Maud of Lancaster, |
Maud of Lancaster, Countess of Leicester<br>Also known as: Countess Maud of LeicesterMatilda Countess of HainaultMatilda Plantangenet<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Apr 4 1340 - Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, England<br>Marriage: Oct 10 1344<br>Marriage: 1352 - Chapel, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, England<br>Death: Apr 10 1362 - Wittelsbach, Oberried, Freiburg, Baden, Germany<br>Title of Nobility: Countess - Leicestershire, England<br>Parents: Henry of Grosmont 1st Duke of Lancaster, Isabel of Grosmont (born de Beaumont)<br>Spouses: Ralph de Stafford, Wilhelm Wittelsbach von Bayern-Straubing IBlanche of Lancaster of Gaunt<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: 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. of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester, and his wife Isabel de Beaumont, she was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lindsey.ng his death, she married secondly, in 1352, to William V, Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault, a member of the Wittelsbach Bavarian royal family.n) 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. 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.aud,_Countess_of_Leicester
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