Edward I Crusader Longshanks PLANTAGENET, KING OF ENGLAND HRH

                   Also m. OCT 1254, also m. 08 SEP 1299 at C, England, per AF. Alsomarried
Marguerite, Princess of France (AFN:8XJD-46) she b. 1279.
King of England from 1274 to 1307. He went on Crusade to the Holy Landin 1270.
His wife Eleanor accompanied him on this, the Seventh Crusade. Duringtheir
absence from England, King Henry III died (1272), and Edward succeededto the
throne. Two years later, following their return from the Middle East,Edward
and Eleanor were crowned King and Queen of England.
Handsome and so tall he was known as longshanks. He was violent,emotional
and ambitious.
An important King, he did much to extend English rule to all ofBritain,
Wales, Ireland and Scotland and to develop law and constitution.George
Washington (First President of the United States of America) is alsodescended
from this couple, through their son Edward.
Source includes, but is not limited to:
Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both
resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of
Latter Day Saints.
Pardon's Progeny, 1974 reported a document (previously unpublished)called,
Tillinghasts. Browns, Pardons and Lechfords of Sussex (England) byMichael J
Burchall of Sussex, England. It claims the descendency from Edward Ifor the
Sarah that follows.
King Edward I Plantagenet (Longshanks) is the 22nd great grandfather of Karla Marie Lawrence.
King Edward I Plantagenet (Longshanks) is the 22nd great grandfather of Val John Jennings.
Edward was a statesman, lawyer and soldier. He formed the Model Parliament in 1295, bringin g together the knights, clergy, nobility and burgesses of the cities, bringing Lords and Comm ons together for the first time. He created his eldest son Prince of Wales but was unable t o conquer the Scots.
He was crowned 19 August, 1274.
See Note Page
Eric Delderfield:
Edward I was an authoritarian statesman, a lawyer and a soldier. In these different capacities he modernized many aspects of English life. When he died at the beginning of the fourteenth century, much in English government, society, and law had taken on a permanent form that in essentials was to survive the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
Paradoxically, given his autocratic temperament, Edward has been called the father to the 'Mother of all Parliaments'.  To his 'Model Parliament' in 1295 he summoned representatives from amongst the nobility, the greater and lesser clergy, the knights of the shires, the burgesses of the cities - thereby bringing Lords and Commons together for the first time.  The growing demands on the government for justice and general administration meant that by now the feudal revenues were inadequate; Edward needed money from the new merchant class, and to summon national Parliaments was the only way to get it.  In this way parliament became the established method of conducting public business. The need for finance was also behind the conflict with both the Church and the barons over taxation.  Even a revival of anti-Semitism was used as an excuse to expel the Jews in 1290 so that the Crown would benefit financially from forfeitures.
Edward completed the judicial reforms begun by Henry II.  The courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer were given separate staffs of judges and officials; and a Court of Equity, the Chancery Court, was set up to give redress where the other courts could provide no remedy.  A whole series of Acts dealt with the position of the Church, the enforcement of public order, trade and the position of great landholders.  'Conservators of the Peace' were created, forerunners of the Justices of the Peace created by Edward III [our ancestor].
As usual, the drain on royal finances was caused largely by costly wars.  Edward possessed the necessary martial skills, learnt during the conflicts of his father's reign and on crusade in Egypt and Syria in 1270-74.  For five years Edward had to fight Philip the Fair after the French king had invaded Gascony.  Edward's ambition to rule over an undivided nation was checked by the independence of Wales and Scotland. The sustained opposition of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd from 1277 to his death in 1282 made the conquest of Wales a lengthy campaign, but English administration and law was extended to the Principality through the Statute of Rhuddlan (1284).  Edward began the construction of fourteen new castles to secure his gains.  The king's eldest son was created Prince of Wales in 1301, a title since borne by all male heirs to the throne.
Right until the day of his death Edward waged war unsuccessfully against the Scots, led first by Sir William Wallace and later by Robert Bruce.  But the epitaph on his tomb at Westminster bears witness to the magnificence of his failure in Scotland: 'Here lies Edward the Hammer of the Scots'.
Facts about this person:
Record Change  December 06, 1999
Burial    1307
Westminster (London), England
Death Surety:2