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Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – March 22 1322) was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Edward II of England. A descendant of Henry III of England, Edward was his cousin. Thomas Lancaster led two rebellions against Edward.
C. 1278 - 22 March 1322. Thomas of Lancaster was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois, the daughter of Count Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant and a granddaughter of King Louis VIII of France.
Apr 28, 2013 · Thomas of Lancaster was the son of Edmund Crouchback who was the second surviving son of King Henry III. Crouchback refers to the fact that he fought in the ninth crusade so was entitled to wear a cross stitched onto the back of his clothes – no Richard III tendencies. But I digress, Thomas….
Apr 26, 2022 · Death: March 22, 1322 (39-48) Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, England (Executed, beheaded.) Place of Burial: St John's Priory of Pontefract, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. Immediate Family: Son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster and Blanche of Artois.
Thomas of Lancaster (c.1278–1322) was one of the most powerful magnates during the reign of Edward II and a thorn in the side of the king. He was the son of Edmund Crouchback, a younger son of Henry III and was therefore first cousin to Edward II.
When Edmund's son Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, inherited the estates and title of his father-in-law Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, he became at a stroke the most powerful nobleman in England, with lands throughout the kingdom and the ability to raise vast private armies to wield power at national and local levels.
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Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (c. 1278 – 22 March 1322) was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty. He was Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 to 1322, and Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury jure uxoris from 1311 to 1322.
