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Birth:          ABT 1310 of Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Death:          5 May 1377 
Burial:         Priory, Campsey, Suffolk, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_of_Lancaster,_Countess_of_Ulster
Maud of Lancaster, Countess of Ulster (c. 1310 – 5 May 1377) was an English 
noblewoman and the wife of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster. She was the 
mother of Elizabeth de Burgh, suo jure Countess of Ulster. Her second husband was 
Sir Ralph de Ufford, Justiciar of Ireland. After Ufford's death, Maud became a 
canoness at the Augustine Abbey of Campsey in Suffolk.
Family and early life[edit]

Maud was born in about 1310,[citation needed] a daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of 
Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.[1] She had an older sister, Blanche, Baroness Wake 
of Liddell, and four younger sisters, Joan, Baroness Mowbray, Isabel, Prioress of 
Amesbury, Eleanor, Countess of Arundel, and Mary, Baroness Percy. Her only brother 
was Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. His daughter was Blanche of 
Lancaster, who would in 1359 become the first wife of John of Gaunt, and in 1367 the 
mother of the future King Henry IV of England.

Maud's mother died in 1322, when Maud was twelve years old.

Marriages and Issue[edit]

In 1327, Maud married her first husband, William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster.[1] The 
couple received a papal dispensation for their marriage, which was dated 1 May 1327. 
Maud went to live in Ireland with her husband. Together they had one daughter who 
was born at Carrickfergus Castle in Belfast:
Elizabeth de Burgh, suo jure Countess of Ulster (6 July 1332 – 10 December 1363), 
married Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, by whom she had one daughter, Philippa 
Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster.

In June 1333, Maud's husband was murdered, near Carrickfergus.[1] After his murder, 
which sparked a civil war in Ireland, Maud fled to England with her infant daughter, 
who was the suo jure Countess of Ulster, and they lived at the court of King Edward 
III with the royal family.

Maud married her second husband, Sir Ralph de Ufford, by 8 August 1343. Sir Ralph 
was the youngest son of Robert de Ufford, Lord Ufford, and Cecily de Valognes. In 
1344, he was appointed Justiciar of Ireland, therefore Maud accompanied him in July 
of that year to Ireland, where she had another daughter:
Maud de Ufford (1345/1346 – 25 January 1413), married Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of 
Oxford, by whom she had one son, Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, Duke of Ireland 
and Marquess of Dublin.

Maud's husband was an incompetent Justiciar, thoroughly despised by the Irish; under 
his badly managed administration, the civil war that was waged between the Desmond 
and de Burgh families was at its height. He was summoned before Parliament to 
answer for his misdeeds, and for the incessant quarrels and skirmishes permitted under 
his government between the Anglo-Norman noblemen.[2]

Religious life[edit]

Following the death of Ralph de Ufford on 9 April 1346 at Kilmainham, Maud once 
again returned to England. Between 8 August 1347 and 25 April 1348, she became a 
canoness at the Augustine Abbey of Campsey in Suffolk. In 1364, she transferred to 
the Poor Clares at Bruisyard Abbey. She died there on 5 May 1377 at the age of about 
sixty-seven years. She was buried in Bruisyard Abbey.

Parents
PLANTAGENET Henry (1281 - 22 Sep 1345)
DE CHAWORTH Maud (2 Feb 1282 - 3 Dec 1322)

Siblings
PLANTAGENET Maud "of Lancaster" (ABT 1310 - 5 May 1377)
PLANTAGENET Eleanor (ABT 1311 - 11 Jan 1372)
PLANTAGENET Joan "of Lancaster" (ABT 1312 - 7 Jul 1349)
PLANTAGENET Mary "of Lancaster" (1320 - 1 Sep 1362)

Marriage To DE BURGH William Donn (17 Sep 1312 - 6 Jun 1333)
    m. BEF 16 Nov 1327 

Notes

Parents
DE BURGH John (1286 - 18 Jan 1313)
DE CLARE Elizabeth (16 Sep 1295 - 4 Nov 1360)

Children by DE BURGH William Donn 17 Sep 1312 - 6 Jun 1333
DE BURGH Elizabeth (6 Jul 1332 - 10 Dec 1363)

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