Vol I File 7: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James (original) (raw)

Vol I File 7: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James

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3. The Capetian Dynasty - French Kings from Hugh Capet to the Bellomont Line and Henry Plantaganet

• 1. Hugh Capet, Duke of France in 956, King of France from 987 to 996, born in 938, died October 24, 996, buried at St. Denis. He was the son of Hugh (Hugues I), Duke of France, Cte de Paris, who died 956 and his third wife, Hedwig, daughter of Duke Heinrich I of Saxony. Hugh Capet married Adela (Adelaide), probably daughter of William Towhead, Duke of Aquitaine, by Adele of Normandy). Hugh Capet was a descendant of Louis I., the Debonaire, King of France, through his daughter, Gisele. See this ancestral lineage elsewhere above. They had the following children:
  • 1. Edith of France (Hedwige?), married Regnier IV. (Raginerus IV.), 11th Count of Hainault, living in 977, died in 1013?. They had Beatrix (Beatrice), who married Elbo (Elbes) I, Count of Rouci and Reimes. They were the parents of Alice (Adela) of Rouci, Countess of Rouci, who married Hildwin (Hildouin) IV, Count of Montdidier and Lord of Rouci and Ramere. They had a daughter and a son: Marguerita, who married Hugh, 2nd Count of Clermont in Beauvais, whose daughter Adeliza Clermont, married Gilbert de Tonebruge. ; and Andre de Rouci, Lord of Rameru See the continuation of this lineage in the Clare Line in Vol II. and see lineage at the end of this section leading to the Mortimer Line in Volume II.
  • 2. Robert II., the Pious. See below.
  • 3. Gisele, married Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu. They had Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu, who died in 1046. They had a son, Enguerrand II, who married Adelaide,daughter of Robert I. See continuation of this lineage below in the Line of Counts of Ponthieu.
• 2. Robert II., the Pious, King of France from 996 to 1031, was born in Orleans in 971, died in Melun in 1031, buried at St. Denis, reigned from 996 to July 20, 1031. He was a royal composer, chorister, and poet, who might have ruled Italy but preferred that his palace should be his cloister, where he lived in the enjoyment of melody and song. He conducted the matins and vespers in his royal robes. He was a very devout man. He married in 988 (1) Rosala (Rozela), daughter of King Berengar II. of Italy, but this marriage was repudiated in 992, married in 997 (2) Bertha of Bourgogne, daughter of Conrad of Burgundy, who died after 1017, also divorced in 1003/5; and (3)Constance Berengar (Berenger) of Artes, born circa 987, died in Melun in 1032 buired at St. Denis, daughter of William Berengar II (Berenger), Count of Provence, by his 2ndmarriage. They had the following children:
  • 1. Hugh, associated to the throne as co-king, 1016-1025, died in 1025.
  • 2. Henry I, King of France. See below.
  • 3. Adela (Adelaide), married (1) Richard III. of Normandy, and (2) Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and Artois, Regent, 1060-1065, died in 1067. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Volume I.
  • 4. Robert, stem of the first hereditary Dukes of Burgundy.
  • 5. Hildegrante, married Herbert II., Count of Vermandois.
• 3. Henry (Henri) I, King of France from 1031 to 1060, was born about 1008, died in 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges (Vitry-en-Brie), buried at St. Denis. He was the Duke of Burgundy 1015-1031. He is the least-known of all the Capetian Kings; no one wrote about him in his lifetime, and the destruction of the archives shortly after his time has left a huge blank over this period. All that is known is that his mother, Queen Constance, contested his right to the throne, which she wanted to go to Robert; this resulted in a war between the two brothers, of which little is known. Henry won