Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies

87. Jenkins ap Gwrgi-[18106] (Ann Maelog⁷⁴, Joan verch Rhys⁷⁰, Rhys ap Gruffudd⁶⁷, Mabel FitzRobert⁵⁷, William (Earl)⁵⁰, Robert de Caen (Earl)⁴¹, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹).

88. Elizabeth la Zouche-[18218] (Millicent de Cantelupe⁷⁵, Eva de Braose⁷¹, Lord William de Braose "Black Will"⁶⁸, Gracia de Briwere "The Dark"⁵⁸, Beatrice de Vaux⁵¹, Rainald (Earl of Cornwall)⁴⁴, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) died after 1297.

Elizabeth married Sir Nicholas de Poyntz III-[18219] [MRIN:6170]. Nicholas was born about 1278 and died about 7-12-1311 about age 33.

89. Sir Otto de Botetourte-[20074] (John de Botetourte⁷⁶, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) died in 1345.

+ 103 M i. John de Botetourte-[19089] was born c1333 in Mendleshom, Suffolk, England and died in 1377 in Hamerton, Huntingtonshire, England at age 44.

90. Margaret de Clare-[18248] (Joan of Acre⁷⁸, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born in 10-1292 in Caerphilly Castle, England and died on 4-13-1342 at age 49.

Margaret married Piers de Gaveston-[18249] [MRIN:6189] on 11-1-1307. Piers was born about 1284 in Bearn, Gascony and died on 6-19-1312 about age 28.

Margaret next married Earl Hugh de Audley-[18279] [MRIN:6206] on 4-28-1317 in Windsor, England. Hugh was born in 1289 and died on 11-10-1347 at age 58.

92. Earl William de Bohun-[18073] (Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet⁸¹, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born in 1312 and died in 1360 at age 48.

William married Elizabeth de Badlesmere-[18074] [MRIN:6097]. Elizabeth was born in 1313 and died in 1356 at age 43.

93. Alionore de Bohun-[18321] (Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet⁸¹, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born in 1304 and died on 10-7-1363 at age 59.

Alionore married Earl James Butler-[18322] [MRIN:6229] in 1327. James was born about 1305 and died on 1-6-1338 about age 33.

94. Mary de Bohun-[18688] (Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet⁸¹, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born c1369 and died in 1394 at age 25.

Mary married King Henry Bolingbroke Lancaster IV-[18667] [MRIN:6419], son of Duke John of Lancaster "of Gaunt"-[18463] and Blanche de Lancaster-[18662], before 2-10-1381 in Arundel, Sussex, England. Henry was born on 4-2-1367 in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England, died on 3-20-1413 in Westminster Abbey, London at age 45, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.

General Notes: born , April 3, 1366, Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, Eng.
died March 20, 1413, London

Also called (1377–97) Earl of Derby, or (1397–99) Duke of Hereford, by name Henry Bolingbroke, or Henry of Lancaster king of England from 1399 to 1413, the first of three 15th-century monarchs from the House of Lancaster. He gained the crown by usurpation and successfully consolidated his power in the face of repeated uprisings of powerful nobles. At the same time he was unable to overcome the fiscal and administrative weaknesses that contributed to the eventual downfall of the Lancastrian dynasty.

Henry was the eldest surviving son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, by his first wife, Blanche. Before becoming king he was known as Henry Bolingbroke, and he received from his cousin the titles earl of Derby (1377) and duke of Hereford (1397). During the opening years of the reign of King Richard II (ruled 1377–99), Henry remained in the background while his father ran the government. When Gaunt departed for an expedition to Spain in 1386, Henry entered politics as an opponent of the crown. He and Thomas Mowbray (later 1st duke of Norfolk) became the younger members of the group of five opposition leaders—known as the lords appellants—who in 1387–89 outlawed Richard's closest associates and forced the King to submit to their domination. Richard had just regained the upper hand when Gaunt returned to reconcile the King to his enemies. Bolingbroke then went on crusades into Lithuania (1390) and Prussia (1392). Meanwhile, Richard had not forgiven his past enmity. In 1398 the King took advantage of a quarrel between Bolingbroke and Norfolk to banish both men from the kingdom. The seizure of the Lancastrian estates by the crown upon John of Gaunt's death (February 1399) deprived Henry of his inheritance and gave him an excuse to invade England (July 1399) as a champion of the nobility. Richard surrendered to him in August; Bolingbroke's reign as King Henry IV began when Richard abdicated on Sept. 30, 1399.

