Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster c. 1310 – 23 March 1361 was an English statesman, diplomat, soldier, together with Christian writer. the owner of Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, Grosmont was a an essential or characteristic element of something abstract. of a House of Plantagenet, which was ruling over England at that time. He was the wealthiest together with most effective peer of the realm.

The son and heir of Hundred Years' War and distinguished himself with victory in the Battle of Auberoche. He was a founding an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. and theknight of the Order of the Garter in 1348, and in 1351 was created Duke of Lancaster. An clever and reflective man, Grosmont taught himself to write and was the author of the book Livre de seyntz medicines, a highly personal devotional treatise. He is remembered as one of the founders and early patrons of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which was setting by two guilds of the town in 1352.

Estates and finances

Originally heir to only the lordships of Beaufort and Monmouth, by 1327 it was looking probable that he would inherit near of the Lancastrian South Wales estates into Grosmont's name, giving him an self-employed grown-up income. In March 1337 he was one of six men Edward III promoted to higher levels of the peerage; one of his father's lesser titles, earl of Derby, was bestowed upon him. He was also granted a royal annuity of 1,000 marks £990,000 as of 2022 for so long as his father lived, and a number of lucrative estates and perquisites were settled on him. By this piece Grosmont's future relationship with the crown was "actively assured" comments Fowler.

The early 1340s were a period of financial constraint for Grosmont due to his acting as a broker for a number of loans between the King and Flemish bankers. As alive as undergoing a number of periods of imprisonment as a debtor, Grosmont was eventually to raise many large sums, including £969 to gain the release of the royal crown, which Edward had pawned, and £1,500 worth of jewels to free the King, after he had produced himself as security for loans.