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• Regnal Name: Henry III
• Hereditary Title: From 19 Oct. 1216 to 16 Nov. 1272; Duke of Aquitaine
• Hereditary Title: From 19 Oct. 1216 to 16 Nov. 1272; King of England
• Coronation: 28 Oct. 1216

Henry married Eleanor (Barcelona), of Provence on 14 Jan. 1236 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Eleanor (daughter of Raymond Berengar IV (Barcelona), Count of Provence) died on 24 June 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Regnal Name: Edward I
• Hereditary Title: 16 Nov. 1272; Duke of Aquitaine
• Hereditary Title: 16 Nov. 1272; King of England
• Coronation: 19 Aug. 1274

Edward married Princess Eleanor (Ivrea), of Castile in Oct. 1254 in Burgos, Castile. Eleanor (daughter of Ferdinand III (Ivrea), King of Castile) died on 28 Nov. 1290 in Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Princess Margaret (Capet), of France on 8 Sept. 1299 in Canterbury, Kent, England. Margaret (daughter of Philip III (Capet), King of France) died on 14 Feb. 1317 in Marlborough Castle, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Alexander III (Dunkeld), King of Scotland on 26 Dec. 1251. Alexander died on 19 March 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married John II (de Dreux), Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond on 22 Jan. 1260. John died on 18 Nov. 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Avelina de Fortibus on 8 April 1270. Avelina (daughter of William (de Fortibus), Count of Aumale) died on 10 Nov. 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Blanche (Capet), of Artois in to 3 Feb. 1275/76. Blanche (daughter of Robert I (Capet), Count of Artois and Matilda (Reginar), of Brabant) died on 2 May 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died young.

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• Regnal Name: Edward II
• Hereditary Title: 7 Feb. 1301; Earl of Chester [by charter]
• Hereditary Title: 7 Feb. 1301; Prince of Wales
• Hereditary Title: 8 July 1307; Duke of Aquitaine
• Hereditary Title: From 8 July 1307 to 7 Jan. 1327; King of England
• Coronation: 23 Feb. 1308

Edward married Isabella (Capet), of France on 28 Jan. 1308 in Boulogne, France. Isabella (daughter of Philip IV (Capet), King of France) was born in 1292; died on 22 Aug. 1358 in Hertford Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Alphonso III (Barcelona), King of Aragon on 15 Aug. 1282. Alphonso and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Henry III (Montbéliard), Count of Bar on 20 Sept. 1293. Henry died in 1302. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Gilbert (de Clare), 3rd Earl of Gloucester, 7th Earl of Hertford on 2 May 1290. Gilbert died on 7 Dec. 1295. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Ralph (de Monthermer), Lord Monthermer in 1297. Ralph died in 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John II (Reginar), Duke of Brabant on 9 July 1290. John died on 27 Oct. 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; Nun

Elizabeth married John I (Holland), Count of Holland on 8 Jan. 1296. John died on 10 Nov. 1299. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Humphrey (de Bohun), 4th Earl of Hereford and Essex on 14 Nov. 1302. Humphrey died on 16 March 1321. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Hayles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary de Braose. Mary died on 9 June 1362. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Margaret Wake in 1327. Margaret (daughter of John (Wake), 1st Lord Wake of Lydell) died on 29 Sept. 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
in infancy

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• Hereditary Title: 2nd Earl of Lancaster

Thomas married Alice Lacy before 28 Oct. 1294. Alice (daughter of Henry (Lacy), Earl of Lincoln) died on 2 Oct. 1348. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 3rd Earl of Lancaster
• Hereditary Title: Count of Provence
• Hereditary Title: Lord Lancaster [E., 1299]
• Hereditary Title: From 29 March 1324; 3rd Earl of Leicester
• Office: 1327; Captain General of the King's armies against the Scots

Notes:

He had livery of Monmouth and lands of his father beyond the Severn, 20 March 1296/97.

He served with the King of Flanders, 1297–98.

From 1298 to 1323, he served in Scotland nearly every year, being from 1310 onwards frequently ordered to send men from his Welsh lordship to serve in the Scottish wars.

He attested a charter at St. Albans, 3 November 1299.

He took part in the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300.

As Henry of Lancaster, Lord of Monmouth, his seal is appended to the Barons' Letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/01.

On 22 January 1307/08, he was commanded to meet Edward II and his Queen at Dover, after their marriage at Boulogne.

At the Coronation, 25 February 1307/08, he bore the Rod with the Dove.

In August 1309 he joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope about abuses.

On 17 March 1309/10, he was one of those who forced the King to agree to the appointment of the Lords Ordainers.

He was pardoned, among other adherents of Earl Thomas, 16 October 1313 for participation in the execution of Piers (Gaveston), 1st and last Earl of Cornwall.

As one of the Lords Marchers he was involve d in the fighting in South Wales, January 1315 to March 1316, occasioned by the rebellion of Llywelyn Bren.

