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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.
Mar 20, 2024 · In full: Thomas, 2nd earl of Lancaster, 2nd earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln. Born: c. 1278. Died: March 22, 1322, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. Thomas of Lancaster (born c. 1278—died March 22, 1322, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England) was a grandson of King Henry III of England and the main figure in the baronial opposition to King ...
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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, Second Earl of Lancaster. 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, 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.
Apr 19, 2021 · Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster began construction of Dunstanburgh Castle in 1313 and by 1322 it was completed. Lancaster was one of the richest and most powerful lords in England, second only to the king, and was at the time in the midst of a fervent dispute with his cousin Edward II.
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