Avelina de Forz, Countess of Aumale, 1259-74. At 10 years old, married to Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, 1269. In wimple and gorget, with bindae on the forehead, supertunic and gown under a mantle. From her tomb effigy in Westminster Abbey. With two maids and a dog at Lancaster Castle, Bucks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by John Hill, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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