Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster -1274

Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster was born to William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle.

Before 1234 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Christiana Galloway were married. He the son of [her grandfather] William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and [her grandmother] Aveline Montfichet.

In 1248 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and [her mother] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle [aged 10] were married. She by marriage Countess Albemarle. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and [her grandmother] Amice Clare Countess Devon [aged 27]. He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet.

On 25th or 26th December 1251 King Alexander III of Scotland [aged 10] and [her future sister-in-law] Margaret Queen of Scotland [aged 11] were married at York Minster [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort Scotland. The couple \remained in York until Jan 1252 after which they travelled to Edinburgh. She the daughter of [her future father-in-law] King Henry III of England [aged 44] and [her future mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England [aged 28]. He the son of King Alexander II of Scotland and Marie Coucy Queen Consort of Scotland [aged 33]. They were half fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1260 [her father] William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle died at Amiens. His son Thomas succeeded 5th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.

In 1269 [her brother] Thomas Forz 5th Earl Albemarle died. His sister Aveline succeeded 6th Countess Albemarle.

Annals Londonienses. In the same year, Edward, son of Henry, King of England, setting out on pilgrimage, went to the Holy Land. In this year, the lord king held his Christmas court at Winchester. The lord [her husband] Edmund [aged 24], son of the lord king, on the Tuesday called Hock Day¹ [9th April 1269], took to wife the daughter [Aveline] of the Count of Aumale.

Eodem anno, Edwardus filius Henrici regis Angliæ, peregre proficiscens, in Terram Sanctam ivit. Hoc anno tenuit dominus rex curiam suam, ad Natale, apud Wyntoniam. Dominus Edmundus, domini regis filius, die Martis, qui vocatur Hokkeday, filiam comitis Albemarliæ in uxorem accepit.

Note 1. Hocktide was an English medieval festival on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday, i.e. after the second Sunday after Easter, both days being Hock Days. In 1269, Easter Sunday fell on 24th March, so Hock Tuesday was 9th April 1269. On 9th April 1269 King Henry III's younger son Edmund "Crouchback" and Aveline, daughter of [her father] William, Earl of Aumale and [her mother] Isabella Redvers [aged 31].

On 9th April 1269 Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster [aged 24] and Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle [aged 31]. He the son of King Henry III of England [aged 61] and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England [aged 46]. They were half fourth cousin twice removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

In 1274 Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster died. Earl Albemarle 1C 1127 extinct.

Effigy of Aveline Countess of Lancaster. AVELiNE Countess of Lancaster was daughter of William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle and Holderness, inheritrix of her father, and by her mother [aged 37] Countess of Devon and the Isle of Wight. In 1267 she married Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster [aged 29], died in 1269 without issue, and was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map], near the spot where her husband was afterwards interred. The effigy placed on her tomb affords a fine specimen of female costume in the thirteenth century.

On 3rd February 1276 [her former husband] Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster [aged 31] and Blanche Capet Queen Navarre [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of Robert Capet Count of Artois and Matilda Reginar Countess Saint Pol [aged 52]. He the son of [her former father-in-law] King Henry III of England and [her former mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England [aged 53]. They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 5th June 1296 [her former husband] Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster [aged 51] died at Bayonne [Map]. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son Thomas [aged 18] succeeded 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster. Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln [aged 14] by marriage Countess of Leicester, Countess Lancaster.

Vesta Monumenta. 1780. Plates 2.29, 2.30 and 2.31. Effigy of Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster. Engravings by James Basire, Sr. [aged 50] after his own drawings, or possibly those of his apprentice, William Blake.