Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet , Earl Lancaster 
Edmund "Crouchback" was born in London, Middlesex, England. Edmund "Crouchback"'s father was Henry III Plantagenet King of England and his mother was Eleanor of Provence. His paternal grandparents were John I "Lackland" Plantagenet King of England and Isabella Taillefer de Angouleme; his maternal grandparents were Raymond V Berenger Count of Provence and Beatrice of Savoy. He had a brother and a sister, named Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks" King O and Beatrice. He died on June 5th, 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France.General Notes
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Following is a brief summary of Edmund's entry from the "Dictionary of National Biography" :
In 1254, at the age of nine, Pope Innocent VI invested him with the kindom of Sicily and Apulia. The huge sums of money sought by the Pope and Edmund's father, KING HENRY III, to drive Manfred out of southern Italy made this venture very unpopular with the English barons. The scheme was finally abandoned in 1263. In 1264, England was in a state of civil war. KING HENRY III and PRINCE EDWARD were captured by the forces of Simon De Montfort, the Earl of Leicester, who was, for all practical purposes, the ruler of England. Meanwhile, Edmund and his mother, QUEEN ELEANOR were in Paris raising an army. After the Battle of Eversham in 1265, where Simon de Montfort was slain and his forces defeated by PRINCE EDWARD who had escaped from captivity, Edmund returned to England with his mother. He was one of the magnates who urged THE KING to adopt the sweeping measure of confiscation (against those barons who had supported Montfort) determined on in the parliament of Winchester, being moved, it was believed, by the desire of enriching himself. He had a large share of the spoils, being created Earl of Leicester and receiving the stewardship of the kingdom. In 1267 he was also created Earl of Lancaster. With his brother, PRINCE EDWARD, and several other magnates, Edmund took up the cross in 1268 and was with his brother at Acre in 1271-72.
Returning home before EDWARD, he reached England in December 1272, shortly after his father's death, was received with rejoicing by the Londoners, and went to his mother at Windsor. His crusade, during which he is said to have accomplished little or nothing , seems to have gained him the nickname of Crouchback (or crossed back). It is said, however, to have been asserted by John of Gaunt in 1385 that the name implied deformity, that Edmund was really the elder son of HENRY III, but had been passed over by his father as unfit to reign, and a desire of spreading this fable appears to have been entertained by Henry of Lancaster, Henry IV, and was perhaps implied in his challenge of the crown.
By his marriage, after the death of his childless first wife (Aveline de Fortibus) to BLANCHE, the granddaughter of KING LOIUS VIII OF FRANCE, Edmund became Count of Champagne and Brie. From 1277 to 1296 Edmund was active in THE KING's service. He commanded THE KING's forces in South Wales, acted as ambassador at the French court, unsuccessfully attempted to organize another crusade on behalf of THE KING, and, in conjunction with ROGER DE MORTIMER, EARL OF MARCH (RIN 684), defeated and executed Llewelyn in Wales. When war broke out with France in 1294/5, Edmund was again serving as ambassador there. Remaining loyal to KING EDWARD, he, of course, lost all claim to his French possessions. He led armies in Brittany and Gascony. He died in Bayonne deeply mortified that he was not provided the funds needed to keep his army in the field. "He was religoius, gay, and pleasant in disposition, open-handed, and a popular commander."
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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 Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1097 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.Oct 1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1126/27 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.~ 1073 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.28 Nov 1117
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.1075 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.07 Nov 1151 in As monk at Notre Dame de Noyers
- b.~ 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.AFT MAR 1130/31
- b.1079 in Isle Bouchard, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1089 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.16 Jun 1140
- b.~ 1120 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.07 Aug 1178 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.1091 in Marche, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1160 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.1218 in Abbey, La Couroun, France
- b.~ 1090 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France d.~ 1122
- b.~ 1120 in Turenne, Correze, Limousin, France d.> 1201
- b.1105 in Perche, Normandy, France d.1143
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.1081 in Herbst, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Bethizy Castle, Paris, France
- b.~ 1125 in Paris, Seine, France d.1183 in Palestine
- b.~ 1092 in Savoy, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.~ 1161 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1100 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.1161 in Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Courtenay, Gatinais, Isle-de-France, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.~ 1110 in Donjon Castle, Corbeil, Yerre-sur-Oise, France d.> 1158
- b.16 JAN 1244/45 in London, Middlesex, England d.05 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Aquitaine, France
- b.~ 1113 in Barcelona, Spain d.06 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
- b.04 Apr 1152 in Villa Mayor del Valle, Barcelona, Spain d.25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Roussillon, France
- b.~ 1135 in Huesca, Spain d.13 Oct 1173
- b.1180 in Barcelona, Spain d.FEB 1208/09 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.09 Nov 1208 in Monasterio de Jaen, Jaen, Spain
- b.1131 in Wroclaw, Poland d.16 Jun 1175
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1124 in Sabran, Gard, France
- b.1154 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc France d.1224
- b.1128 in Cailar, Gard, France
- b.~ 1181 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France d.> 1209
- b.1130 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France d.1209
- b.~ 1156 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence, France d.> 1193
- b.1130 in Beziers, Narbonne, Languedoc, France
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1092 in Savoie, France d.01 Apr 1149
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoy, France d.4 MAR 1188/89 in France
- b.~ 1105 in St Rambert d'Albon, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France d.AFT JAN 1144/45
- b.20 MAR 1176/77 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 JAN 1232/33 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1112 in Ivrea, Piedmont, Italy d.1180 in Vienne, Rhone Alpes, France
- b.~ 1138 in Vienne, Lyonnais, France d.1184
- b.1114 in Salins, Seine-et-Marne, France d.> 1200
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1100 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.26 Jun 1178
- b.1130 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.1226
- b.1110 in Cuiseaux, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.<02 Jul 1137
- b.~ 1180 in Genf, Geneva, Helvetiz, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, Isere, France
- b.1108 in Faucigny, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
- b.1138 in Faucigny, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
- b.1112 in Barancon, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
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