In June 1317, the King wrote to Philippe of France asking him to respite the homage of Henry of Lancaster for his lands in Champagne and Brie as he was needed in England.

In 1320 he joined the confederacy of the Marchers against the Despensers, and civil war raged for some time in South Wales, the native Welsh siding with the Marchers; however, he took no part in the rebellion of his brother Thomas in 1322.

In May 1325 he was accused of treason because he had written a letter of consolation to the Bishop of Hereford (Adam of Orlton), used his brother's arms, and set up a cross near Leicester to induce passers-by to pray for his brother; but no proceedings were taken against him.

In August 1325 he was in readiness to attend the King with a suite of 8 followers when Edward made a pretence of setting out for France to do homage for Aquitaine and Ponthieu—a journey which was never taken.

On the Queen's return to England with Roger de Mortimer in September 1326, Henry joined her party against Edward II, which led to a general desertion of the King's cause, and was appointed Keeper of the castles of Abergavenny and Kenilworth.

The King having fled to Wales, Henry was sent in pursuit and captured the King at Neath, taking him thence to Llantrisant, co. Glamorgan, 16 November 1326. He captured the younger Despenser at the same time.

He was appointed to take charge of the King, and was responsible for his custody at Kenilworth till 4 April 1327. (It was at Kenilworth, in the presence of his custodian and others, that Edward II made his formal abdication, of which a graphic account is given in Geoffrey le Baker's Chronicon.)

As Henry, Earl of Lancaster, he was appointed, 7 December 1326, Keeper of the castle and honour of Lancaster, the castles and honours of Tutbury and Pickering, the manor of Melbourne, co. Derby, and the manor of Stanford, co. Bucks; and as Henry, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Keeper of various manors in Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, and Leicestershire.

He was present, 1 February 1326/27, at the Coronation of Edward III, whom he knighted, and of whom he was appointed guardian.

The Queen and Roger de Mortimer, however, usurped the authority with which Henry had been invested by the general consent of the magnates for the better government of the King and of the realm, and Henry was unable to control or to advise his young charge.

On 23 April 1327, he had livery of a large number of honours and manors late of Thomas his brother, the King having taken his homage.

On 12 February 1327/28, the Exchequer was ordered to search the rolls of the accounts of the sheriffs of co. Lancaster and to allow Henry to receive ferms and issues of the county as had Edmund his father and Thomas his brother.

He with Lord Wake and others refused to attend the Parliament summoned to meet at Salisbury on 16 October 1328, where Mortimer had assembled a large armed force.

Mortimer set the Royal forces in action against them, and the Earl's town of Leicester was ravaged.

He marched at the head of his own men and some Londoners, but his chief supporters fell away and he was obliged to make his submission at Bedford.

Orders were issued for the seizure of his lands in January 1328/29, but rescinded in February upon a heavy fine, which was forgiven in December 1330.

His partisans and those of Hamo de Chigwell, formerly Lord Mayor of London, were tried at the Guildhall.

On 12 September 1329 he had a protection on going beyond seas, and in that month set out for France with a large retinue.

On 3 December 1329 he was joined with the Bishop of Norwich in the negotiations with King Philippe touching questions still at issue between the two Kings after Edward's act of homage at Amiens on 6 June. On 27 Jan. 1330 the Ambassadors had further instructions to negotiate marriages between Jean, eldest son of King Philippe, and Edward's sister Eleanor, and John of Eltham and Princess Marie of France, in which they did not succeed.

At about this time (early 1330) he became blind.

On 2 April 1330 he had licence to found a hospital for poor persons and pilgrims in his town of Leicester, to be served by 4 or 5 chaplains, and to appropriate to it Ircester church, of his patronage. This hospital was the Newark, Leicester.

On the fall of Mortimer in October 1330 his close personal relations with the young King were renewed.

On 1 February 1331/32 he had remission of £221 13s. 4d. relief on succeeding to his brother Thomas's lands, because the King had had them in his own hand for six years after the death of Thomas.

On 27 March 1332, for the special affection which he bore him, the King granted Henry 500 marks yearly for the better maintenance of his estate.

In December 1334, Henry made a gift to the nuns of Canons Ashby.

In 1335 he was with the King at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where the invasion of Scotland by Edward III and Balliol, from Carlisle and Newcastle respectively, was planned and carried out.

He was summoned to attend a Great Council at Northampton, 15 June 1338.

In January 1338/39 he was one of the collectors of wool in co. Lincoln.

In June 1339 Henry, as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Steward of England, headed the group of Earls who were sureties for the treaty concluded at Brussels between England and Brabant.

On 14 July 1341 the King granted him and the heirs of his body certain jura regalia—namely, the return of all King's writs and all pleas of withernaam (de vetito namio) in their lands and fees, &c. (These were afterwards cancelled with the consent of his son Henry.)

