Edmund PLANTAGENET

Edmund "Crouchback"

"Earl of Leicester & Chester" b.16 Jan 1245 London, England

d.5 June 1296 Bayonne. - Interred; 15 Jul 1296 Westminster Abbey, London

married1:

Countess Aveline de FORZ (married Apr 7, 1269) she died Nov 10, 1274

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married2:

Blanche of Artois

(married before Feb 3, 1276) Paris France. parents:

King Henry III, PLANTAGENET

King of England, Reigned 1216-1272

Eleanor BERENGER of Provence

children of Edmund & Blanche PLANTAGENET

Thomas (b.~1276) 2nd Earl of Lancaster

Henry (b.~1281) 3rd Earl of Lancaster

John (b.~1286) Lord of Beaufort

Mary

siblings: PLANTAGENET

Edward (b.1239) Longshanks, King of England, Reigned 1272-1307

Margaret (b.1240)

Beatrice (b.1242)

Richard (b.1247)

John (b.abt 1250)

William (b.abt 1252)

Katherine (b.1253) "a Mute"

Henry (b.aft 1256)

fact sources and writings about this individual:

The Complete Peerage vol.VII,pages; 378-387,pp.547

writings from the Peerage; In 1253 he was invested by the Pope in the Kingdom of Sicily and Apulia, at about this time he was also made Earl of Chester. These were of little value as the real King of Sicily was still living and the Earldom of Chester was transfered to his elder brother Edward. He soon obtained, however, both possessions and dignities, for upon the forfeiture of Simon de Montfort by the King of the Earldom of Leicester and also the honour of the Stewardship of England and the lands of Nicolas de Segrave.

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Blanche of Artois, was the daughter of the Count of Artois & widow of King Henry I, AKA "Henry The Fat", King of Navarre, France.