Henry, earl of Lancaster

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).