In 1236 [his father] John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany and [his mother] Blanche "Navarre" Blois Duchess Brittany were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Theobald IV King Navarre and [his grandmother] Agnes of Beaujeu Countess Savoy. He the son of Peter of Dreux aka Mauclerc Duke Brittany and Alix Thouars Duchess of Brittany.
In 1239 John II Duke Brittany was born to John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany and Blanche "Navarre" Blois Duchess Brittany.
On 22nd January 1260 John II Duke Brittany and Beatrice Plantagenet were married. She the daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England. He the son of John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany and Blanche "Navarre" Blois Duchess Brittany.
On 25th July 1261 [his son] Arthur II Duke Brittany was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet. He married 1. 1275 Marie Limoges Duchess Brittany and had issue 2. in or before 1295 Yolande of Dreux Queen of Scotland, daughter of Robert Capet IV Count Dreux and Beatrice Montfort Countess Dreux, and had issue.
On 4th August 1265 the army loyal to [his father-in-law] King Henry III of England, led by his son the future [his brother-in-law] King Edward I of England, supported by Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford, Warin Basingburne and John Giffard 1st Baron Giffard Brimpsfield defeated the rebel army of Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester at the Battle of Evesham.
Roger Leybourne fought and reputedly saved the King's life.
Adam Mohaut rescued the King.
Alan de Plugenet of Kilpec fought for the King.
Simon de Montfort 6th Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Chester was killed. Earl of Leicester, Earl Chester forfeit. His son Henry Montfort was also killed.
Hugh Despencer was killed by Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore. Baron Despencer extinct. It may not have been created as a hereditary barony.
Simon Beauchamp, Ralph Basset, William Devereux, Hugh Troyes, Richard Trussel, Peter Montfort, William Mandeville, William Crepping, William Birmingham, Guy Balliol and Thomas Astley were killed. Henry Hastings, Humphrey Bohun, Nicholas Segrave 1st Baron Segrave, John Vesci, John Fitzjohn and Guy Montfort Count Nola were captured.
John Vesci was wounded and taken prisoner.
On 25th October 1265 [his brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster was created 1st Earl of Leicester.
Around 1266 [his son] John Capet 4th Earl Richmond was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet.
In 1268 [his daughter] Marie Capet was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet. She married Guy Chatillon IV Count Saint Pol, son of Guy Chatillon III Count Saint Pol and Matilda Reginar Countess Saint Pol, and had issue.
In 1268 [his father] John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany was restored 2nd Earl Richmond.
In 1269 [his son] Peter Capet was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet.
On 8th April 1269 [his brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster and Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle. He the son of [his father-in-law] King Henry III of England and [his mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England.
In 1271 [his daughter] Blanche Capet was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet. She married in or before 1285 Philip Artois, son of Robert Artois II Count Artois and Amice Countenay Countess Artois, and had issue.
On 16th November 1272 [his father-in-law] King Henry III of England died at Westminster. [his brother-in-law] King Edward I of England succeeded I King of England. Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England by marriage Queen Consort England.
In 1275 [his daughter] Eleanor Capet Abbess Fontevraud was born to John II Duke Brittany and [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet.
In 1275 Arthur II Duke Brittany and Marie Limoges Duchess Brittany were married. She by marriage Duchess Brittany 1221 Dreux. He the son of John II Duke Brittany and Beatrice Plantagenet.
On 26th February 1275 [his sister-in-law] Margaret Queen of Scotland died at Cupar Castle, Cupar. She was buried at Dunfermline Abbey.
On 24th March 1275 [his wife] Beatrice Plantagenet died in London. She was buried at Greyfriars Church Farringdon Within.
On 12th August 1283 [his mother] Blanche "Navarre" Blois Duchess Brittany died.
In or before 1285 [his son-in-law] Philip Artois and Blanche Capet were married. She the daughter of John II Duke Brittany and Beatrice Plantagenet. He the son of Robert Artois II Count Artois and Amice Countenay Countess Artois.
On 8th October 1286 [his father] John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany died. John II Duke Brittany succeeded 2nd Duke Brittany 1221 Dreux, 3rd Earl Richmond.
