Princess Margaret FRANCE

   Other names for Margaret were Marguerite, FRANCE Princess and ENGLAND Queen.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJD-46.

   General Notes:

Princess of FRANCE, Queen of ENGLAND.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute 1989: "Philippe III, Son Louis IX, King of France 1270-1285, Mar =1 Isabel Aragon, =2 Marie Daughter ofHenri III Brabant Died 1321, Daughter Marguerite Mar (2) Edward I King of England Died 1318."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, 1905, AMS Press, p187: "...[1294] Edward sent this brother, Edmund, to reply for him.As Count of Champagne and the step-father of Philip's wife, Joan, Edmund seemed a peculiarly acceptable negotiator. After long debates, the personal intervention of the French queen, and Philip's step-mother, Mary of Brabant, resulted in an agreement being arranged..."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol III, The Three Edwards, Thomas B Costain, 1958, Doubleday & Co
p14 Family Tree: "Marguerite 1282-1318, Daughter of Philip III, King of France, Second Wife of Edward I of England..."
p87: "...In his household circle [Philip] was surrounded by women. He had two sisters, the princesses Blanche and Marguerite. Blanche was as lovely as he was handsome; gay, sparkling, slender, with a small foot and a trim ankle. This was the picture of her supplied to Edward by his borther Edmund, who was sent to Paris to make a report. Edward still grieved for his lost Eleanore but he was considering a second marriage, of only for reasons of state. The feminine fashions of the day were the least revealing of almost any period, and Edmund must have secured some of his information from gossipy sources. Authentic or not, the report he sent back depicted the fair Blanche as a veritable fairy- tale princess, and Edward decided that he wanted her for his second wife. The other sister, Marguerite, was slender and somewhat delicate of appearance, with a sweetness of mien rather than beauty..."
p101: "If he had known the story [of Jacob and his two wives], he would have recognized the pattern which began to develop out of the frantic letters he received from his brother, Edmund of Lancaster, in Paris. A truce had been signed between the two countries, by which Edward was to marry the engagingand beautiful Blanche and his son and heir was to marry Isabella, the daughter of Philip, who was showing promise of becoming as lovely as her aunt. Edward was so set on Blanche as his second wife that he agreed on his part to give Gascony to Philip...
"Edmund's uneasiness can be easily understood, therefore, when he found it necessary to report to Edward that Philip was becoming evasive in the matter of the agreement. Gascony had already been turned over to France, but the king's brother was so dismayed to find the Fench court buzzing with other plans for the self-willed Blanche. Rodolphus, Duke of Austria, had asked for her hand, and it was freely said that Blanche favored the Austrian match, in the expectation thatRodolphus would someday become the Holy Roman emperor.
"Deeply apologetic over what he considered his failure as a diplomat, Edmund finally sent on to Edward an amended treaty of marriage in which the name of the younger sister, Marguerite, was inserted in place of Blanche...
"Edward discovered thus that edlerly kings, like beggars, cannot be choosers. It was a blow to his pride that Blanche would have none of him, and it was a long and bitter time before he brought himself to the point of taking the younger sister instead. The matter had to be referred to the Pope finally, who settled it by laying an injunction on Philip to return the provinces that Edward had relinquished and on Edward to accept Marguerite ashis wife, with a portion of fifteen thousand pounds left to her by her father, Philip the Hardy. Edward decided to make the best of a bad bargain, and agreed.
"The younger sister traveled to England in great state with a long train, including three ladies of the bedchamber and four maids of honor, all of noble blook. Philip was not known to show much affection under any circumstances, but he seems to have been fond of his little sister May, as she was called at the French court.He did not make any trouble over the matter of that truly regal dower she was taking out of the kingdom.
"The wedding took place at Canterbury on September 8, 1299. The very young bride was endowed with her marriage portion at the door ofthe cathedral, as was the custom."
"The story up to this point had followed the same lines as Jacob's romance. Marguerite was probably no better favored than the tender-eyed Leah of the Bible episode while Edward's fancy had been fixed onBlanche as firmly as Jacob's had been on Rachel. But the outcome was much happier. Unlike Leah, who became scrawny and sallow and bitter of tongue with the years, Marguerite matured into an attractive and very sweet woman. Her nose was a mitetoo long for real beauty, but her eyes were large and bright; and the truth of the matter was that Edward became well content with his child bride. Marguerite seems to have loved her elderly bridegroom devotedly, and so the marriage was an almost immediate success. When the beautiful Blanche died in 1305, he expres- sed himself as deeply sorrowful because `she was the sister of his beloved consort, Queen Marguerite.'
"The next year the new queen went to Scotland with Edward, whowas well content to have her thus fall into the familiar habit of his beloved Eleanor. She did not stay long in that war-torn land, for her accouchement was near. She traveled back to Yorkshire and to Cawood Castle, a truly amazing pile of medieval masonry. Here a prince was born who was named Thomas and from whom the Howards, the top-ranking family in the English peerage, would stem.
"The next year the queen was at Woodstock and gave birth to a second son, who was given the name of Edmund after the perplexed negotiator of the marriage bond. Fortunately the sons of the somewhat frail Marguerite were born with a better heritage of health than the three sickly little sons that Eleanor had first brought into the world.Thomas and Edmund seem to have been stout lads and had no difficulty in surviving the usual ills of infancy.
"Edward became quite uxorious, as elderly husbands so often do. He even developed a greater interest in music because his Marguerite was fond of it. The young queen had brought a minstrel with her from France...
"The queen bore one more child, a daughter who was named Eleanor, after the first wife; there did not seem to be any jealousy or pettiness in the king's newconsort. The little princess, sad to relate, died in a few days.
"Memories of Queen Marguerite have to do largely with her continual intercessions on behalf of people who fell into the king's displeasure. The Rolls carry many such references as `we pardon him solely at the request of our dearest consort'...
"There can be no doubt that she did much to alleviate the king's burdens during his last years. Her affection for him was very real, for after his death she wrote, `When Edward died, all men died for me.'"

