page_title: Counts and dukes of Aumale
section_title: Earls of Aumale (1095)
hierarchical_section_title: Counts and dukes of Aumale / Aumale in the English peerage / Earls of Aumale (1095)
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing c.1781 of seal (obverse) of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle (d.1260). Legend: "SIGILLUM WILLELMI DE FORTIBUS COMITIS ALBEMARLIE" (Seal of William de Fortibus, Count of Albemarle). Arms: Gules, a cross patonce vair
context_page_description: The County of Aumale, later elevated to a duchy, was a medieval fief in Normandy. It was disputed between England and France during parts of the Hundred Years' War.
context_section_description: In 1196, Philip II of France captured the castle of Aumale (and, subsequently, the remainder of Normandy).  However, despite this, the kings of England continued to claim the Duchy of Normandy, and to recognize the old line of Counts or Earls of Aumale. These were:
  see above for Counts before 1196
  Hawise of Aumale, 2nd Countess of Aumale (died 1214), married, bef. 1196:
  Baldwin of Bethune (died 1212), Count of Aumale jure uxoris
  William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (died 1242), son of the 2nd Countess by her second husband William de Forz (died 1195)
  William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle (died 1260), son of the 3rd Earl
  Thomas de Forz, 5th Earl of Albemarle (died 1269), son of the 4th Earl
  Aveline de Forz, Countess of Albemarle (died 1274), daughter of the 4th Earl
  Aveline married Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, in 1269, but she died without issue in 1274. A claim upon the inheritance by John de Eston (de Ashton) was settled in 1278 with the surrender of the earldom to the Crown.
caption: Seal of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle. Arms: A cross patonce
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