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Male John Plantagenet Click to view John Plantagenet in the family tree Click to view John Plantagenet in the family tree

John was born in 1266.  John's father was King Edward I ("Longshanks") of England and his mother was Eleanor Ponthieu of Castile and Leon.  His paternal grandparents were King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. He had four brothers and eleven sisters, named Joan, Henry, Alfonso, Edward, Eleanor, Katherine, Joan, Margaret, Berengaria, Mary, Isabella, Alice, Elizabeth, Beatrice and Blanche.  He was the third oldest of the sixteen children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Thomas, Edmund and Eleanor.  He died at the age of 5 in 1271.