Henry IV used his descent from King Henry III (ruled 1216–72) to justify his usurpation of the throne. Nevertheless, this claim did not convince those magnates who aspired to assert their authority at the crown's expense. During the first five years of his reign, Henry was attacked by a formidable array of domestic and foreign enemies. He quashed a conspiracy of Richard's supporters in January 1400. Eight months later the Welsh landowner Owen Glendower raised a national rebellion against oppressive English rule in Wales. Henry led a number of fruitless expeditions into Wales from 1400 to 1405, but his son, Prince Henry, had greater success in reasserting royal control over the region. Meanwhile, Glendower encouraged domestic resistance to Henry's rule by allying with the powerful Percy family—Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, and his son Sir Henry Percy, called Hotspur. Hotspur's brief uprising, the most serious challenge faced by Henry during his reign, ended when the King's forces killed the rebel in battle near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in July 1403. In 1405 Henry had Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, and Richard Scrope, archbishop of York, executed for conspiring with Northumberland to raise another rebellion. Although the worst of Henry's political troubles were over, he then began to suffer from an affliction that his contemporaries believed to be leprosy—it may have been congenital syphilis. A quickly suppressed insurrection, led by Northumberland in 1408, was the last armed challenge to Henry's authority. Throughout these years the King had to combat border incursions by the Scots and ward off conflict with the French, who aided the Welsh rebels in 1405–06.

To finance these military activities, Henry was forced to rely on parliamentary grants. From 1401 to 1406 Parliament repeatedly accused him of fiscal mismanagement and gradually acquired certain precedent-setting powers over royal expenditures and appointments. As Henry's health deteriorated, a power struggle developed within his administration between his favorite, Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, and a faction headed by Henry's Beaufort half brothers and Prince Henry. The latter group ousted Arundel from the chancellorship early in 1410, but they, in turn, fell from power in 1411. Henry then made an alliance with the French faction that was waging war against the Prince's Burgundian friends. As a consequence, tension between Henry and the Prince was high when Henry became totally incapacitated late in 1412. He died several months later, and the Prince succeeded as King Henry V.

• Titles: King of England - 30 September 1399 to 20 March 1413
Earl of Northampton and Hereford
Duke of Hereford
Duke of Lancaster
Earl of Leicester
Earl of Lincoln

95. King Edward Plantagenet III-[18452] (King Edward Plantagenet II⁸², King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born on 11-13-1312 in Winsdor, died on 6-21-1377 in Sheen Palace, Surrey, England at age 64, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London.

General Notes: born Nov. 13, 1312, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.
died June 21, 1377, Sheen, Surrey

Edward of Windsor king of England from 1327 to 1377, who led England into the Hundred Years' War with France. The descendants of his seven sons and five daughters contested the throne for generations, climaxing in the Wars of the Roses (1455–85).

The eldest son of Edward II and Isabella of France, Edward III was summoned to Parliament as earl of Chester (1320) and was made duke of Aquitaine (1325), but, contrary to tradition, he never received the title of prince of Wales.

Edward III grew up amid struggles between his father and a number of barons who were attempting to limit the king's power and to strengthen their own role in governing England. His mother, repelled by her husband's treatment of the nobles and disaffected by the confiscation of her English estates by his supporters, played an important role in this conflict. In 1325 she left England to return to France to intervene in the dispute between her brother, Charles IV of France, and her husband over the latter's French possessions, Guyenne, Gascony, and Ponthieu. She was successful; the land was secured for England on condition that the English king pay homage to Charles. This was performed on the King's behalf by his young son.