it by buying the support of his vassals, which cost him French Vexin and the total renunciation of the duchy of Burgundy in favor of his brother, in 1034. Without the benefit of the coronation it is likely that Henry, who appears to have been a mediocre man, would have been brushed aside. But the anointing brought him respect and won time for, concessions. Managing to remain in power is after all a sign of stability, and despite the obscurity of his reign it saw a strengthening of the dynasty. He was crowned co-king with his father in 1026. He married (1) Matilda, daughter of Emperor Conrad II, niece of Emperor Henry II. of Germany. The most interesting aspect of Henry's life was his attempt to bring about a Franco-Russian alliance by marriage. According to one record he then married (2) Matilda, daughter of Mgve Liudorf of Friesland. After the death of his second wife Matilda in 1044, he married, rather late in life in Riems in 1051, (3) Anne of Kiev, daughter of Yaroslav, the Russian head of state, and granddaughter of Valdimir I of Kiev, in Russia. They had the following children:
  • 1. Philip (Philippe) I, born in 1052/3, who became Philip I., King of France, 1060-1108. See below.
  • 2. Robert, born in 1054, died in 1064, twin (?) of Hugh Magnus.
  • 2. Hugh Magnus, The Great. See below.
• 4. Emma (?)
  Henry I. died in 1060, having crowned his son, Philip, although he was only a child. Philip was only eight years old at the time of his father's death. One of the young king's uncles, Baldwin, Count of Flanders, became the regent. Anne of Kiev, refused to be regent. Later she was abducted by Raoul of Crepy, lived with him as his wife and married him when his wife died. Widowed a second time, she lost her title as Queen and was henceforth referred to as the Queen Mother. Of Baldwin's regency little is known, although it appears to have been fairly lacking in incident, but Burgundy, over which Robert ruled, took advantage of the situation to assert its independence from the French crown; this was to occur frequently in the course of the various Burgundian dynasties.
• 4. Hugh Magnus, The Great, Count of Crepi or Vermandois, married Adelheid (Alix) (Alice) Vermandois, daughter of Herbert I., Count of Vermandois, and his wife, who was the sister of Robert I, King of France. They had a daughter, Elizabeth.
• 5. Isabel (Elizabeth) Vermandois married (1) Robert de Bellomont (Beaumont), made Earl of Leicester and Count of Meullent(Meulent); and (2) William de Warren, Earl of Warren and Earl of Surrey. From the first marriage there were the following children:
  • 1. Robert de Bellomont (Beaumont). See below.
  • 2. Elizabeth Beaumont, mistress of King Henry I. of England. They had a son, Reginald, who married Beatrix, daughter of William Fitz Richard, a potent lord of Cornwall. From this marriage there was a daughter, Matilda Fitz Richard, who married Robert, Count of Meulent, son of Waleran II., Count of Meulent.
• 6. Robert de Bellomont (Beaumont), 2nd Earl of Leicester, died in 1168. He married Amicia Ware, daughter of Ralph de Ware, Earl of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge.
• 7. Robert de Bellomont (Beaumont), styled "Blanchmains," 3rd Earl of Leicester, died in 1196. He married Petronella Grantmesnil,daughter of Hugh de Grantmesnil, feudal baron of Hinckley and Lord High Steward of England. They had two daughters as follows:
  • 1. Margaret Bellomont, married Saire de Quincy, Surety of the Magna Charta. See continuation of this lineage elsewhere. in Quincy Line.
  • 2. Mabel Bellomont. See below.
• 8. Mabel Bellomont, married William Muellent, 2nd Earl of Gloucester. They had a daughter, Amicia.
• 9. Amicia Meullent, died 1224-1225, married**Richard de Clare**, Surety to the Magna Charta.
  See elsewhere for the continuation of this lineage in the Clare Line in Volume II. ========================================================

