Issue of marriage:
(i)
Richard
He was born in July, 1246, at Wallingford Castle, Berkshire; he died there on 15 August, 1246, and was buried at Grove Mile.
(ii)
Edmund
He was born on 26 December, 1249, or 5 December, 1250 at Berkhamstead Castle, Bucks., and was invested as Earl of Cornwall on 13 October, 1272. He died on 24/25 September, or 1 October, 1300, at Ashridge Abbey, Herts., and was buried in Hayles Abbey, Gloucs.
Edmund married, on 6 October, 1272, at Ruislip Chapel, Middlesex:
Margaret
She was the daughter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by Matilda, daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln; her father was the son of Richard of Cornwall’s first wife, Isabella Marshal. Margaret was born around 1249/50. She was either divorced or legally separated from her husband in February, 1293. She died in February, 1313 (or perhaps before 16 September, 1312), and was buried in Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. There was no issue of her marriage to Edmund.
(iii)
Richard
(?)
He may have been born in
c
.1252, although he has perhaps
been confused with Richard de Cornwall, Earl Richard’s illegitimate son. He was killed in 1296, at the siege of Berwick, by iron shot in his head.
Richard married thirdly, on 16 June, 1269, at the Stiftkirche, Kaiserslauten, Germany:
Beatrice
She was the daughter of Dirk II, Count of Falkenburg, by Joan van Loon. (Her parentage is sometimes erroneously given as either (i) Walram de Fauquemont, Lord of Mountjoye, by Jutta, daughter of Otto, Count of Ravensburg, Westphalia, or (ii) Lothaire, Count of Hostade and Dalem, or (iii) Philip von Falkenstein, Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire. She was no connection of any of these.) Beatrice was born in c.1253, probably at Falkenburg Castle, Germany. She died on 17 October, 1277, and was buried in the Church of the Franciscan Friars Minor, Oxford.
3 Joan(under Alexander II, King of Scotland,
4 Isabella
She was born in 1214. She married Frederick II, King of Sicily, and Emperor of Germany ( d.1250), on 20 July, 1235, at Worms Cathedral, Germany, and had issue:
1 Jordan (?) ( b.& d.1236).
2 Agnes ( b.& d.1237).
3 Henry, King of Jerusalem (1238–1253).
4 Margaret (1241–1270); she married Albert I, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia and Misnes (1240–1315), and had issue.
Isabella was crowned Empress of Germany on 20 July, 1235, at Worms Cathedral. She died on 1 or c.6 December, 1241, at Foggia, near Naples, Italy, in childbirth, and was buried at Andria, Sicily.
5 Eleanor
She was born in 1215. She married firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ( c.1190–1231) (brother of Richard of Cornwall’s first wife Isabella) on 23 April, 1224. Notwithstanding a vow of perpetual chastity entered into during her widowhood, she married secondly Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (1208–1265: killed at the Battle of Evesham), on 7 January or 19 February, 1238, at the King’s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, and had issue:
1 Henry (1238–1265: killed at the Battle of Evesham).
2 Simon (1240–1271).
3 Guy, Count of Nola (1243?–1288?); he married Margaret, daughter of Aldobrandino Aldobrandeschi, Count of Anguillara, and had issue.
4 Amaury ( d.after 1301); he was a canon at York, but later became a knight.
5 Richard ( d. after 1266).
6 Eleanor (1252–1282); she married Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (killed 1282), and had issue.
After the death of her husband, Eleanor became a nun at Montargis
Abbey in France. She died on 13 April, 1275, at Montargis Abbey, and was buried there.
King John also had the following illegitimate issue:
By a woman called Suzanne, or by a sister of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (Surrey’s sister undoubtedly bore the King a child, but its identity is uncertain):
1
Richard FitzJohn of Dover, Baron of Chilham, Kent (
d
1242/53); he married Rohese (
d
. by 1232), daughter of Fulbert of Dover, and had issue.
By Clementina, wife of Henry Pinel:
2
Joan (
d
.1237); she married Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales (1173–1240), and had issue.
By Hawise, perhaps a member of the de Tracy family:
3
Oliver (
d
.1290); he was killed at the siege of Damietta, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
By unknown mothers:
4
Osbert Gifford (
d
. after 1216).
5
Geoffrey FitzRoy (
d
.1205).
6
John FitzJohn or Courcy (
d
.1242); a knight; perhaps a clerk at Lincoln.
7
Odo or Eudo FitzRoy (
d.
1242?).
8
Ivo (confused with Odo?).
9
Henry; he married a minor heiress.
10
Richard, Constable of Wallingford Castle.
11
Matilda (?), Abbess of Barking.
12
Isabella la Blanche (?).
KING JOHN
He died on 18/19 October, 1216, at Newark Castle, Lincs., and was buried in Worcester Cathedral.
He was succeeded by his son Henry.
Henry III
FATHER: King John(
MOTHER: Isabella of Angoulême (under King John
SIBLINGS: (under King John,
HENRY III
He was born on 1 October, 1207, at Winchester Castle, Hampshire. He succeeded his father as King of England and Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine on 28 October, 1216, being crowned on that day in Gloucester Cathedral with his mother’s circlet, the Crown Jewels having been lost in the River Wash. He was again crowned on 17 May, 1220, at Westminster Abbey. In December, 1259, he formally renounced the duchy of Normandy under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.
Henry III married, on 14 January, 1236, at Canterbury Cathedral, Kent:
Eleanor
She was the daughter of Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence, by Beatrice, daughter of Thomas I, Count of Savoy; her sister Sanchia later married Henry’s brother Richard. Eleanor was born between 1217 and 1226, perhaps in c.1223, at Aix-en-Provence, France, and was crowned Queen Consort on 19/20 January, 1236, at Westminster Abbey. She became a nun on 7 July, 1284, at Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. She died on 24/25 June, 1291, at Amesbury Abbey, and was buried there.