ENGLAND, Edward III of
1312 - 1377 (64 years)
Set As Default Person 
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Name ENGLAND, Edward III of Birth 13 Nov 1312 Gender Male Royalty & Nobility King of England Death 21 Jun 1377 Person ID I7610 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father ENGLAND, Edward II of, b. 25 Apr 1284 d. 21 Sep 1327 (Age 43 years) Relationship natural Mother FRANCE, Isabella of, b. 1295, Paris, Île-de-France, France 
d. 22 Aug 1358 (Age 63 years) Relationship natural Marriage 25 Jan 1308 Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Family ID F1966 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Father ENGLAND, Edward II of, b. 25 Apr 1284 d. 21 Sep 1327 (Age 43 years) Relationship natural Marriage Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Family ID F1923 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children 1. Living Family ID F1939 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Family 2 HAINAULT, Philippa of, b. 24 Jun 1315 d. 15 Aug 1369 (Age 54 years) Children + 1. GAUNT, John of, b. 6 Mar 1340 d. 3 Feb 1399 (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 2. LANGLEY, Edmund of, b. 5 Jun 1341 d. 1 Aug 1402 (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. Living 4. Living Family ID F1965 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Edward III of England - Wikipedia
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Royal Connections (3)
When you find a Gateway Ancestor in your family tree, it is almost impossible not to go down a rabbit hole of ancestry leading to connections with countless ancestors of the royal and noble classes. These lines have been extensively researched and documented by historians, so it is really just a matter of following the line. I've spent countless hours engrossed in the stories these royal lines have uncovered. In this album, I will link to ancestors who were members of the Royal class. Royalty refers to the ruling monarch and their immediate family. This includes kings, queens, princes, and princesses. The monarch is typically the highest authority in the land and has the power to grant titles of nobility.
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily unusual to be descended from royalty. After all, many of these connections go back to my 25th great grandparents and beyond. Theoretically, we have 67,108,864 sets of 25th great grandparents (In reality, due to a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse, where ancestors appear in the family tree multiple times in different generations due to intermarriage within a community, the actual number of unique 25th great-grandparents a person has is likely to be much lower). With this many, it might be more unusual NOT to descend from royalty. However, what makes our ancestry so unique is that we can TRACE it that far back, person to person to person. Since my fascination with our ancestry lies in my curiosity about the stories of the individual people, this is beyond compelling to me. It is like getting lost in a series of medieval novels in which I have an actual connection to the characters. It brings history to life.
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Notes - King Edward III is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His long reign of fifty years was the second longest in medieval England and saw vital developments in legislation and government-in particular the evolution of the English parliament-as well as the ravages of the Black Death.