Name Maud, of | Died April 10, 1362 | |
Parents Isabel of Beaumont, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster Cousins Thomas Arundel, John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray Grandparents Henry de Beaumont, Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, Maud Chaworth, Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan Aunts Eleanor of Lancaster, Mary of Lancaster, Joan of Lancaster, Maud of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster Similar People Blanche of Lancaster, Geoffrey Plantagenet - Count of, Eleanor of Lancaster | ||
Maud of Lancaster (4 April 1339 – 10 April 1362), also known as Matilda, Countess of Hainault, was a 14th-century English noblewoman who married into the Bavarian royal family.
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The eldest daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester, and his wife Isabel de Beaumont, she was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lindsey.
Marriages
She was married firstly to Ralph Stafford, whilst still a child. Following his death, she married secondly, in 1352, to William V, Count of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault, a member of the Wittelsbach Bavarian royal family.
Inheritance
The Duchy of Lancaster (First Creation) became extinct upon her father's death in 1361, however Maud became co-heiress, with her sister Blanche of Lancaster, to her father's estates and remaining titles. The title Earl of Leicester passed to her second husband who was confined due to insanity from 1358 until death in 1389, whilst the Earldom of Lancaster passed to her younger sister's husband, John of Gaunt. Maud died a year later without surviving issue (her only child, a daughter by William V, having died in 1356), so the remainder of her father's inheritance passed to Blanche and John of Gaunt upon her death. That inheritance provided the political and financial foundation of the House of Lancaster, with the Lancastrian King Henry IV of England being Maud's nephew.