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Philippa of Hainault. Philippa was born in 1314 and often accompanied Edward on his foreign expeditions. She is remembered for pleading successfully for the lives of the burghers of Calais who surrendered the town to Edward. She died at Windsor Castle on 14th August 1369.
May 29, 2024 · Philippa's tomb stands in the south-eastern bay of the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster with that of another queen, Eleanor of Castile, in the corresponding bay to the north. Philippa's effigy shows her holding a sceptre in the right hand and grasping her mantle cord with the left.
- Female
- Edward (Plantagenet) of England
Her tomb was placed on the northeast side of the Chapel of Edward the Confessor and on the opposite side of her husband's grandparents, Edward I and Eleanor of Castile. Eight years later, Edward III died and was buried next to Philippa.
Tombs of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. The tombs of Edward III (died 1377) and his queen Philippa of Hainault (died 1369). Chapel of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey, London. For Edward III see p.100 in [Brayley, vol.2, 1823].
- Kathryn Warner
- She was born in modern-day Belgium. Philippa’s father Willem was count of Hainault, in modern-day Belgium, and also count of Holland and Zeeland, now in the Netherlands.
- Her name had many iterations. In Philippa’s own lifetime, her name was spelt Philippe, Phelip or Phelipe, and it was a unisex name, serving for men called Philip and women called Philippa.
- She had a big family. Philippa was the third daughter of her parents and had older sisters Margareta and Johanna. She was probably born in c. February or March 1314; chronicler Jean Froissart stated that she was ‘almost fourteen’ in January 1328.
- Her marriage was less romantic than it’s often portrayed. The often-repeated romantic tale that Edward III chose Philippa as his bride over her sisters is untrue, and almost certainly invented by Philippa herself.
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.
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Mar 4, 2023 · The greatest testimony to Philippa of Hainault’s cultural interests—and the one that most obviously displays her own vision of monarchy—is the tomb that she commissioned to be built, in her own lifetime, within Westminster Abbey.
