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In 1253 he was invested by the Pope in the Kingdom of Sicily and Apulia. At about this time he was also made Earl of Chester. These were of little value as the real King of Sicily was still living and the Earldom of Chester was transferred to his elder brother Edward. Edmund soon obtained, however, important possessions and dignities, for soon after the forfeiture of Simon de Montfort in 1265, Edmund received the Earldom of Leicester and also the honour of the Stewardship of England and the lands of Nicolas de Segrave .

He was married twice. First to Aveline de Forz, Countess of Albemarle, in 1269, and then in Paris, France on February 3, 1276, to Blanche of Artois . That same year he became the Count of Champagne and BrieBrie is a historic region of France most famous for its Brie cheese. It was once divided into two sections ruled by different feudal lords: Brie francaise corresponding roughly to the modern departement of Seine-et-Marne in the Ile-de-France region and Br in France. With Blanche he had four children:

• Thomas PlantagenetThomas, Earl of Lancaster ( 1280 March 22, 1322) was one of the leaders of the barons opposed to Edward II of England. Thomas was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback and thus a grandson of Henry III of England. From his father he inherited the earldoms of, Second Earl of Lancaster (b. 1276)
• Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of LeicesterHenry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester ( 1281 September 22, 1345) was an English nobleman, one of the principals behind the deposition of Edward II. He was the younger son of Blanche of Artois and Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Leicester, who was a son of H (b. 1281)
• John Plantagenet, Lord of Beaufort, (b. BEF 1286)
• Mary Plantagenet

Crouchback was born in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, England. He died on June 5, 1296 in BayonneBayonne is also the name of a city in New Jersey, USA. Bayona is a city in Galicia, Spain. Bayonne (Basque Baiona is a city of southwest France on the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the departement of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, of which it is a so, and was interred on July 15July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. Events 1099 Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege during First Crusade. 1207 John of England, 1296 at Westminster Abbey, London, England.