Fox and Anderson and Taylor families in USA » King Edward Plantagenet III (1312-1377)

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1. 1.MyHeritage.com, via https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-t...
2. Book, Platagenet Encyclopedia, Elizabeth Hallam (ed.), Crescent Books, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-517-14081-0., 1996

   Eldest son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France; king of England (1327-77). Only 14 years old at the time of Edward II's deposition and his own coronation, he was at first dominated by his mother and her lover, Roger Mortimer. In 1330, however, he executed Mortimer, and exiled his mother from court.
   
   Edward was tall, restless, energetic, a man of action, a fine warrior, but also a shrewd politician. Conventionally pious, he also had a darker side to his character, as the chronicler Jean le Bel's account of his brutal rape of the 'countess of Salisbury' suggests. In 1328 he married Philippa, daughter of William I, count of Hainault; she produced 12 children, nine of whom survived.
   
   In 1333 Edward and Edward Balliol defeated David II of Scotland at the battle of Halidon Hill and drove him into exile. The French were in league with the Scots, and this, together with problems over Gascony and Edward's claims to the throne of France (through his mother Isabella), contributed towards the outbreak of the Hundred Years War in 1337. Edward won a major victory at Crecy in 1346 and went on to capture Clalis; and in 1356 his son, Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, gained another success at the battle of Poitiers, which resulted in the capture of John II of France. But in 1360 Edward recognized the magnitude of the task he had set himself in conquering France and relinquished his claims to the country in return for undisputed title to Aquitaine. Financed by John's ransom, Edward now indulged his tastes for chivalry and ceremonial (in 1348 he had created the Order of the Garter). However, hostilities with France resumed in 1369 and the English gradually lost ground.
   
   Philippa died in 1369 and in the last years of his reign Edward was firmly under the influence of his mistress, Alice Perrers. She favoured John of Gaunt, one of Edward's younger sons, as the king's adviser, in preference to the Black Prince, and stirred up political opposition to the king. The conflicts of the last years of Edward's reign soured the earlier successes, but after his death, in 1377, he was remembered with pride for his great victories against the French.

3. Internet Page, via http://www.royalancestry.net/_pdf/pa_01/...

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Historische gebeurtenissen

• Geboortedag 13 november 1312
• Dag van overlijden 21 juni 1377

Dezelfde geboorte/sterftedag

• Ook geboren op 13 november
• Ook overleden op 21 juni

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