In September 1342 he was summoned to the Great Council to be held the following month.

He was appointed, 1 July 1345, to the Council of Prince Lionel, Keeper of England during the King's absence.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament during the lifetime of his father, from 6 February 1298/99, by writs directed Henrico de Lancastre nepoti Regis and Henrico de Lancastre, whereby, according to modern doctrine, he is held to have become Lord Lancaster.

Hereditary Title:
He was present as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, 26 October 1326, at Bristol, at the extraordinary Council which elected Prince Edward, then Duke of Aquitaine, keeper of the realm during his father's absence, the King having fled to Wales.

On 3 February 1326/27 his brother Thomas was rehabilitated in Parliament, whereby Henry's right of succession to his brother in the Earldom of Lancaster was recognised.

Hereditary Title:
In 1323 he petitioned the King and Council for the earldoms of Lancaster and Leicester.

He received a writ of livery of the earldom and honour of Leicester, 29 March 1324 (the castle of Kenilworth excepted), becoming thereby Earl of Leicester, and possibly Steward of England.

He was summoned, 13 September 1324, to the Great Council at Salisbury as Earl of Leicester, and as Henry de Lancastria, "now Earl of Leicester," he received the honour of Leicester 8 November 1324.

Buried:
There were present at his funeral the King and Queen, Queen Isabel, Archbishops, bishops, earls and barons.

Henry married Maud Chaworth before 2 March 1296/97. Maud (daughter of Sir Patrick de Chaworth and Lady Isabel Beauchamp) died between 19 Feb. 1317 and 3 Dec. 1322; was buried in Mottisfont Priory, Mottisfont, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alix de Joinville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died young.

Other Events:

• Regnal Name: Edward III
• Hereditary Title: 7 Jan. 1327; King of England
• Coronation: 1 Feb. 1327, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Edward married Philippa (Avesnes), of Hainault on 24 Jan. 1328 in York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England. Philippa (daughter of William III (Avesnes), Count of Holland and Hainault) died on 15 Aug. 1369 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Reynald II (Wassenberg), Duke of Gueldres in 1332. Reynald died on 12 Oct. 1343. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married David II (Bruce), King of Scotland on 17 July 1328. David died on 22 Feb. 1371. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lady Beatrix Mortimer. Beatrix (daughter of Roger (Mortimer), 1st Earl of March) died between 1383 and 1384. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Hereditary Title: 1397; 1st Duchess of Norfolk [E., 1397]

Family/Spouse: John (Segrave), 4th Lord Segrave. John died on 20 March 1353. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter (Manny), Lord Manny. Walter died on 15 Jan. 1372. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward (Montacute), 1st Lord Montacute. Edward died on 15 July 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1381, on her return from a pilgrimage to Canterbury, her carriage was surrounded by the Kentish insurgents raised by Wat Tyler, who were so threatening and insulting that, affrighted, she drove without a halt from Canterbury back to London (Idem, volume ix, page 391).

Died:
Her inquisitions give her death variously as 7, 8, 21 August, and one gives 8 July—a month before she made her will. Froissart, who lived in her house at Berkhampstead during the Queen's visit in 1361 (Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), volume vi, page 367); volume xvi, page 142), describes Joan as "la plus belle dame de tout roiaulme d'Engleterre, et la plus amoureuse" (Idem, volume ii, page 243).

Joan married Thomas (Holand), Earl of Kent in 1346. Thomas died on 26 Dec. 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Edward (Plantagenet), The Black Prince, Prince of Wales on 10 Oct. 1361 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Edward (son of Edward III (Plantagenet), King of England and Philippa (Avesnes), of Hainault) was born on 15 June 1330 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England; died on 8 June 1376 in Westminster, Middlesex, England; was buried in Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Hereditary Title: 1st Duke of Lancaster
• Hereditary Title: 4th Earl of Derby
• Hereditary Title: 4th Earl of Lancaster
• Hereditary Title: 4th Earl of Lincoln

Family/Spouse: Hon. Isabel Beaumont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas (Wake), 2nd Lord Wake of Lydell. Thomas died on 31 May 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William (de Burgh), Earl of Ulster. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Ralph de Ufford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married John (Mowbray), 3rd Lord Mowbray in 1326. John died on 4 Oct. 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; Prioress of Ambresbury

Eleanor married John (Beaumont), 2nd Lord Beaumont circa 1337. John died in 1342. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Richard (Fitz Alan), 9th Earl of Arundel in 1345. Richard died on 24 Jan. 1375. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Henry (Percy), 3rd Lord Percy before Sept. 1334 in Tutbury Castle, Tutbury, Staffordshire, England. Henry (son of Henry (de Percy), 2nd Lord Percy and Hon. Idoine de Clifford) was born circa 1320; died circa 18 May 1368; was buried in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]