Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (c. 1281–1345), younger son of Edmund Crouchback, was summoned to Parliament in 1299. When his brother Earl Thomas was executed in 1322, he recovered Leicester in 1324 and Lancaster in 1327.

In 1326 he joined Isabella's invasion and captured Edward II near Neath, and in 1330 he helped Edward III overthrow Mortimer. Blind from about 1330, he retired to Leicester, founded the Newarke hospital, and died in September 1345, succeeded by his son Henry of Grosmont.