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Edward's name was English in origin, linking him to the Anglo-Saxon saint Edward the Confessor, and was chosen by his father instead of the more traditional Norman and Castilian names selected for Edward's brothers: [16] John and Henry, who had died before Edward was born, and Alphonso, who died in August 1284, leaving Edward as the heir to the ...
King Charles II 1630–1685 r. 1649–1651 r. 1660–1685 (Scotland) r. 1660–1685 (England) Catherine of Braganza 1638–1705 Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland: William II 1626–1650 Prince of Orange: Mary Princess Royal 1631–1660 Princess of Orange: Anne Hyde 1637–1671 Duchess of York: King James II [a] 1633–1701 r. 1685–1688 ...
By his first wife Eleanor of Castile, Edward had at least fourteen children, perhaps as many as sixteen. Of these, five daughters survived into adulthood, but only one son outlived his father, becoming King Edward II (r. 1307–1327). [151] Edward's children with Eleanor were: [392] Katherine (1261 or 1263–1264) [393] Joan (1265–1265) [393]
When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: "Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head". The title Supreme Head of the Church was repugnant to Mary's Catholicism, and ...
Berengaria was born prematurely on 1 May 1276 [2] [3] at Kennington [4] during the reign of her father, King Edward I (r. 1272–1307). Before her birth, the couple had nine other children, three of whom reached adulthood. Before 27 June 1278, Berengaria had died around the age of two. [1]
Mary of Teck (1867–1953), queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions; Mary of Waltham (1344–1362), daughter of Edward III of England; Mary of Woodstock (1279–1332), daughter of Edward I of England; Mary of York (1467–1482), daughter of Edward IV of England; Mary Stuart (1605–1607), daughter of James VI and I, King ...
Mary I of Portugal (1734–1816), daughter of King Joseph I of Portugal; Mary II of Portugal (1819–1853), daughter of the future King Pedro IV; Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), mother of James I of England; Mary of Teck (1867–1953), Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom; Mary of Waltham (1344–1362), daughter of King Edward ...
The marriage of Eleanor's kinswoman Marguerite de Guînes to the Earl of Ulster, one of the most-influential English noblemen in Ireland, gave Edward a new family connection in Ireland and also with Scotland because Marguerite's cousin Marie de Coucy was the mother of Edward's brother-in-law Alexander III.