Philippa of hainault

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Philippa of Hainault (Middle French Philippe de Hainaut 24 June 1314 15 August 1369) was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III. Edward promised in 1326 to marry her within the following two years. She was married to Edward, first by proxy, when Edward dispatched the Bishop of Coventry

This queen’s power as Regent of England and her influence on the court and country are often overshadowed by the military happenings and disease sweeping through Europe during her lifetime. Q…

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Phillipa of Hainault was living in a loving home in comfort with her brothers and sisters. Across the sea in England, Queen Isabella was conspiring with her lover, Roger Mortimer to depose her husb…

*Philippa of Hainault was born on this date in 1310. She was the first African Queen of England. Philippa was of Moorish ancestry, born in Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut in the Low Countries of northern France. Her parents were William I, Count of Hainaut, and Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut, granddaughter of Philip III […]

The first documented princess to wear a white wedding gown was Philippa of England who married King Eric of Pomerania in 1406. Her wedding dress was a white tunic with a cloak in white silk bordered with a grey squirrel and ermine fur.

Philippa of Hainault. Queen of England 1369. The rivalry between her sons was ultimately the trigger for the Wars of the Roses.

Infanta Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York was the daughter of King Peter of Castile and María de Padilla. She was a younger sister of Constance, Duchess of Lancaster. On March 1, 1372, Isabella married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, he was the fourth son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, at...