The heir apparent was secure at his mother's side. With Roger Mortimer, an influential baron who had escaped to France in 1323 and had become her lover, Isabella now began preparations to invade England to depose her husband. To raise funds for this enterprise, Edward III was betrothed to Philippa, daughter of William, count of Hainaut and Holland.

Within five months of their invasion of England, the Queen and the nobles, who had much popular support, overpowered the King's forces. Edward II, charged with incompetence and breaking his coronation oath, was forced to resign, and on Jan. 29, 1327, Edward III, aged 15, was crowned king of England.

During the next four years Isabella and Mortimer governed in his name, though nominally his guardian was Henry, earl of Lancaster. In the summer of 1327 he took part in an abortive campaign against the Scots, which resulted in the Treaty of Northampton (1328), making Scotland an independent realm. Edward was deeply troubled by the settlement and signed it only after much persuasion by Isabella and Mortimer. He married Philippa at York on Jan. 24, 1328. Soon afterward, Edward made a successful effort to throw off his degrading dependence on his mother and Mortimer. While a council was being held at Nottingham, he entered the castle by night, through a subterranean passage, took Mortimer prisoner, and had him executed (November 1330). Edward had discreetly ignored his mother's liaison with Mortimer and treated her with every respect, but her political influence was at an end.

Edward III now began to rule as well as to reign. Young, ardent, and active, he sought to remake England into the powerful nation it had been under Edward I. He still resented the concession of independence made to Scotland by the Treaty of Northampton; and the death of Robert I, the Bruce, king of Scotland, in 1329 gave him a chance of retrieving his position. The new king of Scots, his brother-in-law, David II, was a mere boy, and Edward took advantage of his weakness to aid the Scottish barons who had been exiled by Bruce to place their leader, Edward Balliol, on the Scottish throne. David II fled to France, but Balliol was despised as a puppet of the English king, and David returned in 1341.

During the 1330's England gradually drifted into a state of hostility with France, for which the most obvious reason was the dispute over English rule in Gascony. Contributory causes were France's new king Philip VI's support of the Scots, Edward's alliance with the Flemish cities—then on bad terms with their French overlord—and the revival, in 1337, of Edward's claim, first made in 1328, to the French crown. Edward twice attempted to invade France from the north (1339, 1340), but the only result of his campaigns was to reduce him to bankruptcy. In January 1340 he assumed the title of king of France. At first he may have done this to gratify the Flemings, whose scruples in fighting the French king disappeared when they persuaded themselves that Edward was the rightful king of France. But his pretensions to the French crown gradually became more important, and the persistence with which he and his successors urged them made stable peace impossible for more than a century. This was the struggle famous in history as the Hundred Years' War. Until 1801 every English king also called himself king of France.

Edward was present in person at the great naval battle off the Flemish city of Sluis in June 1340, in which he all but destroyed the French navy. Despite this victory his resources were exhausted by his land campaign, and he was forced to make a truce (which was broken two years later) and return to England. During the years after 1342 he spent much time and money in rebuilding Windsor Castle and instituting the Order of the Garter, which became Britain's highest order of knighthood.

Edward operated his court of the model of the Arthurian Round Table. Arthur was his hero, and many of the incidents later related by Thomas Malory in his Morte d'Arthur have their counterparts in Edward's tournaments and chivalric quests. The world of Edward III was the world of Arthur. Edward planned to instigate an Order of the Round Table which was eventually called the Most Noble Order of the Garter when he established it in 1348. It was the highest order of chivalry limited always to a select group of twenty-five or so knights. It was first bestowed upon Edward's eldest son, Edward, the Black Prince, and included among its illustrious ranks his second cousin, Henry, Earl of Derby and Roger Mortimer, the grandson of his mother's lover. These honors and the opportunity to prove themselves to the king resulted in a rare camaraderie between the king and his nobles, one which helped sustain the successes of the first half of Edward's reign. It was a period of considerable glory and prestige for England.

