Fernando Iii "The Saint" King of CASTILE AND LEÓN
FERNANDO III OF CASTILE-LEON e/Santo [the Saint], King of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Cordoba, Jaén, and Seville, born en route between Salamanca & Zamora 5/19 August 1201. He was proclaimed King of Castile on the abdication of his mother in 1217. He married (1st) at Burgos 30 Nov. 1220 BEATRIZ (or ISABEL) OF SWABIA, 4th daughter and co-heiress of Philipp, Duke of Swabia and Tuscany, King of the Romans, by Eirene, daughter of Isaac II Angelos, King of Byzantium. She was born in Nurnberg March/May 1205. They had seven sons, Alfonso (X) [King of Castile and León], Fadrique (or Federico), Fernando, Enrique [señor of Ecija, Medellín, Dueñas, etc., Senator of Rome], Felipe [Archbishop of Seville, later señor of Valdeporchena, Piedrahita, etc.], Sancho [Archbishop of Toledo], and Manuel [señor of Elche, Villena, etc.], and three daughters, Leonor, Berenguela (nun at Las Huelgas), and Maria. His wife, Beatriz, died at Toro 5 Nov. 1235, and was buried in Santa María la Real monastery called de las Huelgas near Burgos. He married (2nd) at Burgos in 1237 (before August) JEANNE (or JUANA) DE DAMMARTIN, Countess of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale, daughter and co-heiress of Simon de Datnmartin (otherwise Simon de Boulogne), Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil (in right of his wife), by Marie, daughter and heiress of Guiliaume II Talvas, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil. She was born about 1220, and succeeded to Ponthieu in 1251 on her mother's death. They had four sons, Fernando [Count of Aumale, Baron of Montgomery and Noyellessur-Mer], Luis [señor of Marchena and Zuheros], Simón, and Juan, and one daughter, Eleanor (or Leonor). [SAINT] FERNANDO III, King of Castile, León, etc., died at Seville 30 May 1252, and was buried in the Santa Maria Cathedral at Seville. He was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671. His widow, Jeanne, returned to France in Oct. 1254, where she took up residence at Abbevilie in Ponthieu. Jeanne was co-heiress in 1259 to her cousin, Mahaut de Dammartin, Countess of Boulogne and Dammartin, by which she inherited the county of Aumale. She married (2nd) between May 1260 and 9 Feb. 1261 (as his 2nd wife) JEAN DE NESLE (or NEELE) (also styled DE FALVY), seigneur of Falvy-sur-Somme and la Hérelle, and in right of his wife, Count of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale (died 2 Feb. 1292), son of Raoul de Nesle, seigneur of Falvy-sur-Somme and la Hérelle, by AIim, daughter of Barthelemy de Roye, Chamberlain of France. They had one daughter, Jeanne (wife of Guillaume de Béthune, seigneur of Locres and Hébuterne). She died testate at Abbevile 15 March 1278/9, and was buried at Valoires Abbey.
DEATH: young
Peter de FRANCE Lord of Courtenay
Was a crusader in 1147.
Sancha de CASTILE Princess of Castile
Princess of Castile, Leon, Gallicia, and the Asturias; Queen of Aragon.
HUGH DE AUDLEY (or ALDITHLEY7), Knt., of Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, Raunds, Northamptonshire, and Bradwell and Chesterton (both in Wolstanton), Gratton, and Mere, Staffordshire, Justice of North Wales, steward of the king's household, Constable of Montgomery castle, younger son ofJames de Audley, of Aldithley and Heleigh, Staffordshire, by Ela, daughter of William Longespée, Knt. (grandson of King Henry II) [see AUDLEY 5 for his ancestry]. They had two sons, James and Hugh, Knt. [Earl of Gloucester], and one daughter, Alice. He took part in the Scottish and French wars of King Edward I. He was taken prisoner in Gascony in 1299. In 1301 they had a grant of one-third of the manor of Great Marcle, Herefordshire. He had a grant of free warren at Eastington in 1318. He was summoned to Parliament in 1321. He joined Thomas of Lancaster's rebellion in 1322, but surrendered before the Battle of Boroughbridge. SIR HUGH DE AUDLEY, Lord Audley, died while a prisoner in Wallingford castle shortly before 1 April 1325. In 1337 his widow, Iseult, endowed a chantry in the church of Eastington, Gloucestersbire. She died testate shortly before 4 August 1338.
ISEULT DE MORTIMER, born say 1255-60. She married (1st) WALTER DE BALUN, Knt., of Great Marcle, Herefordshite, Eastington, Gloucestershire, and Arley, Staffordshire, and Great Cheverel, Wiltshire. He was born about 1225 (aged 50 in 1275). They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John de Balun. He was summoned to serve against the Welsh in 1277 and 1282. In 1285 he leased the manor of Great Marcle to her brother, Edmund de Mortimer, Knt., for three years for £60 a year. In 1287 they likewise had the grant of the manor of Ailey, Staffordshire for the term of their lives from Edmund. SIR WALTER DE BALUN was living 1287.