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Edmund Crouchback

Edmund Crouchback with St. George, from a medieval manuscript.
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Edmund Crouchback (see here),
born 1245, London.
Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester.
There is dispute about what his name "Crouchback" means.
He mar 1stly to Aveline de Forz.
Aveline died 1274.
She was bur Westminster Abbey.
Edmund mar 2ndly to Blanche of Artois [grand-dau of Louis VIII, King of France, and descendant of Henry II].
He died 1296.
He was bur Westminster Abbey.
Blanche died 1302.
Edmund had issue by 2nd wife Blanche:

1. Henry Plantagenet (and here),
   mar Maud Chaworth [descendant of Aoife Mac Murrough],
   had issue:

   
   

   1. Maud Plantagenet, mar William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster and had issue.

   2. Joan Plantagenet, mar John Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray and had issue.

      
      

   3. Henry, Duke of Lancaster (see here),
      mar Isabel de Beaumont,
      had issue:
      1. Blanche Plantagenet (and here),
         mar John of Gaunt and had issue.

      
      

   4. Eleanor Plantagenet, mar Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel and had issue.

   5. Mary Plantagenet, mar Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy and had issue.