and Weis as an illegitimate son of Edward I; He married Maud, daughter of Thomas Fitz Otes (b. abt. 1231; d. by 28 March 1274) and Beatrice De Beauchamp (d. abt 1280/1281).[Hulett FTW from MC Scott.FTW]

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Reigned 1272-1307
In the Barons war 1264-67 he defeated the Barons at Evesham (1265) as King he is noted for encouraging Parliamentary institutions at the expense of feudalism and for subduing Wales on which he imposed the English system of administration. He later tried to assert his authority over Scotland and died while on his way to fight Robert Bruce.

Name:
Edward I of England (Longshanks), King of England, son and heir, was born at Westminster, Middlesex, on 17 June 1239, and was named after the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor whose memory was honoured by King Henry. He was granted Gascony and was created Earl of Chester on 14 Feb 1254. to prevent the rebellious Gascons from obtaining help from Castille, his marriage was arranged. he was married for the first time at monastery of Las Huelgas in Spain on 18 Oct 1254 (he being fifteen and she ten years of age) to Alianore De Castille, daughter of Fernando III, Rey de Castilla y Leon, by his second wife Jeanne, daughter of Simon de Dammartin, Comte d'Aumale et de Ponthieu. She was born about 1244. In the conflict between his father, King Henry III, and the barons led by Simon de Montfort, Edward at first supported Monfort, but then supported his father, slaying Montfort at Evesham on 4 Aug 1265. Edward took the cross in 1268 and was on crusade at Acre in the Holy Land from May 1271 to September 1272. On his return journey to England he was in the kingdom of Sicily when he learned of his father's death, and paid homage at paris to his cousin the French King, Philippe III, for his French lands. He landed at Dover in England on 2 Aug 1274, and was crowned King of England at Westminster on 19 Aug 1274. Having learned much from the civil war of his father's reign, he embarked on the restoration of royal authority with the institution of inquiries into the authority by which landowners held their jurisdictions and overhauled the civil and criminal law. From 1275 to 1307, he summoned, as had Montfort before him, representatives of the shires and boroughs to parliaments, that is, meetings of the king with the principal men of the realm. This improved relations between the king and the borough communities and committed them to some support of his policies, although Edward had no intention of sharing royal authority. Edward was much concerned with asserting his claims to sovereignty over the whole of Britain. In 1277 he defeated Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, and in the early 1280s conquered the latter's principality and annexed it to the English Crown. The hereditary Anglo-Norman lords continued to rule the marches of Wales with the overlordship of the English Crown. The dying out of he direct Scottish royal line in 1290 enabled Edward to press his claim to the overlordship of Scotland but he met resistance from his choice as King of the Scots, John Balliol. In 1296 Edward invaded Scotland, deposed Balliol and sought to occupy the kingdom. William Wallace, a supporter of Balliol, began a successful rebellion, but was decisively defeated by Edward in Falkirk in 1298. Robert Bruce, whose grandfather had been a claimant to the Scottish throne, and who was a rival of the Balliols, rebelled, and was crowned king in 1306. In 1294 Edward had become embroiled in war with his overlord, the French king, Philippe IV, who was asserting himself in the affairs of Edward's Duchy of Gascony. The extortionate demands for services and money to fight Philippe and to suppress Scottish resistance alienated his English subjects in his later years and provoked renewed baronial opposition.

Edward married ? UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Beatrice DE BEAUCHAMP before 1264. Beatrice (daughter of William DE BEAUCHAMP and Ida DE LONGESPEE) died about 1280/1. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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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]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Held barony of Bedford, co. Bedford
• Fact: Baron of the Exchequer
• Fact 1: Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks

William married Ida DE LONGESPEE before 1220. Ida (daughter of William LONGESPEE and Ela Countess Of SALISBURY) was born about 1222 in Salisbury, England; died after 1266/7. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Idonea