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Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, born circa 1278, was an English nobleman from the royal Plantagenet Dynasty and the first House of Lancaster. Holding the titles of Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 to 1322, and Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury jure uxoris from 1311 to 1322, he emerged as a prominent baronial leader opposing his first cousin, King Edward II.
Mar 21, 2016 · The blood of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, executed in March 1322 under King Edward II, was central to his representation as a political martyr. In this paper I shall discuss the miraculous flow of blood from Lancaster’s tomb, which occurred on two occasions, and shall suggest two interpretations, symbolic and political, of the meaning of these miracles.
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (younger brother): Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln (ex-wife): Others Attributes . Closely related to both French and English royal families through his parents, Thomas was considered to be of a nobler descent than any other nobles.
Isabel of Lancaster, Abbess of Amesbury, (about 1317 – after 1347) Eleanor of Lancaster, (about 1318–1371/72) married (1) John De Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont and (2) 5 Feb 1344/5, Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel and had descendants. Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320–1362), who married Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy, and was the ...
When, in 1399, the Duke of Lancaster seized the crown from Richard II, he achieved a rough-and-ready settlement of a troublesome situation that had first come to a head ninety years earlier, with the antagonism between Edward II and Thomas, the second Earl of Lancaster. Thomas, however, was a very different character from Henry of Boling-broke ...
The Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University has released a new podcast to launch the start of series two. 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.
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.
