Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl Of Lancaster And Leicester

1245 - 1296  (51 years)

• Name	Edmund Plantagenet
  Title	1st Earl Of Lancaster And Leicester
  Christening	Jan 1245	Middlesex, England
  Birth	16 Jan 1245	London, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	L7TR-TVZ
  Death	5 Jun 1296	Midi-Pyrénées, France   [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Burial	15 Jul 1296	Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I35	footsteps | Ancestors, Beaufort, Charlamagne, Robert Capet II
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Henry Plantagenet, King of England , III,   b. 1 Oct 1207, New Hampshire, United States d. 16 Nov 1272, Middlesex, England (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eleanor of Provence, Queen consort of England ,   b. 23 Dec 1223, Provence-Alpes-Cote D'Azur, France d. 24 Jun 1291, Wiltshire, England (Age 67 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	14 Jan 1236	Kentshire, England
  Family ID	F47	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Blanche D. Artois, Queen Dowager Of Navarre ,   b. 1248, Midi-Pyrénées, France d. 2 May 1302, Paris, Île-De-France, France (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	29 Oct 1276	Île-De-France, France
  Children	+ 1. Henry of Lancaster, 3rd Earl Of Leicester And Lancaster ,   b. 1 Nov 1281, Yorkshire, England d. 22 Sep 1345, Leicestershire, England (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F55	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Christening - Jan 1245 - Middlesex, England Birth - 16 Jan 1245 - London, England Marriage - 29 Oct 1276 - Île-De-France, France Death - 5 Jun 1296 - Midi-Pyrénées, France Burial - 15 Jul 1296 - Middlesex, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Edmund Crouchback

  
  

• Notes

  Edmund Crouchback was born 16 January 1245, and was the second survivin g s o n o f K i ng Henry III of England of the House of Plantagenet and Quee n E l e a n or of Provence (Eleanore Berenger). He was a younger brother of E d w a r d I o f England, Margaret of England, and Beatrice of England, and a n o l d e r b rother of Katherine of England. In his childhood he had a claim on the Kingdom of Sicily, but he never r u l e d t h ere. In 1255 (at the age of 10) he was invested ruler of the Ki n g d o m o f Sicily and Apulia by the Bishop of Romania, on behalf of Pope I n n o c e nt IV. In return his father undertook to pay the papacy 135,541 m a r k s a n d fight a war to dislodge Manfred of Sicily from the kingdom. Up o n I n n o cent's death, Pope Alexander IV confirmed Edmund's grant of Sici l y . H e n ry's barons refused to contribute to what they called the " Sici l i a n b u siness" and ultimately Henry was only able to pay 60,000 marks. S t e p h e n Runciman says the grant of the kingdom was revoked by Pope Alexa n d e r I V o n 18 December 1258; Edmund renounced his claim to the crown o f S i c i l y. At about the same time Edmund was granted Sicily, he was made Earl of C h e s t e r. In 1263, the Earldom of Chester was transferred to his elder br o t h e r E dward, who required the palatinate income.

  
  

• Sources

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