Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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About six miles from Sherbourne is Brotherton, “where Thomas, son to King Edward I, was born; the Queen by chance labouring as she went en hunting.”-Leland. Near the church is a place of twenty acres, surrounded by a trench and wall, where stood the house in which the queen was delivered, and the tenants are bound to keep it surrounded by a wall of stone.

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Is the wall still there? There must be something more in this.

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Edward was then 60 years old, at least 40 years older than his bride. The wedding took place at Canterbury on 10 September 1299.[5] Margaret was never crowned due to financial constraints, being the first uncrowned queen since the Conquest. This in no way lessened her dignity as the king’s wife, however, for she used the royal title in her letters and documents, and appeared publicly wearing a crown even though she had not received one during a formal rite of investiture.[6]

Edward soon returned to the Scottish border to continue his campaigns and left Margaret in London, but she had become pregnant quickly after the wedding.[7] After several months, bored and lonely, the young queen decided to join her husband. Nothing could have pleased the king more, for Margaret’s actions reminded him of his first wife Eleanor, who had had two of her sixteen children abroad. In less than a year Margaret gave birth to a son, Thomas who was named after Thomas Becket, since she had prayed to him during her pregnancy. The next year she gave birth to another son, Edmund.

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About six miles from Sherbourne is Brotherton, “where Thomas, son to King Edward I, was born; the Queen by chance labouring as she went en hunting.”-Leland. Near the church is a place of twenty acres, surrounded by a trench and wall, where stood the house in which the queen was delivered, and the tenants are bound to keep it surrounded by a wall of stone.

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