Edmund Crouchback
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Edmund Crouchback was a member of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty and the founder of the House of Lancaster. He was Earl of Leicester, Lancaster and Derby in England and Count Palatine of Champagne in F
Effigy and monument of Edmund Crouchback, Westminster Abbey
Second Barons' War between Henry III (left) and Simon de Montfort (right)
Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, one of the properties Edmund retained from the disgraced baron, Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby
The Great Keep of Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. Edmund received Kenilworth Castle following the Dictum of Kenilworth, which was signed to break the six-month siege of the castle by Edmund, his brother Edward, and his father King Henry III of England.
Sicilian business
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The "Sicilian business" is a historiographical term used to describe the failed attempt by Henry III of England to claim the Kingdom of Sicily for his son Edmund, who had been offered the throne by th
Effigy of King Henry III in Westminster Abbey, c. 1272
A fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript depicting Louis IX kneeling before Pope Innocent IV, recognisable by his three-tiered papal tiara
The coronation of Charles of Anjou as King of Sicily in Rome (1266), illustration from the next century.