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John of Gaunt Plantagenet
(1340-1399)
Blanche of Lancaster Plantagenet
(1341-1368)
Humphrey de Bohun
(1341-1373)
Joan Fitzalan
(Bef 1351-1419)
Henry IV Plantagenet
(1366-1413)
Mary de Bohun
(Cir 1369-1394)
Philippa Plantagenet
(1394-1430)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Eric VII of Pomerania

Philippa Plantagenet 1 2

  • Born: 4 Jul 1394, Peterborough Castle
  • Marriage: Eric VII of Pomerania on 26 Oct 1406
  • Died: 5 Jan 1430, Convent of Valdstena, Linkoping, Sweden aged 35
  • Buried: Convent of Valdstena, Linkoping, Sweden

  General Notes:

She had big parts of Sweden as her dowry and she acted as her husband's representative in the country. During his stay abroad from 1423 she was regent in Denmark.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded: Queen, 1 Nov 1406, Lund, Sweden.

• She was a Regent of Denmark and Norway from 1423 to 1425.


Philippa married Eric VII of Pomerania, son of Vratislav of Pomerania and Marie von Mecklenburg, on 26 Oct 1406. (Eric VII of Pomerania was born in 1382 and died on 16 Jun 1459 in Rügenwalde, Pomerania [now Darlowo, Pol.].)

Sources

1 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk). Stammtafeln seems to think she was born in 1406.

2 Royal Danish Embassy (http://www.denmarkemb.org/kngsquns.html), Kings and Queens of Denmark.

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