Also, there is another line from Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev, as follows:

• 1. Philip I, King of France from 1060 to 1108, was born in 1052/3, and died in July 1108 in Meulan, buried at Abbaye St-Benoit-sur-Loire. Henry I., father of Philip I., died in 1060, having crowned his son, Philip, although he was only a child. Philip was only eight years old at the time of his father's death. One of the young king's uncles, Baldwin, Count of Flanders, became the regent. Anne of Kiev, refused to be regent. Later she was abducted by Raoul of Crepy, lived with him as his wife and married him when his wife died. Widowed a second time, she lost her title as Queen and was henceforth referred to as the Queen Mother. Of Baldwin's regency little is known, although it appears to have been fairly lacking in incident, but Burgundy, over which Robert ruled, took advantage of the situation to assert its independence from the French crown; this was to occur frequently in the course of the various Burgundian dynasties. He married (1) Bertha of Holland (Frise), born about 1055, died in 1093, daughter of Florent (Florenz) I, Count of Holland. They were divorced in 1091. They had the following children:
  • 1. Louis VI., the Fat. See below.
  • 2. Constance, who died in 1125, married (1) Hugh I., Count of Champagne, and in 1106 (2) Bohemond I. of Antioch, who died in 1111.
    When King Philip I. died in July 1108, he was succeeded by his son, Louis VI.:
    Philip I. married in 1092 (2) Bertrade of Montfort, daughter of Simon I, Seigneur de Montfort (Count de Montfort-l'Amaury, and his wife, Agnes, daughter of Richard, Count of Evreux, and widow of Fulk IV., le Rechin, from whom descended Fulk V., the Younger, and the Geoffrey Plantaganet, father of Henry II. of England. They were separated in 1104. Bertade died in 1117. Philip and Bertrade had four children as follows:
    * 1. Philip
    * 2. Fleury (Florus)
    * 3. Cecile, married (1) Tancred, Prince of Tiberias, who died in 1112, and (2) Pons, Count of Tripolis, who died in 1137.
    * 4. an unnamed child.
• 2. Louis VI., The Fat, King of France from 1108 to 1137, was born in 1078 or 1081, he was called Thibaud at birth, and died in August 1137 at Chateau Bethizy near Paris, buries at St. Denis. At his baptism he was given the name Louis, in accordance with Carolingian tradition. The only son of Bertha, Philip I.'s first wife, he was soon the object of persecution by Bertrade of Anjou (Montfort), the mistress whom the king had married while repudiating the legitimate queen. Betrade went so far as trying to have one of her sons substituted for Louis, the legitimate heir, and it is to Philip's credit that he absolutely opposed this plan. But because of the family conflicts, Philip abandoned his son as early as 1098, then sent him off to the wars in the Vexin to be rid of him. Eventually he acceded to the throne in 1108, a mature and hardened young man. He was the first Capetian who, though designated, was not crowned during his father's lifetime. In 1115 he married in 1104 but divorced in 1108 (1) Lucienne, born about 1088, daughter of Guy I de Rochefort. They had a daughter, Isabelle. Louis married in Paris in 1115 (2) Adelaide (Alice) of Savoy and of Maurienne, born in 1092 and who died in 1154, daughter of Count Hubert (Humbert) II of Savoy-Maurienne. They had the following children:
  • 1. Philip (Philippe), born in 1116, died in 1131, in a riding accident in which a boar threw itself at his horse's legs.
  • 2. Louis VII See below.
  • 3. Henry, a Cisterian bishop of Beauvais and then Rouen, Archbishop of Rheims, 1162-1175, who died in 1175.
  • 4. Robert, Count of Dreux, 1132-1188, died in 1188. He married (3) Agnes of Baudement. He was the head of a line of Counts of Dreux (and later Brittany).
  • 5. Peter (Pierre) of Courtenay, died in 1182, married in 1150, Elizabeth of Courtenay. His descendants ruled briefly as Emperors in Constantinople.
  • 6. Philip, Dean of St. Martin of Tours, Bishop of Paris in 1159.
  • 7. Constance, Countess of Toulouse, died in 1177, married in 1140 (1) Eustace IV. of Boulogne, and in 1154 (2) Raymond V. of Toulouse.
• 3. Louis VII., the Young, King of France from 1137 to 1180, was born in 1119 or 1120, and died in September 1180 in Paris, buried at Notre-Dame-de-Barbeau near Fountainebleau. He married in 1137 in Bordeaux (1) Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he later divorced in 1152. She then married King Henry II of England. See the continuation of this lineage elsewhere in Vol. I.). From this first marriage Louis VII. and Eleanor of Aquitaine had the following children:
  • 1. Mary (Marie), died in 1198, married Henry I. de Blois, Count of Champagne, who died in 1181. They had a son, Theobald III., who in turn had a son, Theobald IV. (The Troubadour).
  • 2. Alice (Alix), married Theobald (Thibant) V., Count of Blois, died in 1191.
