Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall

Edmund of Almain
Earl of Cornwall
Predecessor	Richard, 1st Earl
Born	26 December 1249 Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England
Died	bef. 25 September 1300 (aged 50)
Burial	Heart & Flesh: Ashridge, Hertfordshire Bones: 23 March 1301 Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire
Spouse	Margaret de Clare
House	Plantagenet
Father	Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Mother	Sanchia of Provence

Edmund of Almain (26 December 1249 – 1300) was the second Earl of Cornwall of the seventh creation from 1272. He joined the Ninth Crusade in 1271, but never made it to the Holy Land. He was the regent of the Kingdom of England from 1286 to 1289 and the High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1289 to 1300.

Edmund was born at Berkhamsted Castle on 26 December 1249 and was the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall and his second wife Sanchia of Provence, daughter of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Provence, and sister of Henry III's queen, Eleanor. He was baptised by his mother's uncle, Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, and was named Edmund in honour of Saint Edmund of Abingdon, Boniface's predecessor as archbishop.

In 1257, Edmund joined his parents on their first visit to Germany, to pursue Richard's nominal title as king and claimant to the Holy Roman Empire, returning in January, 1259. In 1264, after his father's capture at the Battle of Lewes, Edmund was held prisoner with his father at Kenilworth Castle, being released in September 1265. He and his father returned to Germany in August 1268, and according to a semi-mythical account written many years later, acquired a relic of the blood of Jesus Christ previously belonging to Charlemagne, before returning to England in August 1269. He is said to have given part of this relic to the monks of his father's foundation at Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire, following a ceremony in September 1270.

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