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Queen Philippa of Hainaut is born. *Philippa of Hainault was born on this date in 1310. She was the first African Queen of England. Philippa was of Moorish ancestry, born in Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut in the Low Countries of northern France.
Mar 10, 2020 · Philippa was the daughter of William of Hainault, a lord in part of what is now Belgium, which was then known for its successful textile industry.
- Mildred Europa Taylor
- Marriage to Edward III
- Trouble with Her Mother-In-Law
- A Devoted Royal Couple
- Divided Loyalties?
- The Merciful Queen
- A Surviving Correspondence
- Philippa’s Death and Legacy
Philippa of Hainault was betrothed to her second cousin Edward of Windsor, son and heir of King Edward II of England, on 27 August 1326. Edward II’s queen Isabella of France was determined to bring down her husband’s powerful and loathed favourite, Hugh Despenser the Younger, and came to an agreement with Count Willem of Hainault that his third and...
The first few years of the young couple’s marriage were difficult ones. During Edward III’s minority, his mother the dowager queen Isabella ruled her son’s kingdom, and refused to cede any ground to her daughter-in-law, who was granted no lands and no income until February 1330 two years after her wedding. That same month, Philippa was finally crow...
Philippa and Edward would be married for over forty years, and there is every reason to suppose that their marriage was a strong, affectionate and mutually supportive one. It was certainly fertile: Philippa gave birth to twelve children, five daughters and seven sons, between June 1330 and January 1355, though she outlived seven of them. A comparis...
In 1337, Edward III claimed the throne of France, believing that as the only surviving grandson of King Philip IV he had a better right to it than the incumbent, Philip VI, the first cousin of Edward’s mother Queen Isabella and the uncle of his wife Queen Philippa. The English king thus began a long conflict between England and France which much la...
Philippa stayed with her husband near Calais for much of 1346 and 1347 while Edward III besieged the port, and Calais was the scene of probably the most famous story told about Queen Philippa. Two Flemish chroniclers relate that Edward was determined to hang the mayor and a group of burghers of Calais as punishment for the town holding out against ...
Few of Queen Philippa’s letters still survive, but one which does dates to December 1368 eight months before her death, and reveals her involvement in her husband’s foreign policy even at the end of her life. Philippa’s third son John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, had been widowed in September 1368, and the queen wrote to Louis, count of Flanders re...
Philippa fell from her horse while hunting with her husband in 1358 and broke her shoulder-blade, and spent the last few years of her life in pain. For most of the 1360s, she could only travel by litter, if at all, and appears to have believed as early as 1362 that she might die at any time; numerous grants she made from that year onwards include t...
- Kathryn Warner
Feb 1, 2023 · 77. 2K views 1 year ago. Mother of the "Edward the Black," Queen Philippa Hainault was arguably the first Queen of England with some African ancestry. Check out today's episode as we learn...
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Jun 23, 2020 · Home. Period. Medieval. How did Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, become one of medieval England’s best-loved queens? She was married as a teenager to a near-stranger in exchange for military aid.
Apr 8, 2021 · Member-only story. History. Queen Philippa of Hainault a Black Queen to England. In 1310, Phillippa of Hainault was Queen to England. She ruled very successfully until 1369. So who...
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Oct 1, 2013 · Philippa of Hainault was living in a loving home in comfort with her brothers and sisters. Across the sea in England, Queen Isabella was conspiring with her lover, Roger Mortimer to depose her husband, King Edward II from the throne and replace him with their son Prince Edward. She had managed to escape from England to France and Prince Edward ...
