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Edmund was born at Berkhamsted Castle on 26 December 1249 and was the son of the king's brother, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and his second wife Sanchia of Provence, daughter of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Provence, and sister of Henry III's queen, Eleanor. Thus a paternal uncle (with a maternal aunt as consort) sat on the throne, followed by ...
The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England ... second son of John, King of England; Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300 ...
He was born 5 January 1209 at Winchester Castle, the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême.He was made High Sheriff of Berkshire at age eight, was styled Count of Poitou from 1225 and in the same year, at the age of sixteen, his brother King Henry III gave him Cornwall as a birthday present, making him High Sheriff of Cornwall.
Cornwall now acquired Anglo-Saxon administrative features such as the hundred system. Unlike Devon, Cornwall's culture was not anglicised. Most people still spoke Cornish, and place-names are still mainly Brittonic. [35] [36] In 944 Æthelstan's successor, Edmund I, styled himself 'King of the English and ruler of this province of the Britons ...
Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), son of King Henry III of England and claimant to the Sicilian throne Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), earl of Cornwall; English nobleman of royal descent Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), son of King Edward III of England
Sanchia had two sons with Richard of Cornwall: Richard of Cornwall (July 1246 – 15 August 1246). Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249–1300), married Margaret de Clare (died 1312), no issue. Richard also had a son, named Richard, by his mistress Joan de Valletort who is sometimes mistakenly called the son of Sanchia.
Edmund I or Eadmund I [a] (920/921 – 26 May 946) was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a grandson of King Alfred the Great.
Sources diverge leading up to the time of King Arthur, with Caradoc placed either during the time of Arthur (as in the Welsh Triads, and later tradition), soon before Gorlois (Carew's Survey of Cornwall), or before his brother Dionotus as Caradocus in the Historia Regum Britanniae, while the Book of Baglan only keeps Gorlois, but gives him an entirely different set of ancestors.