New France Genealogy
Montjoie Saint Denis!
de Thouars, Duchess of Brittany Constance
- 1201
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. de Thouars, Duchess of Brittany Constance died 1201. Other Events:
- _UID: C141877FF4FDD34BB53471760683F0B81825
Constance married Angevin, Duke of Brittany Geoffrey II Jul 1181. Geoffrey (son of Angevin, King of England Henry II and De Aquitaine, Queen/England Eleanor) was born 23 Sep 1158, Beaumont Palace, , Oxford, England; died 19 Aug 1186, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried , Notre Dame, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- 2. Plantagenet, Eleanor
died 1241. - 3. Plantagenet, Maud
- 4. Plantagenet, 4th Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany Arthur I was born 29 Mar 1187, , Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France; died 3 Apr 1203, , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
Generation: 2
2. Plantagenet, Eleanor (1.Constance1) died 1241. Other Events:
- _UID: 7BC34F7BCC37474D90E1D20A63ECC2B6B365
3. Plantagenet, Maud (1.Constance1)Other Events:
- _UID: C3EE02035D926C41913844A51CE03AB6F0A3
4. Plantagenet, 4th Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany Arthur I (1.Constance1) was born 29 Mar 1187, , Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France; died 3 Apr 1203, , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Other Events:
- AFN: 8XJ4-MN
- _UID: A3DB8BF6162D0F4BA25640FDDFC93A8134F4
- _UID: CA985E6A8F900542A20BD032F0E7645FD949
Notes:
Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187 - 1203), was the posthumous son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance, Duchess of Brittany, and designated heir to the throne of England, originally intended to succeed Richard I.
While Richard was away on crusade, Constance took more independence for Brittany, and in 1194 had the young Arthur proclaimed as its Duke.
When Richard died in 1199, his brother John immediately claimed England, but much of the French nobility refused to recognize him as king, preferring Arthur, who declared himself vassal of Philip Augustus. This was sufficient excuse for John, who invaded France in 1202.
Philip having recognized Arthur's right to Brittany, Anjou, Maine, and Poitou, Arthur invaded the last-named. But on July 31, 1202 he was surprised by King John while besieging Mirabeau (where he was holding his grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine hostage), captured, and imprisoned at Falaise, guarded by Hubert de Burgh. At this time also his sister Eleanor was captured and imprisoned at Corfe. The following year he was transferred to Rouen, under the charge of William de Braose, and then vanished mysteriously in April 1203.
The puzzle of his disappearance gave rise to various stories. One account was that Arthur's jailors feared to harm him, and so he was murdered by John directly and his body dumped in the Seine. William de Braose did rise high in John's favor after Arthur's disappearance, so much so that he was suspected of complicity, and indeed many years later, after difficulties with John, William's wife Maud de Braose directly accused the king of murdering Arthur, which resulted in Maud and her eldest son being imprisoned and starved to death therein. William escaped to France, where he was supposed to have published a statement on what happened to Arthur, but no copy has been found.
PREFIX: Also shown as Prince Of England
BIRTH: Also shown as Born Nantes, Brittany.
BIRTH: Also shown as Born 30 Apr 1186
DEATH: Also shown as Died Rouen Castle or Cherbourg.