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
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
  1. Thomas (b.~1276) 2nd Earl of Lancaster
  2. Henry (b.~1281) 3rd Earl of Lancaster
  3. John (b.~1286) Lord of Beaufort
  4. Mary

siblings: PLANTAGENET

  1. Edward (b.1239) Longshanks, King of England, Reigned 1272-1307
  2. Margaret (b.1240)
  3. Beatrice (b.1242)
  4. Richard (b.1247)
  5. John (b.abt 1250)
  6. William (b.abt 1252)
  7. Katherine (b.1253) "a Mute"
  8. 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.

Blanche of Artois, was the daughter of the Count of Artois & widow of King Henry I, AKA "Henry The Fat", King of Navarre, France.
King Henry III, King of England, Reigned 1216-1272. A minor when he took the throne he did not take the reigns of Government himself until 1234. Baronian discontent simmered, boiling over in 1258 when Henry facing financial disaster attempted to raise large sums from his magnates. Reforms were agreed upon but then renouced by Henry. Simon de Montford lead a rebellion against the King (the Barons Wars) which was defeated after initial success, thereafter Henry ceeded much of his power to his son. Burke say he was born 10 Oct 1206 and married 14 Jan, crowned 1216.

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