11819892. Regent Edmund of Lancaster & 11819893. Queen Blanche of Artois & 11819398. King Henry III of Navarre
1/16/1244,
Edmund born in England, s/o 11819392. King Henry III & 11819393. Eleanor
of Provence.
1248,
Blanche of Artois born in Artois, France, d/o 23639786. Robert, Count of
Artois & 23639787. Matilda of Brabant.
1249, King
Henry III of Navarre born in France, s/o 23638796. Thibaut IV, Count of
Champagne & 23638797. Margaret of Burbon.
7/11/1253,
Henry’s father died, his older brother Thibaut V the heir to Navarre and
Champagne.
1/1255, with
agreement of the French royalty and the Pope, King Henry III and Queen Eleanor
proposed Edmund as the King of Sicily, which had previously been offered to
Edmund’s uncle Richard of Cornwall, and Charles of Anjou married to his aunt.
1255,
11-year-old Edmund crowned King of Sicily by Pope Alexander III [renounced in
1263.]
4/12/1256,
Henry’s mother died.
5/1257, King
Henry and Queen Eleanor sent an emissary to Manfred, illegitimate son of
Emperor Frederick II and remaining heir, to propose marriage of their son
Edmund and his daughter.
1258, King
Henry accepted the pope’s offer of the crown of Sicily for his 2nd
son Edmund.
5/12/1264,
Ralph de Tony’s marriage and custody granted to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of
Hereford and Essex, and to Edmund, the King’s son.
1265 at
Roxburgh castle, Scotland, Edmund [likely with his brother Edward who had
pushed north in pursuit of rebel barons after the battle of Evesham] visited
his sister Queen Margaret.
8/3/1266,
Grant of John de Verdon to Sir Maurice son of Gerald and lady Agnes de Valencia
his wife, in free marriage of the latter, all his lands … Witnesses: Sir Edward
and Sir Edmund, sons of Henry [III]; … (S) CPRs, 11/1/1299.
1267, Edmund
organized multiple tournaments.
6/30/1267,
Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster, known as “Crouchback” – refers to his
crusader’s cross worn on his back. Edmund granted the lordship of Builth,
Monmouth and other lands in Wales.
3/6/1268,
Edmund a witness to a charter of privileges of his father the king.
6/24/1268 at
Northampton, lord Edward and Edmund took the crusaders cross.
11/20/1268,
King Henry approved Edmund’s proposed marriage to Isabella de Fortibus, widow
of William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle; d/o Baldwin de Redvers, earl of
Devon, and heiress to the Isle of Wight and the earldom of Devon. [She did not
marry him.]
[––Edmund
& Aveline––]
4/1269 in Westminster abbey, Edmund married Aveline, d/o Isabella de Fortibus, age 11. [ggd/o Richard
de Montfichet (47282026).]
8/19/1270,
From Dover, Lord Edward with his brother Edmund left on the 8th
crusade in support of French forces that had already departed.
11/10/1270,
Edward and Edmund in Tunis to find that King Louis had died, the crusader
forces had been decimated by disease, and King Charles of Sicliy, his uncle by
marriage, had already arranged a peace treaty with the emir of Tunis. The
French fleet returned the next day; the English forces remained. King Edward,
retreated back to Sicily.
By 5/1271, King
Edward moved his forces to Acre; waiting for support to arrive [which never
came.]
5/1272,
Edmund left the crusade to return to England. (S) Edward I, Prestwich, 1988,
P78. [King Edward left 4 months later.]
[–– Henry & Blanche ––]
12/1270,
Henry III succeeded as King of Navarre after the death of his older brother
Thibaut V who died on crusade.
3/1271,
Henry declared his brother’s successor at Pamplona, Spain.
1272, Henry
III, King of Navarre, married Blanche.
5/1273,
Henry crowned King of Navarre at Pamplona, swearing to uphoild the Fueros of
Navarre [laws of the kingdom.]
1273, Henri
traveled to France to do homage to King Philip III.
1273, Henry
and Blanche’s only male heir died when dropped from the battlements of a castle
by his nurse.
7/22/1274,
King Henry III of Navarre, “le Gros”, age 25, died at Pamplona where he was
buried.
[––Blanche ––]
1274,
Blanche did homage to King Philip III for the county of Navarre.
1273-4,
Aveline, age 15, died while Edmund was on crusade; buried in Westminster abbey
[near Edmund.]
[–– Edmund & Blanche ––]
1274, Edmund
returned to England from Burgundy. [King Edward went on to Paris.]
