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Edward I Of England

Title
Edward ^I
Edward ^I of England (History of England, Cassel, 1902).
King of England and Lord of Ireland
16 November 1272 - 7 July 1307 &&&&&&&&&& 012 650 34 years 7 months and 21 days
Coronation	19 August 1274 in the Westminster Abbey
Predecessor	Henry III
Successor	Edward II
Duke of Aquitaine
16 November 1272 - 7 July 1307
Predecessor	Henry III
Successor	Edward II
Biography
Dynasty	Plantagenet
Date of Birth	17 June 1239
Place of birth	Palace of Westminster , London ( England )
Date of death	7 July 1307 (68 years)
Place of death	Burgh by Sands, Cumberland ( England )
Father	Henry III of England
Mother	Eleanor of Provence
Spouse	Eleanor of Castile (1254-1290) Marguerite of France (1299-1307)
Children	Eleanor of England Edward II Thomas of Brotherton , Duke of Norfolk Edmund of Woodstock , Earl of Kent
Heir	Henry of England (1272-1274) Alfonso of England (1284-1284) Edward of Carnarvon (1284-1307)

Monarch of Great Britain
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Edward ^I of England ( 17 June 1239 - 7 July 1307 ) was King of England from 1272 to 1307. He is known as the conqueror of Wales and of Scotland.

Summary

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Youth

Son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence , Edward has more military and political skill as his father. Warrior king, he crushed all opposition to his rule, and leaves several times crusade. He is nicknamed Edward leggy (Longshanks English) or, in England , the "Hammer of the Scots" (Hammer of the Scots), or Edward the Sec.

Margaret of Scotland

Edward ^I was invited by the Scottish nobles, on the death of Alexander III of Scotland , whose death leaves only heir to his granddaughter, then aged three years: Margaret of Norway - born in 1283 , Queen of Scots of 19 March 1286 to 26 September 1290. The young age of the heir to the throne of Scotland opens the regency and thereby to possible wars. Edward therefore agrees to maintain order in Scotland, provided that his son, the future Edward II of England , wife Margaret, and the young queen is high in England. But Margaret died during the voyage, and the unstable situation continues.

Eventually, after the capture and killing of William Wallace , Edward ^I obtained and the unification of the two kingdoms. It is short lived, as his son Edward II should be resolved to make its independence to Scotland.

Marriage and children

With Eleanor of Castile

In October 1254 , married Edward, the monastery of Las Huelgas near Burgos (Spain), Eleanor of Castile (1244-1290), daughter of Ferdinand III , king of Castile and Joan of Dammartin , Countess of Ponthieu , who gave him sixteen six children reach adulthood:

Eleanor (1269-1297) , who married in 1293 Henry III, Count of Bar
Joan of Acre (1272 - 1307), who married Gilbert of Gloucester (1243-1295), then, in 1297, Ralph of Gloucester (? -1323)
Marie (1278 - 1332), none in Amesbury ,
Marguerite (1279 - 1318), who married in 1290 John II Duke of Brabant (1275-1312)
Elizabeth (1282 - 1316), married in 1297 with John ^I (1284-1299), Count of Holland , then in 1302 with Humphrey de Bohun ^, 4th Earl of Hereford
Edward (1284 - 1327), first prince of Wales , later Edward II of England.

With Marguerite de France

In the cathedral of Canterbury , Edward ^I remarried on 8 or 9 September 1299 with Marguerite of France , daughter of Philip III Hardi , King of France, whom he had three children:

Thomas of Brotherton (1300-1338), Earl of Norfolk ,
Edmund of Woodstock (1301-1330), Earl of Kent. Accused of treason, he died beheaded with an ax on the orders of her cousin, Queen Isabella , widow of Edward II
Eleanor (1306-1311).

Edward the movies

In the film released in 1995, Braveheart of Mel Gibson , Edward the SEC plays an important role being portrayed as the enemy of William Wallace.

References

William C. Jordan and William Chester Jordan, A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and St. Denis in The Thirteenth Century , Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 157
Simon Phillips, The Hospitaller Knights Of The Prior in Late Medieval England, Boydell Press, 2009, p. 26
It was not the first king of England named Edward , he was preceded by Edward the Elder , king of Wessex, who united England, Edward the Martyr and Edward the Confessor - predecessor of William the Conqueror. It is the first since Edward Norman Conquest (1066).
Genealogy of Edward on the website Medieval Lands

Notes

Sources

(In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Edward I of England (see the list of authors )

English monarchs and the British since 1066
Normans	1066 William ^I the Conqueror 1087 William II 1100 Henry ^I 1135 Stephen of Blois 1141 Empress Matilda 1141 Stephen of Blois
Plantagenet	1154 Henri II 1170 Young Henry 1189 Richard ^I Lion Heart 1199 King John 1216 Henry III 1272 1307 Edward ^I Edward II 1327 Edward III 1377 Richard II 1399 Henry IV 1413 Henry V 1422 Henry VI 1461 Edward IV 1471 Henri VI 1471 Edward IV 1483 Edward V 1483 Richard III
Tudor	1485 Henry VII 1509 Henry VIII 1547 Edward VI 1553 Jeanne 1553 Mary ^I and Philip 1558 Elizabeth ^I
Stuart	1603 Jacques ^I. 1625 Charles ^I ( English Interregnum from 1649 to 1660) 1660 Charles II 1685 Jacques II 1688 Mary II and William III 1702 Anne
Hanover	1714 George ^I 1727 George II 1760 George III 1820 George IV 1830 William IV 1837 Victoria
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha	1901 Edward VII
Windsor	1910 George V 1936 Edward VIII 1936 George VI 1952 Elizabeth II
Kings Stuart are also kings of Scotland