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antiquities of england.
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PLATE XXXVI.
CONSTANCE QUEEN OF CASTILE.
The first of the two portraits represented on this plate is Constance, eldest
daughter of Peter, king of Castile and Leon. She was married A.D. 1372, to
John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster (fourth son of Edward the Third) who, in
right of his wife, took upon him the title of " King of Castile and Leon." She
died A.D. 1394.
Holinshed writes as follows :
" In this xlvi. yeare, the duke of Lancaster, being as then a widower, married
the lady Constance, eldest daughter to Peter king of Spaine, which was slayne by
the bastarde brother Henrie (as before ye have heard.)
"Also the lorde Edmonde, earl of Cambridge, married the ladye Isabell,
sister to the same Constance. Their other sister named Beatrice, affianced to
Don Ferdinando, sonne to Peter king of Portingale, wTas departed this life a little
before this tyme, at Bayonne, where they were all three left as hostages by theyr
father, when the prince went to bring him home into his country (as before ye
may reade).
" Froissart writeth, that the duke married the ladie Constance in Gascoigne,
and that shortly after he returned into England with his sayde wife, and hir sister,
leaving the Capital de Bueffz,1 and other lordes of Gascoigne and Poictou, in
charge with the rule of those countrys. By reason of that marriage, the duke of
Lancaster, as in right of his wife, being the elder sister, caused himself to be
intituled king of Castile, and his sayde wife queene of the same realme."
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NORFOLK.
The second portrait is Margaret, duchess of Norfolk, daughter to Thomas of
Brotherton, fifth son of Edward the First. She was twice married. Her first
1 [The Captal de Buch. - Ed.]
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PLATE XXXVI.
CONSTANCE QUEEN OF CASTILE.
The first of the two portraits represented on this plate is Constance, eldest
daughter of Peter, king of Castile and Leon. She was married A.D. 1372, to
John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster (fourth son of Edward the Third) who, in
right of his wife, took upon him the title of " King of Castile and Leon." She
died A.D. 1394.
Holinshed writes as follows :
" In this xlvi. yeare, the duke of Lancaster, being as then a widower, married
the lady Constance, eldest daughter to Peter king of Spaine, which was slayne by
the bastarde brother Henrie (as before ye have heard.)
"Also the lorde Edmonde, earl of Cambridge, married the ladye Isabell,
sister to the same Constance. Their other sister named Beatrice, affianced to
Don Ferdinando, sonne to Peter king of Portingale, wTas departed this life a little
before this tyme, at Bayonne, where they were all three left as hostages by theyr
father, when the prince went to bring him home into his country (as before ye
may reade).
" Froissart writeth, that the duke married the ladie Constance in Gascoigne,
and that shortly after he returned into England with his sayde wife, and hir sister,
leaving the Capital de Bueffz,1 and other lordes of Gascoigne and Poictou, in
charge with the rule of those countrys. By reason of that marriage, the duke of
Lancaster, as in right of his wife, being the elder sister, caused himself to be
intituled king of Castile, and his sayde wife queene of the same realme."
MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NORFOLK.
The second portrait is Margaret, duchess of Norfolk, daughter to Thomas of
Brotherton, fifth son of Edward the First. She was twice married. Her first
1 [The Captal de Buch. - Ed.]