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 54 ALBEMARLE. English possessions. It would seem, therefore, that the Counts of Albemarle had originally no title to this name of dignity in England, but that it became attached to their English possessions, after the conquest of Normandy (by Philip Augustus in the reign of King John) had deprived them of their lauds in that Duchy."— See " Court- hope." Although, as stated above, the Counts of Albemarle (or, at all events those of them who first settled in England, appear to have had no right (other than by courtesy) to the style and rank of English Earls, their vast possessions in England fr.;/.. the Scignory of Holderness, &c.) would, of itself, have entitled them to a seat in Pari, among the English Jlarons. Earls or J. Ai.kuza [sua jn )■>■], COUNTESS OF ALHE.M A R I.K Countesses ( so styled in "Domesday") was da. and h. of Ingleram, CoJtTK DE in Normandy PostHKU and .Sice d'Aumule, bv Adeliza (sister to William the or England. f») Conqueror, being) illegit. da. of Robert, Di ke ok Nohma.ndy, by I 1081 ? Herleve of Kalaise. She sue. her mother- Adeliza (who held the lands of Aumale, or Albemarle in dower) sometime between 10S0 and 10S5, about which period the Seigneurie d' Aumale was made into a Comte by its Duke, William 1 [E.] She it. s.p. (probably unm.) about 1090, but before 1096. II. 1090? 2. Stephen (»e Blois) Earl of Albemablb,^) br. of the half blood (ez parte matcrnu) of the last owner, being 1st s. of Odo, CmNT (*) An account of these Earls is in the "History of Holderuess," by G. PouUun (2 vols. 4to. 1840). vol. i, ]p. IS, &c. In it are incorporated the " observations on Adeliza, sister of Will'am the Conqueror " by one of our greatest antiquaries, Thomas Stapleton, F.S.A. It is apjiarcutly, however, somewhat erroneous. —See '* The Con- queror and his Companions " (2 vols. 8vo., 1S74), by J. It. Planche, Somerset Kendd (1S66-80), vol. i, p. 117, &c. And see also "Coll. Top. et Gen.," vol. vi, p. 261, Ac. The following pedigree illustrates the early descent of the holders of the Seigueurie of Albemarle :— Gueiiufrid, Sire d'Aumule, &fi=f- - Bertha, da. and h.=rHugh II, Comte de Ponthieu, d. 20 Nov. 1052. . . I Ingleram, Comte de Ponthieu and Sire d' Aumale, slain Adeliza, sister of : William I [E.] She lield the lands of Aumale in dower. •Lambert, Count of LensinArtois.Slain 2 March 1055. -Odo, Count of Champagne, b. about 1040. Im- prisoned 1096. Adeliza, Countess of Albemarle, heir to her great - grandfather. The Scigncurie had been made into a Comti by William I [E.]. Judith m. Waltheof, Stephen, Earl of Earl of Huntingdon, Albemarle, Sec, heir &c., who was be- to his mother, headed 1075. (°) The acknowledgment, in a writ of summons, of a, foreign Earldom (to which any English Baron so summoned may have been entitled) is not supposed to have had the effect of creating an English Earldom of that name. Snch were the recognitions in Pari, of the Earldoms of Albemarle, Angus, Athole, Buehau, Eu, &o. — Su also as to the Duke of Aquitaine (1392, &c), and the King of Castile and Leon (temp. Ed. Ill and Ric. II) ; also as to Edward Baliol, sum. as King of Scotland in 1348, &e. The Foreign title so used, which in all these cases was of higher degree than the English one, appeal's to have given its rank to the person summoned therein. The following remark, made by a well-known antiquary (Mr. H. Gough) is worthy of note, — "As Burgesses for Calais sat at one period in the English Pari., it is not inconceivable that a Norman Earl or Baron might have done so even without being possessed of an English Barony." It may also be here noted that Richard de Burgh, Ear! of Ulster fXl and other Nobles of Ireland were sum., 8 Ed. 'II, to the Pari, at Westrn.— See Coke's Inst iv, 350.