Adam Plantagenet (abt. 1310 - 1322)

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Biography

That King Edward II had an illegitimate son is known only from a few references in the Wardrobe accounts to an "Adam bastard son of the lord king". No other writer mentions the fact, and it remained unknown until more recent times.

This probably indicates that he was simply hidden in plain sight by being passed off as somebody else's son. Maybe Adam himself never knew who his real father was.

In particular, the monks at Tynemouth must have known which important personage they were burying, while remaining unaware that the king was his father.

bur. Tynemouth Priory

Sources

• "Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. I. p. 73-80

Edward II Of England, Knt., King of England married by treaty dated 6 Nov. 1289 Margaret of Norway, Queen of Scots. She died at Orkney on or about 26 Sept. 1290. He married 25 Jan. 1308 Isabel (or Isabelle) Of France. They had four children: By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Adam.

Children of Edward II of England, by Isabel of France:

i. Edward III of England

ii. John of Eltham

iii. Eleanor of Woodstock

iv. Joan Of The Tower

Illegitimate child of Edward II of England, by an unknown mistress:

i. Adam Fitz Roy, accompanied his father on the abortive Scottish expedition of 1322. His subsequent history is unknown. Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 37 (1946): 76-77. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 138.

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