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Effigy of Aveline Countess of Lancaster is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
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.