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 56 ALBEMARLE. VI. 1195 ! 1 or 4 C ' Baldwin' (de Betun), Earl of Albemahle,(") third husband of said Hawyse, who also assumed the title in her right, It is not improbable that she d. in his lifetime. He d. s.p.m., 1212,( b ) and was bur. in the Abbey of Meaux. VII. 1212.? J. William (de Fqktz, or de Fohtibus), Earl op Albemarle s. and h. of the said Hawise by her second husband above-named. In 16 John (1214), he was confirmed in all his mother's lands. Ha was ONE OF THE 25 BAROS8 appointed to enforce the observance OF " Maona ChaRTa." At the battle of Lincoln ( 1 "2 1 7 ) he fought on the side of King Hen. III. He hi. Aveline, 2nd da. and coheir of Hichard de Montfichkt of co. Essex. She d. 1238, He d. 1241, being starved to death in the Levant, and was bur. ill the Abbey of Meaux. VIII. 1241. 0. WtijbtAM (de Fort/., of tas Fortibus), Earl of Albemarle, s. and h. Sheril'i of Cumberland, 1257-59. He m. firstly, Christian, or Devorgill, 1st da. and coheir of Alan. Lord of Calloway [S. ], by Margaret, 1st da. of David, Eaiil ok HUKTIMGDON, next br. to William the Lion, Kino of Scotland. She d. s.p. (1245-46), 30 Hen. III. He in. secondly, Isabel, only da. of Baldwin (de Rkdvers), "th Earl ok Devon, by Amicia, da. of Gilbert (DE Clark), Earl uf Hertford and of Gloucester. He d. 1250. Esch. (1259-60), 44 Hen. HI. His widow (who was 6. 1237), on the death of her br. Baldwin, the St-fa Earl, s.p.. in 1261, (to whom she was h.) styled herself Countess of Devon.( c ) She d. s.p.s. (1292-93), 20 Edw. I, having conveyed most of her possessions to the crown. IX. 1256. 7. Thomas (de Fortz, or de Fortirus), Earl of Alremahle, s. and h., aged seven years (1260) 44 Hen. III. Mod. umn. before 126P. X. 1269 ? 8. Avellva, who must be considered us euo jw% Countess of Albemarle, only surv. sister and sole h.( J ) She in. 6 April 1269, Edmund (Plantauenet), Earl of Lancaster, 2nd s. of King Henry 111, being his first wife. In 1273, she made proof of her age, but d. s.p., 1274. Imp 12 March, 1275. 3 Ed. I. No. 31. ['•'The Earldom of Albemarle got into the hands of the Crown by means of the surrender of John de Aston." — See p., 55 note c ; see also the " Additions to Dug- dale's Baronage," by Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald, as given in " Co]]. Top. anil Gen.," vi. 262, &c] Dukes in l. Thomas (Plantagexet), called : 'of Woodstock."} M Normandy Eablof Buckingham, yst. s. of Edw. Ill, was, on 3 Sep. (13S5) | £ or England. 9 Kic. IIj sum- to Parl. il3 DUKE OF ALBEMARLE ;(°) but Z | » I 1385 neither he uor his s. were ever afterwards sum. or in any way 3 Q g recognised by that title. A few days previous (6 Aug. 13S5) g = he had been cr. Duku of Gloucester, by which title he was ever afterwards ? g g -3 (though curiously enough not at that time) sum. He d. 8 Sep. 1397. £ | £ II? 1397. 2. Humphrey (Plantagenet)Duke ofGloucester, |a™ &c. [and query, Duke of Alremahle '!], only s. aud h. He v S d. unm., 1399, when all his, and his father's, honours became ex. J 33P (') Hovedea says he was Earl of Albbjurle : "da/to Jticardi Rajis Awjlia, cl duxit in uxorem Comitissam AlbemablijE." See " Courthope." ( b ) Hawise, their only da. and h., m. William Marshall (Junior), Earl of Pembroke, and d. s.p. ( c ) The King granted her marriage, 20 Nov. (1268), 53 Hen. Ill, to liis s., Edmund (Plantagenet), Earl of Lancaster, but (quickly altering his mind, perhaps owing to the death of the young Earl of Albemarle) granted, in the same year to the same son, the marriage of Aveiina, her da., the heiress of the family. — See note by Sir C. G. Young, Garter (1842-69), in " Coll. Top. et Gen.," vi, 264. ( J ) Avice, the 1st sister, m. Ingelram de Percy, whose widow she was in 1261. She d. s.p. aud v.f. before 1269, and was bur. in the Abbey of Meaux. (o) It is not improbable that this was a foreign title, i.e., a Norman Dukedom, just as was the Earldom of Eu, in Normandy, cr. about thirty years later by Hen. V in behalf of William Bourchier. This supposition is strengthened by the fact of the subsequent creation in 1397 being before this creation of 1385 (if, indeed, it was an English hereditary Peerage) was ex. For the circumstance of a foreign title, if of higher degree than the English one, being used in the writ see p. 54, note b.