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Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster KG (c. 1310 – 23 March 1361) was an English statesman, diplomat, soldier, and Christian writer. The owner of Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, Grosmont was a member of the House of Plantagenet, which was ruling over England at that time.
There were three creations of the dukedom of Lancaster during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first creation was on 6 March 1351 for Henry of Grosmont, 4th Earl of Lancaster, a great-grandson of Henry III; he was also 4th Earl of Leicester, 1st Earl of Derby, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Lord of Bowland. When he died in 1361 the peerage ...
Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines (The Book of Holy Medicines) [2] [3] is a fourteenth-century devotional treatise written by Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster around 1354. It is a work of allegory in which he describes his body as under attack from sin: his heart is the castle, and sin—in all its forms—enters his body via wounds, and ...
Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster, (c. 1310 –1361) [12] Blanche of Lancaster, Baroness Wake of Liddell , ( c. 1305 - c. 1380 ) married Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell Maud of Lancaster , (about 1310–1377); married (1) William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (died c. 1333 ) and (2) Ralph de Ufford, Justiciar of Ireland (died 1346 ...
DUKE OF LANCASTER, 1351: King Edward III (1312–1377) r. 1327–1377: Henry of Grosmont 4th Earl of Lancaster Duke of Lancaster (c.1310–1361) DUKE OF LANCASTER, 1362: John of Gaunt 5th Earl of Lancaster 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340–1399) Blanche of Lancaster (1345–1368) John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1371–1410) Henry Bolingbroke ...
She married Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1337. Isabel bore Henry two daughters who would eventually inherit their father's estates: Maud, Countess of Leicester (4 April 1339 – 10 April 1362), married William V, Count of Hainaut.
Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, arrived in Gascony in August and, breaking with the previous policy of cautious advance, struck directly at the largest French concentration, at Bergerac. He surprised and defeated the French forces under Bertrand I of L'Isle-Jourdain and Henri de Montigny. The French suffered heavy casualties and the loss of ...
Duke of Lancaster, 1399: Earl of Worcester (3rd creation), 1421: Henry of Monmouth 1386–1422 Duke of Lancaster King Henry V: Reginald West 1395–1450 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West: Richard Beauchamp (1394–c. 1422) Earl of Worcester: Dukedom of Lancaster merged into the Crown, 1413: Earldom of Worcester (2nd creation) extinct, 1422