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Margaret of France (1254–1271) was a member of the House of Capet and was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to John I, Duke of Brabant. Biography. Born in 1254, Margaret was a daughter of Louis IX of France and his wife Margaret of Provence.
Margaret of Brabant (4 October 1276 – 14 December 1311), was the daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders. She was the wife of Henry, Count of Luxembourg, and after his election as King of Germany in 1308, she became Queen of Germany.
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Margaret was the daughter of King Philip III of France and his second wife, Maria of Brabant. Margaret was only six years old when her father died. She grew up under guidance of her mother, and also of Queen Joan I of Navarre, the wife of her half-brother, King Philip IV.
The death of his beloved first wife, Eleanor of Castile, in 1290, left King Edward I of England grief-stricken. He was at the time at war with France and Scotland. He and Eleanor had only one surviving son, Edward, and so the king was anxious to remarry to have more sons. In summer of 1291, Edward betrothed his son to Blanche, half-sister to Margar...
Edward was then 60 years old, at least 40 years older than his bride. The wedding took place at Canterbury on 10 September 1299. Margaret was never crowned due to financial constraints, being the first uncrowned queen since the Conquest. This in no way lessened her dignity as the king's wife, however, for she used the royal title in her letters and...
Margaret never remarried after Edward's death in 1307, despite being only 28 when widowed. She was alleged to have stated that, "when Edward died, all men died for me". Margaret was not pleased when Edward II elevated Piers Gaveston to become Earl of Cornwall upon his father's death, since the title had been meant for one of her own sons. She atten...
In all, Margaret gave birth to three children: 1. Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk(1 June 1300 – 4 August 1338) 2. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent(5 August 1301 – 19 March 1330) 3. Eleanor (4 May 1306 – 1311)Died at Amesbury Abbey, buried at Beaulieu Abbey.
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Margaret (1275–1318) Duchess of Brabant . Name variations: Margaret Plantagenet. Born on September 11, 1275, at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire, England; died in 1318 in Brussels, Belgium; interred at the Collegiate Church of St. Gudule, Brussels; daughter of Edward I Long-shanks (b. 1239), king of England (r. 1272–1307), and Eleanor ...
Nov 21, 2022 · Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant from Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England; Credit – Wikipedia. Born on March 15, 1275, at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Margaret of England was the sixth but the third surviving daughter and the tenth of the 14 – 16 children of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile, the first of ...
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Jun 12, 2020 · In 1286, King Edward and Queen Eleanor left England to go to their estates in Gascony in what is now France. Margaret left court and returned to the nursery where she was raised by governesses and aristocratic ladies who came to visit and instruct her.
