Henry III King of England Plantagenet

1207 - 1272  (65 years)

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• Name	Henry III King of England Plantagenet  [1]
  Born	1 Oct 1207	Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	8076
  Died	16 Nov 1272	Palace of Westminster, Westminster, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I8076	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John King of England Plantagenet,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England ,   d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England  (Age 49 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Isabella de Lusignan Angoulême,   b. Abt 1188, Angoulême, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France ,   d. 31 May 1246, Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor of England Provence,   b. Abt 1217, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France ,   d. 24 Jun 1291, Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Children	+ 1. Edward I King of England Plantagenet,   b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster, Middlesex, England ,   d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, England  (Age 68 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2395	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Plantagenet-167 BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG: Edward I 'Longshanks', king of England, was born on 17 June 1239, the son of Henry III, king of England, and Eleanor de Provence. As a boy Edward was once in the middle of a game of chess with one of his knights in a vaulted room when suddenly, for no apparent reason, he got up and walked away. Seconds later, a massive stone, which would have completely crushed anyone who happened to be underneath it, fell from the roof on to the very spot where he had been sitting. With his mother's strength but without her frivolity, Edward I became a great statesman and an able soldier. He supported his weak father, King Henry III, during the civil wars inflicted upon England by the barons. He was only fifteen when he went to Spain to be knighted by King Alfonso X of Castile and to marry that king's half-sister, Eleanor. This marriage, like that of his parents, was a happy one and produced fifteen children, of whom only six reached adulthood. After peace was restored in England, Edward went on crusade in 1270, accompanied by Eleanor. In June 1272 a member of the Hashshashin, a secret society of assassins, who was employed by one of the emirs in negotiation with Edward, obtained a private interview with him under pretence of important secret business, then suddenly attacked him with a dagger, wounding him in the arm. Edward repelled him with a vigorous kick and, seizing a stool, knocked him down and snatched the dagger from him. In doing this, however, he wounded himself in the forehead. As the dagger was poisoned, Edward's wounds gave cause for great anxiety; he made his will, appointing executors and guardians for his children. However the skills of his surgeon saved his life. In November 1272, when Edward and Eleanor were in Sicily on their way back, his father died. As they knew Edward I's mother to be a capable regent, they did not hurry and so did not arrive in England until the summer of 1274. Edward and Eleanor were then crowned together in Westminster Abbey on 19 August 1274. In 1279 he proclaimed an edict to the effect that clipped money should no longer be circulated, nor should anyone be forced to accept it. He then designated a small number of places where money could be exchanged and within a short time no one would consider accepting it. Edward kept in touch with and encouraged the parliament. His continuous if unsuccessful attempts to rule Scotland earned him the name of 'Hammer of the Scots'. However, his sojourns into Wales were more successful, and after the death of the last two native princes, Llywellyn and David, Edward I created his son and heir Prince of Wales in February 1301. In 1290 Eleanor died, and nine years later he married Margaret of France. This marriage was not unhappy and produced three more children. In 1296, while campaigning in Scotland, Edward removed the Stone of Scone on which the kings of Scots had always been crowned. He ordered a wooden chair to be made, which from then on contained the stone and was used for the coronation of English and British monarchs. In 1298 Edward met William Wallace at the battle of Falkirk. On the night before the battle he slept on the ground, his shield for a pillow and his horse beside him. The horse stepped on his royal master as he lay asleep, and in the confusion of darkness the alarm spread that the king was wounded. Only slightly hurt, Edward went into battle in the morning, but his victory that day was not followed up. Having survived the murderous attack in Palestine, there were still more miraculous escapes. In Paris lightning passed over his shoulders and slew two of his attendants; and when his horse leapt the town wall at Winchelsea he was uninjured. At the siege of Stirling a bolt from a crossbow struck his saddle as he rode unarmed, and a stone from a mangonel brought his horse down. Even illness had seemed to pass him by, but while on a military campaign he became ill with dysentery, and he died aged sixty-eight on 7 July 1307, at Burgh on the Sands near Carlisle in Scotland. In his last words he was still the warrior: 'Carry my bones before you on your march. For the rebels will not be able to endure the sight of me, alive or dead'.

  
  

• Sources

  [S807] Genealogics.org.