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 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and [her mother] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle.

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

On 26th March 1242 [her grandfather] William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle died. His son [her father] William succeeded 4th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.

In 1248 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and [her mother] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle (age 10) were married. She by marriage Countess Albemarle. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and [her grandmother] Amice Clare Countess Devon (age 27). He the son of [her grandfather] William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and [her grandmother] Aveline Montfichet.

In 1260 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle died at Amiens. His son [her brother] Thomas succeeded 5th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.

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

On 25th October 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 died. His sister Aveline succeeded 6th Countess Albemarle.

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On 8th April 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 and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle (age 31). He the son of King Henry III of England (age 61) and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 46). They were half fourth cousin twice removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

12th November 1272 - Death of King Henry III

On 16th November 1272 [her father-in-law] King Henry III of England (age 65) died at Westminster [Map]. His son [her brother-in-law] Edward (age 33) succeeded I King of England. Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) by marriage Queen Consort England.

In 1274 Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster died. Earl Albemarle 1C 1127 extinct.

Effigy of Aveline Countess of Lancaster. AVELiNE Countess of Lancaster was daughter of [her father] William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle and Holderness, inheritrix of her father, and by her [her mother] mother (age 37) Countess of Devon and the Isle of Wight. In 1267 she married [her former husband] 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 3rd February 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 [her former father-in-law] King Henry III of England and [her former mother-in-law] 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.

Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster

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 6 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

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

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

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle

GrandFather: William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Duncan II of 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

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Redvers

Great x 3 Grandfather: Baldwin de 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

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mable de Beaumont Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud FitzRoy de Dunstanville of Cornwall Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzrichard

GrandFather: Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon 3 x Great Grand Son of

Mother: Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle 4 x Great Grand Daughter of

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester

Great x 2 Grandmother: Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford Great Grand Daughter of

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Giffard

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