Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (27 page)

1  
Edward

Known from the 16th century onwards as ‘the Black Prince’ (because of the colour of his armour), he was born on 15 June, 1330, at Woodstock Palace, Oxon. He was created Earl of Chester on 18 May, 1333, Duke of Cornwall on 3 March, 1337, and Prince of Wales on 12 May, 1343, being invested with the principality on the same day. He was made a Knight of the Garter when his father first founded the Order in 1348. He was created Prince of Aquitaine on 19 July, 1362, and was created Lord of Biscay and Castro Urdiales in Castile by Peter I, King of Castile, on 23 September, 1366. He resigned the principality of Aquitaine because of ill-health before 28 December, 1375. He died on 8 June, 1376, at the Palace of Westminster, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Kent.

Edward married, on 10/11 October, 1361, probably at St Stephen’s Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, or – less probably – at Canterbury Cathedral or at Windsor Castle:

Joan

She was the daughter of Edmund, Earl of Kent, son of Edward I, by
Margaret Wake, and she was born on 29 September, 1328. She married firstly Sir Thomas Holland or Holand of Broughton, Bucks. (
d
.1360), in
c.
1339 or in the Spring of 1340, according to her testimony of 1347. She then married secondly, and bigamously, William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury (1328–1397), in
c.
1340/1 or 1346 (?) (probably before 10 February, 1341, and certainly by 15 October, 1348). Her marriage to Montacute was annulled by Papal Bull on 13 November, 1349, whilst her marriage to Holland was at the same time pronounced valid. The Pope accordingly ordered Joan to return to Holland and cohabit with him as his lawful wife, which she did around 1349, and had issue:

1  Edmund (
b.
before 1352;
d.
young).

2  Thomas, Earl of Kent (
c
.1355–1397); he married Alice (
c
.1350–1414/16), daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and a descendant of Henry III, and had issue.

3  Joan (
c
.1356–1384); she married John de Montfort IV, Duke of Brittany (1339–1399) (who afterwards married Joan, later the wife of Henry IV).

4  John, Duke of Exeter (
c
.1358–executed 1400); he married Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (
see here
), and had issue.

5  Matilda (
c
.1359–1391); she married firstly Sir Hugh de Courtenay (
d
.1377), and secondly Waleran of Luxembourg, Count of St Pol and Ligny (
d
.1415), and had issue by her second husband.

Joan succeeded her brother John (under Edward I,
see here
) as Baroness Wake of Liddell and Countess of Kent on 26/27 December, 1352, and was confirmed in her new titles on 22 February, 1353. She was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378. She died on 7, 8 or 21 August, 1385, at Wallingford Castle, Berks., and was buried in Greyfriars Church, Stamford, Lincs. It is likely that her remains were shortly afterwards removed to London, although the site of their final resting place is not recorded.

Issue of marriage:

  (i)
  
Edward

He was born on 27 January, 1365, at Angoulême in France, and died in January, 1371/2, at Bordeaux, Gascony. He was buried at Bordeaux, but later removed to the Church of the Austin
Friars in London.

(ii)
  
Richard II
(
see here
).

 Edward also had the following
illegitimate issue
:

By Edith de Willesford (
d
. after 1385):

1  Sir Roger de Clarendon (1345/60–executed 1402); he married Margaret (
d
.1382), daughter of John Fleming, Baron de la Roche.

By unknown mothers:

2  Edward (
b.c.
1349;
d
. young).

3  Sir John Sounders, or John de Galeis (Calais?).

2  
Isabella

She was probably born in March (her mother was churched before 30 April), 1332, at Woodstock Palace, Oxon. She married Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy, Count of Soissons and Earl of Bedford (1339?–1397), on 27 July, 1365 at Windsor Castle, and had issue:

1  Mary (1366–1404); she married Henry of Bar, Marquess of Pont-à-Mousson (
d
.1401), and had issue.

2  Philippa (1367–1411); she married Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland (1362–1392).

Isabella was made a Lady of the Garter in 1376. She died between 17 June and 5 October, 1382, and was buried in Greyfriars Church, Newgate, London.

3  
Joan

She was probably born in February (certainly before 30 May), 1335, at Woodstock Palace, Oxon., not in the Tower of London as is sometimes stated. She died on 2 September, 1348, at Loremo, Bordeaux, Gascony, of the Black Death (bubonic plague), and was buried either at Loremo, or Bordeaux, or in Bayonne Cathedral, Gascony.

4  
William

He was born around 1334/6, certainly before 16 February, 1337, at Hatfield, Yorkshire, where he died before 3 March, 1337. He was buried in York Minster.

5  
Lionel

He was born on 29 November, 1338, at Antwerp in Brabant. He was styled Earl of Ulster in right of his wife from
c
.26 January, 1347. He was made a Knight of the Garter in
c
.April, 1361, and created Duke
of Clarence on 13 November, 1362. He died on 17 October, 1368, at Alba, Piedmont, Italy, and was buried at Pavia, Italy. His remains were later removed to Clare Priory, Suffolk.