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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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king of See also:Sicily and See also:earl of See also:Lancaster (1245–1296), was the second son of See also:Henry III. of See also:England by Eleanor of See also:Provence. At ten years of See also:age Edmund was invested by See also:Pope See also:Alexander IV. with the See also:kingdom of Sicily (See also:April 1255); the pecuniary obligations which Henry III. undertook on his son's behalf were not the least among the causes which led to the Provisions of See also:Oxford and the Barons' See also:War. Alexander annulled his See also:grant in 1258, but still pressed Henry for the See also:discharge of unpaid arrears of subsidies. In 1265, after See also:Montfort's fall, Edmund received the earldom of See also:Leicester, and two years' later was created earl of Lancaster. He joined the crusade of his See also:elder See also:brother, the See also:Lord See also:Edward (1271–1272); and Edward, on his See also:accession, found in Edmund a loyal supporter. In 1275, two years after the See also:death of his first wife, Aveline de Fortibus, Edmund married See also:Blanche of See also:Artois, the widow of Henry III. of See also:Navarre and See also:Champagne. Although the See also:county of Champagne had descended to his wife's See also:infant daughter, See also:Joan, Edmund assumed the See also:title " See also:Count See also:Palatine of Champagne and See also:Brie," and is described in the See also:English patent rolls as earl of Lancaster and Champagne. Until 1284 he held, in his wife's right, the custody of Champagne. This he was compelled to renounce upon the See also:marriage of Joan to See also:Philip the See also:Fair, the See also:heir to the See also:crown of See also:France. But he retained the See also:possession of his wife's See also:dower-lands in Champagne, and is described in an See also:official document of Champagne so See also:late as the See also:year 1287, as " the Count Edmund." He was employed by his brother as a mediator with Philip the Fair in 1293-1294. When Philip's See also:court pronounced that the king of England had forfeited See also:Gascony, Edmund renounced his See also:homage to Philip and withdrew with his wife to England. He was appointed See also:lieutenant of Gascony in 1296, but died in the same year, leaving a son See also:Thomas to succeed him in his English possessions.

See " Edmund, Earl of Lancaster," by W. E. See also:

Rhodes, in the English See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. x. pp. 19, 2o9.

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