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co
p306: "It was beyond the compass of King Edward's resources to wage war with France and face thehideous struggle with Scotland at the same time. He sought at all costs to concentrate on the peril nearest home. He entered upon a long series of negotiations with the French King which were covered by truces repeatedly renewed, and reached afinal Treaty of Paris in 1303. Though the formal peace was delayed for some years, it was in fact sealed in 1294 by the arrangement of a marriage between Edward and Philip's sister, the young Princess Margaret, and also by the betrothal of Edward's son and heir, Edward of Carnarvon, to Philip's daughter Isabella. This dual alliance of blood brought the French war to an effective close in 1297, although through Papal complications neither the peace nor the King's marriage were finallyandformally confirmed until 1299..."
p307: "In the closing years of Edward's life he appears as a lonely and wrathful old man. A new generation had grown up around him with whom he had slight acquaintance and less sympathy. Queen Margaret was young enough to be his daughter, and sided often with her step-children against their father. Few dared to oppose the old King, but he had little love or respect in his family circle."

The Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III,T F Tout, 1905, AMS Press,
p187: "...[1294] Meanwhile, Edward and Philip were to arrange a meeting at Amiens to settle the conditions of a permanent peace, by which Edward was to take Philip's sister, Margaret, as his second wife, and theGascon duchy was to be settled upon the offspring of the union. That Edward or Edmund should ever have contemplated such terms is a strong proof of their zeal for peace. It soon became clear that Edmund had been outrageously duped, and that the whole negotiation was a trick to secure for Philip the permanent possession of Gascony..."

Europe in the Middle Ages, Robert S Hoyt, 1957, Harcourt Brace & Co, p623: "Genealogical Table III, The Capetian Dynasty, Margaret, Daughter of Philip III, Brother of Philip IV King of France, Mar Edward I King of England..."

The Later Middle Ages 1272-1485, George Holmes, 1962, Norton Library of England p258: "Appendix B Genealogical Table I The Plantagenets: "Edward I Mar (2) Margaret ofFrance..."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p70: "Margaret of France, mar (2) Edward I, died 1317..."

ANCESTRY.COM
World Ancestral Chart No. 17779 James Carl Romans.

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJD-46 and TTE Marguerite, LKQE and LMA Margaret, TTE Died 1318.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Marriage T990362-118-0884799 Edward I King ENGLAND Spouse Marguerite Princess FRANCE 8 Sep 1299 Canterbury Cathedral Kent England.

   Marriage Information:

Margaret married King Edward ENGLAND, I, son of King Henry ENGLAND, III and Queen Eleanor Provence ENGLAND, on 8 Sep 1299 in Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. (King Edward ENGLAND, I was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, christened on 22 Jun 1239 in Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh On The, Sands, Cambridge, England and was buried on 28 Oct 1307 in Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.)