8/19/1274,
Edmund attended the coronation of his brother Edward with a train of 100
knights.
5/1275,
Blanche and King Philip III agreed to have her daughter Jeanne marry one of his
sons. Blanche took her daughter to France to live in the royal court.
6/7/1275,
Grant to Edmund, the king’s brother, who holds the lands and tenements late of
Robert de Ferar[iis] until satisfaction … £50,000 sterling … as well … which
Margaret de Ferar[iis] holds in dower of the inheritiance of the said Robert, …
(S) CPRs.
10/29/1276,
Confirmation of the dower which Edmund the king’s brother made to Blanche,
queen of Navarre, his consort, … (S) CPRs.
7/25/1277,
Edmund arrived with workmen at the site of Aberystwyth castle, Wales, and
started construction on a new castle near by. The workmen came via Bristol with
40 measures of iron, 4 great chards of lead, 9 smiths, 120 masons, 120
carpenters, 9 quarrymen and 24 workmen. Completion cost £3885 17s 11½d.
9/20/1277,
Edmund disbanded his southern army and returned to England. [Some construction
workers remained at the site to finish the castle.]
10/13/1278
at Worcester, Edmund gave away Eleanor de Montfort, d/o Earl Simon de Montfort
(deceased rebel leader), at the church door on her wedding to Llywelyn, Prince
of Wales. King Edward paid for the wedding feast. [Eleanor was a cousin to
Edmund and Edward.]
12/21/1278
at Lichfield, Charter of Roger de Meuland, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to
Edmund the king’s brother, and Blanche, queen of Navarre, his wife, … granting
a plot of land … in Westminster street …
3/21/1279,
Power to Edmund, earl of Lancaster and count of Champagne, the king’s brother,
and John de Brittania, earl of Richmond, to exact from Philip, king of France,
the king’s kinsman, the county of Ponthieu, which by the death of Joan, queen
of Castile and countess of Ponthieu, falls by hereditary right to Eleanor, the
king’s consort. (S) CPRs.
5/1279, King
Henry of Navarre attended the tournament at Compigene. (S) Tournament, Part 4,
Crouch, 2007, P77.
5/26/1280,
Acquittance to … for taking … by order of Edmund, count of Champagne, … to the
use of … queen of Navarre, his consort, 16 bucks, 1 stag, 3 roebucks, and 1
boar in the forest of Dene. (S) CPRs.
5/24/1281,
Edmund, the king’s brother, granted Eleanor, late the wife of Robert de
Ferrariis, earl of Derby, the town of Gumecestre, for life, … Witnesses:-
Laurence de Sancto Mauro, Richard Fukeran, Ralph de Sancto Mauro, William le
Butiller of Werinton, Robert Banastre, … knights, … (S) CPRs.
6/28/1283,
Edmund summoned to Shrewsbury by writ from Rhuddlan to the king to hold a
colloquium to ordain what should be done with David, brother of Llewellyn,
formerly prince of Wales. [The Parliament held at Acton Burnell, near
Shrewsbury, when David III was condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered –
ending the Welsh rebellion.] (S) The Titular Barony of Clavering, 1891, P16.
6/1/1285,
Confirmation of a charter … to the burgesses of St. Omer, Flanders, … with a
further grant at the instance of Eleanor, the king’s mother, and of the queen
of Navarre, the consort of Edmund, the king’s brother, that the said burgesses
shall be exempt from murage throughout the realm … (S) CPRs.
9/29/1286,
Roberto de Lathum ‘, knight, witness (together with Sir William le Boteler, Sir
Robert Banastre, Sir Robert de Holand and others) to charter of Edmund, earl of
Lancaster to the prior and canons of Burscough for a market at the manor of
Ormskirk.
6/1287, Rhys
ap Maredudd began a rebellion in south Wales. Edmund sent Edmund, earl of
Cornwall, to suppress the uprising.
7/8/1290 at
Westminster, Earl Edmund, with a train of 100 knights and 6 ladies, attended
the wedding of his niece Margaret.
9/8/1291,
Edmund attended his mother’s funeral at Amesbury abbey.
12/30/1291, Grant to Edmund the king’s brother of the marriage of Matilda
daughter and heir of Patrick de Cadurcis, tenant in chief, to the use of Henry
his son … (S) CPRs.
5/1293, Edmund, earl of Lancaster, and Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln,
sent to King Philip IV to arrange a truce.
1293, Edmund
founded a Poor Clares convent “without Aldgate”.
1294, Edmund
again an envoy to King Philip IV. An agreement was reached when Edmund was
supported by Jeanne, queen of France, and Marie, mother of Philip IV.
