Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (21 page)

1  
Henry III
(
see here
).

2  
Richard

He was born on 5 January, 1209, at Winchester Castle, Hampshire. He was designated Count of Poitou before 14 August, 1225, and was first so styled on 21 August, 1227. He was created Earl of Cornwall on 30 May, 1227. He renounced the county of Poitou in
c
.December, 1243. He was elected King of Germany (Almayne) and King of the Romans on 13 January, 1257, and was crowned on 17 May, 1257, at Aachen Cathedral, Germany. He died on 2 April, 1272, at Berkhamstead Castle, Herts., and was buried in Hayles Abbey, Gloucs.

Richard had the following
illegitimate issue
:

By Jeanne de Valletort:

1  Richard de Cornwall (
d.
after 1280); he married and had issue.

By unknown mothers:

2  Walter de Cornwall.

3  Isabella de Cornwall; she married Maurice de Berkeley, and had issue.

Richard married firstly, on 13 or 30 March, 1231, at Fawley Church, Bucks.:

Isabella

She was the daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, by Isabella, daughter of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and she was born on 9 October, 1200, at Pembroke Castle, Wales. She married firstly Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (1180?–1230) on 9 October, 1214 or 1217, at
Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucs., and had issue:

1  Amice (1220?–1284); she married firstly Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (
d
.1245), and secondly Robert of Guines.

2  Richard, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (1222?–1262); he married firstly Margaret (Megotta) (
d
.1237), daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. He married secondly Matilda (
d.
by 1289), daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and had issue.

3  Agnes.

4  Isabella (1226–1254); she married Robert le Brus, Lord of Annandale (1210–1295), and had issue.

5  William (1228–1258).

6  Gilbert (
b
.1229); a priest (?).

Isabella died on 15 or 17 January, 1240, at Berkhamstead Castle, Herts., of jaundice contracted whilst in childbed, and was buried in Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire.

Issue of marriage:

Richard married secondly, on 23 November, 1243, at Westminster Abbey:

Sanchia

She was the daughter of Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence, by Beatrice, daughter of Thomas I, Count of Savoy; her sister Eleanor was the wife of Henry III. Sanchia was born in
c.
1225 at Aix-en-Provence, France. She was crowned Queen of the Romans and Queen of Germany with her husband on 17 May, 1257, at Aachen Cathedral, Germany. She died on 5 or 9 November, 1261, at Berkhamstead Castle, Bucks., and was buried in Hayles Abbey, Gloucs.

Issue of marriage:

Richard married thirdly, on 16 June, 1269, at the Stiftkirche, Kaiserslauten, Germany:

Beatrice

She was the daughter of Dirk II, Count of Falkenburg, by Joan van Loon. (Her parentage is sometimes erroneously given as either (i) Walram de Fauquemont, Lord of Mountjoye, by Jutta, daughter of Otto, Count of Ravensburg, Westphalia, or (ii) Lothaire, Count of Hostade and Dalem, or (iii) Philip von Falkenstein, Arch-Chamberlain of the Empire. She was no connection of any of these.) Beatrice was born in
c.
1253, probably at Falkenburg Castle, Germany. She died on 17 October, 1277, and was buried in the Church of the Franciscan Friars Minor, Oxford.

3  
Joan
(under
Alexander II, King of Scotland
,
see here
).

4  
Isabella

She was born in 1214. She married Frederick II, King of Sicily, and Emperor of Germany (
d.
1250), on 20 July, 1235, at Worms Cathedral, Germany, and had issue:

1  Jordan (?) (
b.
&
d
.1236).

2  Agnes (
b.
&
d
.1237).

3  Henry, King of Jerusalem (1238–1253).

4  Margaret (1241–1270); she married Albert I, Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia and Misnes (1240–1315), and had issue.

Isabella was crowned Empress of Germany on 20 July, 1235, at Worms Cathedral. She died on 1 or
c.
6 December, 1241, at Foggia, near Naples, Italy, in childbirth, and was buried at Andria, Sicily.