    He married in 1154 (2) Constance of Castile, born in 1140 and died in 1160, daughter of King Alfonso VII of Castile. From this second marriage there were two daughters as follows:
    * 1. Margaret (Marguerite), married in 1160 (1) Henry the Younger, son of Henry II. Plantaganet, Duke of Normandy, and in 1186 (2)Bela III., King of Hungary, 1173-1196. She died in 1197.
    * 2. Adelaide betrothed to Richard the Lion-Hearted, but married in 1195 William III., Count of Ponthieu.
    Louis VII. married in 1160 (3) Adelaide (Adela or Alix) of Champagne, daughter of Theobold II, Count of Champagne. They had a son as follows:
    * 1. Philip II, who succeeded his father. See below.
    * 2. Agnes, married in 1180 (1) Alexius (Alexis) II. Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, who died in 1183, (2) Andronicus I. of Comnenus, (3) Theodore Branas, and (4) again to her third husband, Andronicus I, who died in 1185.
    To annoy King Henry II. of England, he gave asylum to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, with whom the king was in disagreement. And in 1173 the king of France managed to turn Henry II.'s sons against their own father. Finally, in conflict with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, over the Investitures, Louis VII. received Pope Alexander III. in Sens, and Papal intervention prevented the English and Germans joining forces. He died in 1180, after a reign of forty-three years, leaving the crown to his fifteen-year-old son, Philip Augustus.
• 4. Philip II., Philip Augustus, King of France from 1180 to 1223, was born in August, 1165 and died in July 1223. He married in 1180 (1) Isabella of Hainault, daughter of Baldwin V., Count of Hainault, and niece of Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders. Her dowry was Amiens and Artois. See the lineage of the Baldwins, Counts of Hainault, elsewhere in Volume I. Isabella died prematurely in 1190. She and Philip had children as follows:
  • 1. Robert
  • 2. Charles
  • 3. Louis VIII See below.
    Philip married on August 15, 1193 (2) Ingeborg (Ingeburge or Isambour)) of Denmark, sister of King Chanute VI. of Denmark. She was born in 1175, died in 1236, but that marriage lasted but one day. For some unknown reason, Philip totally rejected her after the first night together, and he had her shut up in a nunnery and later put in prison, attempting to obtain a divorced decree, in order to remarry. There were no children. He quickly married in 1196 (3) Agnes of Meran, daughter of the German prince of the Holy Roman Empire, who ruled Merano, even though she was so closely related to Philip that their union was automatically forbidden by canon law. Philip found some obliging churchmen to annul the first marriage and solemnize the second, on May 7, 1196. The Pope Celestine III. did not take action except to issue appeals and warnings. When Innocent III. became Pope in 1198 the affair had been dragging on for two years. When Philip refused to yield, Pope Innocent III. placed an interdict against all of France. This action deprived the entire population of the sacraments of the Church. Philip finally in desperation agreed to a separation from Agnes, and the Pope lifted the ban. But not before she bore him a son, Philip Hurepel of Boulogne,died in 1234, Count of Boulogne by marriage with the heiress to the country, active during the reign of Louis IX., and a daughter, Mary (Marie), who died in 1224, married (1) Philip I. of Namur, who died in 1212, and (2) Henry I., Duke of Brabant, who died in 1235. There was issue by this second marriage.
    Another son (illegitimate) was born to Philip and "a maiden of Arras", Pierre Charlot, Bishop of Noyon.
• 5. Louis VIII., the Lion, born in September 5, 1187, died in November, 1226, was King of France for only three years, 1223-1226. He married in 1200 Blanche of Castile, daughter of Alphonso VIII, the Noble, King of Castile, 1158-1214, born in 1155, died in 1214, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Henry II. of England, who died in 1214. See Pernoud, "Blanche of Castile," a detailed account of the life and times of Blanche. She was just a few months younger than Louis. They had the following children:
  • 1. Three children died young.
  • 2. Philip, 1209-1218.
  • 3. Louis IX. (St. Louis), King of France, 1226-1270, married in 1234 Margaret (Marguerite) of Provence., eldest daughter of Raymond Berenger IV., Count of Provence, who was able to marry one of his younger daughters to the king's brother, Charles of Anjou. They had two sons as follows:
    * 1. Blanche, 1240-1243.
    * 2. Isabel, 1242-1271, married in 1255 Theobald V. of Champagne, King of Navarre, who died in 1271.
    * 3. Louis, 1244-1260.
    * 4. Philip III., the Bold , King of France, 1270-1285, born in 1245. He married (1) Isabella of Aragon and later in 1274 (2) Mary of Brabant,daughter of the Henry III., Duke of Brabant. She died in 1321. According to one record the children of Isabella and Philip III. were as follows:
