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Henry of Lancaster

Male Abt 1280 - 1345  (~ 65 years)


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  • Name Henry of Lancaster 
    Birth Abt 1280  [1
    Gender Male 
    Alternate birth Abt 1281  Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Death 22 Sep 1345  [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
    Burial The Newarke, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 7, 8, 9
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I3071  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2020 

    Father Edmund "Crouchback",   b. 16 Jan 1245, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Jun 1296, Bayonne, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Mother Blanche of Artois,   b. Abt 1248   d. 2 May 1302, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jan 1276  Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 10
    Family ID F3898  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Maud de Chaworth,   b. 2 Feb 1282   d. Bef 3 Dec 1322 (Age < 40 years) 
    Marriage Bef 2 Mar 1297  [1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12
    Children 
    +1. Maud of Lancaster   d. 5 May 1377
    +2. Joan of Lancaster,   b. Abt 1312   d. Abt 1349 (Age ~ 37 years)
    +3. Henry of Grosmont,   b. 1314   d. 24 Mar 1361, Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    +4. Eleanor of Lancaster,   b. Abt 1318   d. 11 Jan 1372, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 54 years)
    +5. Mary of Lancaster,   b. Abt 1320   d. 1 Sep 1362 (Age ~ 42 years)
    Family ID F1680  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • Also called "Tortcol"; also called Henry Plantagenet.

      Earl of Lancaster. Earl of Leicester.

      Steward of England; Constable of Abergavenny and Kenilworth Castles 1326; Chief Guardian of the King 1327; Captain-General of the Marches towards Scotland 1327; Councillor of Regency 1345.

      Summoned to Parliament by writs 6 Feb 1299 onward.

      "Served against the Scots and in Flanders, at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300, among the barons forcing restrictions on Edward II's powers, joined the queen's party in 1326 and captured the king later that year, knighted Edward III at his coronation, became blind in about 1330, but continued to participate in public affairs and as a counselor of the king." [Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below.]

      Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth were great-grandparents of both Henry IV and his queen, Mary de Bohun.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.

    2. [S73] Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by S. J. Payling. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991., year only.

    3. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., year only.

    4. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    5. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only.

    6. [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928.

    7. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    8. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    9. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    10. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., "apparently between 27 July and 29 Oct. 1276".

    11. [S53] The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years by Frederick Lewis Weis. Fifth edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and William R. Beal. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999.

    12. [S73] Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by S. J. Payling. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991., "shortly before March 1297".