Edward III Plantagenet King of England and Lord of Ireland - I1268 - Individual Information

Edward III Plantagenet King of England and Lord of Ireland ‎(I1268)‎

Given Names: Edward III
Surname: Plantagenet
Suffix: King of England and Lord of Ireland

Note: aka ‎[before becoming King]‎: Edward of Windsor

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 13 November 1312

17 Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Death: 21 June 1377 ‎(Age 64)‎ Sheen Palace, Richmond

Personal Facts and Details

	Events of close relatives
Birth	13 November 1312 28 17 Windsor Castle, Berkshire
Occupation	between 25 January 1327 and 21 June 1377 ‎(Age 14)‎ King of England
Marriage	Philippa of Hainault - 24 January 1328 ‎(Age 15)‎ York Minster Note: They had 14 children
Occupation	29 November 1330 ‎(Age 18)‎ Had Roger de Mortimer, his mother's lover and his own erstwhile regent, hanged at Tyburn
Occupation	1340 ‎(Age 27)‎ Claimed the right to the throne of France, starting the Hundred Years' War Note: The claim was founded on the idea that Edward III was the only living male descendant of his deceased maternal grandfather, Philip IV ‎[I2638]‎
Occupation	1348 ‎(Age 35)‎ Created the Order of the Garter to instil a sense of shared chivalric purpose and suffering in his nobles
Occupation	19 September 1356 ‎(Age 43)‎ English victory, led by the Black Prince, at the Battle of Poitiers
Event	Philippa of Hainault - 1368 ‎(Age 55)‎ Outbreak of bubonic plague ‎(the Black Death)‎ -- as much as a third of the English population may have been killed by the disease
Death	21 June 1377 ‎(Age 64)‎ Sheen Palace, Richmond

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Parents Family (F558)
Father	Edward II Plantagenet King of England and Lord of Ireland 1284 - 1327
Mother	Isabella of France ‎[House of Capet]‎ Queen Consort of England 1295 - 1358
	Edward III Plantagenet King of England and Lord of Ireland 1312 - 1377

Immediate Family (F555)
Wife	Philippa of Hainault 1314 - 1369
Son	Edward Plantagenet of Woodstock Prince of Wales KG 1330 - 1376
Son (Birth)	Lionel Plantagenet of Antwerp 1st Duke of Clarence 1338 - 1368
Son	John Plantagenet of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster 1340 - 1399
Son	Edmund Plantagenet of Langley 1st Duke of York 1341 - 1402
Son	Thomas Plantagenet of Woodstock 1st and last Duke of Gloucester 1356 - 1397

Notes

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Marriage	They had 14 children
Marriage	They had 14 children
Occupation	The claim was founded on the idea that Edward III was the only living male descendant of his deceased maternal grandfather, Philip IV ‎[I2638]‎