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Edmund sailed for Gascony with his army and besieged the city of Bordeaux. Unable to pay his troops, Edmund was deserted by his army and retreated to Bayonne, where he died from illness in 1296. Edmund's body was brought back to England, where he was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1301.
- 24 March 1301, Westminster Abbey
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Edmund “Crouchback” Plantagenet. Birth. 16 Jan 1245. London, City of London, Greater London, England. Death. 5 Jun 1296 (aged 51) Bayonne, Departement des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France. Burial. Westminster Abbey.
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Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Leicester (16 Jan 1245 – 5 Jun 1296)Edmund CrouchbackKing of SicilyEarl of LeicesterEarl of LancasterCount of AumaleEdmund Crouchback was born 16 January 1245, and was the second surviving son of King Henry III of England of the House of Plantagenet and Queen Eleanor of Provence (Eleanore Berenger). Edmund was born in London. He was a younger brother of Edward I of England, Margaret of England, and Beatrice of England, and an older brother of Katherine of Englan...
In his childhood he had a claim on the Kingdom of Sicily, but he never ruled there. In 1255 (at the age of 10) he was invested ruler of the Kingdom of Sicily and Apulia by the Bishop of Romania, on behalf of Pope Innocent IV. In return his father undertook to pay the papacy 135,541 marks and fight a war to dislodge Manfred of Sicily from the kingdo...
m.1 8 April 1269 Aveline de Forz dau of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle and Isabel de Reviers, Countess of Aumale (also known as Isabella de Fortibus, Countess of Devon). She died just 4 years after the marriage at 15, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. The couple had no children, though some sources believe she died in childbirth or short...
In 1271 he accompanied his elder brother Edward on the Ninth Crusade to Palestine. Some historians, including the authors of the Encyclopædia Britannica article on him, state that it was because of this that he received the nickname Crouchback (which means "cross back") indicating that he was entitled to wear a cross stitched into the back of his g...
He married (2nd) in Paris, on 3 February 1276 to Blanche of Artois, widow of Enrique (or Henri) I, King of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie, and daughter of Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant.
With Blanche he had three children: 1. Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, (born 1278, executed 22 March 1322) 2. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster(born 1281, died 22 September 1345) 3. John of Lancaster, seigneur of Beaufort (present day Montmorency, Aube, arrond. d’Arcis-sur-Aube, canton de Chavanges) and Nogent-l’Artaud (Aisne, arrond. de Château-Thierry,...
Between 1276 and 1284 he was also Count of Champagne and Brie, governing those counties in right of his second wife, Blanche of Artois, until her daughter from a previous marriage came of age. His nickname, "Crouchback" (meaning "crossed -back"), refers to his participation in the Ninth Crusade. Edmund's duty to the church included the foundation o...
He died 5 June 1296 Edmund died besieging Bordeaux for his brother on 5 June 1296 in Bayonne, and was interred on 15 July 1296 at Westminster Abbey. Additional note. (Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Edmund was buried first in the Minories church near Aldgate, London, a Franciscan nunnery founded by the earl and his second wife, Blanche of Champagn...
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Edward I was buried just to the east of Edmund, in the chapel of St Edward the Confessor, but in a totally plain tomb chest. Their father had been buried to the north side of the Shrine of St Edward. Dimensions: 22 feet 10 inches high, 13 feet 6 inches wide.
Aveline died at the age of 15, possibly in childbirth or shortly after a miscarriage, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. Through Aveline, Edmund had hoped to gain the earldoms of Devon and Aumdale as well as the lordships of Holderness and the Isle of Wight.
Jan 6, 2018 · Unfortunately, during a siege of Bayonne, the English ran out of money and the army disbanded, a humiliating blow to a royal prince and a man with as much military experience as Edmund. Aged 51, Edmund once more fell ill in Bayonne and passed away. At the time, he was regarded as having died of a broken heart.
Edmund sailed for Gascony with his army and besieged the city of Bordeaux. Unable to pay his troops, Edmund was deserted by his army and retreated to Bayonne, where he died from illness in 1296. Edmund's body was brought back to England, where he was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1301. Oops something went wrong: 403.
