The Family Tree of the House Lancaster

The genealogy of the Lancastrian estate

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The Farndale Story The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

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			Henry III 1 October 1207 to 16 November 1272 Reigned 1216 to 1272 Married Eleanor of Provence (c 1223 to 1291)
			Edward I “Hammer of the Scots” 17 June 1239 to 7 July 1307 Reigned 1272 to 1307 Married Eleanor of Castile (1241 to 1290) Married Margaret of France (c 1279 to 1318) First War of Scottish Independence (Berwick, Dunbar, Falkirk, Caelaverock, Stirling Castle)	Edmund Crouchback 16 January 1245 to 5 June 1296 1^st Earl of Lancaster Married Aveline de Forz Married Blanche of Artois The House Lancaster On 30 June 1267 Edmund Crouchback knelt before his father, King Henry III, to accept the charter which made him Earl of Lancaster. He rose as the possessor of lands in almost every corner of England, from Lancashire to Huntingdon and the Welsh Marches. This grant marked the beginning of the Lancastrian interest in Yorkshire, for it included the Honour and Forest of Pickering, together with the manor of Scalby
			Edward II 25 April 1284 to 21 September 1327 Reigned 1307 to 1327 Married Isabella of France (c 1295 to 1358) who later had a relationship with Roger Mortimer, exiled Marcher lord Adopted Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser as his favourites Lost at Battle of Bannockburn 1314	Thomas of Lancaster c 1278 to 22 March 1322 2^nd Earl of Lancaster Executed and estates forfeited Miracles were reported and he became a saint Married Alice, daughter of Henry Lacy When Henry de Lacy died in 1311, Thomas added the two Lacy earldoms of Lincoln and Pontefract, to those of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby, which provided a vast power bloc for the House Lancaster.	Henry of Lancaster c 1281 to 22 September 1345 3^rd Earl of Lancaster He did not join his brother’s rebellion and after a petition, he was invested as Earl of Lancaster on 29 March 1324 Married Maud Chaworth
			Edward III 13 November 1312 to 21 June 1377 Reigned 1327 to 1377 Married Philippa of Hainault (c 1310 to 1369)		Henry of Grosmont c 1310 to 23 March 1361 Duke of Lancaster Married Isabel of Beaumont	Blanche of Lancaster c 1305 to c 1380 Baroness Wake of Liddell Married Thomas Wake, 2^nd Baron Wake of Liddell	Maud, Countess of Ulster Joan, Baroness Mowbray Married Joen de Mowbray, 3^rd Baron Mowbray Isabel, Prioress of Amesbury Eleanor, Countess of Arundel Mary, Baroness Percy Married Henry Percy Mother of Henry Percy, 1^st Earl; of Northumberland and grandmother of Harry Hotspur
		Edward “The Black Prince” 15 June 1330 to 8 June 1376 Married Joan the Fair Maid of Kent (1326 to 1385)	Lionel of Antwerp 29 November 1338 to 17 October 1368 Duke of Clarence Married Elizabeth de Burgh (1332 to 1363) Married Violante Visconti (1354 to 1386)	John of Gaunt 6 March 1340 to 3 February 1399 Married Blanche of Lancaster (1342 to 1368) Duke of Lancaster Married Constanza of Castile (1354 to 1394) Married Katherine Swynford (1349 to 1403)	Blanche of Lancaster 25 March 1342 to 12 September 1368 Duchess of Lancaster Married John of Gaunt	Maud 4 April 1340 to 10 April 1362 Duchess of Bavaria	Edmund of Langley 5 June 1341 to 1 August 1402 1^st Duke of York Married Isabella of Castile (1355 to 1392) Married Joan Holland (1380 to 1434)	Thomas of Woodstock 7 January 1355 to 8 September 1397 Duke of Gloucester Married Eleanor de Bohun (1365 to 1399)
				The House Lancaster			The House York