    * 1. Philip IV, the Fair, King of France, 1285-1314. He married Joan (Jeanne), Queen of Navarre, which conveyed the kingdom of Navarre to Philip IV., though the possession remained ephemeral. They had the following children:
    * 1. Louis X., the Headstrong, King of France, 1314-1316, Father of John I., King of Franks, born and died in 1316, and father of Jeanne, married Philip, Count of Evereux.
    * 2. Philip V., the Long (Tall), King of France, 1316-1322. He had only daughters.
    * 3. Charles IV., the Fair, King of France, 1322-1328.
    * 4. Isabella, married Edward II., King of England. Their son was Edward III., King of England, who married Philippa of Hainaut.
    * 2. Charles, Count of Valois, stem of the Houses of Valois and Alencon, father of Philip VI., of Valois, King of France, 1328-1350. He was grandfather of John II., the Good, King of France, 1350-1364, and grandfather of Philip, Duke of Orleans, who died in 1370.
    From the second marriage, Philip II. and Mary of Barbant had the following children:
    * 1. Margaret (Marguerite) of France, 2nd wife of Edward I, King of England (see elsewhere for continuation of this lineage in Volume I.).
    * 2. Louis, Count of Evreux, who died in 1319, stem of the House of Evreux-Navarre, father of Philip, Count of Evereux (who married Jeanne, daughter of Louis X.), grandfather of Charles II, the Bad, Count of Evereux and King of Navarre.
    * 5. John, born and died in 1248.
    * 6. John Tristan, Count of Nevers, 1250-1270, married in 1266 Yolande of Nevers, who died in 1280.
    * 7. Peter I., Count of Alencon, 1251-1284, married in 1272 Jeanne of Chatillon, who died in 1291.
    * 8. Blanche, 1253-1323, married in 1269 Ferdinand de la Cerda, Prince of Castile, who died in 1275.
    * 9. Marguerite, born in 1254, died in 1271, married in 1270, John, Duke of Brabant, who died in 1294.
    * 10. Robert, Count of Clermont, born in 1256, died in 1318, married in 1277 Beatrice, heiress of Bourbon, who died in 1310. This was the stem of the Houses of Bourbon, Vendome, and Montpensier.
    * 11. Agnes, born in 1260, died in 1327, married in 1279 Robert II., Duke of Burgundy, who died in 1305.
  • 4. Robert of Artois. See below.
  • 5. John, 1219 to about 1227.
  • 6. Alphonse of Poitiers (the Son), Count of Poitiers by appanage, 1220-1271, married in 1237 Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond VII. Thus, Alphonse became the Count of Toulouse by marriage. They both died in 1271
  • 7. Philip Dagobert, 1222-1235.
  • 8. Isabella of France, born in 1223, promised in marriage to Hugh, son of Count Hugh of Lusignan, but eventually a nun, and later the Abbess of the convent of Clarisses in Longchamp, where she died in 1269.
  • 9. Stephen, born in 1225, died young.
  • 10. Charles I., Count of Anjou by appanage, King of Sicily, 1266-1285, born in 1226, married on January 31, 1246, (1) Beatrice of Provence, 4th youngest daughter of Raymond Berenger V. of Provence, who died in 1267. She was named heiress at her father's death, sister of Margaret of France. At Pentacost, 1246, Charles's knighthood was celebrated at the castle of Melun. After this ceremony he was styled Charles of Anjou, since the two holdings of Maine and Anjou, left to him by his father's will, were officially handed over to him at that time. Later he married in 1268 (2) Margaret of Burgundy, who died in 1308. From the first marriage, there were the following seven children:
    * 1. Charles II. of Anjou, King of Naples, 1285-1309, married Mary, daughter of Stephen IV., King of Hungary, who died in 1323. They had the following children:
    * 1. Charles Martel of Anjou, King of Hungary, 1290-1295, married Clementia, daughter of Rudolph I, King of Germany.
    * 2. Margaret of Anjou, died in 1299, married (1) Charles I., Count of Valois, who died in 1325.
    * 3. Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, 1309-1343, married (1) Yolande, daughter of Peter III., King of Aragon, 1276-1285, and King of Sicily, 1282-1285, who died in 1302, and (2) Sancha of Majorca, who died in 1345.
    * 4. Philip of Anjou, Prince of Taranto, married (1) Thamar Angela, who died in 1309, and (2) Catherine, who died in 1346, daughter of Charles I., Count of Valois.
    * 5. Blanche of Anjou, died in 1310, married (1) James II. of Aragon, who died in 1327.
    * 6. John of Anjou, Prince of Durazzo, died in 1335, father of Louis, who died in 1362, and grandfather of Charles III., King of Naples, 1382-1386, and King of Hungary, 1385-1386.
    * 7. Eleanor of Anjou, died in 1341, married Frederick II., King of Sicily, 1296-1337.
    * 2. Philip of Anjou, Prince of Achaia, died in 1277.
    * 3. Beatrice of Anjou, died in 1275, married Philip of Courtenay, Titiular Emperor of Constantinople, who died in 1283.
