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Geoffrey Plantagenet was born on 23 September 1158 in England.¹ He and Constance de Brittany were married in July 1181.² He died on 19 August 1186, at age 27, in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France.¹ He was buried in August 1186 in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Paris, Ile-de-France, France (in a tournament)

He was recognised as DUKE OF BRITTANY and EARL OF RICHMOND ; he had previously in May 1169 received the homage of th e Breton barons at Rennes. He left England for Brittany i n 1179, and the only later occasion on which he seems to ha ve been in England was in 1184, the probable date of a char ter which he executed at Winchester confirming to Kirkstea d Abbey land in Gayton le Wold, Lincs, whichDuke Conan ha d given. On 30 March 1184 at Rennes he confirmed an agreeme nt between the priory of St. Cyr and Geoffrey de la Guerche . At Rennes in 1185, in conjunction with Constance, he issu ed hiscelebrated assize regulating the succession to land s in Brittany held by barony or military tenure, and at Nan tes in 1186 a charter for the abbey of Buzay. He was kille d in a tournament at Paris on 19 August 1186, and buried i n the quire of the cathedral there. [Complete Peerage X:794 -7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]. Geoffrey Plantagenet had person sources.³

Suzanne Plantagenet was born about 1168 in Surrey, England. She and John I ("King of England") Lackland King of England were married. She died.

Suzanne Plantagenet had person sources.¹

Thomas of Galloway was born about 1190 in Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. He died in 1237, at age ~47.¹

Thomas of Galloway had person sources.²

Berenguela Castile was born in 1198 in Leon, Spain. She died on 12 April 1237, at age ~39, in Constantinople, Turkey, Byzantine Empire.^1,2

Berenguela Castile had person sources.³

Thomas de Monthermer was born on 4 October 1301 in Stoke, Ham, Wiltshire, England.^1,2 He died on 24 June 1340, at age 38, in at sea.^1,2

Killed at sea fighting French at battle of Sluys

Thomas de Monthermer, Lord Monthermer, was constantly emplo yed in the military service of the crown, his name, therefo re, does not occur in the enrolment of the summonses to par liament. He was killed in a sea fight with the French in 13 40. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Ext inct Peerages, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, England, 1883 , p. 379, Monthermer, Baron Monthermer, Earl of Glouceste r and Hertford]. Thomas de Monthermer had person sources.³

Henry FitzGerold was born about 1140 in Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Berkshire, England. He died before 1175.¹

Henry FitzGerold had person sources.²

Alexander FitzGerold was born in 1110 in Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Berkshire, England. He died in 1178, at age ~68.

Alexander FitzGerold had person sources.¹

Mary de Lusignan was born about 1220 in La Marche, Poitou, France. She died in 1252, at age ~32.¹

Mary de Lusignan had person sources.²

Thomas de Savoie was born about 1198 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France. He died on 7 February 1259, at age ~61.¹

Thomas de Savoie had person sources.²

Alexander II Scotland was born on 24 August 1198 in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.¹ He and Marie de Coucy were married. He and Joan Plantagenet were married on 19 July 1221 in York Minster Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England. He died on 8 July 1249, at age 50, in Isle of Kerrera, Argyllshire, Scotland.¹ He was buried on 8 August 1249 in Abbey Melrose, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Alexander II of Scotland
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Alexander II
King of the Scots
Reign 4 December 1214 – 8 July 1249
Coronation 6 December 1214
Predecessor William I
Successor Alexander III
Spouse Joan of England
Marie de Coucy
Issue
Alexander III of Scotland
Marjory (illegitimate)
House House of Dunkeld
Father William I of Scotland
Mother Ermengarde de Beaumont
Born 24 August 1198
Haddington, East Lothian
Died 8 July 1249 [aged 50]
Kerrera, Inner Hebrides
Burial Melrose Abbey
Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

Alexander II (Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim) (24 August 1198 - 8 July 1249) was King of Scots from 1214 to his death.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 King of Scotland
2.1 Physical Appearance
3 Death
4 Wives
5 Fictional portrayals
6 Ancestry
7 Notes
8 References

[edit] Early life

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont. He spent time in England (John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.
[edit] King of Scotland

In 1215, the year after his accession, the clans Meic Uilleim and MacHeths, inveterate enemies of the Scottish crown, broke into revolt; but loyalist forces speedily quelled the insurrection.

