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 S II R Botilor, Earl of Ormoisde, by whom he had an only son; and 2ndly, Joan, dan. of 1d.slph, Earl of Stafford, and was s. at his deoease, in 1397, by his son, SIR RICHARD, 4th baron; who having so. Ankaret, sister and eventually sole heiross of John, Baron Strange is. Humphrey (Sir), marshal of Calais; 5. o. p. in 1492. of Blaekmers, was summoned to parliament (An. 1387) iii. Lewis (Sir), of I’enyard, liorts. in tho lifetime of his father, as “ Rieardo Talbot do Black- 5. Joan, m. to James, lot Lorsi Berkeley. mere,” and ‘‘Rieards do Godedcke Castell.” This nobleman sI. Ellzaheth, sa. John Rowbroy, 4th Dssko of Norfolk. S. in 1396, leaving five sons and four dane.; of His lordship was s. by his son, whom, G5LeERT s. his father. JOHN, the 2nd seam, was 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. Richard, the 3rd son, was archbishop of Dublin, for thirty- the Laneaatrian cause, fell, with his brother Sir Christopher, two years; doring which period he was successively lord- at the battle of Northampton, 10 July, 1460, fighting under chancellor, lord-justice, and lord-deputy of Ireland. Lord Talbot was o. by his eldest son, Sue GmterRv, 5th baron; who is 1st, Joan, 2nd dan. of Indly, Elizabeth, dan. of James Bntlor, Earl of Ormonde, Thomas (of Wsodstook), Duke of Glouoeoter, yonngost son and left (with other issue), of King Enwano Ill., by whom he bad no issue; and i. Jonio, his successor. is. James (Sir), 5. s. p. 2ndly, Boatrix, of the illn& none house of Pinto, in Portugal, is’. Gilbert (Sir), of Grofton, ce. Worcester, who was high- by whom he left at his deoeaee, in 1415, a dan. his sheriff of Shropshhe, hemp. Ttsossann lii. but proved a successor, ANRAROT TALeov; at whose deoeaeo, in minority, 13 Dcc. 1431, the original B irony of Talbot, and that of Talbot of lilacleinere, devolved upon her ladyship’s uncle, Sm JonN TaROT, KG., 6th baron; who having m. Sland, eldest doss. and co-heir of Thomas Nevil, Lord Fnmival. had been summoned to parliament, in 1409, as “Johannos Talbot do Fnrnyvall.” TIe was appointed, in 1412, lord-jnsties of Ireland, and in two years afterwards, lord-lieutenant of the s:sme kingdom he govemed there for seven years. This Lord Talbot, whom Shakespeare terms “ the gmat .Alcidss of the field,” was one of the most renownsd captains of tho warlike age ho lived in. His earlier feats of arms ;vsre nuder heNRy V., in France, at the siego and capture of Means. He was with the king when he died, in 1122, and he seems to have inherited the heroic spirit of his royal master. Ho gloriously sustained the cause of Rr.Nnv VI., throughout his French realm, in battle after battle, until the very name of Talbot became a terror to Frenohn,en. He was, for a moment, checked in his career by the Maid of Orleans, at Patay, in 1429, when his army being rented, ho was taken prisoner. He was exchanged for Ambrose de Lore, a celebrated French partisan; and was soon ins activityagain, the master-mind and master-director of the fierce contest in France, doing good and effective service every day. In reward, he was created., 10 May, 1442, EARt OF SHRewsa jv. He was snbssqnontly re-oonstituted lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and elevated to the peerage of that kingdom, 17 July, 1446, as Earl of Welerfsrd, having bren appointod at the same thne lord-high-steward of Iroland.* After tide, he went once mere to fight in Francs. Re commanded a fleet, la,sdosl and took Falaise, and, as Lieutenant of the duchy of Aoqnitaine, marched to the south and made Herdeans surrender, and the surrounding miner towns send in instant submission. Me thonoo advanced to the s’elisf of Chastillon, and met the besieging French army commanded John, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, was o. by his eldest son, by their then greatest leader, Dunois, Bastard of Orleans. Jossa, 3rd earl; who os. Catherine, dan. of Ilnmphrey In the battle which ensned, 23 July, 1453, Talbot, in the Stafford, Duke of Bnokingham ; and dying in 1475, was o. by eightieth year of his age, reoe,ived a wound in the thigh, his eldest son, which proved immediately mortal. Talbet had been vieteriens Geossnos, 4th earl; wl’o was installed a knight of the in forty different battles and dangerous skirmishes; Garter in 1498, for his valiant conduct at the battle of Stoke, his death proved fatal to the English dc,minisn in France, 10 June, 1197. His lordship so. lot, Anne, dan. of William, which never flourished afterwards. The earl had two surviving Lord Hastings, by whom he had six sons and five dane. sons by his 1st wife, s. Jonp, his snocessor. ii. Christopher (Sir). lIe so. Sndly, Elizabeth, den, and co-heir of Sir Richard And by his 2nd, Margaret, oldest dan. and