A new phase of the French war began when Edward landed in Normandy in July 1346, accompanied by his eldest son, Prince Edward, later known as the Black Prince (born 1330). At first the King showed some lack of strategic purpose, engaging in little more than a large-scale plundering raid to the gates of Paris. The campaign was made memorable by his decisive victory over the French at Crécy in Ponthieu (August 26), where he scattered the army with which Philip VI sought to cut off his retreat to the northeast. Edward laid siege to the French port of Calais in September 1346 and received its surrender in August 1347. Other victories in Gascony and Brittany, and the defeat and capture of David II at Neville's Cross near Durham (October 1346), gave further proof of Edward's power, but Calais was to be his only lasting conquest. He ejected most of its French inhabitants, colonizing the town with Englishmen and establishing there a base from which to conduct further invasions of France. Nevertheless, in the midst of his successes, want of money forced him to make a new truce in September 1347.

Edward returned to England in October 1347. He celebrated his triumph by a series of splendid tournaments. In 1348 he rejected an offer to become Holy Roman emperor. In the same year the bubonic plague known as the Black Death first appeared in England and raged until the end of 1349. Its horrors hardly checked the magnificent revels of Edward's court, and neither the plague nor the truce stayed the slow course of the French war, though the fighting was indecisive and on a small scale. Edward's martial exploits during the next years were those of a gallant knight rather than of a responsible general. Although the English House of Commons was now weary of the war, efforts to make peace came to nothing, and large-scale operations began again in 1355, when Edward led an unsuccessful raid out of Calais. He harried the Lothians, part of southeastern Scotland, in the expedition famous as the Burned Candlemas (January and February 1356), and in the same year he received a formal surrender of the Kingdom of Scotland from Balliol. His exploits were, however, eclipsed by those of his son Edward, whose victory at Poitiers (Sept. 19, 1356), resulting in the capture of the French king, John II (who had succeeded Philip VI in 1350), forced the French to accept a new truce. Edward entertained his captive magnificently but forced him by the Treaty of London (1359) to surrender so much territory that the agreement was repudiated in France. In an effort to compel acceptance, Edward landed at Calais (October 28) and besieged Reims, where he planned to be crowned king of France. The strenuous resistance of the citizens frustrated this scheme, and Edward marched into Burgundy, eventually returning toward Paris. After this unsuccessful campaign he was glad to conclude preliminaries of peace at Brittany (May 8, 1360). This treaty, less onerous to France than that of London, took its final form in the Treaty of Calais, ratified by both kings (October 1360). By it, Edward renounced his claim to the French crown in return for the whole of Aquitaine, a rich area in southwestern France.

The Treaty of Calais did not bring rest or prosperity to either England or France. Fresh visitations of the Black Death in England in 1361 and 1369 intensified social and economic disturbances, and desperate but not very successful efforts were made to enforce the Statute of Laborers (1351), which was intended to maintain prices and wages as they had been before the pestilence. Other famous laws enacted during the 1350's had been the Statutes of Provisors (1351) and Praemunire (1353), which reflected popular hostility against foreign clergy. These measures were frequently reenacted, and Edward formally repudiated (1366) the feudal supremacy over England still claimed by the papacy.

When the French king Charles V, son of John II, repudiated the Treaty of Calais, Edward resumed the title of king of France, but he showed little of his former vigor in meeting this new trouble, leaving most of the fighting and the administration of his foreign territories to his sons Edward and John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. While they were struggling with little success against the rising tide of French national feeling, Edward's want of money made him a willing participant in the attack on the wealth and privileges of the church. Meanwhile, Aquitaine was gradually lost, Prince Edward returned to England in broken health (1371), and John of Gaunt's march through France from Calais to Bordeaux (1373) achieved nothing. Edward's final attempt to lead an army abroad himself (1372) was frustrated when contrary winds prevented his landing his troops in France. In 1375 he was glad to make a truce, which lasted until his death. By it, the only important possessions remaining in English hands were Calais, Bordeaux, Bayonne, and Brest.

