biography
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Philippa of Hainault
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pronunciation:
[enoh]
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| female
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| lived:
| (c.1314–1369)
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| biography:
| Queen consort of England, who married her second cousin Edward III at York in 1327. She brought Flemish weavers to England, encouraged coal-mining, and made the French poet and historian Jean Froissart her secretary. She is said to have roused the English troops before the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, and to have interceded with Edward for mercy for the burgesses of Calais after the long siege in 1347. Queen's College, Oxford, founded by Philippa's chaplain in 1341, was named after her. |
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