Abbot John Whethamstede’s Chronicle of the Abbey of St Albans
Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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1299 Marriage of King Edward I and Margaret of France
On 28th May 1262 [his father] King Philip III of France and [his mother] Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] James I King Aragon and [his grandmother] Violant Árpád Queen Consort Aragon. He the son of King Louis IX of France and Margaret Provence Queen Consort France.
On 12th March 1270 Charles Valois I Count Valois was born to [his father] King Philip III of France and [his mother] Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
On 25th August 1270 [his grandfather] King Louis IX of France died. [his father] King Philip III of France succeeded III King France: Capet. [his mother] Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France by marriage Queen Consort France.
On 28th January 1271 [his mother] Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France died.
On 21st August 1274 [his father] King Philip III of France and [his step-mother] Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Henry Reginar III Duke Brabant and Adelaide Burgundy Duchess Brabant. He the son of [his grandfather] King Louis IX of France and [his grandmother] Margaret Provence Queen Consort France.
In 1284 Charles Valois I Count Valois was created I Count Valois.
On 16th August 1284 [his brother] King Philip IV of France and [his sister-in-law] Joan Blois I Queen Navarre were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of Henry I King Navarre and Blanche Capet Queen Navarre. He the son of [his father] King Philip III of France and [his mother] Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
On 5th October 1285 [his father] King Philip III of France died of dysentery; see Annals of Dunstable. [his brother] King Philip IV of France succeeded IV King France: Capet. [his sister-in-law] Joan Blois I Queen Navarre by marriage Queen Consort of France.
On 16th August 1290 Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois were married. She by marriage Countess Valois. She the daughter of Charles II King Naples and Mary of Hungary Queen Consort Naples. He the son of King Philip III of France and Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
In 1292 [his daughter] Isabelle Valois Duchess Brittany was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. She married 1297 John III Duke Brittany.
On 17th November 1293 [his son] King Philip "Fortunate" VI of France was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. He married (1) Joan "Lame" Burgundy Queen Consort France, daughter of Robert II Duke Burgundy and Agnes Capet Duchess Burgundy, and had issue (2) 11th January 1350 Blanche Évreux Queen Consort France, daughter of Philip "Noble" III King Navarre and Joan Capet II Queen Navarre.
Around 1294 [his daughter] Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. She married (1) 19th May 1305 William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland, son of John of Avesnes II Count Hainaut II Count Holland and Philippa Luxemburg Countess Hainaut and Holland, and had issue (2) 1320 Robert III Artois and had issue.
In 1295 [his daughter] Margaret Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. She married 1310 Guy Chatillon I Count Blois, son of Hugh Chatillon II Count Blois and Beatrix Dampierre Countess Blois, and had issue.
On 12th August 1295 [his brother-in-law] Charles Martel King Hungary died at Naples. He was buried at Naples Cathedral.
In 1297 [his son-in-law] John III Duke Brittany and Isabelle Valois Duchess Brittany were married. She by marriage Duchess Brittany 1221 Dreux. She the daughter of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois.
In 1297 [his son] Charles II Count Alençon was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. He married (1) April 1314 Jeanne Joigny (2) December 1336 Maria de la Cerda Y Lara Countess Alençon and had issue.
In 1298 [his half-brother] Louis I Count Évreux was created I Count Évreux.
On 19th August 1298 [his brother-in-law] Saint Louis Capet Bishop Toulouse died.
In 1299 [his daughter] Catherine Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois. She died aged less than one years old.
In 1299 [his daughter] Catherine Valois died.
On 10th September 1299 [his brother-in-law] King Edward I of England and [his half-sister] Margaret of France Queen Consort England were married at Canterbury Cathedral. She by marriage Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 39 years. She the daughter of [his father] King Philip III of France and [his step-mother] Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France. He the son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England.
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick was present.
On 31st December 1299 [his wife] Margaret Capet Countess Valois died.
On 25th May 1300 [his brother-in-law] Rudolph Habsburg III Duke Austria and [his half-sister] Blanche Capet Duchess Austria were married. She by marriage Duchess Austria. She the daughter of [his father] King Philip III of France and [his step-mother] Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France. He the son of Albert Habsburg I Duke Austria and Elizabeth Carinthia Duchess Austria.
