3rd Earl of Lancaster Henry Plantagenet 
Henry was born in 1281 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouth, Wales.1 Henry's father was Edmund (Crouchback) Plantagenet and his mother was Princess Blanche Capet of Artois. His paternal grandparents were Henry Plantagenet of England III and Lady Eleanore Berenger of Provence; his maternal grandparents were Prince, Count Robert Capet of France I and Mahaut Matilda of Brabant. He had two brothers and a sister, named Thomas, John and Mary. He was the second oldest of the four children. He had a half-sister named Jeanne. He died at the age of 64 on September 22nd, 1345 in Newark Abbey, Leicester, England. He was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester, England.2 3 General Notes
Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1281 - September 22, 1345) was an English nobleman, one of the principals behind the deposition of Edward II.
He was the younger son of Blanche of Artois and Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Leicester, who was a son of Henry III of England.
Henry's elder brother Thomas succeeded their father in 1296, but Henry was summoned to Parliament on February 6, 1298/99 by writ directed Henrico de Lancastre nepoti Regis, by which he is held to have become Lord Lancaster. He took part in the siege of Carlaverock in July 1300.
Thomas was convicted of treason, executed and his lands and titles forfeited in 1322. But Henry, who had not participated in his brother's rebellion, petitioned for his brother's lands and titles, and on March 29, 1324 he was invested as Earl of Leicester, and a few years later the earldom of Lancaster was also restored to him.
On the Queen s return to England with Roger Mortimer in September 1326, Henry joined her party against Edward II, which led to a general desertion of the king s cause and overturned the power of the Despensers. He was sent in pursuit and captured the king at Neath. He was appointed to take charge of the King, and was responsible for his custody at Kenilworth Castle.
After Edward II's death Henry was appointed guardian of the new king Edward III, and was also appointed captain-general of all the King's forces in the Scottish marches.
In about the year 1330, he became blind.
He was succeeded as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester by his eldest son, Henry of Grosmont, who subsequently became Duke of Lancaster.
He married once, to Maud Chaworth, before 2 March 1296/1297. (Some references claim he married Alix de Joinville, but she in fact married Henry's brother John.) With Maud he had seven children:
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, (about 1300-1360/61)
Blanche of Lancaster, (about 1305 - 1380)
Maud of Lancaster, (about 1310-1377)
Joan of Lancaster, (about 1312-1345)
Isabel of Lancaster, Abbess of Ambresbury, (about 1317-after 1347)
Eleanor of Lancaster, (about 1318-1371/72)
Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320-1362), who married Henry, 3rd Baron Percy and was the mother of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.
He was born in Grosmont Castle, Monmouthshire and died in Leicester, England. He is interred at Newark Abbey, Leicester.
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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.24 Aug 1113 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau du Loir, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.07 Feb 1102 in Winchester, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Martime, France
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Languedoc, Haute-Garonne, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Saint Jacques-de-Comopostelle, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1103 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.Mar 1130
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster, London, England
- b.1134 in Angouleme, Charente, France d.07 Aug 1187 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.1160 in Angoileme, Charente-Maritime, France d.1218 in L'Abbey La Couroun, France
- b.1138 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
- b.1188 in Angouleme, France d.31 May 1245 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France
- b.1126 in Reims, Champagen, France d.1183 in Palestine, Israel
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Gali, France d.1218 in France
- b.1127 in Courtenay, France d.14 Sep 1205 in France
- b.16 Jan 1244 in London, England d.05 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Pyrennes-Atlantiques, France
- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
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- b.1180 d.1209
- d.1190
- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoie, France d.04 Mar 1188 in France
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1156 d.08 Apr 1230
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1130 d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.1138
- b.1281 in Grosmont Castle, Monmouth, Wales d.22 Sep 1345 in Newark Abbey, Leicester, England
- b.1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France d.14 Jul 1223 in Mantes, France
- b.1140 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1206
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.1170 d.1190
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
- b.25 Sep 1216 in Paris, France d.08 Feb 1248 in Monsoure, Egypt
- b.1134 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.1133 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1248 in Paris, Seine, France d.02 May 1302 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.1140 d.21 Sep 1190
- b.1165 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium d.05 Sep 1235 in Cologne, Germany
- b.1140
- b.1207 in Brabant, France d.01 Feb 1248 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1137 d.25 Jul 1173
- b.1162 in Boulogne, France d.1271 in Louvain, France
- b.1136 d.25 Jul 1180
- b.1224 in Brabant, France d.Sep 1288 in Artois, France
- b.1122 in Waiblingen, Germany d.10 Jun 1190 in River Calycandus, Cilicia
- b.1176 in Swabia, Germany d.21 Jun 1208 in Bamberg, Oberfranker, Bavaria
- b.1122 in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany d.15 Nov 1184
- b.1208 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1235 in Leuven, Belgium
- b.Sep 1156 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.12 Apr 1204 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- b.1184 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.27 Aug 1208
- d.1174
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Details of Henry's family with Lady Maud de Chaworth
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21806&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4190
3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4636&style=TABLE
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3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4636&style=TABLE
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