Maud, Countess of Leicester

Maud of Lancaster (4 April 1340 – 10 April 1362), also known as Matilda, Countess of Hainault, was a 14th-century English noblewoman who married into the Bavarian royal family.

The eldest daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester, and his wife Isabel de Beaumont, she was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lindsey.

Marriages

She was married firstly to Ralph Stafford, whilst still a child. Following his death, she married secondly, in 1352, to William V, Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault, a member of the Wittelsbach Bavarian royal family.

Inheritance

The Duchy of Lancaster (First Creation) became extinct upon her father's death in 1361, however Maud became co-heiress, with her sister Blanche of Lancaster, to her father's estates and remaining titles. The title Earl of Leicester passed to her second husband who was confined due to insanity from 1358 until death in 1389, whilst the Earldom of Lancaster passed to her younger sister's husband, John of Gaunt. Maud died a year later without surviving issue (her only child, a daughter by William V, having died in 1356), so the remainder of her father's inheritance passed to Blanche and John of Gaunt upon her death. That inheritance provided the political and financial foundation of the House of Lancaster, with the Lancastrian King Henry IV of England being Maud's nephew.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Maud, Countess of Leicester

16. Henry III of England[1] 8. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster[1] 17. Eleanor of Provence[1] 4. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster[2] 18. Robert I of Artois[1] 9. Blanche of Artois[1] 19. Matilda of Brabant[1] 2. Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster 20. Patrick de Chaworth[3] 10. Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly[1] 21. Hawise de Londres[3] 5. Maud Chaworth[2] 22. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick[4] 11. Isabella de Beauchamp[1] 23. Maud FitzJohn[4] 1. Maud, Countess of Leicester 24. Jean I of Jerusalem[5] 12. Louis de Brienne[5] 25. Berengaria of Leon[5] 6. Henry de Beaumont[2] 26. Raoul VIII, Viscount de Beaumont[6] 13. Agnés de Beaumont[5] 27. Agnes de la Fleche[6] 3. Isabel of Beaumont 28. Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan[5] 14. Alexander Comyn, Sheriff of Aberdeen[5] 29. Elizabeth de Quincy[5] 7. Alice Comyn[2] 30. William le Latimer[5] 15. Joan le Latimer[5] 31. Alicia Ledet[7]

References

Citations

1. Weir, Alison (1999). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. London: The Bodley Head. pp. 74–76.
2. Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. 1 (106th ed.). Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. pp. 227–228.
3. Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. H. Colburn & R. Bentley. p. 118. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
4. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. 1 (107th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 1385.
5. Cokayne, G.E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H.A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; de Walden, Lord Howard, eds. (2000). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. II (new ed.). Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing. pp. 59–60.
6. Angot, A. (1914). "Les vicomtes du Maine". Bulletin de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne (in French) (30): 19 – via Archives départementales de la Mayenne.
7. Purey-Cust, Arthur Perceval (1896). The Heraldry of York Minster. 2. R. Jackson. p. 54. Retrieved 17 July 2018.

Sources

• Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition. (Crans: Burke's Peerage, 1999) vol. 1, p. 228.
• Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London: The Bodley Head, 1999), p. 76.

Preceded by Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	Duchess of Bavaria 1352–1362	Succeeded by Margaret of Brieg