Biography of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster -1274

Maternal Family Tree: Aoife NI Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188

Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster was born to William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle aka Aumale.

Before 1234 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and Christiana Galloway were married. He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and Aveline Montfichet.

On 26 Mar 1242 [her grandfather] William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale died. His son [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale succeeded 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale1C 1127.

In 1248 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and [her mother] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle aka Aumale (age 10) were married. She by marriage Countess Albemarle aka Aumale1C 1127. She the daughter of Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and Amice Clare Countess Devon (age 27). He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and Aveline Montfichet. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1260 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale died at Amiens. His son [her brother] Thomas Forz 5th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale succeeded 5th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale1C 1127.

On 22 Jan 1260 John Capet II Duke Brittany (age 21) and [her future sister-in-law] Beatrice Plantagenet (age 17) were married. She the daughter of King Henry III of England (age 52) and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 37). He the son of John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany (age 42) and Blanche "Navarre" Blois Duchess Brittany (age 34). They were half second cousin twice removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

In 1262 [her uncle] Baldwin Redvers 7th Earl Devon (age 25) died. His sister [her mother] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle aka Aumale (age 24) succeeded 8th Countess Devon.

On 25 Oct 1265 [her future husband] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 20) was created 1st Earl of Leicester.

In 1267 [her future husband] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 21) was created 1st Earl Lancaster.

In 1269 [her brother] Thomas Forz 5th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale died. His sister Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster succeeded 6th Countess Albemarle aka Aumale1C 1127.

On 08 Apr 1269 Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 24) and Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle aka Aumale (age 31). He the son of King Henry III of England (age 61) and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 46). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1274 Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster died. Earl Albemarle aka Aumale1C 1127 extinct.

Effigy of Aveline Countess of Lancaster. AVELiNE Countess of Lancaster was daughter of William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle and Holderness, inheritrix of her father, and by her mother (age 37) Countess of Devon and the Isle of Wight. In 1267 she married Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster (age 29), died in 1269 without issue, and was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map], near the spot where her husband was afterwards interred. The effigy placed on her tomb affords a fine specimen of female costume in the thirteenth century.

On 03 Feb 1276 [her former husband] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 31) and Blanche Capet Queen Navarre (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of Robert Capet Count of Artois and Matilda Reginar Countess Saint Pol (age 52). He the son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 53). They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Vesta Monumenta. 1780. Plates 2.29, 2.30 and 2.31. Effigy of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster. Engravings by James Basire, Sr. (age 50) after his own drawings, or possibly those of his apprentice, William Blake.

Royal Ancestors of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster -1274

Kings Wessex: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons

Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Kings Scotland: Great x 4 Grand Daughter of Duncan II King Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks

Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Ancestors of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster -1274

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale

GrandFather: William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale

Great x 1 Grandmother: Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle aka Aumale and Essex

Great x 4 Grandfather: Duncan II King Scotland

Great x 3 Grandfather: William FitzDuncan

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ethelreda of Northumbria

Great x 2 Grandmother: Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York

Father: William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle aka Aumale

Great x 2 Grandfather: Gilbert Montfichet

Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Montfichet

GrandMother: Aveline Montfichet

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Lucy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Adrian Lucy

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard "The Loyal" Lucy

Great x 1 Grandmother: Aveline Lucy

Great x 4 Grandfather: Godfrey Flanders Lord Bouillon

Great x 3 Grandfather: Guillaume Flanders

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Mandeville Lady Bouillon

Great x 2 Grandmother: Rohese Boulogne

Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Redvers

Great x 3 Grandfather: Baldwin Redvers 1st Earl Devon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Adeliza Peverell

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Redvers 5th Earl Devon

Great x 1 Grandfather: Baldwin Redvers 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mable de Beaumont Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud FitzRoy de Dunstanville of Cornwall Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzrichard

GrandFather: Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Mother: Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle aka Aumale 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard de Clare

Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Clare 2nd Earl Hertford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Gernon

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud St Hilary Countess Hertford

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester

Great x 2 Grandmother: Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester

Great x 3 Grandmother: Hawise Beaumont Countess Gloucester

Great x 4 Grandmother: Amice Gael Countess Leicester

GrandMother: Amice Clare Countess Devon 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fitzgilbert

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sybilla Chaworth Baroness Chitterne

Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke

Great x 4 Grandfather: Diarmait Macmurrough

Great x 3 Grandmother: Aoife NI Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham