 1206 - 1272 (66 years)
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| Name |
Henry III Plantagenet |
| Prefix |
King |
| Birth |
10 Oct 1206 |
Winchester, Hampshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
16 Nov 1272 |
London, England |
| Person ID |
I7452 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
9 Dec 2010 |
| Father |
King John Lackland John, King Of England, b. 24 Dec 1167, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 48 years) |
| Mother |
Queen Isabella Of AngoulêMe Taillefer, b. 1188, Of, Beverley, Yorkshire, England d. 31 Mar 1245, Fontevrault, Fontevrault L'AB, Maine-Et-Loire, France (Age 57 years) |
| Marriage |
26 Aug 1200 |
Bordeaux, Gironde, France |
| Family ID |
F21259 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Eleanor De Provence, b. Abt 1217, Aix-En-Provence, France d. 24 Jun 1291, Amesbury Monastery, Wiltshire, England (Age 74 years) |
| Marriage |
14 Jan 1236 |
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, England |
| Children |
| | 1. King Edward I Plantagenet Of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster, London, England d. 8 Jul 1307, Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years) |
| | 2. Mary Of Brabant, b. 1256 d. 1321 (Age 65 years) |
| | 3. Margaret |
| | 4. Edmund "The Crouchback" Plantagenet Of Lancaster, b. 16 Jan 1244 d. 5 Jun 1296 (Age 52 years) |
| | 5. Beatrice |
| | 6. Beatrix Plantagenet Of England, b. 1242 d. 1277 (Age 35 years) |
| | 7. Richard |
| | 8. John |
| | 9. Katherine |
| | 10. William |
| | 11. Henry |
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| Family ID |
F1583 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
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| Notes |
Tomb-effigy of King Henry III
in Westminster Abbey |
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Dyserth Castle
(site can be just barely seen at the top of the quarry) Near the town, Denbighshire, north Wales |
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Degannwy Castle
ruins on twin hills behind the town, Aberconwy & Colwyn, north Wales. |
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Henry III, King John's son, was only nine when he became King and was crowned King of England on October 28, 1216.. By 1227, when he assumed power from his regent, order had been restored, based on his acceptance of Magna Carta. However, the King's failed campaigns in France (1230 and 1242), his choice of friends and advisers, together with the cost of his scheme to make one of his younger sons King of Sicily and help the Pope against the Holy Roman Emperor, led to further disputes with the barons and united opposition in Church and State. Although Henry was extravagant and his tax demands were resented, the King's accounts show a list of many charitable donations and payments for building works (including the rebuilding of Westminster Abbey which began in 1245).
The ruins of Degannwy Castle visible today belong mainly to Henry III's castle. The defences of the bailey - earth banks and ditches on the north side, the base of two D-shaped gatehouse towers, and the curtain wall hastily built by Edward I on the south - can still be recognized. The mass of fallen masonry near the base of the gatehouse is a relic of the demolition of 1263.
Henry III built a Dyserth Castle, the ruins of which were destroyed by quarrying around 1914. In 1246 he decided to strengthen the castle with a well, watch tower and large catapult. However, it was besieged by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and his brother, Dafydd, in 1356 in an attempt to sever its links with Chester. It was finally captured and then destroyed by Llywelyn in 1263.
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| For more information see the Our Folk - Hart family Web Site |
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| Sources |
- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 2:83 (Reliability: 3).
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