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Antwerp, Lionel of (1338 - 1368)

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Plantagenet

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1338-11-29
Death Date: 1368-10-17

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Burgh, Elizabeth de (1332 - 1363)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1342-9-9
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: union consummated in 1352 [ODNB]
  2. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1368-5-28
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: possibly married 5 June 1368

Siblings

Male

Female

Offspring

Titles

  • 5th Earl of Ulster
    Assumed: 1346/7-01-26
    Vacated: 1368-10-17
  • 1st Duke of Clarence
    Assumed: 1362-11-13
    Vacated: 1368-10-17
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1361-04
    Vacated: 1368-10-17

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Guardian of England, England 1345 -7 -3 1345 -07 -26 Regent during Edward III's absence in Flanders & France
Guardian of England, England 1346 -7 -11 1347 -10 -12 Regent during Edward III's absence in France
Keeper, Devon 1359 -5 -8
Chief Governor, Ireland 1361 -7 -1 1364 -04 -22 Office called 'King's Lieutenant.' Lionel returned to England after the Earl of Ormond was appointed Keeper of the Lordship of Ireland on 22 April 1364
Chief Governor, Ireland 1364 -9 -24 (date reappointed) 1366 -11 -7 Office called 'King's Lieutenant.' Lionel returned to Ireland in Dec. 1364

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Dublin Castle, Ireland
    Acquired: 1361-07
    Divested: 1366-11
    Residence as the Chief Governor in Ireland

Lands

  • Ireland
    Acquired: 1360
    Acquired right to but not possession of the de Burgh estates of the Earldom of Ulster via marriage; the right to these estates were held for life by 1st wife's grandmother Elizabeth de Clare (d late 1360)
  • Suffolk: Clare
    Acquired: 1360
    Acquired via 1st marriage; estates were held for life by 1st wife's grandmother Elizabeth de Clare (d late 1360)
  • Wales
    Acquired: 1360
    Acquired de Clare estates in Wales and England upon the death of 1st wife's grandmother Elizabeth de Clare in late 1360

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Lionel's Entertainers
Performance - King's Hall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord Lionel's Entertainers

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Lionel's Entertainers Antwerp, Lionel of (1338 - 1368) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Lionel's Entertainers Antwerp, Lionel of (1338 - 1368) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Fryde, E.B., D.E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, eds. Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.