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Henry III

Henry III, effigy in Westminster Abbey.
Public domain image from here.

Henry III (see here and here), born 1207,
reigned 1216-72,
mar Eleanor of Provence (see here),
he died 1272, bur Westminster Abbey,
she died 1291, bur Convent Church, Amesbury, Wiltshire,
had issue:

1. Edward I (Longshanks), reigned 1272-1307.

   
   

2. Edmund Crouchback Plantagenet (see here),
   mar Blanche of Artois [grand-dau of Louis VIII, King of France, and descendant of Henry II],
   bur Westminster Abbey,
   had issue:

   
   

   1. Henry Plantagenet, mar Maud Chaworth [descendant of Aoife Mac Murrough] and had issue:
      1. Henry Plantagenet, had issue:
         1. Blanche Plantagenet, mar John of Gaunt and had issue.

      2. Maud Plantagenet, mar William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster and had issue.

      3. Eleanor Plantagenet, mar Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and had issue.

      4. Joan Plantagenet, mar John Mowbray, 3rd Lord Mowbray and had issue.

Henry III, effigy in Westminster Abbey.
From here. From Shirley's Royal Ancestors site. Used with permission.

Henry III's tomb in Westminster Abbey.
Photo by Adrian Pingstone, 2005.
Public domain image from here.

Drawing of the above effigy of Henry III in Westminster Abbey.
From A Student's History of England by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1916). See here.

Edmund Crouchback with St. George, from a medieval manuscript.
See full size. From here.