Earl Of Leicester Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet Earl Of Leicester 
Edmund "Crouchback" was born in London, Middlesex, England. Edmund "Crouchback"'s father was Henry III King of England and his mother was Comtesse De Provence Eleanor Berenger Comtesse De Provence. His paternal grandparents were John "Lackland" King of England and D'Angouleme Isabella De Taillefer D'Angouleme; his maternal grandparents were Raymond Berenger V Comte De Provence and Beatrice De Savoie. He had a brother and a sister, named Edward I "Longshanks" King of and Beatrix. He died on June 5th, 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrennes-Atlantiques, Frances.General Notes
Edmund Plantegenet by name Crouchback (b. Jan. 16, 1245, London, England - d. c.\June 5, 1296, Bayonne, France), fourth (but second surviving) son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, who founded the house of Lancaster.
At the age 10, Edmund was invested by Pope Innocent IV with the kingdom of Sicily (April 1255) , as an expression of his conflict with the Holy Roman emperor, who held Sicily; but Edmund was never more than an absentee titular king, and Pope Alexander IV canceled the grant (December 1258).
In 1265 Edmund received the earldom of Leicester, and two years later was created Earl of Lancaster. He joined the crusade of his elder brother, the Lord Edward (1271-1272); and Edward on his accession as King Edward I, found in Edmund a loyal supporter. In 1275, two years after the death of his first wife, Edmund married Blanche of Artois, the widow of Henry III of Navarre and Champagne, and assumed the title Count Palatine of Champagne and Brie. When the court of King Philip IV of France pronounced that the king of England had forfeited Gascony, Edmund renounced his homage to Philip and withdrew with his wife to England. He was appointed lieutenant of Gascony in 1296but died in the same year, leaving his Son Thomas to succeed him in his English possession.
Edmund's nickname "Crouchback" (meaning "Crossback," or crusader) was misinterpreted, probably intentionally, by his direct descendant. King Henry IV, who, in claiming the throne (1399), asserted that Edmund had really been Henry III's eldest son but had been disinherited as a hunchback.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis, Seine-St. Denis, France
- b.<05 Aug 1102 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- d.1118
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1125/1126 in Poitiers, France
- b.1099 in Toulouse, France d.19 Apr 1137 in St. Jacques De Compostele, Pamplona, Spain
- b.1073 in Toulouse, France d.28 Nov 1117
- b.BET. 1121 - 1122 in Chateau De Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine d.31 Mar 1204 in Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine
- b.1075 in Chaselleraut, Vienne, France d.1136
- b.~ 1103 in Chattelleraut, Vienne, France d.Aft MAR 1129/1130 in Talmont, France
- b.01 Oct 1206 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.BET. 1099 - 1108 in Angouleme, France d.16 Nov 1140
- b.1134 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.07 Aug 1187 in Messina, Italy
- b.BET. 1091 - 1109 in La Marche, Normandy, France d.BET. 1138 - 1203
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Charent, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couronne, France
- b.~ 1120
- b.~ 1105 d.28 May 1143
- b.~ 1180 in Angouleme, Charent, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontrevault Abbey, Fontrevault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1081 in France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateua De Bethizy, Paris, Isle De France
- b.BET. 1126 - 1128 in Reims, Champagne, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1092 in Savoie d.18 Nov 1154
- b.~ 1160 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.1218 in France
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.~ 1161 in France
- b.~ 1135 in Courtenay, Galinois, France d.>14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1113 in Donjon, Alliers, France
- b.16 JAN 1244/1245 in London, Middlesex, England d.05 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrennes-Atlantiques, Frances
- b.1113 in Barcelona, Spain d.08 Aug 1162 in Borgo, San Dalmazzo, Cueno, Italy
- b.May 1152 in Aragon, Spain d.25 Apr 1196 in Aragon, Spain
- b.~ 1125 in Huesca, Huesca, Spain d.17 Oct 1174 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.1174 in Barcelona, Spain d.FEB 1208/1209 in Palermo, Sicily
- b.1 MAR 1102/1103 in Castile, Castilia, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Castile, Spain
- b.24 Sep 1154 in Castile, Spain d.06 Nov 1208 in Monasterio de Jaen, Jaen, Spain
- b.~ 1107 in Wroclaw, Poland d.16 Jun 1185
- b.BET. 1195 - 1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.~ 1133 d.16 FEB 1207/1208
- b.1154 d.1224
- b.~ 1135 d.1206
- b.~ 1180 in Sabran, Gard, France d.~ 1224 in L'Abbaye De La Celle, France
- b.1130 d.Dec 1208
- b.1156
- b.~ 1130
- b.~ 1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Provence d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1092 in Savoy, France d.01 Apr 1148 in Nicosea, Cyprus in the 2nd Crusade
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Aveillave, Savoy, France d.4 MAR 1188/1189 in Chambery, Cyprus
- b.~ 1116 in Albon, France d.JAN 1144/1145
- b.20 MAR 1175/1176 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 JAN 1232/1233 in Aoste, Iseres, France
- b.1112 in Vienne, Isle De France d.1180
- b.1138 in Vienne, Isle De France d.1184
- b.1114 in Salins, Seine-Et-Marne, France d.BET. 1142 - 1208
- b.~ 1201 in Chambbery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.~ 1100 in Geneva, Switzerland d.> 1162
- b.1130 in Geneva, Switzerland d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1110 in Cuiseaux, Saone-Et-Loire, France d.<02 Jul 1137
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel-Isere-France
- b.~ 1092 in Savoy, France d.01 Apr 1148 in Nicosea, Cyprus in the 2nd Crusade
- b.1138 d.1180
- b.~ 1116 in Albon, France d.JAN 1144/1145
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Edmund "Crouchback" and Blanche were married in a religious ceremony before October 29th, 1276 in Paris, Seine, France. They had a son named Henry Plantagenet Earl of.
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Children
Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster
Henry Plantagenet Earl of was born in 1282 in Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England. He died at the age of 63 on September 22nd, 1345 in Canons Monastery, Leicestershire, England.
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