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Personal data Margaret PLANTAGENET 

• She was born on March 15, 1274/75 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire.
• Title: Duchess of Brabant
• (Ancestry) : House of Plantagenet.
• (Alternative Name) : Margaret of England.
• She died in the year 1334 in Brussels, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium, she was 59 years old.
• She is buried in the year 1318 in Cathedral of St Michael &, St Gudula, Brussels, Belgium.

  Attention: Buried (??-??-1318) before death (??-??-1334).

• A child of EDWARD I OF ENGLAND and ELEANOR de CASTILE

Household of Margaret PLANTAGENET

She is married to Jean de BRABANT.

They got married on July 8, 1290 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, she was 16 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Jean de BRABANT  1300-1335 

Notes about Margaret PLANTAGENET

Margaret of England (15 March 1275 - after 1333) was the tenth child and seventh daughter of King Edward I of England and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. Her husband was John II, Duke of Brabant, whom she married in 1290; the year of her mother's death. Margaret and John had one child, John III, Duke of Brabant.

Margaret was born on 15 March 1275, at Windsor Castle, the tenth child of King Edward I and his cousin Eleanor of Castile.

Margaret's fifteen siblings included Joan of Acre, Eleanor, Countess of Bar, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan and her father´s successor, Edward II of England.

On 8 July 1290 Margaret married John II, Duke of Brabant in Westminster Abbey, London; becoming Duchess of Brabant less than four years later on 3 May 1294. She had been acquainted with her groom since childhood, as they had been betrothed in 1278 when she was three years old. Margaret's wedding festivities were splendidly extravagant; they included a procession of knights in full body armour and richly-dressed ladies singing as they paraded through the streets of London to the music provided by harpers, minstrels and violinists, while fools danced. Their only child was John III, Duke of Brabant, successor to his father.

Margaret, described having been a good-natured, merry child in her youth, was unhappy at the Brabant court, as she was forced to accept her husband´s perennial succession of mistresses and the illegitimate children they bore him; all of whom were raised at court alongside her own son John. The latter was her only child, born 10 years after her marriage to the Duke.

During the reign of John II, Brabant continued supporting a coalition to stop French expansion. He tried to conquer South Holland (district of medieval Holland) from the pro-French count John II of Holland, but was not successful. John, who suffered from kidney stones and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg.

Margaret and John attended the wedding of her brother Edward to Isabella of France in Boulogne on 25 January 1308. They accompanied the royal pair to England for their joint coronation at Westminster Abbey the following month.

Margaret died twenty-two years after her husband. She died in Belgium and was buried at Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, Brussels. Out of all of Edward I's nineteen children Margaret lived the longest even survived into the reign of her nephew Edward III of England. Her tomb and the one of her husband have been destroyed.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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