In 1288 [his sister] Alix Capet Countess Saint Pol died.
In or before 1295 Arthur II Duke Brittany and Yolande of Dreux Queen of Scotland were married. She by marriage Duchess Brittany 1221 Dreux. She the daughter of Robert Capet IV Count Dreux and Beatrice Montfort Countess Dreux. He the son of John II Duke Brittany and Beatrice Plantagenet.
Around 1296 John II Duke Brittany was deprived of the Earldom of Richmond since he had begun to support France.
On 22nd July 1298 [his former brother-in-law] King Edward I of England defeated the Scottish army led by William Wallace during the 22nd July 1298 Battle of Falkirk at Falkirk using archers to firstly attack the Scottish shiltrons with the heavy cavalry with infantry completing the defeat.
John de Graham and John Stewart of Bonkyll were killed.
The English were described in the Falkirk Roll that lists 111 men with their armorials including:
Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick.
Walter Beauchamp.
Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex.
Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford.
Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester.
William Ferrers 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby.
Thomas Berkeley 6th and 1st Baron Berkeley.
Maurice Berkeley 7th and 2nd Baron Berkeley.
Henry Grey 1st Baron Grey of Codnor.
Reginald Grey 1st Baron Grey of Wilton.
John Grey 2nd Baron Grey of Wilton.
Simon Montagu 1st Baron Montagu.
William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley.
John Segrave 2nd Baron Segrave.
Nicholas Segrave.
Robert de Vere 6th Earl of Oxford.
Alan Zouche 1st Baron Zouche Ashby.
Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln.
Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster.
John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey.
Henry Percy 9th and 1st Baron Percy.
Hugh Courtenay 1st or 9th Earl Devon.
Richard Fitzalan 1st or 8th Earl of Arundel.
John II Duke Brittany.
Philip Darcy.
Robert Fitzroger.
Robert Fitzwalter 1st Baron Fitzwalter, or possiby a Roger Fitzwalter?.
[his grandson-in-law] Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke.
John Wake 1st Baron Wake of Liddell, and.
Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury.
William Scrope was knighted.
John Moels 1st Baron Moels fought.
John Lovell 1st Baron Lovel fought.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. In the same year Pope Benedict XI died, in the month of July [7th July 1304]. The papal see was vacant for some time because of dissension among the cardinals, for there were eighteen of them, and they divided their votes equally. At length, after a long period of confinement in the conclave, they elected as pope, in the following year [1305], the Archbishop of Bordeaux,1 who received the papal crown at Lyons that same year, on the Sunday next after the feast of Saint Martin, many of his cardinals being present there for that occasion. But on that very day, when he was being led on horseback to the church of Saint Martin after being crowned, a stone wall beside the road, upon which many had climbed to see him, collapsed, crushing many beneath it. Among the dead was the Count of Brittany2; Charles3, the king of France's brother, was injured. The pope remained in Bordeaux for a long time and created there nearly eighteen new cardinals, because some of the older cardinals had returned to Rome; he continually excused himself, saying he could not come. When Roman nobles sent envoys to him and then sent them again, the pope always gave the same excuse for not coming; and because he refused to go to his own see, they judged him unworthy to enjoy the patrimony of Peter. Nevertheless, he lived off money extorted from bishops confirmed at the curia. For example, from William, Archbishop of York, confirmed there, besides the great expenses he had freely made, he took within the first year nine thousand five hundred marks of silver. And the archbishop, returning so impoverished, within that same first year received from his religious subjects and rectors, first under the name of a "gift for goodwill and favour," and second under the name of a "loan", an immense sum of money. The pope also sent his envoy, named Testa, into England with papal bulls reserving to himself the "primi fructus4" [first fruit] of all churches falling vacant at any time and in any manner within the kingdoms of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and likewise the first year's income of all abbeys and priories vacant in the same period. Because of this, the lord king, together with his magnates in his parliament at Carlisle, opposed him, saying that it was not reasonable that from monasteries founded by his own ancestors or by the magnates of the land in honour of God's service, and for the maintenance of certain alms and hospitality, the pope should thus exact the primi fructus, thereby letting the worship of God and the work of hospitality perish. And so the pope changed his plan as regarded abbeys; but having granted to the king from the English churches a two-year tithe, he still obtained the primi fructus of churches, as said above.
