Also known as “Tortcol” or “Wryneck.”
3rd earl of Lancaster
3rd earl of Leicester
Events
Date of Birth: about 1280.
The estimated date is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Date of Death: 22 September 1345.
The date is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Place of Burial: the Hospital of the Annunciation, Leicester Castle.
The place is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Relationships
Father: Edmund “Crouchback” (1245 - 1296).
This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Mother: Blanche d’Artois (died 1302).
This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Spouse: Maud Chaworth (1282 - about 1322).
This relationship is given by Waugh (ODNB).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Henry of Lancaster (“of Grosmont”) (about 1310 - 1361), duke of Lancaster, married Isabella Beaumont.
Blanche (about 1305 - shortly before 12 July 1380) married Thomas Wake, lord Wake.
Matilda (about 1310 - 5 May 1377) married (1) William de Burgh, earl of Ulster; married (2) Ralph de Ufford.
Joan (about 1312 - about 1347) married John de Mowbray, lord Mowbray.
Isabel (born about 1317). Prioress of Amesbury.
Eleanor (about 1318 - 11 January 1372) married (1) John, lord Beaumont; married (2) Richard (II) FitzAlan, earl of Arundel and of Surrey in 1344/5 at Ditton.
Mary (about 1320/1 - 1 September 1362) married Henry Percy.
References
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Given-Wilson, C. “Fitzalan, Richard (II), third earl of Arundel and eighth earl of Surrey (c. 1313 - 1376)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. September 2013).
Somerville, Robert. History of the Duchy of Lancaster. Volume One 1265-1603 (The Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1953).
Waugh, Scott L. “Henry of Lancaster, third earl of Lancaster and third earl of Leicester (c. 1280-1345)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. May 2006).