    * 4. Elizabeth of Anjou, married Ladislas IV of Hungary, who died in 1290.
• 6. Several other unidentified children, possibly six more.
• 6. Robert of Artois, Count of Hainault and Earl of Artois by appanage, married Mechtild of Hainault, daughter of John, 2nd Count of Hainault, They had a daughter, Blanche of Artois. Robert of Artois is shown in some references as married to Maud of Barbant (?).
• 7. Blanche of Artois, married (1) Henry, King of Navarre, and upon his death she married (2) Edmund Plantaganet, Crouchback, second son of King Henry III., brother of King Edward I of England. He was born at London, in February, 1245. The children of Edmund and Blanche are as follows:
  • 1. Thomas Plantaganet, his successor, Earl of Lancaster, in the 26th year of Edward I., doing his homage, being then esteemed of full age by the king, had livery of his lands, except the dowry of Blanche, his mother; and thereupon marched into Scotland, the king himself being in the expedition. The earl who was hereditary sheriff of Lancashire, substituted Richard de Hoghton, his deputy in that office. For the remainder of this reign the Earl of Lancaster was constantly employed in the wars of Scotland. In the 4th year of Edward II., having married Alice, only daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, he had livery of the castle of Denbigh, and other lands of her inheritance; his homage for them being performed the ensuing year, in the presence of divers bishops, earls, and barons, and other of the king's council, in a certain chamber within the house of the Friar's Preachers, in London. The earl is said to have born the title of Earl of Lincoln, in right of this lady; after his decease, she married Eubold le Strange, who d.s.p., and 3rdly, Hugh le Frenes; the which Eubold and Hugh, are deemed, by many writers to have been Earls of Lincoln. The said Alice styled herself Countess of Lincoln and Salisbury, and d.s.p. in 1348.
  • 2. Henry Plantaganet. See below.
  • 3. David Plantaganet, died in France.
• 8. Henry Plantaganet, being a distinguished soldier in the Scottish wars, was born in 1281, and had livery of his lands in the 17th year of Edward II., and was restored to the dignity of Earl of Leicester. This prince was subsequently one of the leaders in the great confederacy which overturned the power of the Spencers, and deposed King Edward II. Upon the accession of Edward III., the earl had the honor of girding him with the sword of knighthood, and as soon as the monarch was crowned, he was appointed , the king being a minor, his guardian. After which, in the parliament begun at Westminster, the attainder against his brother being reversed, he was restored to all the lands of his father and brother, with the Earldoms of Lancaster and Leicester, and the same year (the first year of Edward III.,) he was constituted captain-general of all the king's forces in the marches of Scotland. He married Maud Chaworth,daughter of Patrick de Chaworth, Knight, and his wife, Isabel Beauchamp. See the continuation of this lineage in Volume II. They had the following children:
  • 1. Henry Plantaganet, Earl of Derby and Duke of Lancaster, successor to his father, married Isabel Beaumont, daughter of Henry Beaumont, Lord Beaumont, and left two daughters, his co-heirs, Maud Plantaganet, who married William, Duke of Zealand and Bavaria, and d.s.p.; and Blanche Plantaganet, who married John of Gaunt, Earl of Richmond, 4th son of Edward III, who became the Duke of Lancaster. There eldest son was Henry Bolingbroke, eventually King Henry IV.
  • 2. Maud Plantaganet, married (1) William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, by whom she had an only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth de Burgh, married Lionel, Duke of Clarence. She married (2) Ralph de Ufford, Justice of Ireland, in the time of Edward III., and brother of Robert, Earl of Suffolk, by whom she had an only daughter, Maud, married Thomas de Vere, son of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
  • 3. Blanche Plantaganet, married Thomas Wake, Lord Wake, of Lydell, and d.s.p.
  • 4. Eleanor Plantaganet. See below.
  • 5. Joan Plantaganet, married John Mowbray, 3rd Lord Mowbray. See continuation of this lineage in the Mowbray Line in Volume II.
  • 6. Isabel Plantaganet, Prioress of Ambresbury.
  • 7. Mary Plantaganet, married Henry Percy, Lord Percy.
    He died in September, 1345, was buried at Leicester (where his obsequies were attended by the king and queen in person), and was succeeded by his son, Henry.
• 9. Eleanor Plantaganet, married (1) John Bellomont (Beaumont), Lord Beaumont; son and heir of Henry Bellomont (Beaumont), Earl of Buchan: and (2) Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, who died in 1376. She died in November 11, 1372.
  See continuation of the lineage of Eleanor and Richard Fitz Alan elsewhere in Volume II. =============================================================

