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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. Husband of Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln.
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancaster —from which the house was named—for his second son Edmund Crouchback in 1267. Edmund had already been created Earl of Leicester in 1265 and was granted the lands and ...
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- Reign of Edward I
- Reign of Edward II
- Increasing Frictions
- Final Rebellion and Death
Thomas was the oldest son of Edmund Crouchback and his second wife Blanche d'Artois. He was born circa 1278. Thomas gained seisin of his lands, being regarded as of full age, on 8 September 1298.
In 1290 a proposed marriage to Béatrice, granddaughter of the Duke of Burgundy, came to nothing. On or before 28 October 1294, Thomas married Alice de Lacy. They had no children. Thomas had at least two illegitimate children: 1. Thomas, who became a royal chamberlain 2. John, who became a priest
Thomas fought in Scotland in the later 1290s, taking part in the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 and the siege of Caerlaverock Castle two years later. He was knighted during the Falkirk campaign.In 1304-5 Thomas was one of the peers who accompanied the future Edward II to Perth. He was campaigning in Scotland once more in 1306-7.
Thomas was one of three sword-carriers at the coronation of Edward II on 25 February 1308. At the start of Edward II's reign he received a number of royal grants and appears to have been on fairly good terms with the king. He was made Steward of England on 2 May 1308. He was not one of those lords whose intervention led to the exile of the royal fa...
The rise of the royal favourites the Despensers further antagonised Thomas. A letter of protest about Edward II's governance in the summer of 1317 attracted little support from other barons. Later that year Thomas seized some castles held by opponents. He sought the help of the Scots. In August 1318 an agreement with Edward II was patched together,...
By February 1321, a number of leading barons were antagonised by Edward II's favouritism towards the Despensers, whose lands were attacked. Thomas did not join in these attacks, but later attempted without success to establish a widespread coalition against the Despensers. Thomas now moved towards outright rebellion, and sought a formal alliance wi...
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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. The first, in 1310, resulted in Parliament imposing restraints on Edward's profligate spending and ...
The title of Earl of Lancaster was created in the Peerage of England in 1267. It was succeeded by the title Duke of Lancaster in 1351, which expired in 1361. (The most recent creation of the ducal title merged with the Crown in 1413.) King Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancaster—from which the royal house of Henry IV was named ...
Brief Life History of Thomas. When Thomas of Lancaster 2nd Earl of Lancaster was born in 1277, in Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales, his father, Edmund 1st Earl of Lancaster, was 32 and his mother, Blanche d'Artois Reine de Navarre, was 29. He married Alice de Lacy before 28 October 1294, in Yorkshire, England.
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