Margaret of England1275–
Birth | March 15, 1275 35 34 |
Marriage | Jean II de Brabant dit le Pacifique — View this family yes |
Death of a mother | Eleonor of Castile November 28, 1290 (Age 15 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | Jean III de Brabant dit le Triomphant 1300 (Age 24 years) |
Death of a father | Edward Ier of England dit Longshanks July 7, 1307 (Age 32 years) |
Marriage of a child | Jean III de Brabant dit le Triomphant — Marie d’ Evreux — View this family 1311 (Age 35 years) |
Death of a husband | Jean II de Brabant dit le Pacifique October 27, 1312 (Age 37 years) |
Death of a son | Jean III de Brabant dit le Triomphant December 5, 1355 (Age 80 years) |
Marriage of a grandchild | Jean de Brabant-Brant — Catherine d’ Ochamps de Haneffe — View this family August 22, 1371 (Age 96 years) |
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Edward Ier of England dit Longshanks Birth: June 18, 1239 — Palais de Westminster, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni Death: July 7, 1307 — Burgh By Sands, Cumbria, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni |
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Eleonor of Castile Birth: 1241 — Castille, Espagne Death: November 28, 1290 — Harby, Nottinghamshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni |
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Margaret of England Birth: March 15, 1275 35 34 — Windsor Castle Death: Bruxelles, Duché de Brabant |
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Birth: September 27, 1275 22 24 Death: October 27, 1312 — Tervueren, Duché de Brabant |
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Margaret of England Birth: March 15, 1275 35 34 — Windsor Castle Death: Bruxelles, Duché de Brabant |
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Birth: 1300 24 24 Death: December 5, 1355 — Bruxelles, Duché de Brabant |
Note | Margaret of England (15 March 1275 – after 1333) was the tenth child and seventh daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. Her husband was John II, Duke of Brabant, whom she married in 1290; the year of her mother's death. Margaret and John had one child, John III, Duke of Brabant.
Family
Margaret was born on 15 March 1275,[1] at Windsor Castle, the tenth child of King Edward I of England and his first queen consort, Eleanor of Castile. Margaret's maternal grandparents were Ferdinand III of Castile and his second wife Jeanne, Countess of Ponthieu, and her paternal grandparents were Henry III of England and his wife Eleanor of Provence. Henry III was son of John of England and his second wife Isabella of Angoulême.[2] John was son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Margaret's fifteen siblings included: Henry of England, Joan of Acre, Eleanor, Countess of Bar, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan and her father's suceesor, Edward II of England.
When Margaret's mother died in 1290, her father remarried to Margaret of France. She was daughter of Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant. They were parents to three children: Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent and Eleanor of England.
Marriage
On 8 July 1290 Margaret married John II, Duke of Brabant in Westminster Abbey, London; becoming Duchess of Brabant less than four years later on 3 May 1294 . She had been acquainted with her groom since childhood,[3] as they had been betrothed in 1278 when she was three years old. Margaret's wedding festivities were splendidly extravagant; they included a procession of knights in full body armour and richly-dressed ladies singing as they paraded through the streets of London to the music provided by harpers, minstrels and violinists, while fools danced.[4] Their only child was John III, Duke of Brabant, successor to his father.
Margaret, described having been a good-natured, merry child in her youth,[4] was unhappy at the Brabant court, as she was forced to accept her husband's perennial succession of mistresses and the illegitimate children they bore him;[4] all of whom were raised at court alongside her own son, John. The latter was her only child, born 10 years after her marriage to the Duke.
During the reign of John II, Brabant continued supporting a coalition to stop French expansion. He tried to conquer South Holland (district of medieval Holland) from the pro-French count John II of Holland, but was not successful. John, who suffered from kidney stones and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg.
Margaret and John attended the wedding of her brother King Edward II to Isabella of France in Boulogne on 25 January 1308. They accompanied the royal pair to England for their joint coronation at Westminster Abbey the following month.
After his death John II was buried in the St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral in Brussels. Margaret died twenty-two years after her husband. She died in Belgium and is buried at Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, Brussels.[5] Both tombs have since been destroyed.
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