Ancestral Glimpses » Phillipa de Hainault Countess of Hainault (1311-1369)

Personal data Phillipa de Hainault Countess of Hainault 

• She was born on June 24, 1311 in Valenciennes, Hainault, BELGIUM.
• She died on August 14, 1369 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, ENGLAND, she was 58 years old.
• She is buried in Westminster, Abbey, London, ENGLAND.
• A child of William Hainault and Jane de Valois
• This information was last updated on January 7, 2018.

Household of Phillipa de Hainault Countess of Hainault

She is married to Edward Plantagênet.

They got married on 24 JAN 1327–28 at York Minster, ENGLAND, she was 15 years old.

Philippa of Hainault and Edward III were md. at Valenciennes and she arrived in London 23 Dec 1327, and they settled at Woodstock, which seems to have been the principal abiding place of Philippa while her younwards the celebrated hero, Edward, the Black Prince. Like the renowned Queen Regent of France, mother of St. Louis, Philed her own country, and it was by her advice the English first manufactured cloth. John Kempe, a cloth weaver of Flandert Norwich. She also encouraged coal-mining on her estates in Tynedale. The anecdotes of her piety and generosity which hantly accompanied on his campaigns. Her death on 15 Aug 1369, was a misfortune for the kingdom at large, 8 Jun 1377, succeeded by his grandson, Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince and Joann of Kent. Philippa was descended from the Counts of Holland, Hainault, Zeeland, Friesland and Hennegau. In 922 A. D., Diedrich was the reigning Count; he was the son of Sigbert and Matilda, dau. of Welf, Count of Bavaria.

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Source: Ancestors of American Presidents
Source: Weis' Ancestral Roots. . . (1:30), (97:34), (103:34). Died of a dropsy-like illness.

Child(ren):

1. John (of Gaunt) Plantagênet  1340-1399 
2. Lionel Plantagenêt  1338-????
3. Thomas Plantagênet  1355-1397 
4. Edmund Plantagênet  1341-1402 

Notes about Phillipa de Hainault Countess of Hainault

"Tall and upright was she, wise, gay, humble, pious, liberal and courteous, decked and adorned in her time with all noble virtues, beloved of God and of mankind. . . . And so long as she lived, the kingdom of England had favor, prosperity, honor and every sort of good fortune; neither did famine or dearth remain in the land during her reign, and so you will find it recorded in history." FROISSAKT.
Source: Hardy, B.C., Philippa of Hainault and Her Times, Frontispiece.

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