Margaret of FRANCE [15833]

  General Notes:

Margaret did not long survive her husband, dying at Marlborough Castle, February 14, 1317 in her 36th year. She was
buried in the Grey Friars now Christ Church Newgate of which she was the chief founder before the high altar her body being wrapped in the conventual robe of the Franciscans.
Queen Marguerite is an ancestress of all the English nobility bearing the name of Howard, six distinct branches of which family are extant : first the ducal house of Norfolk; secondly the line of Suffolk and Berkshire ; thirdly the
younger line of Suffolk fourthly the Carlisle line; fifthly the Corby line descended from " Belted Will"
grandson of the illustrious Earl of Surrey beheaded by Henry VIII.; and sixthly the Effingham line
descended from the Admiral who defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada.

Margaret married King Edward I LONGSHANKS of England [15719] [MRIN: 5661], son of King Henry III of ENGLAND [6743] and Eleanor of PROVENCE [15722], on 8 Sep 1299. (King Edward I LONGSHANKS of England [15719] was born in 1239, died in 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands Carlisle and was buried in Westminster Abbey London.)