Cook Family Ancestry Maud Plantagenet Countess of Leicester [8813] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Henry of Lancaster Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Lancaster [5390]
(1281-1345)

Maud Chaworth [4428]
(Abt 1282-Bef 1322)

Henry de Beaumont 8th Earl of Buchan [11951]
(-Bef 1340)

Alice Comyn [12512]

Henry Grosment of Derby Plantagenet 1st Duke Lancaster [5316]
(Abt 1306-1361)

Isabel de Beaumont [8812]
(-1361)

Maud Plantagenet Countess of Leicester [8813]
(1339-1362)

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Spouses/Children:
1. Ralph Stafford Lord Stafford [8817]
2. William V of Zealand Wittelsbach Duke of Zealand [11949]

daughter Wittelsbach [12423]

Maud Plantagenet Countess of Leicester [8813] ²⁴ ^,25

Born: 4 Apr 1339
Marriage (1): Ralph Stafford Lord Stafford [8817] on 1 Nov 1344
Marriage (2): William V of Zealand Wittelsbach Duke of Zealand [11949] in 1352 in Kings Chapel, Palace of Westminster
Died: 10 Apr 1362, England at age 23

bullet Cause of her death was She died of the Black Death, but some indicate she was poisoned.

bullet General Notes:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal03253

The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.410.

bullet Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded, 23 Mar 1361.

Maud married Ralph Stafford Lord Stafford [8817] [MRIN: 3681], son of Ralph de Stafford 1st Earl Stafford [8815] and Margaret de Audley Baroness Audley [8800], on 1 Nov 1344. (Ralph Stafford Lord Stafford [8817] died in 1348.)

Maud next married William V of Zealand Wittelsbach Duke of Zealand [11949] [MRIN: 5469], son of Louis IV (Ludwig) the Bavarian Wittelsbach Holy Roman Emperor [11650] and Margaret of Holland Countess of Hainaut and Holland [11948], in 1352 in Kings Chapel, Palace of Westminster. (William V of Zealand Wittelsbach Duke of Zealand [11949] was born in 1327 and died in 1389.)

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Maud Plantagenet Countess of Leicester [8813] ²⁴ ^,25