Edward was now sinking into his dotage. After the death of Queen Philippa in 1369 he fell entirely under the influence of his greedy mistress, Alice Perrers, while Prince Edward and John of Gaunt became the leaders of sharply divided parties in the royal court and council. John of Gaunt returned to England in April 1374 and with the help of Alice Perrers obtained the chief influence with his father, but his administration was neither honorable nor successful. At the famous so-called Good Parliament of 1376 popular indignation against John of Gaunt's ruling party came at last to a head. Alice Perrers was removed and some of Gaunt's followers were impeached. Before the Parliament had concluded its business, however, the death of Prince Edward (June 8, 1376) robbed the Commons of its strongest support. John of Gaunt regained power, and the acts of the Good Parliament had been reversed when Edward III died.

Edward III possessed extraordinary vigor and energy of temperament; he was an admirable tactician and a consummate knight. His court was the most brilliant in contemporary Europe, and he was himself well fitted to be the head of the gallant knights who obtained fame in the French wars. Though his main ambition was military glory, he was not a bad ruler of England, being liberal, kindly, good-tempered, and easy of access. His need to obtain supplies for carrying on the French wars made him favorable to his subjects' petitions and contributed to the growing strength of Parliament. His weak points were his wanton breaches of good faith, his extravagance, his frivolity, and his self-indulgence. His ambition ultimately transcended his resources, and before he died even his subjects had sensed his failure.

• Length of Rule: 25 January 1327 until 21 June 1377. Crowned at Westminster Abbey 1 February 1327.

• Titles: King of England; Duke of Aquitane; Earl of Chester; Count of Ponthieu; Lord of Ireland; King of France.

Edward married Philippa van Holland-[18453] [MRIN:6297], daughter of Count William van Hainault V-[18650] and Unknown, on 1-24-1328. Philippa was born in 1314 in Hainault, Belgie and died on 8-14-1369 in Winsdor Castle at age 55.

+ 109 M i. Edward Plantagenet "Black Prince"-[18651] was born on 6-15-1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England and died on 6-8-1376 in Westminster, England at age 45.

110 F ii. Isabella Plantagenet-[18653] was born in 1332 and died in 1382 at age 50.

Isabella married Enquerrand de Coucy-[18654] [MRIN:6401]. Enquerrand was born about 1339 and died in 1382 about age 43.

111 F iii. Joan Plantagenet of Woodstock-[18655] was born in 1335 and died in 1348 at age 13.

General Notes: Edward III's son, William of Hatfield (1337) is buried in York Minster. This tomb effigy of an alabaster figure is notable due to the fact that there are very few memorials to medieval children. William was born in Hatfield Herts (Hertfordshire). This is the location where the Hatfield House was built.

Hatfield is situated in the south of Hertfordshire, 20 miles north of London. The town's history reaches back to Saxon times.

One of the first mentions of the area of Hatfield was in a set record keeping books ordered by King Alfred the Great. It mentions that in the year 633 AD that "This year King Edwin was slain by Cadwalla and Penda, on Hatfield moor, on the fourteenth of October."

The next mention is in the year 680 AD -- "This year Archbishop Theodore appointed a synod at Hatfield; because he was desirous of rectifying the belief of Christ"

Thomas de Hatfield was born in a manor house that was built in Haethfelth / Hatfield and later became the Bishop of Durham in 1345. Durham is located about 60 miles north of York. Bishops of Durham were thought of as Prince Bishops and ruled independent of the Crown. Thomas was one of the most powerful of these Prince Bishops. He worked closely with Edward III and these close ties are celebrated with elements of the Kings crest engraved into the Bishop's throne. Thomas granted 3 acres of land on the east side of the city to the monks of the Order of Mount Carmel so they could build a monastery. The area is now known as Friargate and the old stones of the monastery were remade into a wall there.

