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- 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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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.
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster and Leicester: c. 1278 Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire son of Edmund Crouchback and Blanche of Artois: Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln 28 October 1294 – Divorced 1318 0 children: 22 March 1322 Pontefract, Yorkshire Executed by order of Edward II of England aged 43–44 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and ...
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Apr 28, 2013 · Thomas of Lancaster, Second Earl of Lancaster. Posted on April 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.
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Thomas Plantagenet 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. His maternal grandparents were Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant, who was a daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant.
From his father Thomas Plantagenet inherited the Earldoms of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby. By his marriage to Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, daughter of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, he became Earl of Lincoln, Earl of Salisbury and the 11th Baron of Halton upon the death of his father-in-law in 1311. Master of five earldoms, he was on...
His marriageto Alice de Lacy was not successful. They had no children, though he had two illegitimate sons. In 1317, she was abducted from her manor at Canford, Dorset by Richard de St Martin, a knight in the service of John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey. This incident caused a feud between Lancaster and Surrey; Lancaster divorced his wife and sei...
Edward's Coronation
He served in the coronation of his cousin, King Edward II of England, on February 25, 1308, carrying Curtana, the sword of St Edward the Confessor. Edward vowed to "maintain the laws and rightful customs which the community of the realm shall have chosen," as well as to "maintain peace and do justice." The reference to the "community" was an innovation.This was an oath "not simply to maintain the existing law, but to maintain the law as it might develop during the reign." At the beginning of...
Chief Councilor of England
Plantagenet, known as Lancaster, was one of the Lords Ordainers who demanded the banishment of Gaveston and the establishment of a baronial council - a committee of twenty-one leading barons- to oversee England's governance. Parliament passed regulations that restricted Edward's ability to spend, and to act without consultation. His private army helped separate the King and Gaveston, and he was then was one of the "judges" who convicted Gaveston and saw him executed. Edward was infamous for h...
Out of government
The new leadership, eventually headed by Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester and his son Hugh Despenser the younger, proved no more popular with the Baronage, and in 1321 Lancaster (who had stayed away from Parliament as long as Despenser was in power) was again at the head of a rebellion. The rebel barons convinced Parliament to banish both Despensers, who went into exile in August 1321. Hugh became a pirate in the English Channel, "a sea monster, lying in wait for merchants as they cr...
Thomas Lancaster's reputation improved with age. He has been described as "a coarse, selfish and violent man, without any of the attributes of a statesman" and as "vindictive, greedy and cruel, and lethargic when presented with real power."His instinct, however, was to uphold the law and, notwithstanding his faults, he can not be accused of pure se...
Arnold-Baker, Charles. 2001. The Companion to British History. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415185837.Cross, Arthur Lyon. 1920. A Shorter History of England and Greater Britain.London, UK: Macmillan.Given-Wilson, Chris. 1987. The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: The Fourteenth Century Political Community. London, UK: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710204912.Lyon, Ann. 2003. Constitutional History of the UK. London, UK: Cavendish. ISBN 9781859417461.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, 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 ...
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.
