- Princess of England
- AKA: Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet
Elizabeth, Princess of England was born 7 August 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom to Edward I of England (1239-1307) and Eleanor of Castile (1241-1290) and died 5 May 1316 Quendon, Essex, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. She married Jan I van Holland (1284-1299) 8 January 1297 JL in Ipswich, England, United Kingdom. She married Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford (1276-1321) 1 November 1302 JL in Westminster Abbey, Greater London, England.
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan was the eighth and youngest daughter of King Edward I of England and Queen Eleanor of Castile. Of all of her siblings, she was closest to her younger brother King Edward II, as they were only two years apart in age.[1]
First marriage
In April 1285 there were negotiations with Floris V for Elizabeth's betrothal to his son John I, Count of Holland.[2] The offer was accepted and John was sent to England to be educated.[3] On 8 January 1297 Elizabeth was married to John at Ipswich.[4] In attendance at the marriage were Elizabeth's sister Margaret, her father, Edward I of England, her brother Edward, and Humphrey de Bohun. After the wedding Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. It is recorded that while in Ipswich the King, in some outburst, threw his daughter's coronet into the fire.[5] A great ruby and a great emerald, stones supplied by Adam the Goldsmith, were lost as a result.[6]
After some time travelling England, it was decided Elizabeth should follow her husband. Her father accompanied her, travelling through the Southern Netherlands between Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven and Brussels, before ending up in Ghent.[7] There they remained for a few months, spending Christmas with her two sisters Eleanor and Margaret.[8] On 10 November 1299, John died of dysentery, though there were rumours of his murder. The marriage did not produce any heirs.[9]
Second marriage
On her return trip to England, Elizabeth went through Brabant to see her sister Margaret.[10] When she arrived in England, she met her stepmother Margaret, whom Edward had married while Elizabeth was in Holland. On 14 November 1302 Elizabeth was married to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd of Essex, also Constable of England, at Westminster Abbey.[11][12]
In 1302, she was pregnant and travelled from Dunfermline Abbey in Scotland to Tynemouth.[13] She gave birth to her first child, Margaret de Bohun, in September, assisted by a holy relic of the girdle of the Virgin, brought especially from Westminster Abbey.[14] Margaret died young[15] but Elizabeth would go on to have a large family, giving birth to numerous children in quick succession.[16]
Issue
The children of Elizabeth and Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford were:
- Margaret de Bohun (born 1302 – died 7 Feb. 1304).[17]
- Humphrey de Bohun (born c. Oct. 1303 – died c. Oct. 1304).[18]
- Lady Eleanor de Bohun (17 October 1304 – 1363)
- John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (23 November 1306 – 20 January 1336)
- Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford (6 December c. 1309 – 1361)
- Margaret de Bohun, 2nd Countess of Devon (3 April 1311 – 1391)
- William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1312–1360).
- Edward de Bohun (1312–1334), twin of William
- Agnes, Married Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Chartley, son of John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley[19]
- Eneas de Bohun, (1314 – after 1322); he is mentioned in his father's will
- Isabel de Bohun (born and died 5 May 1316)
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Hugh de Bohun (1303-1305) | |||
| Eleanor de Bohun (1304-1363) | 17 October 1304 | 7 October 1363 | James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde (c1305-1337) Thomas Dagworth (?-1352) |
| Humphrey de Bohun (1305-1305) | |||
| John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (1306-1335) | 23 November 1306 Pleshey Castle, Essex, England, United Kingdom | 20 January 1336 | Alice FitzAlan (1314-c1385) Margaret Basset (-aft1347) |
| Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford (c1309-1361) | 6 December 1309 England | 15 October 1361 England | |
| Margaret de Bohun (1311-1391) | 3 April 1311 Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales | 16 December 1391 | Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1303-1377) |
| William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1312-1360) | 1312 | 16 September 1360 | Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313-1356) |
| Edward de Bohun (1312-1334) | |||
| Eneas de Bohun (1314-aft1322) | |||
| Isabel de Bohun (1316-1316) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Thomas of Brotherton (1300-1338) | 1 June 1300 | 4 August 1338 | Alice De Hales (1302-Bef 1330) Mary Braose |
| Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301-1330) | 5 August 1301 | 19 March 1330 | Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell (c1299-1349) |
| Eleanor of England (1306-1311) | 4 May 1306 Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom | 1310 Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom | |
See Also
- Elizabeth Plantagenet
- House of Plantagenet
- Plantagenet in Debonshire
- Courtenay in Devon
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Elizabeth of Rhuddlan
- Elizabeth of Rhuddlan at thePeerage
- Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-of-Rhuddlan-Countess-of-Hereford/6000000009189190206, retrieved 01 Jan 2024
- Plantagenet Family Genealogy, TudorPlace.com.ar, http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PLANTAGENET.htm#Elizabeth%20PLANTAGENET%20(C.%20Hereford%20and%20Essex), retrieved 01 Jan 2024
- Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet at Find A Grave
Sources
- Cutter, William Richard (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Vol. III. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co.. p. 1399. https://archive.org/details/genealogicaland00cuttgoog/page/n344/mode/2up.
- Green, Mary Anne Everett (1857). Lives of the Princesses of England Vol. III. London. pp. 1–59. https://archive.org/details/livesprincesses02greegoog/page/58/mode/2up.
- Verity, Brad. "The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England," Foundations, Volume 6, June 2014, pages 3–10.
- Weir, Alison (2002). Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy. The Bodley Head London, U.K.. pp. 83–85. ISBN 0-7126-4286-2.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis (2004). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700. Genealogical Pub Co. ISBN 0-8063-1752-3. Lines 6-29, 6-30, 7-29, 7-30, 15-29, 15-30, 97-31, 97-32.
Notable Ancestors
Notable Descendants
Famous descendants include:
- Roger Ludlow (1590-1664), co-founder of Colony of Connecticut, See Ludlow Family Ancestry.
Footnotes (including sources)
| ‡ General |
- ^ Green 1857, p. 4.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 6.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 7.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 13.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 15.
- ^ T.H. Turner (ed.), Manners and Household Expenses of England in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Illustrated by Original Records (William Nicol/Shakspeare Press, London 1841), pp. lxxvi–vii, note (Internet archive).
- ^ Green 1857, p. 18.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 20.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 30.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 32.
- ^ Weir, Alison (2011). Britain's Royal Families (New ed.). New York: Pimlico. p. 85. ISBN 9781446449110. https://books.google.com/books?id=7nZ90l1_IzAC&dq=humphrey+de+bohun+4th+westminster&pg=PA85.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 37.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 38.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 39.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 47.
- ^ Green 1857, p. 50.
- ^ Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, vol. 1, 2nd ed., (2011): p. 306 (author states, "i. MARGARET DE BOHUN, born 1302, died 7 Feb. 1304, aged 1-1/2 years, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.").
- ^ Richardson, Douglas. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, vol. 1, 2nd ed., (2011): p. 306 (author states, "ii. HUMPHREY DE BOHUN, 1st son, born shortly before 30 Oct. 1303. He died by the end of Oct. 1304, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.").
- ^ Burke, John, Esq. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. (p. 196) googlebooks Retrieved 4 May
