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5 unusual facts about Earl of Lancaster


Blanche of Artois

After Henry's death, Blanche married Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), in 1276, an English prince who was a younger son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence.

1269; dec. 1274
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
m.

Blanche of Lancaster

However, through his marriage to Blanche, John of Gaunt became Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Earl of Lincoln and Earl of Leicester (although Gaunt did not receive all of these titles until the death of Blanche's older sister, Maud, in 1362).

Earl of Lancaster

The title of Earl of Lancaster was created in the Peerage of England in 1267, merging in the crown in 1399.

Maud of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster

Matilda was born in about 1310, the second daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.


Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley

With the Earl of Lancaster, he rebelled against King Edward II, for which he was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where he died on 31 May 1326 and was eventually buried at St Augustine's Abbey in Bristol.

William Peverel

William married Adelina of Lancaster, who bore him a daughter Adeliza (or Adelaide) (b.1075), and a son, William Peverel the Younger, born circa 1080, following the death of whose first wife married secondly Avice de Lancaster, daughter of Roger of Poitou, Earl of Lancaster.


see also

Banastre Rebellion

It took place in 1315 when a group of disaffected knights decided to revenge themselves on the Earl of Lancaster by attacking his chief retainer and their rival, Sir Robert de Holland.

Eleanor Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster (1318–1372), fifth daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth

Francis Hurt

This was on or near the site of the "Earl's Chamber", a hunting lodge belonging to Edmund Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I.

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey

Warenne was one of the four earls who captured the two Roger Mortimers, and in 1322 he was one of the nobles who condemned to death the earl of Lancaster.