Maud Chaworth

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Matilda de Chaworth, Countess of Lancaster and Countess of Leicester (1282–1322) was the daughter of Sir Patrick de Chaworth and Lady Isabella de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Her half-brother was the notorious Hugh the younger Despenser. In 1297, she married Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester, one of the principals behind the deposition of King Edward II. He was the younger son of Blanche of Artois and Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, and was thus the grandson of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.

Maud and Henry had seven children:

• Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, (about 1300–1360/61);
• Blanche of Lancaster, (about 1305–1380);
• Maud of Lancaster, (about 1310–1377); married William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
• Joan of Lancaster, (about 1312–1345); married John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
• Isabel of Lancaster, Abbess of Ambresbury, (about 1317–after 1347);
• Eleanor of Lancaster, (1318–22 Sept. 1371/72), married:
  • (1) John De Beaumont
  • (2) 5 Feb. 1344/5, Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel
• Mary of Lancaster, (about 1320–1362), who married Henry, 3rd Baron Percy and was the mother of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.