Background
Maud was born in about 1310, a daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.
Maud was born in about 1310, a daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth.
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.
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. Maud"s mother died in 1322, when Maud was twelve years old.
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.
She died there on 5 May 1377 at the age of about sixty-seven years.
She was buried in Bruisyard Abbey.
