THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF ENGLAND
Descendants of Edward the Second, King of England
EDWARD THE SECOND, surnamed of Carnarvon; b. 25 April, 1284, succeeded to the throne at the decease of his father, 7 July, 1307; and was crowned 23 Feb. 1308. He m. 23 Jan. 1308, Isabella, dau. of Philip the Fair, King of France, and had issue,
EDWARD of Windsor. Prince of Wales.
John, of Eltham, created Earl of Cornwall, in 1327; d. in youth in 1336.
Joan, m. David Bruce, King of Scotland; and d. issueless.
Eleanor, m. Reynald, Count of Guelders, and had issue.
EDWARD II., who was deposed 20 Jan. 1327, was inhumanly murdered in Berkeley Castle 21 Sept. following.
Descendants of Edward the Third King of England
EDWARD THE THIRD, b. 13 Nov. 1312, succeeded his father in 1327. He m. in 1327, Philippa, 4th dau. of William, Count of Holland and Hainault, by Jane, his wife, dau. of Charles of Valois, son of Philip the Hardy, son of St. Louis. By this lady (who d. 15 Aug. 1369) King Edward had issue,
i. Edward surnamed the Black Prince, from the colour of his armour; 6, 15 June, 1330 This gallant soldier, the immortal hero of CRECY and Poictiers m. in 1361, his cousin, JOAN, commonly called the " Fair Maid of Kent,” dau. and heiress of his great-uncle, the Earl of Kent, (see EDWARD 1. The lady had been m. previously to Sir Thomas Holland, K.G., and to the Earl of Salisbury,) by whom he had an only surviving son, Richard, afterwards 2nd of his name. The Black Prince d. in the lifetime of his father, 8 July, 1376.
ii. WILLIAM, of Hatfield, 6. in 1336, who d. young.
iii. LIONEL. of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence.
iv. JOHN of GAUNT, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, &c.;
v. EDMUND, Earl of Cambridge, and Duke of York.
vi. THOMAS of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, constable of England.
I. Joan, m. to Gilbert, Lord Talbot; but d. s. p.
II. Isabel, m. Ingelram de Courcy, Earl of Bedford, and had two daus., Mary, m. to Robert de Barr, and Philippa, m. to Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland.
III. Joan, contracted in marriage to ALFHONZO, King of Castile, but died of the plague before the solemnization, in 1348.
IV. Blanch, d. an infant.
V. Mary. m. to John Montfort, Duke of Brittany, s.p.
VI. Margaret, m. to John Hastings. Earl of Pembroke; and d. s. p.
KING EDWARD 111. d. at Shene, 21 June, 1377.
Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and his Descendants.
LIONEL PLANTAGENET, surnamed of Antwerp, third son of King EDWARD III, was born in 1338. Having married Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, only child and heiress of William, Earl of Ulster, and grand dau. of John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, by Elizabeth de Clare, his wife, youngest sister and coheir of Gilbert, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, Lionel became jure uxoris, Earl of Ulster, and was created 15 Sept. 1362, Duke of Clarence—a title derived from the Honour of Clare. The Prince likewise a Knight of the Garter. By the heiress of De Burgh, he had an only child,
PHILIPPA, who m. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, (lineally descended from the marriage of Ralph, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, with the Princess Gwladys, dau. of Llewelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales,) and had issue.
1. ROGER, Earl of March. who m. Eleanora, dau. of Thomas, Earl of Kent, and d. in 1398, leaving a son Edmund, Earl of March, (who d.s.p. in the Castle of Trim, Ireland, where he was confined by King Henry IV.) and a dau.
LADY ANNE MORTIMER, Who in. Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge. and was mother of
RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York, who m. Cicely. dau. of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland,
and left, with other issue, a son, KING EDWARD IV.
2. Edmund (Sir), who settled in North Britain.
3. John (Sir), put to death in 1424, s.p.
4. Elizabeth, m. to Henry Percy, the renowned Hotspur.
5. Philippa m. 1st, to John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke; 2ndly, to Richard Fitzalan. Earl of Arundel; and 3rdly, to Sir John Poynings, Lord St. John, but d.s.p.
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, m. 2ndly, Violante, dau. of the Duke of Milan, but by her had no issue. He d. in 1368, when the Dukedom of Clarence became extinct.