Maud Chaworth
Maud de Chaworth, Countess of Leicester (1282-1322), was the daughter of Patrick de Chaworth and Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp and Maud Fitz-John. Her half-brother was the notorious Hugh the younger Despenser. In 1297, she married Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester, one of the principals behind the deposition of King Edward II of England. He was the younger son of Blanche of Artois and Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Leicester, and was thus the grandson of Henry III of England. Maud and Henry 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, (1318-22 Sept. 1371/72), married (1) John De Beaumont and (2) 5 Feb. 1344/5, Richard Fitz Alan;
- Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320-1362), who married Henry, 3rd Baron Percy and was the mother of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.
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