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Birth:          2 Feb 1282 of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death:          3 Dec 1322 
Burial:         BEF 3 Dec 1322 Priory, Mottisfont, Hampshire, England

Notes
d AFT 19 Feb 1317
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Chaworth
Maud de Chaworth (2 February 1282 – 3 December 1322) was an English noblewoman 
and wealthy heiress. She was the only child of Patrick de Chaworth. Sometime before 
2 March 1297, she married Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, by whom she had seven 
children.
Parents[edit]

Maud was the daughter of Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Baron of Kidwelly, in 
Carmarthenshire, South Wales, and Isabella de Beauchamp. Her maternal grandfather 
was William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Her father, Patrick de Chaworth died 
on 7 July 1283. He was thought to be 30 years old. Three years later, in 1286, 
Isabella de Beauchamp married Hugh Despenser the Elder and had two sons and four 
daughters by him. This made Maud the half-sister of Hugh the younger Despenser. Her 
mother, Isabella de Beauchamp, died in 1306.

Childhood[edit]

Maud was only a year old when her father died, and his death left her a wealthy 
heiress. However, because she was an infant, she became a ward of Eleanor of 
Castile, Queen consort of King Edward I of England. Upon Queen Eleanor's death in 
1290, her husband, King Edward I, granted Maud's marriage to his brother Edmund, 
Earl of Lancaster on 30 December 1292.
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester was the son of Eleanor 
of Provence and Henry III of England. He first married Aveline de Forz, Countess of 
Albemarle, in 1269. Later, in Paris on 3 February 1276, he married Blanche of Artois, 
who was a niece of Louis IX of France and Queen of Navarre by her first marriage. 
Blanche and Edmund had four children together, one of whom was Henry, who would 
later become 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth’s husband.

Marriage and issue[edit]

Edmund Crouchback betrothed Maud to his son Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster.[1] Henry 
and Maud were married sometime before 2 March 1297. Henry was probably born 
between the years 1280 and 1281, making him somewhat older than Maud, but not by 
much since they were either fourteen or fifteen-years-old.

Since Maud inherited her father’s property, Henry also acquired this property through 
the rights of marriage. Some of that property was of the following: Hampshire, 
Glamorgan, Wiltshire, and Carmarthenshire. Henry was the nephew of the King of 
England, as well as being closely related to the French royal family line. Henry's half-
sister Jeanne (or Juana) was Queen of Navarre in her own right and married Philip IV 
of France. Henry was the uncle of King Edward II's Queen Isabella and of three Kings 
of France. He was also the younger brother of Thomas (Earl of Lancaster) and first 
cousin of Edward II.

Maud is often described as the "Countess of Leicester" or "Countess of Lancaster", 
but she never bore the titles as she died in 1322, before her husband received them. 
Henry was named "Earl of Leicester" in 1324 and "Earl of Lancaster" in 1327. Henry 
never remarried and died on 22 September 1345, when he would have been in his 
mid-sixties. All but one of his seven children with Maud outlived him.

