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Thomas of Lancaster's main possessions (Maddicott). Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (1278 – March 22, 1322) was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to Edward II of England. Thomas was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Blanche of Artois. His paternal grandparents were Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
Who was Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster? Thomas, Earl of Leicester and Lancaster was an English nobleman. A junior member of the House of Plantagenet, he was one of the leaders of the baronial opposition to his first cousin, Edward II of England.
Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster primary name: Plantagenet, Thomas other name: Lancaster
On the 22nd March 1322, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, and the second most powerful man in the realm after King Edward II, was beheaded on the orders of the King and his peers, on a hill, overlooking his great castle at Pontefract. What brought this powerful man to this ignominious end, has been debated for centuries.
In 1303 Edmund’s son Thomas (d.1322), the 2nd Earl, acquired rights that allowed him to enclose a vast hunting park south and west of the mere. He also had a chapel built between 1314 and 1322. Estranged from his first cousin Edward II (r.1307–27) early in the century, Thomas was in outright rebellion against him by the 1320s.
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.