		Richard II 6 January 1367 to 14 February 1400 Reigned 1377 to 1399			With Katherine Swynford (who he married in 1396 but had a relationship with during his marriage with Constanza) They were all given the name Beaufort, a French lordship that had once been part of the Lancastrian estates The Beauforts were born extramaritally with Katherine Swynford but legitimised as descendants when Henry later married Katherine	Edward of Norwich 2^nd Duke of York c 1373 to 25 October 1415	Richard of Conisburgh 20 July 1385 to 5 August 1415 3^rd Earl of Cambridge Married Anne Mortimer
Philippa of Lancaster 31 March 1360 to 19 July 1415 Married Joao of Portugal	Elizabeth of Lancaster c 1363 to 24 November 1426 Married John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke and then John Holland, Duke of Exeter and then John Cornwall	Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke) 1367 to 20 March 1413 Reigned 1399 to 1413 Married Mary de Bohun, daughter of the Earl of Hereford, Essex and Northampton and sister of the wife of Thomas of Woodstock, setting the families in competition for the inheritance Married Joan of Navarre Henry IV conferred the Duchy of Lancaster, including Pickering, to his son, Henry of Monmouth, the new Duke of Lancaster and future King Henry V		With Constanza of Castile Catherine of Lancaster 31 March 1373 to 2 June 1418 Queen of Castile	John Beaufort 1373 to 16 March 1410 1^st Earl of Somerset Married Margaret Holland	Bishop Henry Beaufort c 1375 to 11 April 1447 Bishop of Winchester Thomas Beaufort 1377 to 31 December 1426 Duke of Exeter Joan Beaufort c 1377 to 13 November 1440 Married Robert Ferrers Married Ralph Neville, 1^st Earl of Westmorland	Richard Plantagenet 21 September 1411 to 30 December 1460 3^rd Duke of York Married Cecily Neville
			Maredudd ap Tudor Married Margaret ferch Dafydd
	With Mary de Bohun Thomas of Lancaster 1387 to 22 March 1421 Duke of Clarence Married Margaret Holland John of Lancaster 20 June 1389 to 14 September 1435 Duke of Bedford Married Anne of Burgundy and later Jacquetta of Luxembourg Humphrey of Lancaster 3 October 1390 to 23 February 1447 Duke of Gloucester Married Jacqeline of Hainaut and later Eleanor Cobham Blanche of England 1392 to 22 May 1409 Married Louis III, Elector of Palatine Countess Palatine Philippa of England 1394 to 5 January 1430 Married Eric, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden	Henry V 16 September 1386 to 31 August 1422 Reigned 1413 to 1422 Married Catherine de Valois (who later married Owen Tudor in 1428)	Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur Owen Tudor c 1400 to 2 February 1461 Married Henry V’s widow, Catherine de Valois	John Beaufort 25 March 1404 to 27 May 1444 1^st Duke of Somerset Married Margaret Beauchamp	Edward IV 28 April 1442 to 9 April 1483 Reigned 1461 to 1470 Reigned 1471 to 1483 Married Elizabeth Woodville	Edmund of Rutland 17 May 1443 to 30 December 1460 Earl of Rutland	George Plantagenet 21 October 1449 to 18 February 1478 Duke of Clarence Married Isabel Neville	Richard III 2 October 1452 to 22 August 1485 Reigned 1483 to 1485 Married Anne Neville
		Henry VI 6 December 1421 to 21 May 1471 Reigned 1422 to 1461 Reigned 1470 to 1471	Edmund Tudor c 1430 to 3 November 1456 Earl of Richmond	Lady Margaret Beaufort 31 May 1443 to 29 June 1509 Married John de la Pole Married Edmund Tudor Married Sir Henry Stafford Married Thomas Stanley, 1^st Earl of Derby	Edward V 2 November 1470 to 1483 Reigned 9 April to 25 June 1483 A Prince in the Tower	Richard Duke of York 17 August 1473 to 1483 Married Anne de Mowbray A Prince in the Tower	Elizabeth of York 11 February 1466 to 11 February 1503 A princess banished to Sheriff Hutton Married Henry VII	Edward 1473 to 9 April 1484 Prince of Wales Born at Middleham and his effigy is in Sheriff Hutton church