Earl Richard OF CORNWALL

Male 1209 - 1272  (63 years)


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  • Name Richard OF CORNWALL  [1
    Prefix Earl 
    Born 5 Jan 1209 
    Gender Male 
    Died 2 Apr 1272  Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6490  adkinshorton
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2013 

    Father John I "Lackland" KING OF ENGLAND,   b. 24 Dec 1167, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Lady Isabella Taillefer OF ANGOULEME,   b. 1188,   d. 31 May 1246, Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
    Married 24 Aug 1200  Bordeaux Cathredal, Bordeaux, Gironde, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F25329  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Isabela MARSHAL,   b. 9 Oct 1200,   d. 17 Jan 1240  (Age 39 years) 
    Family ID F25741  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Sanchia of BERENGER,   b. 1228,   d. 1261  (Age 33 years) 
    Married 1243 
    Family ID F26160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Richard of Cornwall Plantaganet, Earl of Cornwall, King of Romans and Almiane (Germany), 1256. He was born January 5, 1209, youngest son of King John. He was made Earl of Cornwall and Count of Poictou, 1225. He refused the Empire in 1250. He married (1) Isabel Marshal, daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. He died in 1272.

      He married (2) Sanchia, 3rd daughter and co-heir of Raymond Berenger V., Count of Provence and his wife, Beatrix of Savoy. Sanchia was the sister of Queen of England, Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III., the sister of the Queen of France, Margaret of Provence, wife of Louis IX., and the sister of Beatrice, wife of Charles of Anjou, who was the brother of Louis IX.

  • Sources 
    1. [S18796] The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James, Vol. I.


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