Biography of William Jülich V Duke Jülich 1299-1361

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1328 Marriage of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault

Around 1299 William Jülich V Duke Jülich was born to [his father] Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich [aged 49] and [his mother] Elisabeth Brabant Countess Jülich. He a great x 4 grandson of King Stephen I England.

Before 13th December 1299 [his father] Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich [aged 49] and [his mother] Elisabeth Brabant Countess Jülich were married. She by marriage Countess Jülich. He the son of [his grandfather] William Jülich IV Count Jülich and [his grandmother] Richardis Guelders Countess Jülich.

On 26th February 1324 William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 25] and Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 9] were married. She the daughter of William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland [aged 38] and Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut [aged 30]. He the son of Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich [aged 74] and Elisabeth Brabant Countess Jülich. They were half third cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Stephen I England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

In 1325 [his son] Gerhard Jülich VI Count Berg and Ravensberg was born to William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 26].

Around 1327 [his son] William Jülich I Duke Jülich was born to William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 28]. He married December 1362 his third cousin Marie Guelders Duchess Jülich, daughter of Reginald "Black" I Duke Guelders and Sophia Berthout Berthout, and had issue.

Marriage of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault

On 24th January 1328 King Edward III of England [aged 15] and [his sister-in-law] Philippa of Hainault [aged 17] were married at York Minster [Map] by Archbishop William Melton [aged 53]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. She was crowned the same day. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland [aged 42] and [his mother-in-law] Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut [aged 34]. He the son of King Edward II of England and Isabella of France Queen Consort England [aged 33]. They were second cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

The marriage was the quid pro quo for her father William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland having supported his mother Isabella of France Queen Consort England and Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 40] returning to England to usurp the throne of Edward's father King Edward II of England.

On 29th July 1328 [his father] Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich [aged 78] died. His son William [aged 29] succeeded V Count Jülich.

In 1330 [his brother-in-law] Otto Wittelsbach IV Duke Lower Bavaria [aged 22] and [his sister] Richardis Jülich Duchess Lower Bavaria [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Duchess Lower Bavaria. She the daughter of [his father] Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich and [his mother] Elisabeth Brabant Countess Jülich. He the son of Stephen Wittelsbach I Duke Bavaria and Jutta Jawor Duchess Bavaria. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

Around 1330 [his daughter] Isabella aka Elizabeth Julich Countess Kent was born to William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 31] and [his wife] Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 15]. She married 3rd April 1348 her half second cousin once removed John Plantagenet 3rd Earl Kent, son of Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent and Margaret Wake Countess Kent.

In 1332 [his brother] Walram Jülich Archbishop Cologne [aged 29] was appointed Archbishop Cologne.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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In 1334 [his brother-in-law] William Hainaut II Count Hainaut [aged 27] and Joanna Reginar Duchess Brabant [aged 12] were married. She the daughter of John Brabant III Duke Brabant [aged 33] and Marie Évreux Duchess of Brabant [aged 31]. He the son of [his father-in-law] William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland [aged 48] and [his mother-in-law] Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut [aged 40]. They were half second cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Stephen I England. She a great granddaughter of King Edward I of England.

On 7th June 1337 [his father-in-law] William of Avesnes I Count Hainaut III Count Avesnes III Count Holland II Count Zeeland [aged 51] died. His son [his brother-in-law] William [aged 30] succeeded II Count Hainault. Joanna Reginar Duchess Brabant [aged 15] by marriage Countess Hainault.

In 1340 [his brother-in-law] Dietrich Cleves VIII Count Cleves [aged 49] and [his sister] Maria Jülich Countess Cleves were married. She by marriage Countess Cleves. She the daughter of [his father] Gerhard Jülich V Count Jülich and [his mother] Elisabeth Brabant Countess Jülich. He the son of Dietrich Cleves VII Count Cleves and Margaret Kiburg Laufenburg Countess Cleves. They were sixth cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

In 1340 William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 41] was created 1st Earl Cambridge. The creation somewhat vague; he was the brother-in-law of King Edward III of England [aged 27]; his wife Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 25] was the sister of Philippa of Hainaut Queen Consort England [aged 29].

Battle of Warns

On 26th September 1345 [his brother-in-law] William Hainaut II Count Hainaut [aged 38] was killed at the Battle of Warns. His sister [his sister-in-law] Margaret [aged 33] succeeded II Countess Hainault. Louis Wittelsbach IV Holy Roman Emperor [aged 63] by marriage Count Hainault.

Bourgeois de Valenciennes. It happened that while the King of England was holding the siege before Calais, Louis, Count of Flanders, by the counsel and with the consent of his good towns, came into Flanders as lord of the country. He was received on condition that he should govern and rule them according to the usages and customs of the good Count Guy, his predecessor. The great and the small did him great honour, as was fitting, and as to their rightful and true lord. He remained in the land graciously and courteously, and followed the counsel of his people and of his good towns, who instructed him in sound policies. He remained in this state from Martinmas through the winter until after Easter, when the good men of Flanders, wishing to secure the best outcome, proposed and arranged the marriage between him and the eldest daughter of the King of England, so that they might be stronger in the land. They worked so effectively that they brought him to the King of England before Calais, and all ill will was pardoned on both sides. By the will of the said count, the marriage was agreed between Count Louis of Flanders [aged 16] and Isabel [aged 14], eldest daughter of King Edward of England, and they were betrothed without any deceit. The betrothal was performed by the Abbot of the Dunes at Bergues in Flanders, in the church of the abbey of Saint-Winoc. Present at the betrothal were the king [aged 34] and [his sister-in-law] queen [aged 36], the Marquis of Jülich [aged 48], the Earl of Warwick [aged 34], the Duke of Guelders [aged 13] and the duchess, and many others, on the Wednesday after Mid-Lent, in the year of grace 1346¹. The agreements on both sides were settled, and a great feast was held. Afterwards, the Count of Flanders returned to the town of Male in Flanders. Meanwhile, while the King of England was at Bergues-Saint-Winoc, twenty ships laden with supplies came into the harbour of Calais, which greatly pleased those within the town.

