Earl of Lancaster
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The title of Earl of Lancaster was created in the Peerage of England in 1267. It was succeeded by the title Duke of Lancaster in 1351, which expired in 1361.
Contemporary illustration of Edmund Crouchback
Bodleian Douce 231Fol 1r Ed Crouchback And St George
Portrait of Henry, Duke of Lancaster William Bruges's Garter Book, f.8 BL Stowe MS 594
Tomb of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster
Duke of Lancaster
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The dukedom of Lancaster is a former English peerage, created three times in the Middle Ages, which was merged in the Crown when Henry V succeeded to the throne in 1413. Despite the extinction of the
Earl of Lancaster
…The title of Earl of Lancaster was created in the Peerage of England in 1267. It was succeeded by the title Duke of Lancaster in 1351, which expired in 1361. (The most recent creation of the ducal title merged with the Crown in 1413.) King Henry III of England created the…
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Illumination of Henry IV
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