His Issue.
Edward their eldest sonne was borne at Westminster, the 28. day of Iune, the 24. yere of his Fathers Raign; 1239, hee was surnamed Longshancke, of his tall and slender body, made knight in Spaine of Alfonse king of Castile, created Earle of Chester by his Father, after the Issue male extinct of the former Earles, and suc∣ceeded his Father in the kingdome of England.
(107) Edmund their second sonne, borne Ian. 26. A. 1245. and of his Fathers raigne, 29. was surnamed Crouched-backe, of bowing in his backe, say some, but more likely of wearing the signe of the Crosse, (an∣ciently called a *Crouch) vpon his backe, which was vsually worne of such as vowed viages to Ierusalem, as he had done. He was inuested titulare King of Si∣cilia and Apulia, and created Earle of Lancaster, (on whose person originally the great contention of Lan∣caster and Yorke was founded) and hauing of the grant of his Father, the lands of Simon Montfort and Robert Ferrers, (disinherited in the Barons warres) was by vertue of the same graunt Earle of Leicester and Der∣by, and high Steward of England. He had two wiues, the first was Auelin, daughter and heire of William Earle of Albemarle, by whom he left no issue, the se∣cond was Queene Blanch, daughter of Robert Earle of Artoys, (brother of Saint Lewis King of France) wi∣dow of Henry of Champaigne, King of Nauarre, and mother of Ioane Queene of France and Nauarre, the wife of Philip the faire. By her he had issue three sons and one daughter. Thomas who after his Father was Earle of Lancaster, and hauing married Alice, daugh∣ter and heire of Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne, was beheaded at Pomfret without issue: Henry Lord of Monmouth, who after his brothers death was Earle of Lancaster, and father of Henry, the first Duke of Lancaster: Iohn, who died without marriage: and Mary, married to Henry Lord Percie, mother of Henry, the first Earle 〈◊〉Northumberland. This Earle Edmund died a•Bayon in Gascoigne, Iune. 5. An 1296. and of King Edward his brothers raigne 24. when hee had liued fifty yeere, foure moneths and nineteene daies; whose body halfe a yeere after his death, was conuaied into England, and lieth entomb∣ed Page 540 at Westminster on the Northside of the high Al∣tar, vnder a faire monument of stone, with his Por∣traiture, and the armes of him and others of his house, and manie noble houses of that time.
(108) Richard the third sonne of King Henry and Queene Elenor, (bearing the name of his vncle Rich∣ard, King of Romans Almaign,) deceased in his youth, and lieth at Westminster, enterred on the south-side of the Quire.
(109) Iohn the fourth sonne of King Henrie and Queene Eleanor, (bearing the name of King Iohn his grandfather,) deceased yong, and at Westminster his bones lie enterred with his brother Richard.
(110) William the fift sonne of King Henry and Queene Eleanor, is mentioned by Thomas Pickering, (a Priest of the monastery of Whitby in Yorkeshire, who liued in the time of King Henrie the sixt, and wrote a large Genealogie of the Kings of England, and their issues,) and that he dying in his childhood, was bu∣ried within the new Temple, by Fleete-streete in London.
(111) Henry the sixt sonne of King Henry and Queene Eleanour, is also reported by the same Picke∣ring, to haue died yong, and to be buried at Westmin∣ster.
(112) Margaret the eldest daughter of King Henry and Queene Eleanor, borne the twentie sixt yeere of her Fathers raigne. 1241. was the first wife of Alexander the third, King of Scotland, married to him at Yorke, An. 1251. by whome shee had issue, A∣lexander and Dauid, (who died both before their Fa∣ther without issue,) and Margaret Queene of Norway, wife of King Erike, and mother of Margaret the heire of Scotland, and Norway, that died vnmarried: shee was Queene twenty two yeeres, liued thirtie three, deceased before her husband, in the twenty third yeere of his Raigne, the first of her brother Edwards in England, and was buried at the Abbey of Dunferin∣ling in Scotland.
(113) Beatrice the second daughter of King Hen∣rie, and Queene Eleanor, was borne at Burdeaux in Gascoigne, Iune. 25. An. 1242. of her Fathers raigne 27. At the age of eighteene yeeres, shee was married to Iohn the first Duke of Britaine, (sonne of Iohn the last Earle of the same,) and had issue by him, Arthur Duke of Britanny, Iohn Earle of Richmont, Peter, and Blanch married to Philip, sonne of Robert Earle of Ar∣toys; Eleanour a Nunne at Amsbery, and Marie married to Guy Earle of Saint Paul: when shee had beene his wife twelue yeeres, and liued thirty yeeres, shee de∣ceased in Britany, in the first yeere of the Raigne of her brother King Edward, and was buried at Lon∣don, in the Quire of the Grey Fryers within New∣gate.
(114) Catherine the third daughter of King Henry and Queene Eleanor, was borne at London, An. 125•. of her fathers raigne 37. Nouemb. 25. being Saint Ka∣therines day, whose name was therefore giuen vnto her, at the font, by Boniface Arch-Bishop of Canterbu∣rie, her mothers vncle, who christened her, and was her Godfather. Shee died yong and at Westminster her▪ bones lie enterred, with her brother Richard and Iohn, in the space betweene the Chappels of King Edward and Saint Bennet.