Maud and Henry had seven children:
Blanche of Lancaster, (about 1302/05–1380); Maud’s eldest daughter was probably 
born between 1302 and 1305, and was named after her father’s mother Blanche of 
Artois. Around 9 October 1316, she married Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of 
Liddell. Blanch was about forty-five when Thomas died, and she lived as a widow for 
more than thirty years. She was one of the executers of her brother Henry’s will when 
he died in 1361. Blanche outlived all her siblings, dying shortly before 12 July 1380 in 
her seventies. Born in the reign of Edward I, she survived all the way into the reign of 
his great grandson Richard II.
Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, (about 1310–1361); Maud’s only son Henry 
was usually called Henry of Grosmont to distinguish him from his father. He was one of 
the great magnates of the fourteenth century, well known and highly respected. He 
took after his father and was well-educated, literate, and pious; he was a soldier and 
a diplomat. Henry produced his own memoir "Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines", which 
was completed in 1354. At one point, Henry of Grosmont was considered to be the 
richest man in England aside from the Prince of Wales. He emerged as a political 
figure in his own right within England: he was knighted and represented his father in 
Parliament. He married Isabella, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont. His daughter 
Blanche was betrothed and eventually married to the son of Edward III, John of 
Gaunt. In 1361, Henry was killed by a new outbreak of the Black Death, leaving John 
of Gaunt his inheritance and eventually his title through his daughter Blanche.[2]
Maud of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster, (c. 1310 – 5 May 1377). There is some 
discrepancy as to when Maud died.[3][4] She married William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of 
Ulster in 1327. They had one child, Elizabeth de Burgh, who was born 6 July 1332. 
Eleven months after the birth of their child, Earl William was murdered at “Le Ford” in 
Belfast, apparently by some of his own men. The countess Maud fled to England with 
her baby and stayed with the royal family. In 1337, Maud of Lancaster managed to 
ensure that the Justiciar of Ireland was forbidden to pardon her husband’s killers. She 
fought for her dower rights and exerted some influence there. She remarried in 1344 to 
Ralph Ufford and returned to Ireland, where she had another daughter, Maud. After 
her second husband fell ill in 1346, she again returned to England. Maud of Lancaster 
died on 5 May 1377.
Joan of Lancaster, (about 1312–1345); married between 28 February and 4 June 1327 
to John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray. John’s father was executed for reasons 
unknown, and young John was imprisoned in the Tower of London along with his 
mother Alice de Braose until late 1326. A large part of his inheritance was granted to 
Hugh Despenser the Younger, who was his future wife’s uncle; however, he was set 
free in 1327 before the marriage. Joan of Lancaster probably died 7July 1349. Joan 
and John, 3rd Lord Mowbray had six children.
Isabel of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury, (about 1317–after 1347); One of the 
youngest daughters of Maud and Henry, she lived quietly, going on pilgrimages and 
spending a lot of time alone. She also spent a great deal of time outside the cloister 
on non-spiritual matters. Her father had given her quite a bit of property, which she 
administered herself. She owned hunting dogs and had personal servants. She used 
her family connections to secure privileges and concessions.[5]
Eleanor of Lancaster, (1318- Sept. 1372); married John Beaumont between September 
and November 1330. Eleanor bore John a son, Henry, who married Margaret de Vere, 
a sister of Elizabeth and Thomas de Vere, Earl of Oxford. John Beaumont was killed in 
a jousting tournament in Northampton on 14 April 1342. Eleanor then became the 
mistress of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, who was married to her first cousin 
Isabel, daughter of Hugh Despenser the Younger. Richard obtained a divorce from the 
Pope and married Eleanor on 5 February 1345 in the presence of Edward III. They had 
five children together, three sons and two daughters. Eleanor died on 11 January 
1372.
Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320–1362); married Henry, Lord Percy before 4 September 
1334; he fought at the battle of Crecy in 1346, and served in Gascony under the 
command of his brother-in-law Henry of Grosmont. Their son was Henry Percy, 1st Earl 
of Northumberland. Mary of Lancaster died on 1 September 1362, the year after her 
brother Henry.

Parents
DE CHAWORTH Patrick (ABT 1250 - BEF 7 Jul 1283)
DE BEAUCHAMP Isabel (ABT 1263 - BEF 30 May 1306)

Siblings
DE CHAWORTH Maud (2 Feb 1282 - 3 Dec 1322)

Marriage To PLANTAGENET Henry (1281 - 22 Sep 1345)
    m. BEF 2 Mar 1297 

Notes

Parents
PLANTAGENET Edmund "Crouchback" (16 Jan 1244 - 5 Jun 1296)
D'ARTOIS Blanche (1248 - 2 May 1302)

Children by PLANTAGENET Henry 1281 - 22 Sep 1345
PLANTAGENET Maud "of Lancaster" (ABT 1310 - 5 May 1377)
PLANTAGENET Eleanor (ABT 1311 - 11 Jan 1372)
PLANTAGENET Joan "of Lancaster" (ABT 1312 - 7 Jul 1349)
PLANTAGENET Mary "of Lancaster" (1320 - 1 Sep 1362)

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