In 1302 Charles Valois I Count Valois and Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois were married. She by marriage Countess Valois. He the son of King Philip III of France and Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. When the king's brother [Charles Valois I Count Valois], who had received the count on his honour, saw this, and could not manage to set him free, he went away from his brother in anger, hastening to the papal court to obtain the benefit of absolution from the broken oath. There, Pope Boniface anointed him king of Sicily, so that he might pursue the cause and interests of the Roman Church against the king of Aragon. He spent much in the venture afterwards, but achieved little, and at last returned to his brother without a kingdom. Meanwhile, with the count still held in custody, his sons rose up on his behalf, and their cause prospered in their hands, as has been stated above. A few years later, when Pope Boniface arranged, for the sake of peace, the marriage of the king of England to the sister of the king of France, and of the pope's own said son to the king's daughter, whom he did not love, the aforesaid daughter of the count died in the king of France's household, and, as it was said, was killed by poison, so that she would not afterwards be married to the son of the king of England, who had loved her.
Quod videns frater regis, qui eum in fide susceperat, nec liberare eum valens, perrexit iratus a fratre suo ad curiam properans, ut absolutionis beneficium de juramento fracto" consequi mereretur, ubi a papa Bonifacio unctus est in regem Siciliæ, ut contra regem Aragonum causam et statum Romanæ ecclesiæ prosequeretur. Qui multa expendit in posterum; sed parum profecit, et demum reversus est ad fratrem sine regno. Retento itaque comite, filii ejus insurrexerunt pro eo, et prosperatum est negotium in manibus eorum, sicut supra patet. Et post annos paucos, cum ordinasset papa Bonifacius pro bono pacis maritagium regis Angliæ cum sorore regis Franciæ, et filii sui prædicti cum filia regis quam non dilexit, mortua est prædicta filia comitis in domo regis Franciæ, et, ut dicebatur, veneno extincta, neduceretur in posterum a filio regis Angliæ qui dilexit eam.
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In 1302 [his son] John Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois. He died aged six in 1308.
In or before 1303 [his half-brother] Louis I Count Évreux and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Artois Countess Évreux were married. She by marriage Countess Évreux. He the son of [his father] King Philip III of France and [his step-mother] Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France.
Before 15th April 1303 [his daughter] Catherine Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois.
In 1304 [his daughter] Joan Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the same year Pope Benedict XI died, in the month of July [7th July 1304]. The papal see was vacant for some time because of dissension among the cardinals, for there were eighteen of them, and they divided their votes equally. At length, after a long period of confinement in the conclave, they elected as pope, in the following year [1305], the Archbishop of Bordeaux,1 who received the papal crown at Lyons that same year, on the Sunday next after the feast of Saint Martin, many of his cardinals being present there for that occasion. But on that very day, when he was being led on horseback to the church of Saint Martin after being crowned, a stone wall beside the road, upon which many had climbed to see him, collapsed, crushing many beneath it. Among the dead was the Count of Brittany2; Charles3, the king of France's brother, was injured. The pope remained in Bordeaux for a long time and created there nearly eighteen new cardinals, because some of the older cardinals had returned to Rome; he continually excused himself, saying he could not come. When Roman nobles sent envoys to him and then sent them again, the pope always gave the same excuse for not coming; and because he refused to go to his own see, they judged him unworthy to enjoy the patrimony of Peter. Nevertheless, he lived off money extorted from bishops confirmed at the curia. For example, from William, Archbishop of York, confirmed there, besides the great expenses he had freely made, he took within the first year nine thousand five hundred marks of silver. And the archbishop, returning so impoverished, within that same first year received from his religious subjects and rectors, first under the name of a "gift for goodwill and favour," and second under the name of a "loan", an immense sum of money. The pope also sent his envoy, named Testa, into England with papal bulls reserving to himself the "primi fructus4" [first fruit] of all churches falling vacant at any time and in any manner within the kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and likewise the first year's income of all abbeys and priories vacant in the same period. Because of this, the lord king, together with his magnates in his parliament at Carlisle, opposed him, saying that it was not reasonable that from monasteries founded by his own ancestors or by the magnates of the land in honour of God's service, and for the maintenance of certain alms and hospitality, the pope should thus exact the primi fructus, thereby letting the worship of God and the work of hospitality perish. And so the pope changed his plan as regarded abbeys; but having granted to the king from the English churches a two-year tithe, he still obtained the primi fructus of churches, as said above.
