The Plantagenets

[CyrilSebastian]

Eleanor of Provence was Queen Consort of England as the spouse of King Henry III.     
When King Henry III was obliged to return to Gascony to quell a rebellion in the province, Eleanor was appointed regent. She was regent between August and May. As a measure of her status, she was awarded a large increase in her dower. Eleanor sat in two Parliaments and met foreign embassies.

[CyrilSebastian]

Eleanor of Castile was the first wife of King Edward I. She married Edward on November 1, 1254.   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8q6UsZNTyk

[CyrilSebastian]

Margaret of France was Queen of England as the second wife of King Edward I of England. She was a daughter of King Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant.   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtczYsyRG_8

[Antevorta]

Cyril, I love how you always manage to dig up such fascinating information.  Thank you for all of your work.

 

[CyrilSebastian]

Cyril, I love how you always manage to dig up such fascinating information.  Thank you for all of your work.

 

     
 
Antevorta, Thank you for your kind words.     
 
Isabella of France was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward II. Before his coronation, Edward II traveled to France to retrieve his bride Isabella. He had Piers Gaveston serve as regent.     
Could Parliament have prevented Gaveston from being the regent?

[CyrilSebastian]

Philippa of Hainault was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III.       
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb4F_3AvWKY

[CyrilSebastian]

Joan Plantagenet (1328-1385) was the daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. Joan's father was the second son of King Edward I and his second wife, Margaret of France. She married Edward, The Black Prince, the eldest son and heir of King Edward III, on October 10, 1361. Edward, Prince of Wales did not become King Edward IV because he predeceased his father. Joan was the mother of King Richard II.

[CyrilSebastian]

Anne of Bohemia was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. She brought with her no dowry. In return for her hand in marriage, Richard gave 20,000 florins in payment to her brother King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia.

[CyrilSebastian]

Isabella of Valois was Queen of England as the second spouse of King Richard II.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upiSVzrPRMc

[CyrilSebastian]

Mary de Bohun (c.1369/1370 -1394) was the first wife of King Henry IV and the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen. She died before her husband came to the throne.     
 
Joan of Navarre was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry V.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sraJL3yV4Dg

[CyrilSebastian]

Catherine of Valois was the Queen Consort of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of Charles VI of France, she married Henry V of England.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwXK15I69E

[CyrilSebastian]

Margaret of Anjou was the Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnspEh99h4

[Todayonly]

I just listened to a podcast on Eleanor of Aquitaine, by The History Chicks. Very interesting and makes me want to read more on this era! 

[CyrilSebastian]

Elizabeth Woodville was Queen Consort of England, as the spouse of King Edward IV from 1464 until his demise in 1483.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhYw3H4AxKU

[CyrilSebastian]

Anne Neville (1456-1485) was Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. She was the daughter of Richard Neville, 11th Earl of Warwick.     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_a7pA7Cjo