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Philippa of Hainault (sometimes spelled Hainaut; Middle French: Philippe de Hainaut; 24 June 1310 (or 1315) [1][2][3] – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife and political adviser of King Edward III. [4] She acted as regent in 1346, [5] when her husband was away for the Hundred Years' War.
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Name
1. Name:Philippa of Hainault 2. Daughter of Guillaume (William) III Le Bonde Hainault and Jeanne de Valois
Birth
1. Born:About 1314. 1. A precise birth date for Philippa of June 24 either in 1310 or 1311 or 1314 can often be found.This comes from a report by Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter who was sent to Hainaut in 1319 inspect the daughter of William of Hainault as part of the marriage negotiations. He reported “the damsel will be of the age of nine years on St. John's day (June 24) next to come.” This is often to be taken to mean that Philippa was born on 24 June since she is the one who was be...
Marriage and Children
1. Married: Philippa of Hainault, daughter of Guillame III, Count of Hainault, on 24 January 1327/8 at York Minster in York, Yorkshire, England. She was likely born in early (January or February) 1314. She died on 15 August 1369 at Windsor Castle. 1. Papal dispensation for the marriage granted on 30 August 1327, they being related in the 3rddegree of kindred. 1. Children of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault: 1. Edward of Woodstock, Princes of Wales. Commonly known as The Black Prince. Born...
Footnotes and citations:Cawley, Medieval Lands: Phillipa of HainaultRichardson, Royal Ancestry, vol. 1, p. 80-81.‘Philippa (1310x15?–1369)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "Her date of birth is not entirely certain, owing to the imprecision of the records as to the order in which she and her sister...Hingeston-Randolph. Register of Walter de Stapeldon(1912): 169.Mortimer. The Perfect King(2008):34.This page has been edited according to Style Standardsadopted January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
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- Edward (Plantagenet) of England
Philippa of Hainault (June 24, 1311 – August 15, 1369) was the queen consort of Edward III of England. Born in Hainaut, Flanders (today France) she was married to Edward at 16, and they had 14 children, from whom all subsequent English monarchs are descended.
Sep 23, 2019 · Philippa’s death and legacy. 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.
- Kathryn Warner
On 15 August 1369, Philippa died of an illness similar to dropsy in Windsor Castle at the age of fifty-six. By all accounts, her forty-year marriage to Edward had been happy. Even though he had an affair with her lady-in-waiting, Alice Perrers, during the later years.
Philippa of Hainault (c.1314–69), queen of Edward III. Edward married Philippa in 1328. Her main achievement was to provide him with at least twelve children, of whom nine survived infancy.
Philippa of Hainault (sometimes spelled Hainaut; Middle French: Philippe de Hainaut; 24 June 1310 (or 1315) – 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife and political adviser of King Edward III. She acted as regent in 1346, when her husband was away for the Hundred Years' War.