3/1294,
Gascony was turned over to Philip. Once Philip had his knights in place, he
kept possession against the arranged agreement.
1294, Esmon,
fitz du Roy Henri d'Engleterre [son of King Henry III], a son chier cousin mon
sire Johan de Seint Johan, chevaler, tenant en la duchie de Guyenne, le lieu de
nostre treschere seigneur & frere, mon seigneur Edward, par la grace de
DIEU, Roy d'Engleterre, seignur d'Irland, & due de Guyenn' & a sire
Johan de Havering chevaler, seneschall de la dite duchie, & a tous les
autres seneschaus du dist nostre seigneur le Roy & duc, es parties & es
terres de la mesme duchie, saluz.
1295, Walter
de Beauchamp the military paymaster for Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, in Gascony.
1296, Edmund
sent to Gascony to take charge of expeditionary forces from John of Brittany.
Blanch went with Edmund.
6/5/1296,
Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster & Leicester, died at Bayonne during
the siege of Bordeaux; his heart buried beneath the high alter of the Poor
Clares convent. [Edward’s body was embalmed and kept in France for 6 months
before being returned to England.]
[––Blanche––]
11/17/1296,
Safe-conduct for Blance, queen of Navarre, her household and company, coming
from Gascony to the king in England. (S) CPRs.
By
1/18/1297, Blanche arrived back in England at Plymouth and returned to London.
(S) CPRs.
7/3/1297, IPM of Edmund the King’s brother. Buckingham,
Wilts, Dorset, Warwick, Leicester, Stafford, Derby, York, Lancaster, Berks,
Northampton, Bedford, Lincoln, Nottingham, Northumberland. (S) CIsPM.
1297-98, Blanche
returned to France to live with her daughter.
1298, Marie
of Brabant, queen dowager of France, involved in the arraignment of the
marriage of her grandaughter Isabella to Edward of Caernarvon [future King
Edward II.] Blanche of Artois, the maternal grandmother was also a party to the
negotiations. (S) Queen Isabella, Weir, 2006, P9.
6/7/1298,
Protection with clause volumus, until Christmas, for Blanche, late the wife of
Edmund, the king’s brother, going beyond seas. … (S) CPRs.
7/3/1298, Writ
for IPM of Edmund the King’s brother. The said Edmund on the contract of
marriage between him and Lady Blanche, queen of Navarre, Campania and Brie,
countess Palatine (Palentine), granted to her by letters patent, confirmed by
the king, a third part of all his lands &c., and his whole right in the
earldom of Ferrers, to hold in dower for her life … [very long list of
properties in multiple counties] … 20s. for her life to Sapientia formerly Sir
Edmund’s nurse … (S) CIsPM.
6/28/1300,
Simple protection for 2 years for Blanche, queen of Navarre, late the wife of
Edmund, the king’s brother, staying beyond seas.
5/2/1302,
Blanche died; Joan, queen of France [her daughter], named her executrix. (S)
CPRs, 2/20/1303.
(S)
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, Evergates, 1999.
Family
notes:
·
King Henry IV is Edmund’s ggs.
Children
of Henry and Blanche:
i. Queen Jeanne of Navarre (5909699), born 1273.
Children
of Edmund and Blanche:
i. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, born 1277-80 in
England.
1294, Thomas
married Alice de Lacy [12/25/1281–10/2/1348], d/o Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln.
7/22/1298,
Thomas at the battle of Falkirk and the defeat of William Wallace.
1296, Thomas
inherited 3 earldoms from his father.
2/1308,
Thomas offered to defend King Edward II against the other earls in battle.
11/1308,
Thomas left the court of Edward II.
1311, Thomas
inherited 2 earldoms from Alice’s father. [Having a total income of about
£11,000 a year, 2nd only to the King.]
6/19/1312,
Thomas 1 of 3 earls involved in the murder of Piers de Gaveston.
5/1317,
Alice ‘abducted” by her lover, Eubulo Lestraunge, a squire of John de Warren,
Earl of Surrey; which started a private war between the earls.
1318, Thomas
reduced in power by the “Middle Party” retired to his castle at Pontefract.
1321, Thomas
led the opposition forces in the north in the Despenser war.
3/16/1322,
Thomas defeated and captured at the battle of Boroughbridge.
1322,
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, was beheaded by Edward
II at this castle of Pontefract. [This execution of a powerful noble, uncle of
his wife, who was not given a chance to defend himself, started the downfall of
Edward II.]
ii. Henry of Lancaster (5909946), born 1281 in
England.
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