Alfonso Plantagenet 1st Earl Chester [4212] ²⁵

  General Notes:

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PLANTAGENET.htm#Alfonso%20PLANTAGENET%20(1º%20E.%20Chester)

  Death Notes:

Alphonso's death at Windsor occurred shortly after the birth of his younger brother (later Edward II of England), who became the only surviving male heir of Edward I. Alphonso was interred in The Confessors Chapel at Westminster Abbey, although the exact location is unknown. His heart, however, was buried at the priory of Blackfriars, London (now destroyed).

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Earl Chester, 1284.

Alfonso married Margaret [64543] [MRIN: 13989], daughter of Floris V of Holland God of the Peasants Count of Holland [8994] and Beatrix of Dampierre [8995].

  Marriage Notes:

engaged to Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of King Edward I of England from 1281 to his death in 1284


At the age of ten, he was engaged to Margaret, daughter of Floris V, Count of Holland, and an opulent psalter was being prepared for the marriage when he died a few months before the wedding was to take place. The Alphonso Psalter was completed a decade later when his sister Elizabeth married Margaret's brother, John I, Count of Holland, making the pairing of arms again appropriate.[1]