Marie de Valence

Also known as: Marie · Family: Valence · Role: founder of Pembroke Hall · First appears: Richard II 49

Life events

1374 · Aimer de Valence was slain at a tilt, leaving Marie de Valence widowed.(Richard II 49)
- With: Aimer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke
- “This woman being in one daie (& that the daie of hir mariage) a maid, a wife, & a widow (hir husband being that day slaine at tilt)”
1374 · Marie de Valence founded Pembroke Hall on her own ground.(Richard II 49 · 📍 Cambridge)
- “did in hir widowhood (in the one & twentith yeare of Edward the 3, in the yeare of our Lord 1374) erect that house in Cambridge vpon hir owne ground”

parent: Guy, Earl of Saint-Pol “which Marie was in verie déede the daughter of Guie earle of S. Paule, the kinswoman of Edward the third, and a French woman.”
married with Aimer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke “but by Marie the wife of Odomare or Aimer de Valence earle of Penbroke”
with Edward III (Marie de Valence is described as Edward III's kinswoman.) “which Marie was in verie déede the daughter of Guie earle of S. Paule, the kinswoman of Edward the third, and a French woman.”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.