Eodem anno obiit papa Benedictus XI mense Julii, vacavitque sedes propter dissensionem cardinalium, erant enim octodecim, et æqualiter diviserunt vota sua; tandem vero post longam carceris inclusionem, elegerunt in papam in anno Clement V scquenti archiepiscopum Burdegalensem, qui diadema suscepit apud Lugdunum in eodem anno, scilicet MCCCV, die Dominica proxima post festum Sancti Martini, præsentibus multis cardinalibus Sunday, suis, qui ob eandem causam ibidem venerant. Eodem autem die, cum ad ecclesiam beati Martini Fatal accisic diadematus in equo duceretur, corruit quidam coronation. murus lapideus a latere viæ, super quem multi ascenderant ut viderent eum, et oppressit multos, inter quos mortuus est comes Britanniæ, et Carolus frater regis Franciæ læsus est. Mansitque papa Burdegalis longo tempore, et creavit ibi novos cardinales quasi XVIII, pro eo quod quidam ex antiquis cardinalibus reversi fuerant Romam, ipso se semper excusante quod venire non poterat. Missisque a Romanis principibus He removes nunciis et remissis, semper excusavit se papa de the pontifi non veniendo. Et quia ad propriam sedem venire Rome. contempsit, censuerunt eum indignum Petri patrimonio frui; vixitque sic de pecunia extorta a confirmatis episcopis in curia. Quoniam ab archiepiscopo Eborum Willelmo, ibidem confirmato, præter expensas quas ibi largissime fecerat, infra primum suum annum habuit novies mille marcas argenti et quingentas, et ipse sic pauper reversus, infra eundem annum primum habuit a subditis suis religiosis et rectoribus, primo nomine curialitatis et gratiæ, et secundo nomine mutui, immensam pecuniæ summam. Misitque papa nuncium suum in Angliam nomine Testa cum bullis suis, in quibus reservavit sibi primos fructus primi anni omnium ecclesiarum vacantium quocunque tempore vel modo infra regna Angliæ, Scotia, Walliæ et Hiberniæ, et fructus similiter omnium abbatiarum et prioratuum vacantium eodem tempore: propter quod opposuit se dominus rex cum magnatibus suis in parliamento suo apud Carliolum, dicens, non esse rationi consonum, quod a monasteriis, a prædecessoribus suis vel a magnatibus terræ fundatis in honore servitii Dei, certæ eleemosinæ et hospitalitatis sustinendæ, papa sic primos fructus exigeret, et cultus Dei et hospitalitas deperirent. Et sic mutavit papa propositum quantum ad abbatias; sed concessa domino regi ab ecclesiis Anglicanis decima biennali, obtinuit primos fructus ecclesiarum, ut prædictum est.
Note 1. Clement V. (Bertrand de Goth, Archbishop of Bordeaux) was elected Pope by the influence of Philip le Bel, at Pérouse, on Tuesday, June 15, 1305, and crowned at Lyons on Sunday, November the 14th following.
Note 2. Jean Capet, Duke of Brittany, 1239-1305.
Note 3. [his grandson-in-law] Charles, Duke of Valois, 1270-1325.
Note 4. These first-fruits continued to form part of the papal revenue until the time of Henry VIII.
On 18th August 1304 John II Duke Brittany fought during the Battle of Mons en Pévèle.
William IV Count of Auxerre was killed.
On 18th November 1305 John II Duke Brittany died. [his son] Arthur II Duke Brittany succeeded 3rd Duke Brittany 1221 Dreux.
Close Rolls Edward II 1307-1313. 12th December 1307 King Edward II of England. Westminster Palace. To John de Brittania, Earl of Richmond, [keeper] of Scotland. Order to restore to [his grandson-in-law] Aymer de Valencia, Earl of Pembrok, his lands, etc., in the counties of Sellekyrk [Selkirkshire] and Twedale and in the forest of Sellekyrk, which he has seized into the king's hands because the men and tenants of the same had late traitoroursly adhered to Robert de Brus, the king's enemy and rebel.