Aveline de Forz, Countess of Aumale

Aveline de Forz, Countess of Aumale and Lady of Holderness (20 January 1259 – 10 November 1274) was an English noblewoman.

Her parents were William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle and Isabella Redvers, Countess of Devon and the Isle of Wight.

[1] Queen Eleanor, the consort of Henry III of England, arranged the marriage between Aveline and their second son Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster.

[5] With marriage to the great heiress, the already wealthy Edmund hoped to gain the earldoms of Devon and Aumale as well as the lordships of Holderness and the Isle of Wight.

[7] The historian Peter Coss has called the tombs of her and Eleanor of Castile "two of the finest female effigies of the thirteenth century.