Maud Chaworth - Marriage and Issue

Marriage and Issue

Edmund Crouchback betrothed Maud to his son Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster. Henry and Maud were married sometime before 2 March 1297. Henry was probably born between the years 1280 and 1281, making him somewhat older than Maud, but not by much since they were either fourteen or fifteen-years-old.
Since Maud inherited her father’s property, Henry also acquired this property through the rights of marriage. Some of that property was of the following: Hampshire, Glamorgan, Wiltshire, and Carmarthenshire. Henry was the nephew of the King of England, as well as being closely related to the French royal family line. Henry's half-sister Jeanne (or Juana) was Queen of Navarre in her own right and married Philip IV of France. Henry was the uncle of King Edward II's Queen Isabella and of three Kings of France. He was also the younger brother of Thomas (Earl of Lancaster) and first cousin of Edward II.
Maud is often described as the "Countess of Leicester" or "Countess of Lancaster", but she never bore the titles as she died in 1322, before her husband received them. Henry was named "Earl of Leicester" in 1324 and "Earl of Lancaster" in 1327. Henry never remarried and died on 22 September 1345, when he would have been in his mid-sixties. All but one of his seven children with Maud outlived him.

Maud and Henry had seven children:

• Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, (about 1310–1361);
• Blanche of Lancaster, (about 1302/05–1380);
• Maud of Lancaster, (c. 1310– 5 May 1377)
  
• Joan of Lancaster, (about 1312–1345);
• Isabel of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury, (about 1317–after 1347);
• Eleanor of Lancaster, (1318- Sept. 1372);
• Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320–1362);