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William de Hatfield: Son of , King Edward III
HATFIELD, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill (the seat of W. Gossip, Esq.) 4 miles from Thorne, 8 from Doncaster, 11 from Bawtry, 34 from York. Pop. 1,948. The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Lawrence, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. £80. 4s. 3d. Patron, Lord Deerhurst, in right of his Wife. Bacon styles it a vicarage, value, £15. 5s.
On Hatfield Heath, a bloody battle was fought between Ceadwalla, King of the Britons, and Penda, the Pagan King of Mercia, against Edwin, the first Christian King of Northumberland, in which Edwin, and Offrid his eldest son, were slain. --Rapin. --Drake.

In the old Manor House here, was born, William, the second son of King Edward III. from which place he took the name of William de Hatfield. The Queen, Phillippa, his mother, on this occasion, gave five marks per annum to the neighboring Abbey of Roche, and five nobles to the Monks there, which sums, when he died, were transferred to the church of York, where the Prince was buried, to pray for his soul. --Drake.

The extensive level of Hatfield Chace, the largest in England, contains within its limits, above 180,000 acres, one half of which was covered with water, till Charles I. sold it to Sir Cornelius Vermuiden, a Dutchman, without the consent of the commissioners and tenants, to drain and cultivate; which to the general surprise, he at length effected, at the expense of about £400,000. But the affair involved him in tedious and ruinous law suits. --Hist. Doncaster.

In 1811, an Act was obtained for inclosing between eight and nine thousand acres of rich common in this neighbourhood, which must be ultimately productive of great public and private advantage.

In the centre of this chace, at a place called Lindholme, tradition relates, there formerly lived a Hermit, called William of Lindholme. Of his cell a particular account is given in the Gents. Mag. for 1747, written by George Stovin, Esq. of Crowle, and copied into the Hist. of Doncaster. Mr. Stovin's Letter is dated Aug. 31, 1727. It was situated to the middle of sixty acres of firm sandy ground, full of pebbles; at the east end stood an altar, made of hewn stone, and at the west end is the hermit's grave, covered with a freestone slab, under it were found a tooth, a scull, the thigh and shin bones of a human body, all of a very large size; likewise a peck of hemp seed, and a piece of beaten copper. A farmhouse now occupies the site of the cell.

The Church is a large handsome building, having a lofty elegant tower, and although originally Saxon, the present structure is not older than the reign of Henry III. In it are several monuments of the Hatfield family, and one of Abraham de la Pryme. --Hist. Doncaster.

[Description(s) from Langdale's Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire. (1822)]
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Thomas Hatfield was buried in 1381 below the Bishop's Throne that he built in Durham Cathedral.

In the small town of Hatfield there is still an old Norman church dating from the 12th century. There are also manors and estates belonging to the Hatfield family near Thorp Arch, east of York, north of Leeds.

The Hatfield House has a long history. The original Royal Palace of Hatfield dates back to 1497. It was there that Elizabeth I spent most of her childhood until her succession to the throne in 1558. James I went on to trade the property to Sir Robert Cecil in exchange for Thebolds Park. Sir Robert began construction on the new Hatfield House in 1607 - 1611.

The great hall of the old palace still stands adjacent to the newer Hatfield House. Today the older palace is used chiefly as a banquet hall.

In nearby Nottingham many who bear the name of Hatfield can still be found. The Historic Houses Association lists several other manors and estates with the Hatfield name: Hatfield Hall in Yorkshire, Hatfield Priory in Essex 1768, Hatfield Place (Pond's farm) in Essex 1791.

+ 113 M v. Duke Lionel of Clarence-[18454] was born on 11-29-1338 in Antwerp and died on 10-17-1368 in Alba, Itlay at age 29.

115 M vii. Duke of York Edmund Plantagenet-[18670] was born on 6-5-1341 in King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England and died on 8-1 in King's Langley, Hertfordshire, England.

