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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. Her parents were William I, Count of Hainaut, and Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut, granddaughter of Philip III of France.
Mar 10, 2020 · The following year, at the age of 15, they married and Philippa was crowned queen in 1330 while heavily pregnant with her first child. By June of 1330, Philippa gave birth to her first child, a...
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- 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
Jun 23, 2020 · Philippa of Hainault and Edward III formed one of the great royal marriages of the Middle Ages. Philippa was, in effect, exchanged for ships and soldiers so that her mother-in-law could invade England – the most unromantic beginning to a marriage imaginable.
Apr 8, 2021 · Isabelle promised that her son Edward would marry his 12-year-old daughter, Phillippa of Hainault. That girl would become Queen of England. This account of her from the Bishop, sent to report...
Prince Edward and Philippa of Hainault was planned as part of Queen Isabella’s plot in 1326–1327 to overthrow her husband and put her eldest son on the throne of England.