In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John of England, and led an army into the Kingdom of England in support of their cause. This action led to the sacking of Berwick as John's forces ravaged the north.

The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John. But John died and the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son Henry, forcing the French and the Scottish armies to return home. shortly after taking London and the Scottish army returned to Scotland.

Peace between Henry III, the French prince and Alexander followed on 12 September 1217 with the treaty of Kingston. Diplomacy further strengthened the reconciliation by the marriage of Alexander to Henry's sister Joan of England on 18 June or 25 June 1221.

The next year marked the subjection of the hitherto semi-independent district of Argyll. Royal forces crushed a revolt in Galloway in 1235 without difficulty; nor did an invasion attempted soon afterwards by its exiled leaders meet with success. Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties. The two kingdoms, however, settled this dispute by a compromise in 1237. This was the Treaty of York which defined the boundary between the two kingdoms as running between the Solway Firth (in the west) and the mouth of the River Tweed (in the east).

Joan died in March, 1238 in Essex, and in the following year, 1239, Alexander remarried. His second wife was Marie de Coucy. The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.

A threat of invasion by Henry in 1243 for a time interrupted the friendly relations between the two countries; but the prompt action of Alexander in anticipating his attack, and the disinclination of the English barons for war, compelled him to make peace next year at Newcastle. Alexander now turned his attention to securing the Western Isles, which still owed a nominal allegiance to Norway. He successively attempted negotiations and purchase, but without success.
[edit] Physical Appearance

The English chronicler Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora described Alexander as red-haired:

"[King John] taunted King Alexander, and because he was red-headed, sent word to him,
saying, 'so shall we hunt the red fox-cub from his lairs."[1]
[edit] Death

Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway. When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides. He died there in 1249 and was buried at Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire. His only legitimate child and son by second wife Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots. He had a bastard daughter Marjorie, who married Sir Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia (he died 1275), and had issue.[2]
[edit] Wives

1. Joan of England, (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238), was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She and Alexander II married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster. Alexander was 23. Joan was 11. They had no children. Joan died in Essex in 1238, and was buried at Tarant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.

2. Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland. Alexander II Scotland had person sources.²

Joan Plantagenet was born on 22 July 1210 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. She and Alexander II Scotland were married on 19 July 1221 in York Minster Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England. She died on 4 March 1237, at age 26, in Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, England. She was buried in Tarrant Keynstan, Dorsetshire, England.

Joan of England, Queen of Scotland
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Joan of England
Queen consort of Scotland
Tenure 21 June 1221 – 4 March 1238
Spouse Alexander II, King of Scots
House House of Plantagenet (by birth)
House of Dunkeld (by marriage)
Father John Lackland, King of England
Mother Isabella of Angoulême
Born 22 July 1210
Died 4 March 1238 (aged 27)
Havering-atte-Bower, London
Burial Tarant Crawford Abbey, Dorset

For the wife of David II of Scotland see Joan of The Tower.

Joan of England (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238) was Queen consort of Scotland from 1221 until 1238.

Joan was the eldest legitimate daughter and third child of King John of England and Countess Isabella of Angoulême.

Joan was brought up in the court of Hugh X of Lusignan who was promised to her in marriage from an early age, as compensation for him being jilted by her mother Isabella of Angoulême, however on the death of John of England, Isabella decided she should marry him herself and Joan was sent back to England, where negotiations for her hand with Alexander II of Scotland were taking place.

She and Alexander married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster.[1] Alexander was twenty-three. Joan was ten, almost eleven. They had no children. Joan died in her brother's arms at Havering-atte-Bower in 1238, and was buried at Tarrant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.[2]

Nothing now remains of this church; the last mention of it is before the Reformation. It is said that she is now buried in a golden coffin in the graveyard. Joan Plantagenet had person sources.¹

Miss le Despenser was born about 1226 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. She died.

Miss le Despenser had person sources.¹

Alphonso de Molina was born about 1204 in Molina, Guadalajara, Spain. He died 6 JAN 1271/1272 in Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain.

