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Persoonlijke gegevens Eduard III van Engeland 

• Hij is geboren op 13 november 1312 in Windsor, Groot Brittannie.

  Let op: Leeftijd bij trouwen (24 januari 1328) lag beneden de 16 jaar (15).

• Hij is overleden op 21 juni 1377 in Londen, Groot Brittannie, hij was toen 64 jaar oud.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 13 oktober 2016.

Gezin van Eduard III van Engeland

Hij is getrouwd met Philippa van Henegouwen.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 24 januari 1328, hij was toen 15 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Eduard van Woodstock  1330-1376
2. Isabella van Engeland  1332-1379
3. Lionel van Antwerpen  1338-1368
4. Jan van Beaufort van Gent  1340-1399 
5. Edmund van Langley  1341-1401 
6. Mary van Plantagenet  1344-1361
7. Thomas Plantagenet  1355-1397

Notities over Eduard III van Engeland

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His fifty-year reign is one of the longest in English history, and saw vital developments in legislation and government, in particular the evolution of the English Parliament, as well as the ravages of the Black Death. He outlived his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, and was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II.

Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed by his mother, Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimer. At the age of seventeen, he led a successful coup d'état against Mortimer, the de facto ruler of England, and beganhis personal reign. After a successful campaign in Scotland, he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne,[a] starting the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). Following some initial setbacks, this first phase of the war went exceptionallywell for England and would become known as the Edwardian War. Victories at Crécy (1346) and Poitiers, in 1356, led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny, in which England made territorial gains, and Edward renounced his claim to the Frenchthrone. Edward's later years were marked by foreign policy failure and domestic strife, largely as a result of his decreasing activity and poor health.

Edward was temperamental and thought himself capable of feats such as healing by the royal touch, as some prior English kings did. He was also capable of unusual clemency. He was in many ways a conventional medieval king whose main interest was warfare, but he also had a broad range of non-military interests. Admired in his own time, and for centuries after, he was later denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by Whig historians, but modern historians credit him with significant achievements.

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