Another line of ancestry continues from above.

2. Edith of France, daughter of Hugh Capet, married Regnier IV, Count of Hainault, died in 1013.

3. Beatrice of Hainault, married Eblo (Ebles) I, Count of Rouci and Reimes.

4. Alice (Adela) of Rouci, married Hildouin (Hildwin) IV, Count of Montdidier. They had two children: Marguerita and Andre.

5. Andre de Rouci, Lord of Rameru, married**Alice _______**.

6. Adele of Rameru, married Gauthier (Walter) II, Count of Brienne.

7. Erard II, Count of Brienne, died in 1189, married Agnes de Montfaucon.

8. Jean de Brienne, crowned King of Jerusalem in 1210, Emperor of the East, born in 1148, died in 1237, married Berengaria of Leon.,daughter of King Alphonso IX. of Leon and his wife, Berengaria of Castile.

9. Jean de Brienne, son of Jean de Brienne, died in 1296, married in 1251, Jeanne Chateaudun.

10. Blanche of Brienne, married William de Fiennes, living in 1270.

11. Margaret Fiennes, married in 1280 to**Edmund Mortimer**, 1st Lord Mortimer, born in 1261, died in 1304, great grandson of Llewellyn the Great.

12. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, married Joane Geneville.

See continuation of this lineage in the Mortimer Line in Volume II.

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