Eodem anno obiit papa Benedictus XI mense Julii, vacavitque sedes propter dissensionem cardinalium, erant enim octodecim, et æqualiter diviserunt vota sua; tandem vero post longam carceris inclusionem, elegerunt in papam in anno Clement V scquenti archiepiscopum Burdegalensem, qui diadema suscepit apud Lugdunum in eodem anno, scilicet MCCCV, die Dominica proxima post festum Sancti Martini, præsentibus multis cardinalibus Sunday, suis, qui ob eandem causam ibidem venerant. Eodem autem die, cum ad ecclesiam beati Martini Fatal accisic diadematus in equo duceretur, corruit quidam coronation. murus lapideus a latere viæ, super quem multi ascenderant ut viderent eum, et oppressit multos, inter quos mortuus est comes Britanniæ, et Carolus frater regis Franciæ læsus est. Mansitque papa Burdegalis longo tempore, et creavit ibi novos cardinales quasi XVIII, pro eo quod quidam ex antiquis cardinalibus reversi fuerant Romam, ipso se semper excusante quod venire non poterat. Missisque a Romanis principibus He removes nunciis et remissis, semper excusavit se papa de the pontifi non veniendo. Et quia ad propriam sedem venire Rome. contempsit, censuerunt eum indignum Petri patrimonio frui; vixitque sic de pecunia extorta a confirmatis episcopis in curia. Quoniam ab archiepiscopo Eborum Willelmo, ibidem confirmato, præter expensas quas ibi largissime fecerat, infra primum suum annum habuit novies mille marcas argenti et quingentas, et ipse sic pauper reversus, infra eundem annum primum habuit a subditis suis religiosis et rectoribus, primo nomine curialitatis et gratiæ, et secundo nomine mutui, immensam pecuniæ summam. Misitque papa nuncium suum in Angliam nomine Testa cum bullis suis, in quibus reservavit sibi primos fructus primi anni omnium ecclesiarum vacantium quocunque tempore vel modo infra regna Angliæ, Scotia, Walliæ et Hiberniæ, et fructus similiter omnium abbatiarum et prioratuum vacantium eodem tempore: propter quod opposuit se dominus rex cum magnatibus suis in parliamento suo apud Carliolum, dicens, non esse rationi consonum, quod a monasteriis, a prædecessoribus suis vel a magnatibus terræ fundatis in honore servitii Dei, certæ eleemosinæ et hospitalitatis sustinendæ, papa sic primos fructus exigeret, et cultus Dei et hospitalitas deperirent. Et sic mutavit papa propositum quantum ad abbatias; sed concessa domino regi ab ecclesiis Anglicanis decima biennali, obtinuit primos fructus ecclesiarum, ut prædictum est.
Note 1. Clement V. (Bertrand de Goth, Archbishop of Bordeaux) was elected Pope by the influence of Philip le Bel, at Pérouse, on Tuesday, June 15, 1305, and crowned at Lyons on Sunday, November the 14th following.
Note 2. Jean Capet, Duke of Brittany, 1239-1305.
Note 3. Charles, Duke of Valois, 1270-1325.
Note 4. These first-fruits continued to form part of the papal revenue until the time of Henry VIII.
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In 1305 [his daughter] Isabelle Valois Abbess Fontevraud was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois.
On 1st March 1305 [his half-sister] Blanche Capet Duchess Austria died.
On 19th May 1305 [his son-in-law] William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland and Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut were married. She by marriage Countess Zeeland, Countess Holland, Countess Avesnes, Countess Hainault. She the daughter of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois. He the son of John of Avesnes II Count Hainaut II Count Holland and Philippa Luxemburg Countess Hainaut and Holland.
On 11th October 1307 [his wife] Catherine Courtenay Countess Valois died.
In 1308 Charles Valois I Count Valois and Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois were married. She by marriage Countess Valois. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and Marie Capet. He the son of King Philip III of France and Isabella Barcelona Queen Consort France.
In 1308 [his son] John Valois died.
