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THOMAS, EARL OF LANCASTER, was the eldest son of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster [Edmund Crouchback] and titular king of Sicily, and a grandson of the English king, Henry III; while he was related to the royal house of France both through his mother, Blanche, a granddaughter of Louis VIII, and his step-sister, Jeanne, Queen of Navarre, the wife of ...
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.
This special episode marks the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Boroughbridge and the execution of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, in 1322. This was the bloody end of a civil war that scarred one of England’s most troubled and turbulent reigns, that of Edward II.
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.
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.
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, earl of Lancaster, was executed for rebellion on 22 March 1322, and there arose a cult almost immediately at his execution site at Pontefract in Yorkshire.