General Notes: born June 5, 1341, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, Eng.
died Aug. 1, 1402, King's Langley

Also called (1362–85) Earl Of Cambridge fourth surviving legitimate son of King Edward III of England and founder of the House of York as a branch of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Created earl of Cambridge in 1362 and duke of York in 1385, Edmund was the least able of Edward III's sons, and in the political strife of Richard II's reign he played an ineffective part. Between 1359 and 1378 he served without distinction in several campaigns in France, Spain, and Brittany, and his one independent command, the Lisbon expedition of 1381–82 to aid King Ferdinand of Portugal against Castile, was a failure. York was appointed keeper of the realm during Richard II's absence in Ireland in 1394–95, and again on the King's departure for his second Irish expedition in May 1399. When Henry of Lancaster (afterward King Henry IV) invaded England (July), York tried to organize resistance, but he soon submitted (July 27), recognizing that Richard's cause was lost.

Edmund married Isabella Castile-[18671] [MRIN:6410]. Isabella was born c1355 and died c1392 at age 37.

117 F ix. Mary Plantagenet-[18674] was born in 1344 and died in 1362 at age 18.

Mary married Duke of Brittany John de Montfort IV-[18675] [MRIN:6412]. John was born in 1339 and died in 1399 at age 60.

118 F x. Margaret Plantagenet-[18676] was born in 1346 and died in 1361 at age 15.

Margaret married Earl of Pembroke John Hastings-[18677] [MRIN:6413]. John was born in 1347 and died in 1375 at age 28.

119 M xi. Thomas Plantagenet-[18678] was born in 1347 and died in 1348 at age 1.

121 M xiii. Duke of Gloucester Thomas Plantagenet-[18680] was born in 1355 and died in 1397 at age 42.

Thomas married Eleanor de Bohun-[18681] [MRIN:6414]. Eleanor was born c1366 and died in 1399 at age 33.

99. Countess Joan of Kent "The Fair Maid"-[18977] (Earl Edmund of Woodstock⁸³, King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks"⁷², King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born on 9-29-1328 and died on 8-8-1385 at age 56.

Joan married Earl Thomas de Holand I-[18978] [MRIN:6507] in 1338. Thomas was born in 1314 in Upholland, Lancashire, England and died on 12-8-1360 in Normandy, France at age 46.

+ 122 M i. Thomas de Holand II-[18979] was born about 1350 in Upholland, Lancashire, England and died on 4-25-1397 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England about age 47.

100. Eleanor of Lancaster-[18584] (Earl Henry Plantagenet⁸⁶, Earl Edmund Plantagenet "Crouchback"⁷³, King Henry III Plantagenet⁶⁹, King John Plantagenet "Lackland"⁶⁶, King Henry II Plantagenet "Curtmantle"⁵², Queen Matilda Adelaide of England⁴⁵, Henry I (King)²¹, William I "the Conqueror" (King)¹¹, Robert I "The Magnificent" (Duke)⁶, Richard "the Good" II (Duke)³, Richard I "The Fearless" (Duke)², William I "Longsword" (Duke)¹) was born in 1311 in Grismond Castle, Monmouth, England and died on 1-11-1372 in Arundel, Sussex, England at age 61.

Eleanor married Richard FitzAlan-[18576] [MRIN:6363]. Richard was born in 1313 in Arundel, Sussex, England and died on 1-24-1376 in Arundel, Sussex, England at age 63.

123 M i. Richard FitzAlan-[18071] was born in 1346 and died in 1397 at age 51.

Richard married Elizabeth de Bohun-[18072] [MRIN:6096], daughter of Earl William de Bohun-[18073] and Elizabeth de Badlesmere-[18074]. Elizabeth died in 1385.

+ 124 F ii. Alice FitzAlan-[18578] was born in 1352 in Arundel, Sussex, England and died on 5-17-1416 at age 64.

Eleanor next married John Beaumont-[18577] [MRIN:6367] about 6-1337. John was born in 1318 and died in 5-1342 at age 24.

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