Earl Edmund "Crouchback" PLANTAGENET, Earl Of Leicester^{[1, 2]}

1245 - 1296  (51 years)

• Name	Edmund "Crouchback" PLANTAGENET  [3]
  Prefix	Earl
  Suffix	Earl Of Leicester
  Nickname	Crouchback
  Birth	16 Jan 1245	London, Middlesexshire, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  ACCEDED	26 Oct 1265  [3]
  AKA (2)	"Crouchback"
  FamilySearch ID	L7TR-TVZ
  Name	Crouchback
  _UID	6E443457AA444376B02F41A4187834A10D1B
  Death	5 Jun 1296	Bayonne, Gascony, France   [3]
  Burial	Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Person ID	I28694	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	King Henry III PLANTAGENET, Of England,   b. 1 Oct 1207, Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England d. 16 Nov 1272, Winchester, London, England (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Countess Eleanor BERENGER, Of Provence,   b. 1222, Aix-En-Provence, Bouches Du Rhone, France d. 24 Jun 1291, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	14 Jan 1236-1237	Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent Co., England   [3]
  Family ID	F12759	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Blanche CAPET, Of Artois,   b. 1254   d. 2 May 1302, Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1276	Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France   [3]
  Children	1. Earl Thomas PLANTAGENET, Of Lancaster 2Nd,   b. Abt 1277   d. 22 Mar 1321-1322, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 45 years)   2. Earl Henry PLANTAGENET, Of Lancaster,   b. 1281, Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire, England d. 22 Sep 1345, Monastary Of Cannons, England (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F12515	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Marriage	Bef 29 Oct 1276	Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France   [2]
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  Family ID	F12516	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Edmund Plantegenet by name Crouchback (b. Jan. 16, 1245, London, England - d. c. 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.

  
  

• Sources

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