Alphonso de Molina had person sources.¹

Alfonso "The Wise" of Castile was born on 23 November 1221 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.¹ He died on 4 April 1284, at age 62, in Seville, Spain.¹

1252-1284. Alfonso "The Wise" of Castile had person sources.²

Aleide (Alix) France was born in 1150 in France.¹ She and Theobald Blois were married in 1164. She died after 1195.¹

Aleide (Alix) France had person sources.²

Beatrice Plantagenet was born on 25 June 1242 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France.¹ She died on 24 March 1275, at age 32, in Grey Friars Church, London, Middlesex, England (body.)¹ She was buried in Abbaye des Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou/Pays-de-la-Loire, France (heart.)

Beatrice Plantagenet had person sources.²

Joan de Mortimer was born about 1240 in Wigmore, Ludlow, Hertfordshire, England. She died before 1295.

Joan de Mortimer had person sources.¹

Adelaide (Beatrice) Trencavel was born about 1135 in Beziers, Narbonne, Languedoc, France.¹ She died.

Adelaide (Beatrice) Trencavel had person sources.²

Amabilia de Chaucombe was born about 1219 in Chalcombe, Banbury, Northamptonshire, England. She and Gilbert de Segrave were married on 30 September 1231. She died about 1278, at age ~59, in Castle Dudley, West Midlands, England.¹

Amabilia de Chaucombe had person sources.²

Raimond Trencavel was born in 1098 in Nimes, Gard, Languedoc, France. He and Saura de Carcassonne were married before 1134.¹ He died on 15 October 1167, at age ~69, in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France.¹

The following is excerpted from a post to soc.genealogy.med ieval, 23 Nov 2001, by Nathaniel Taylor.

9. Raimond Trencavel I, d. testate, 1167, vc Carcassonne, R asès, Béziers, Agde & Albi, ? (1) Adalaida; ? (2) Saura; is sue:
.... (by 1) Cecilia ? Roger Bernard, c Foix (ES 3:145N-146)
.... (by 2) Adelaida ? Sicard, vc Lautrec
.... Roger V, d. 1194, vc Carcassonne, Rasès, Albi, Béziers , who follows.
.... Raimond Trencavel II, vc Carcassonne, Rasès, Béziers , Albi.
.... Beatrix, ? Raimond VI, c Toulouse (ES 3:764).

Note: The lineage I am following has Adelaide as a daughte r by the 2nd wife, and m. to Guillaume de Forcalquier.

Note: I keep running into Raimond marrying 1stly Adelaide , who is his niece. I am certainly doubtful, but then thes e Frenchmen around Carcassonne were heretics about this tim e. Raimond Trencavel had person sources.²

Isabel FitzRobert was born about 1173 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. She and Geoffrey de Mandeville were married 20 JAN 1213/1214.¹ She and John I ("King of England") Lackland King of England were married on 29 August 1189 in Marlborough, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.¹ She died on 14 October 1217, at age ~44, in Kent, England.^1,2 She was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England.

Isabel FitzRobert had person sources.³

Eleanor Plantagenet was born on 17 June 1264 in Castle Windsor, Windsor, Berkshire, England. She died in 1298, at age ~34, in Ghent (Gent/Gand), Flemish Region, Belgium. She was buried in Collegiate Church of St. Gudule, Brussels, Belgium.

Eleanor Plantagenet had person sources.¹

Angharad verch Llewelyn was born in May 1205 in Caernarvonshire, Wales. She died.

Angharad verch Llewelyn had person sources.¹

Marguerite Capet was born after 1157 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France.¹ She and Henry ("Young King") Plantagenet, Young King, were married in August 1158 in Neubourg, Seine-Manche, Normandy, France.¹ She died in 1198 in Acre, Hazafon, Palestine.

Marguerite Capet had person sources.²

Henry ("Young King") Plantagenet, Young King, was born on 28 February 1155 in Palace Bermondsey, Surrey, England. He and Marguerite Capet were married in August 1158 in Neubourg, Seine-Manche, Normandy, France.¹ He died on 11 June 1183, at age 28, in Chateau du Martel, Turenne, Correze, France. He was buried in June 1183 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France.

Count of Anjou. Henry ("Young King") Plantagenet, Young King, had person sources.²