co-heiress of Walden, lint, of Erith, in Kent, by whom he had ens surviving Richard Beanehamp, Earl of Warwick, 1. Jonsi, who was created in 1443, Lord Lisle of Kinpolea of Sir William Conoyton, lint. ; and Indly, to William Herbert, Lisle ia Bcrkoisirc; and in 1492, Vioeeaol Lisle. His lordship and was s. by his 2nd and eldest survivhsg son, fell endsavonring to rescue his father’s body at the FRANCIs, 5th earl, KG.; who bad been summoned to battle of C’hnstillon. Re ss. Joan, dan. and co-heiress of parliament as a baron in the lifetime of his father (7 Feb. Sir Thomas Chedder, of Chedder, in Somersetshire, and 1312-3.) “This nobleman,” says Lodge, “although of no left, with two dans., * Shakespeare gives thus the titles of this great earl:— Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrswsbury, Created for his rare success in arms, Great Earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence; Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinflold; Lord Strange of Blookmere; Lord Verdun of Alien; Lord Cromwell of Wingf.eld; Lord Fnrnival of Sheffield; The thrice victorious Lord of Faleontsridge; Knight of tho noble order of St. George, Worthy St. llhiolsael, and the Golden Fleece Great-3lareshal to Henry the Sixth, Of all his wars witl,in the realm of France.” The oarlo monument at Whitehnreh repeats nearly the whole ,,f this hst of hononra. 1009 S H H THoMAs, 2nd viscount. This nobloenan having a dispnts wsth Lord Berkeley, fell in a skirmiob at Wooton n,sdorEdge, 20 March, 1409, when the soeonsstoy expired, but the expiration of the Barnsiy of Lisle is dosibsful (“so Bussno s FetinG J’sss’opj. JOI5N, 2nd earl, KG. lord-treasurer of Ireland during the administration of isis father, and snbseqssently lsrd-treasnrer of England. His lordship, trne to his family’s dovetios, to the Rod Rose. The earl so. 1st, Catherine, dan. and ooheiress of Sir Edward Bumel, but had no issue. Rs so. stanch adherent of the Earl of Richmond at Bosworth, the right wing of wisose anny Sir Gilbert commanded in that memorable field, and received the honour of knighthood, with a grant of the manor of Grafton and ollser lands, for his valionteonsluet, from the victor, in two years afterwards, Sir Gilbert had a oemnsand at the bathe of Stoke, when ths Earl of Lineelss and Lambert Simnel were defeated, and ho was then made a knight bonsseret. Sir Gilbert iii. 1st, Elizal,eth, dan. of Henry, Lord Seropo, of Bolten, by whom he bad two sons, Gilbert and Rumphry, who both 5. issnoless. Be so. lndly, Audrey, dan. of Sir John Cotton, lint, and relict of Thomas Barton, Eoq. and of Sir Richard Gordiner, lord-mayer of London, by whom he left at his deooaso, in 1916, an only son, Sin Jonas TAL00T, of Albrighton, 00. Soiop, who eventually inherited the manor of Grafton. He so. lot Margaret, dan. and heir of Adam Trontheek, Eoq. of Mobberley, in Cheshire, and by her had a eon, JoHN, his heir, and (according to the opponents of Earl Tolbet, in the recent Shrewsbnry case) two other sons.5 Sir John Talbot so. 2ndly, Elizabeth, dan. of Walter Wrotteslsy, of Wrottesley, and by hor had a son, JOHN of Salwas-p, ancestor of the present EARL TALBOT, Eana or Snoswosossv. Sir John, of Albnhghton, 5,11(9, and was o. by his eldest son, JOHN (Sir), of Grafton and Albrightou, so. Frances, dan. of Sir John Giffard, lint, and was father of, JOHN (Sir), is. Catherine, dan of Sir William Fetre, lint., secretary of state to Queen Many, and left at his decease, I Geoomsae, of whom hereafter, as 9th Earl of Shrewsbnry. 2 John, of Longford, whose son, Jona, o. his unrlo, as 10th sari. 1 Anane, who so. Thomas Needham, Esq. of Shenton, ce. Sniop, and had, with other issue, a son, Robert (father of the 1t Viscount Eilmorey), and a dan., Anns, wife of Sir Richard llnlkelsy, of Beaumaris, and mother of Launeelot Bulkelsy, archbishop of Dnblln, ActIons Bulkeley, vicar of Coyden, and other children. don. Anne, so. let, to Pstcr Compton, son and heir Earl of Pembroke. Lord Shrewabury, 5. 16 July, 1128, ST A copy was given in evidence in the recent great Shrewsbnry ease, of an inscription from an ancient monemaent in the church of Bromsgrove, ‘Wercestersbirs, erected to the memory of Sir John Toihot of Albrigbton, and his two wives. This inscription, as far as related to Sir John’s issue, woo in the following words “the Lady Margaret, bys first ovyfe, bars to him three sonnos and five daughters, and ye Lady Elizabeth, bare to him fonre snnnes and four danghters.” Major Taihot, of Castle Taibot, ro. Wcxford, v-Iso was brother of the late Countess of Slsrewshury, opposed Earl Talbot’s claim in the Rouse sf Lords, and gronoded that opposition upon his descent, as be alleged, from one of these younger sons of Sir John Talbot of Albrighton, by his first wife.