Il advint qu'entandis que le roy d'Engleterre tenoit siège devant Callais, que Loys, conte de Flandres, par le conseil de ses bonnes villes et leur volenté, vint dedens Flandres, comme seigneur du pays, et fut rechups par ainsy qu'il les debvoit tenir et mener aux us et aux coustumes du bon conte Guion, son antécesseur. Sy luy firent grant honneur les grans et les petis, sycomme droit estoit, et comme à leur droiturier et vrai seigneur, et demeura au pays bellement et courtoisement, et crut le conseil de ses gens et de ses bonnes villes qui luy ensaingnoient les bons poins. Et fut en cel estât de le Saint-Martin en yver jusques après Pasques, que les bonnes gens de Flandres, pour le mieulx fait que laissiet, luy acointèrent et pourcachèrent le mariage de luy et de l'aisnée fille du roy d'Engleterre, par quoy ils fussent plus fors au pays. Et tant fisrent qu'ils l'emmenèrent au roy d'Engleterre devant Callais, et tous mautalens fussent pardonnes les ungs aux aultres, et que, par la volenté dudit conte, mariage se fist entre le conte Loys de Flandres et de Ysabel, aisnëe fille du roy Édouart d'Engleterre, et furent fianchiés sans nulle maise fraude. Sy les fiança l'abbé des Dunes à Bergues en Flandres, en l'église de l'abbaye Saint-Winoch, et furent au fianchier le roy et la royne, le marquis de Jullers, le conte de Wervich, le duc de Guéries et la ducesse et pluseurs aultres, le merquedy après le my-quaresme, l'an de grâce mil CCC et XLVI et furent les convenances de l'une partye et de l'autre prinses, et y fist-on grant feste; puis s'en râla le conte de Flandres en la ville de Malle en Flandres. Et entandis que le roy d'Engleterre estoit à Bergues-Saint-Winoch, vindrent au havre de Callais XX nefs chargies de pourvéances, dont ceulx de Callais furent moult aises.

Note 1. The betrothal of the Count of Flanders was celebrated on 13th March 1347. The marriage contract had been signed at Dunkirk ten days earlier. Edward III granted as dowry to his daughter the county of Ponthieu and the town of Montreuil, or twenty-five thousand livres in land revenue. Numerous documents relating to the negotiations that took place at that time between the King of England and the Count of Flanders have been preserved. The marriage didn't take place. He fled to France where he quickly married, on 1st July 1347, Margaret of Brabant [aged 24], daughter of the French King's ally John, Duke of Brabant [aged 47]; see next History.

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On 3rd April 1348 [his son-in-law] John Plantagenet 3rd Earl Kent [aged 17] and Isabella aka Elizabeth Julich Countess Kent [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Countess Kent. She the daughter of William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 49] and Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 33]. He the son of Edmund of Woodstock 1st Earl Kent and Margaret Wake Countess Kent [aged 51]. They were half second cousin once removed. He a grandson of King Edward I of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

On 14th August 1349 [his brother] Walram Jülich Archbishop Cologne [aged 46] died.

In 1352 [his brother-in-law] John "Sans Terre" Artois 1st Count of Eu [aged 30] was created 1st Count Eu.

On 11th July 1352 [his brother-in-law] John "Sans Terre" Artois 1st Count of Eu [aged 30] and Isabeau Melun Countess Eu [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Countess Eu. She the daughter of John Melun 1st Count Tancarville [aged 62]. He the son of Robert III Artois and [his mother-in-law] Joan Valois Countess Zeeland Holland Avesnes and Hainaut.

In 1353 [his sister] Maria Jülich Countess Cleves died.

In 1354 [his son-in-law] Engelbert de la Marck III Count de la Marck [aged 20] and Richardis Jülich Countess Mark were married. She by marriage Countess de la Marck. She the daughter of William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 55] and Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 39]. He the son of Adolph II Count de la Marck and Margaret Cleves Countess de la Marck. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

In 1357 William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 58] was created I Duke Guelders. [his wife] Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 42] by marriage Duchess Guelders.

In 1360 [his daughter] Richardis Jülich Countess Mark died.

On 7th March 1360 [his sister] Richardis Jülich Duchess Lower Bavaria [aged 46] died.

Deeds of King Henry V

Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.

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On 18th May 1360 [his son] Gerhard Jülich VI Count Berg and Ravensberg [aged 35] died.

On 25th February 1361 William Jülich V Duke Jülich [aged 62] died. His son William [aged 34] succeeded I Duke Jülich. Earl Cambridge extinct. The provenance of this title is vague. It isn't entirely clear when he was created Earl of Cambridge, or whether it was for life only, or if he renounced it; his son didn't succeed to it.

In 1374 [his former wife] Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders [aged 59] died.

[his daughter] Richardis Jülich Countess Mark was born to William Jülich V Duke Jülich and Joanna Hainaut Duchess Guelders. She married 1354 her third cousin once removed Engelbert de la Marck III Count de la Marck, son of Adolph II Count de la Marck and Margaret Cleves Countess de la Marck.