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Question: Did the Plantagenets bury a child in a nunnery!?
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Princess Katharine Plantagenet, born on Nov 25, 1253 in London, was the 5th and last child of King Henry III of England and Queen-consort Eleanor!. By age two, she became deaf, perhaps congenitally!. She died on May 3rd, 1257 at a very young age of 3 years, 8 months, being often sick and frail!. Her parents were very grief-stricken over their daughter's death!. She was buried somewhere in a Westminster Abbey alcove but there's no inscription to identify her tomb

Had she been strong enough to survive her illness, described as a degenerative disease, with proper care by her family's nursery, she would have grow to become quite an interesting deaf princess!. Why, you ask if I think she would have been that!?

It is not only the fact she was the daughter of the very pious King Henry III or being a member of the famous Plantagenet royal dynasty, descending from Geoffrey Plante Genest, the Count of Anjou (the founder of the dynasty) and his wife Matilda, the granddaughter of William the Conqueror!. It's not only the fact that her eldest brother, Edward, who also survived a terrible illness as a child, went on to become one of few successful but most ruthless of all English kings: Edward I the Longshanks and, with a more bravado title added to him long after his death - the "Hammer of the Scots"!. Yes, the same King portrayed in Mel Gibson's 1996 Oscar film, "Braveheart" (although an overtly theatric role by actor Patrick McGoohan against Mel Gibson's William Wallace for dramatic purposes)!.
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Could be I think Katharine Mowbray who was married young to Richard Duke of York one of the Princes in the Tower!. She died young and was buried in a vault in such a place where she was accidentally discovered by building workers in the 1970s I think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com