Duke of Lancaster Henry of Lancaster 
Henry was born in 1300.1 Henry's father was 3rd Earl of Lancaster Henry Plantagenet and his mother was Lady Maud de Chaworth. His paternal grandparents were Edmund (Crouchback) Plantagenet and Princess Blanche Capet of Artois; his maternal grandparents were 5th Baron Chaworth Patrick de Chaworth IV and Isabel de Beauchamp. He had six sisters named Blanche, Maud, Joan, Eleanor, Isabel and Mary. He was the oldest of the seven children. He died at the age of 60 on March 24th, 1360.2 General Notes
Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster (c. 1306 - 24 March 1361) was a member of the English royal family in the 14th century, and was a prominent English diplomat, politician, and soldier.
Henry was born to Henry of Lancaster, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, and he became a soldier in the English Army. He led various campaigns in Scotland and France (the Hundred Years War), before orchestrating a monumental (but temporary) peace treaty with France. This placed him in favorable light with the King of England, Edward III of England. Throughout his life, he held many honours, including: Earl of Derby, Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, Earl of Lincoln, and Duke of Lancaster; he was also a founding Knight of the Garter and Lord High Steward to Edward III.
He married Isabel de Beaumont, and they had two children:
Maud, Countess of Leicester
Blanche of Lancaster (married John of Gaunt)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, London, England
- b.1160 in Angoileme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, France d.31 May 1245 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Gali, France d.1218 in France
- b.16 Jan 1244 in London, England d.05 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrennes-Atlantiques, France
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1180 d.1209
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.1281 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouth, Wales d.22 Sep 1345 in Newark Abbey, Leicester, England
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France d.14 Jul 1223 in Mantes, France
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.1170 d.1190
- b.25 Sep 1216 in Paris, France d.08 Feb 1248 in Monsoure, Egypt
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.1248 in Paris, Seine, France d.02 May 1302 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1165 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium d.05 Sep 1235 in Cologne, Germany
- b.1207 in Brabant, France d.01 Feb 1248 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1162 in Boulogne, France d.1271 in Louvain, France
- b.1224 in Brabant, France d.Sep 1288 in Artois, France
- b.1176 in Swabia, Germany d.21 Jun 1208 in Bamberg, Oberfranker, Bavaria
- b.1208 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1235 in Leuven, Belgium
- b.1184 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.27 Aug 1208
- b.1300 d.24 Mar 1360
- b.1155 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1199
- b.1183 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1226
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- b.1218 in Stoke Bruern, Northampshire, England d.1258
- b.1164 d.1216
- b.1190 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1172 d.1232
- b.1250 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.07 Jul 1283 in England
- b.1160 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.1212
- b.1183 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.1167 in Northamptonshire, England d.1267
- b.1223 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.1274
- b.1155 in Great Torrington, Devonshire, England
- b.1183 in England
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- b.02 Feb 1282 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales d.03 Dec 1322 in England
- b.1180 in Elmley, England d.1236
- b.1210 in Elmley Castle, Worchestershire, England d.07 Jan 1268
- b.1195 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.1268
- b.1237 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England d.05 Jun 1298 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England
- b.1196 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England d.Apr 1257 in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1214 d.1268
- b.1196 in England d.1246
- b.1252 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England d.30 May 1306 in Elmley Castle, Herefordshire, England
- b.1162 in Walden, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1215 in Shere, England d.23 Nov 1258
- b.1172 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.04 Jun 1225
- b.1250 in Bernard Castle, Warwickshire, England d.18 Apr 1301 in Grey Friars, Worcestershire, England
- b.1170 d.Feb 1224
- b.1222 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1239
- b.1192 in Pembroke, Wales, England d.27 Mar 1248
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Details of Henry's family with Isabel de Beaumont
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4191
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I13736
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I13736
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