Maud Plantagenet (1339 - 1362)

Born 4 Apr 1339 in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Ancestors

Wife of Willem V (Wittelsbach) Bayern — married 1352 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Died 10 Apr 1362 at age 23 in Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

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Biography

Maud (b. c.1339-10 Apr 1362) was the elder da. and coh. of Henry Lancaster, Duke of Lancaster and Isabel de Beaumont. She m. (1) in 1344 Ralph de Stafford, 1st s. and h. apparent of Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl Stafford and Margaret Audley; he d. by 1347; m. (2) in 1352 (permission granted 12 Nov 1351) William V, Duke of Bavaria. She was 22 in 1361 when she received a partition of her father's lands; she dsp. 10 Apr 1362.

Reported to have died of the plague.

Research Notes

Obv. child marriages CP has a note "See ante, vol. vii, p. 410, sub LANCASTER; Maud was 22 in 1361, only 8 at the death of her husband in 1348 and 12 when she m. her 2nd husband.

Sources

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. III page 488
• Complete Peerage 2nd ed. v. 12 part 1 p. 177.

See also:

• Wikipedia page.