de Chaworth, Maud

Female 1282 - 1322  (40 years)


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  • Name de Chaworth, Maud  [1
    Birth 2 Feb 1282  Kidwelly Castle, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Appointments / Titles Countess 
    Appointments / Titles Countess of Lancaster 
    FSID GKYX-JVS  [1
    Death 3 Dec 1322  Mottisfont Priory, Mottisfont, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I25570  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father de Chaworth, Patrick V,   b. 1 Apr 1250, Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1283, Kidwelly Castle, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother de Beauchamp, Isabella,   b. Apr 1262, Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1306, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Bef 1281 
    Family ID F9375  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Plantagenet, Henry,   b. 1281, Grismond or Grosmont Castle (destroyed), Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1345, Monastery of Cannons (Historic), Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Marriage Bef 2 Mar 1297 
    Children 
     1. Plantagenet, Eleanor of Lancaster,   b. 11 Sep 1318, Grismond or Grosmont Castle (destroyed), Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1372, Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)  [natural]
     2. Plantagenet, Lady Joan of Lancaster,   b. 1312, Grismond or Grosmont Castle (destroyed), Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jul 1349, Byland Abbey, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F9372  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 2 Feb 1282 - Kidwelly Castle, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 3 Dec 1322 - Mottisfont Priory, Mottisfont, Hampshire, England Link to Google Earth
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    CHAWORTH, Maud

  • Notes 
    • 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.

      Early life
      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 died on 7 July 1283; he was thought to be 30 years old. His paternal line was from the Castle of Chaources, now Sourches, in the Commune of St. Symphorien, near Le Mans in the County of Maine at the time of the Angevin Empire.[1] 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 died in 1306.

      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, wife of Edward I.

      After Queen Eleanor's death in 1290, the King granted the right to arrange Maud's marriage to his brother Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster on 30 December 1292. Edmund arranged the marriage between Maud and one of his sons, Henry,[2] by Blanche of Artois, niece of Louis IX of France and Dowager Queen of Navarre by her fist marriage

      Marriage and issue
      Henry and Maud were married sometime before 2 March 1297. Henry was a little older, having probably been born in 1280 or 1281. Maud brought her father's property to the marriage, including land in Hampshire, Glamorgan, Wiltshire, and Carmarthenshire. 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.

      Maud and Henry had seven children:

      Blanche (c. 1302/1305–1380), Baroness Wake of Liddell
      Henry of Grosmont (c. 1310–1361), Duke of Lancaster, one of the great English magnates of the 14th century
      Maud (c. 1310 – 5 May 1377), Countess of Ulster
      Joan (c. 1312–1345), married John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
      Isabel of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury (c. 1317 – post-1347), prioress of Amesbury Priory
      Eleanor (1318–1372), married John de Beaumont, 2nd Baron Beaumont (died 1342), secondly Richard FitzAlan, 3rd Earl of Arundel
      Mary (c. 1320–1362), married Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy

  • Sources 
    1. [S789] WORLD: Family Search, Family Tree.
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