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.
On 05 Jun 1296 [her former husband] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 51) died at Bayonne [Map]. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 18) succeeded 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster. Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 14) by marriage Countess of Leicester, Countess Lancaster.
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.
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
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale
GrandFather: William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle aka Aumale
Great x 4 Grandfather: Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness
Great x 3 Grandfather: Stephen Blois Count Aumale
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu
Great x 2 Grandfather: William "Fat" Blois 1st Earl Albemarle aka Aumale 1st Earl York
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ranulph Mortimer
Great x 3 Grandmother: Hawise Mortimer Countess 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 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 4 Grandfather: Waleran Beaumont 1st Earl of Worcester Count Meulan
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Beaumont Count Meulan
Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Elizabeth Montfort Countess Worcester
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 4 Grandfather: Walter of Salisbury 2nd Baron Chitterne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Sybil of Salisbury
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert de Clare 1st Earl Pembroke
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard "Strongbow" Clare 2nd Earl Pembroke
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Beaumont Countess Pembroke
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