Thomas Walsingham [~1422]. In the year of grace 1308, which is the second year from the Conquest of the reign of King Edward, not yet crowned, the second, the king kept Christmas at Wye, a manor of the Abbot of Battle, with a very large household. A few days after Christmas had passed, he crossed over into France to take as his wife Isabella, daughter of the King of France, who was a little over twelve years old. He entrusted the custody of the kingdom to the aforesaid Piers [Gaveston]; for which cause excessive murmuring arose among the magnates of the realm. The marriage in France at Boulogne-sur-Mer [28th January 1308], at which four kings were present, namely, the King of France, the son of the King of France, the King of Germany, and the King of Sicily, was solemnly celebrated. Then he returned to the kingdom of England with his wife. The magnates went out to meet their king and his new queen, and all strove to see who could show them greater honour. Among them came Piers himself, whom the king at once admitted into a most special embrace and regarded with the greatest familiarity. The magnates grew envious, but they put off their vengeance for another time.
Note 1. The four kings being King Philip IV of France, his son Louis, King of Navarre, Albert, King of Germany and Philip IV's brother Charles, King of Sicily.
Anno gratiæ millesimo trecentesimo octavo, qui est annus regni Regis Edwardi, nondum coronati, a Conquæstu Secundi, secundus, tenuit idem rex Natale apud Wy, manerium Abbatis de Bello, cum familia multa nimis. Paucis post Natale diebus transactis, transfretavit in Franciam, ut Regis Francorum filiam in uxorem duceret, nomine Isabellam, qua paulo plus annis duodecim habuit in ætate. Commisit autem regni custodiam Petro præfato; ob quam causam murmur immodicus inter proceres regni succrevit. Nuptiis in Francia apud Boloniam supra Mare, quibus quatuor Reges interfuerunt, videlicet Rex Franciæ, filius Regis Franciæ, Rex Alemanniæ, et Rex Siciliæ, celebratis solemniter, ad regnum Angliæ revertitur cum uxore. Igitur proceres occurrunt regi suo conjugique novæ; et a cunctis elaboratur, quis propensiorem honorem impendere possit illis. Occurrit inter cæteros ipse Petrus, quem mox Rex in amplexus specialius admittebat, et familiarins respiciebat. Invidebant ergo proceres, sed vindictam in tempus aliud differebant.
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In 1309 [his daughter] Isabelle Valois Duchess Brittany died.
In 1309 [his daughter] Marie Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois. She married 1316 Charles Duke of Calabria and had issue.
In 1310 [his son-in-law] Guy Chatillon I Count Blois and Margaret Valois were married. She the daughter of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois. He the son of Hugh Chatillon II Count Blois and Beatrix Dampierre Countess Blois.
In 1313 [his daughter] Isabella Valois Duchess Bourbon was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois. She married Peter Bourbon Duke Bourbon, son of Louis Bourbon I Duke Bourbon and Mary Hainaut Duchess Bourbon, and had issue.
In April 1314 Charles II Count Alençon and Jeanne Joigny were married. She by marriage Countess Alençon. He the son of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois.
Murimuth and Avesbury. In the year of our Lord 1314, while the apostolic see was vacant, the year always being reckoned from the feast of Saint Michael [29th September], and in the eighth year of the reign of the same Edward of Caernarfon, around the feast of Saint Nicholas King Philip of France, called the Fair, diedENDNOTE 1. He was succeeded by his son Louis, who had previously been king of Navarre. He was guided by the counsel of his uncle Charles. By that counsel, soon after Easter, Enguerrand de Marigny, who had been the principal counsellor of Philip, father of the said King Louis, was hanged. Also the queen of Navarre, the wife of the said [his nephew] Lord Louis and daughter of the count of Burgundy, was suffocatedENDNOTE 2 on account of adultery alleged against her with Lord Philip d'Aunay. That same Louis, later in that same year, took in marriage the daughter of the king of Hungary, named Clemence, both in name and, as was said, in reality.
Anno Domini millesimo CCCXIIII, apostolica sede vacante, semper in festo sancti Michaelis incipiendo, et ipsius regis Edwardi de Carnervans VIIJ, circa festum sancti Nicholai, fuit mortuus rex Franciæ, Philippus, dictus le Bel, et successit sibi Lodowycus filius suus, qui fuit prius rex Navvarræ; qui ducebatur consilio Karoli avunculi sui. Cujus consilio cito post Pascha suspensus fuit Ingeramus de Maremy, qui fuit principalis consiliarius Philippi, patris ipsius regis Lodowyci. ltem regina Navvarræ, uxor ipsius domini Lodowyci et, filia comitis Burgundiæ, propter adulterium sibi impositum cura domino Philippo Daune, fuit suffocata. Qui quidem Lodowycus, eodem anno, postmodum duxit in uxorem filiam regis Hungariæ, Clemenciam nomine et re, ut dicebatur.
Note 1. King Philip IV of France died on 29th November 1314.
Note 2. The Tour de Nesle Affair in the three daughters-in-law of King Philip IV, Margaret and sisters Blanche and Joan were accused of adultery. Chronicle of William Nangis: "Margaret, the young queen of Navarre, and Blanche, wife of Charles, the king of Navarre's younger brother, for the adultery most shamefully committed and frequently practiced by them with the knight brothers Philip and Walter of Aunay, the former [Margaret] with Philip, the latter [Blanche] with Walter, as their crimes demanded, were repudiated by their own husbands, deprived, not undeservedly, of all temporal honour, and committed to prisons, so that there under strict guard, deprived of all human comfort, they might pass their lives unhappily and end them miserably. The aforesaid two knights, who were not only wicked adulterers but also most vile violators of their lords' marriages, though those lords had placed especial trust in them as highly intimate members of their household, and they were reckoned among their garments and family in full confidence, and who were the worst of traitors; and who were much more culpable in the deed, since they had enticed those young women, still of tender age and of the weaker sex, by their seductions and flatteries. At Pontoise, on the Friday after Quasimodo Sunday, confessed that they had carried on this crime for nearly three years, in many places and sometimes even at sacred seasons. And for the commission of so great a crime, paying the penalty and manner of an ignominious death, in the common square of the Martroi, in the sight of all, they were flayed alive; their virile members together with their genitals were cut off; and, their heads struck off, they were dragged to the common gallows. Completely stripped of skin, they were hanged by the shoulder blades and joints of their arms. Afterwards, near them, a certain doorkeeper, as one who seemed rightly to have been an accomplice and privy to the aforesaid crime, and many others as well, both noble and ignoble, of either sex, who appeared to have consented to or known of the said offense, were subjected to torture; some were drowned in swift waters; many perished by secret deaths; yet several, found innocent, escaped entirely. Among these especially was a certain Dominican friar, called the Bishop of Saint George, who was said to have been a collaborator and accomplice in the aforesaid crime, whether by sorceries that incited people to illicit acts. Some said he was detained in prison at Paris among the Dominican friars; others that, since the apostolic see was then vacant, he had been sent to the cardinals and left to their judgment. Moreover, although Joan, sister of the said Blanche and wife of Philip, Count of Poitiers, was at first strongly regarded as suspect in the matter and was for some time separated from her husband and kept under guard in the castle of Dourdan, nevertheless, after an inquiry made on this account, she was cleared of the said suspicion and judged blameless and entirely innocent in the Parliament at Paris, in the presence of the Count of Valois, the Count of Évreux, and many other nobles. And thus, before a year had passed, she deserved to be reconciled to her husband, the count."
On 29th November 1314 [his brother] King Philip IV of France died. [his nephew] Louis X King France I Navarre succeeded X King France: Capet. Margaret of Burgundy Queen Consort France by marriage Queen Consort of France although she was in prison for adultery at the time and died four months later.
On 30th April 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny was hanged. He had been arrested on the orders of [his nephew] Louis X King France I Navarre at the instigation of Charles of Valois. Twenty-eight articles of accusation including charges of receiving bribes were brought against him but none could be found to be true. Charles then brought forward a charge of sorcery which was more effectual. He was condemned at once and hanged on the public gibbet of Montfaucon.
In 1316 [his son-in-law] Charles Duke of Calabria and Marie Valois were married. She the daughter of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois.
