Maud de Chaworth of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales

  General Notes:

~Boyer's Medieval English ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 55 ⁷²¹

~The Visitation of the County of Nottingham, 1569 & 1614, "Chaworth Pedigree," pp. 123-124, Maud, daughter and heir of Patrick de Carducis, Lord of Kidwelley & Ogmore in Wales, married Henry Plantagenêt of Lancaster. ⁹⁸⁷

~ Burke's A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, p. 111, Maud de Chaworth, daughter of Patric de Chaworth and Lady Isabel de Beauchamp, married henry Plantagenêt, Earl of Lancaster and nephew of King Edward I. ⁷⁷⁹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁵¹²
Edward I gave Maud in marriage, in 1282, to Edmund, son of Henry Lacy, the Earl of Lincoln. Maud was only five years old at the time, and Edmund died very young before he came to maturity. In 1298, she became the wife of Henry Plantagenêt, the Earl of Lancaster.

~History of Kempsford

• Background Information. ⁹⁸⁸
Maud de Cardurcis, under age in 1294, was the daughter of Patrick Carducis and Isabel, the daughter of William Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. She married Henry, afterwards, Earl of Lancaster. She held Ogmore and Kidwelly. Their son was Henry, Duke of Lancaster. The second Henry was the father of Maude Plantagenêt who married John of Gaunt, and they were the parents of henry IV, King of England.

~A History of Kidwelly, p. 23, "Londres Family Affecting the Lordship of Kidwelly" pedigree

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Henry, Earl of Lancaster, married before 2 Mar 1296/7, Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Patrick de Chaworth, of Kidwelly, by Isabel, daughter of William Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. She was living 19 Feb 1217, and died sometime before 3 Dec 1322. Maud was buried at Mottisfont Priory, of which she was patron, as heir of William de Briewere, one of the founders.

Maud and Henry of Lancaster had six daughters and one son:

Blanche Plantagenêt, married to Thomas, lord Wake
Maud Plantagenêt , married first, William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster and second Ralph de Ufford
Joan Plantagenêt, married to John, Lord Mowbray
Henry of Grosmont, married to Isabel, daughter of Henry, first Lord Beaumont & Alice Comyn
Isabel Plantagenêt, married to Henry de la Dale
Eleanor Plantagenêt ,married first, John, Lord Beaumont and second, Richard, Earl of Arundel
Mary Plantagenêt, married Henry, Lord Percy

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, (Lancaster), pp. 400-401, 409

Maud married Henry Plantagenêt 3rd Earl of Lancaster, son of Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenêt 1st Earl of Leicester and Blanche de Artois Princesse des France, before 2 Mar 1297 in England ^141,721.^,779 (Henry Plantagenêt 3rd Earl of Lancaster was born about 1281, died on 22 Sep 1345 in Leicestershire, England and was buried in Newark Abbey, Leicester, England.)