marthajefferson:HOUSE OF LANCASTER“We are Lancastrians. We beg for nothing.”The House of Lancaster w
marthajefferson:HOUSE OF LANCASTER“We are Lancastrians. We beg for nothing.”The House of Lancaster was the name of two cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet. The first house was created when Henry III of England created the Earldom of Lancaster—from which the house was named—for his second son Edmund Crouchback in 1267. The second house of Lancaster was descended from John of Gaunt, who married the heiress of the first house. in this gifset: earls + dukes + kings + the Beauforts (illegitimate line) -- source link
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