Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester ¹

  Research Notes:

Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 17-28

Wikipedia:
"...soon after the forfeiture of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester in 1265, Edmund received the Earldom of Leicester and of Lancaster and also the honour of the Stewardship of England and the lands of Nicolas de Segrave.
"In 1271 he accompanied his elder brother Edward [I Longshanks] on the Ninth Crusade to Palestine. It was because of this he received the nickname Crouchback (or cross back) indicating that he was entitled to wear a cross on his back."

Much more info in Wikipedia & other sources.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Created: Earl of Leicester, 1265.

• Created: Earl of Lancaster, 1267.

Edmund married Blanche of Artois, daughter of Robert I "the Good" Count of Artois and Matilda of Brabant, on 29 Oct 1276 in Paris, (Île-de-France), France. (Blanche of Artois was born between 1245 and 1250 and died on 2 May 1302 in Paris, (Île-de-France), France.)

  Marriage Notes:

Wikipedia has m. 3 Feb 1276.
Ancestral Roots, line 17-28, has m. bet. 18 Dec. 1275 and 19 Jan 1275/1276