Issue
Eleanor of Castile died on 28 November 1290. Uncommon for such marriages of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover like his father, Edward was very devoted to his queen and was faithful to her throughout their married lives—a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was deeply affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so-called Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cortège stopped for the night. As part of the peace accord between England and France in 1294, it was agreed that Edward should marry the French princess Margaret. The marriage took place in 1299.
Edward and Eleanor had at least fourteen children, perhaps as many as sixteen. Of these, five daughters survived into adulthood, but only one boy outlived Edward: the future King Edward II. Edward I was reportedly concerned with his son's failure to live up to the expectations of an heir to the crown, and at one point decided to exile the prince's favourite Piers Gaveston. Edward may have been aware of his son's bisexual orientation even though he did not throw the prince's favourite from the castle battlements as depicted in Braveheart.
By Margaret, Edward had two sons, both of whom lived into adulthood, and a daughter who died as a child. The Hailes Abbey chronicle indicates that John Botetourt may have been Edward's illegitimate son, however the claim is unsubstantiated.
| Children by Eleanor of Castile | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Daughter | May 1255 | 29 May 1255 | Stillborn or died shortly after birth |
| Katherine | before 17 June 1264 | 5 September 1264 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Joan | Summer or January 1265 | before 7 September 1265 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| John | 13 July 1266 | 3 August 1271 | Died at Wallingford, while in the custody of his granduncle, Richard, Earl of Cornwall. Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Henry | 6 May 1268 | 14 October 1274 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Eleanor | c. 18 June 1269 | 19 Aug 1298 | Married, in 1293, Henry III, Count of Bar, by whom she had two children. Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Juliana Catherine | after May 1271 | 5 September 1271 | Born, and died, while Edward and Eleanor were in Acre. |
| Joan | 1272 | 23 Apr 1307 | Married (1) in 1290 Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford, who died in 1295, and (2) in 1297 Ralph de Monthermer. She had four children by Clare, and three or four by Monthermer. |
| Alphonso | 24 November 1273 | 19 August 1284 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Margaret | Probably 15 Mar 1275 |
After 11 Mar 1333 |
Married John II of Brabant in 1290, with whom she had one son. |
| Berengaria | 1 May 1276 | between 7 June 1277 and 1278 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Daughter | December 1277 | January 1278 | Buried at Westminster Abbey. |
| Mary | 11/12 Mar 1279 | 29 May 1332 | A Benedictine nun in Amesbury, Wiltshire, where she was probably buried. |
| Son | 1280/81 | 1280/81 | Little evidence exists for this child. |
| Elizabeth | c. 7 Aug 1282 | 5 May 1316 | She married (1) in 1297 John I, Count of Holland, (2) in 1302 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. The first marriage was childless; by Bohun Elizabeth had ten children. |
| Edward | 25 Apr 1284 | 21 Sep 1327 | Succeeded his father as king of England. In 1308 he married Isabella of France, with whom he had four children. |
| Children by Margaret of France | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Thomas | 1 June 1300 | 4 Aug 1338 | Buried in the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. Married (1) Alice Hales, with issue; (2) Mary Brewes, no issue. |
| Edmund | 1 Aug 1301 | 19 Mar 1330 | Married Margaret Wake with issue. |
| Eleanor | 6 May 1306 | 1310 | |
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