The Children of Edward III

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of Edward III. The Black Prince is undoubtedly the most famous, but this does not mean that his other

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did not leave their own impact, whether great. or little in history Juan del corn, for example, also left a significant mark, his reputation fell dramatically during the time of the peasant revolt, but over time he would redeem himself here. I will take a quick look at all of Edward III's children, not just the famous ones life was hard in the 14th century and there was no guarantee that a child would make it out of infancy and this was true even for royalty, four of Edward III's children Edward and his queen Philippa died shortly after birth or even before birth. one of the poor babies were three boys, two Williams, a Thomas, and a girl called Blanche Blanche and William, both born in Windsor, are buried in Westminster Abbey.

The other William is buried near his birthplace in York. Thomas is buried in Hertfordshire. The fate of these tragic babies is Unfortunately, a sad reality of childbirth and life in the 14th century, the eldest of Edward III's children was Edward, the Black Prince, born in 1330. His brilliant performance in Cressy, at only 16 years, in 1346, he demonstrated that he would become one of the most powerful warriors of his time. or at any time, a decade after Cressey in Portia, the black prince once again demonstrated his brilliance and captured the French king John II. Such was the treatment that the Black Prince gave to John II that he earned great praise from the French king.

The prince also went on to campaign. in Castile and Equity in 1370 Edward dismissed Lamoge in devastating fashion after he surrendered to the French. This was the ugly side of the Black Prince's personality, but at the time he was not in good health and this had been exacerbated by his efforts across Europe and he would die a year before his father and so he lost the opportunity to become king, that honor would fall to the Black Prince's son, Richard II. Edward III's eldest daughter was a girl called Elizabeth who married the Earl of Bedford, with whom she had two sons. children and the next Born to the King was a girl also called Joan, she was born in the Tower of London in 1333.

She was betrothed to Pizza or Peter of Castile, but she died on her journey to marry him. Joan was a victim of the plague. that she was now taking over Europe, she was only 14 years old. The second son born and who survived infancy was Lionel of Antwerp. Lionel, as his name indicates, was born in present-day Belgium and his main duties were to oversee affairs in the house of Ireland. The name of Jeffrey Chaucer, the second most famous son of Edward III, was undoubtedly John of Gaunt, born in 1340 as Lionel had been. John was also born in modern-day Belgium as the Black Prince.

John would also be the father of the king, the future Henry IV. She was born to Juan and his first wife Blanca de Lancaster. John became an extraordinarily wealthy man, which put him at the center of the peasants' Ayah Revolt in 1381. His palace was destroyed, but both he and his heir Henry escaped with their lives. . an escape closer than that of Juan Juan also had a delicate relationship with his nephew Richard II after Juan's return from Castile, where he had attempted to win the crown thanks to his second marriage to constants of Castile. He restored calm to England as the reign of Richard II began.

Rejecting this gave a much-needed boost to Juan's reputation. He died in 1399 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, but his tomb was destroyed by the Great Fire of London. The next child born to the royal couple was Edmund of Langley in 1341. Edmund took part in the campaigns in France in the 1370s and in what proved to be a less successful period for England in the Hundred Years' War and also helped in his brothers John's attempt to become king of Castile in 1399. Edmund was one of the men who was. run over by Henry Bollingbrook while trying to usurp the throne from Richard II.

Edmund died shortly afterwards and is buried at King Stanley in Hertfordshire, where he was also born in 1342. Edward III and Philip lost their baby Blanche before a couple of years later. Another girl was born to them, this was Mary of Orthum, unfortunately Mary's life was another short one, she was only 16 years old when she died, but before she died she married John IV, Duke of Brittany, on whom she seemed to have left an impression while he I mourned his death. The last child Edward and Philippa had was a girl called Margaret and hers was another tragically short life.

Margaret was even younger than Mary when she died at just 15 years old. Then, at the time of the plague, two young sons, Thomas and William of Windsor, died. The children of Edward III are a stark reminder of the virginity of life in 14th century England. The last child born was Thomas of Woodstock, born in 1355. Thomas would be present alongside his father at the death of his beloved mother Philippa Thomas. he was at the forefront of discontent during the reign of his nephew Richard II and was the leader of the Lord's Appellant who sought to remove corrupt members of Richard's government;

However, Richard took revenge almost a decade later and allegedly murdered his own uncle. It has been easy enough for me to have overlooked the little children as inconsequential and simply concentrated on the eldest children of Edward III, but I must remember that these were real people and that babies who did not have a chance to live in the 14th century is as tragic as It would now be a reminder to all of us of how fortunate we are in the 21st century and for me it is also worth a moment to remember not only the babies but also Joan Margaret and Mary, who also died a lot early and even at Edward's eldest, the third son, died at an age that we would now consider quite young and this is my main interest in the story, it is about the human element and not just treating these people as a kind of inconsequential statistics, it's about treating them as individuals and remembering. that they also had real emotions and feelings, yes, then you have to remember the harsh realities of life, but you must do it with a lot of respect and it is worth learning about those whose existence has almost become as if it never happened, after all , this will happen to all of us.

Day as dark and gloomy as it may seem.