In 1317 [his daughter] Blanche Valois Holy Roman Empress Luxemburg was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois. She married 1335 Charles IV King Bohemia Holy Roman Emperor Luxemburg, son of King John I of Bohemia and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, and had issue.
On 6th April 1317 [his father-in-law] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol died. [his brother-in-law] Jean Chatillon Count Saint Pol succeeded Count Saint Pol.
In 1318 [his son] Louis Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois and [his wife] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois. He died aged ten in 1328.
On 14th February 1318 [his half-sister] Margaret of France Queen Consort England died at Marlborough Castle. She was buried at Christ Church, Greyfriars. Her tomb was destroyed during the Reformation.
On 19th May 1319 [his half-brother] Louis I Count Évreux died. [his nephew] Philip "Noble" III King Navarre succeeded Count Évreux.
In 1320 [his son-in-law] Robert III Artois and Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut were married. She the daughter of Charles Valois I Count Valois and Margaret Capet Countess Valois.
In 1321 Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke and [his sister-in-law] Marie Chatillon Countess Pembroke were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. The difference in their ages was 28 years. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol and [his mother-in-law] Marie Capet. He the son of William de Valence 1st Earl Pembroke and Joan Munchensi Countess Pembroke.
On 19th May 1322 [his nephew] Charles IV King France I King Navarre and Blanche of Burgundy Queen Consort France marriage annulled as a consequence of her adultery. In 1313 [his niece] Isabella of France Queen Consort England gave gifts of coin-purses to her sisters-in-law Blanche of Burgundy Queen Consort France and Margaret of Burgundy Queen Consort France. The coin-purses were subsequently seen by Isabella to be in the possession of the Norman knights Gautier and Philippe d'Aunay. When Isabella visited her father [his brother] King Philip IV of France again in 1314 she informed him she suspected the two sisters to be having affairs with the two knights. The two knights were arrested, confessed to adultery under torture, and were executed. The two women were sentenced to life imprisonment at Château Gaillard. Margaret's husband Louis X King France I Navarre became King in Nov 1314 whilst she was in prison; she became Queen of France by marriage. Somewhat conveniently she died five months later. Blanche of Burgundy Queen Consort France remained in prison until her husband Charles IV King France I King Navarre became King in 1322 at which time he had their marriage annulled.
In 1325 [his daughter] Theresa Valois was born to Charles Valois I Count Valois.
Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V Book 1. 16th December 1325. In the month of December, Sir Charles, Count of Valois, fell gravely ill; the sickness was so severe that he lost the use of half his body, and many believed that during this illness he felt pangs of conscience over the death of Enguerrand de Marigny, who, as some say, was hanged at his instigation, as was discovered afterward. When his sickness worsened, he ordered alms to be given throughout the city of Paris; and those who distributed the alms to the poor said: 'Pray for Sir Enguerrand de Marigny and for Sir Charles of Valois.' And because they mentioned Sir Enguerrand's name before that of Sir Charles, many judged that Charles was burdened by guilt for Enguerrand's death. After a long illness, he died at Le Perray, which is in the diocese of Chartres, on the tenth day before Christmas, and his body was buried in Paris with the Dominican Friars, and his heart with the Friars Minor.
Ou moys de decembre acoucha malade griefment messire Charles conte de Valois; si fu la maladie si grieve qu'il perdi la moitié de lui, et cuidierent plusseurs que en celle maladie il feist conscience de la mort Engorran de Marigni, lequel fu pendu, si comme aucunes gens dient, à son pourchaz par ce que on apperceust après. Quant sa maladie l'engrega, il fist donner une aumosne parmi la ville de Paris; et disoient ceulz qui donnoient Taumosne aus pouvres: "Priez pour messire Engerran de Marigni et pour messire Charles de Valoys." Et pour ce qu'il nommoient avant le nom de messire Engerran que de messire Charles, plusseurs jugèrent que de la mort messire Engerran il taisoit conscience. Lequel, après la longue maladie il mourut au Perré qui est en la dyocese de Chartres le xejour devant Nouel, et fu son corps enterré à Paris aux Frères Preescheurs et son cuer aus Frères Meneurs.
On 16th December 1325 Charles Valois I Count Valois died.
In 1358 [his former wife] Mahaut Chatillon Countess Valois died.