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 362 CORNWALL. of the count;/ of Cornwall from King John to farm till tlio realm should he at pease. This grant was renewed by Henry III, by patent dat. at Gloucester 7 Keb. 1216/7, with the words that he should hold the same " sicut Rtginaldut, Comes Carnnhhr, pater suits, Mum teuuit." whereby he became KARL OF CORNWALL, and is to culled in a charter to the Priory of St Nicholas, Exeter. He resigned the mid Earldom to the King in 1220, when he took the cross and d. a Crusader in 12J2. (*) VIII. 1225. 1. Richard Pla.ntagexet, 2nd s. of luxe John, !>v Isabella, da. and h. of Aymer (Taillekku, Count ok Anuoulemk, was 6. 5 Jan. 1209 ; was Constable of Wallingford Castle, 1216 ; Knighted on Candlemas Day, 1225, by his br., King Henry III, who, a few days afterwards, 13 Feb. 122."), granted him the County of Cornwall and the whole of Puitou, whereby he was styled EARL OF CORNWALL^') and COUNT OF POITOU ; Lieut, of Guiennc, 1226-27 ; Ch. Commissioner for making a truce with France, 1 230 ; Keeper of the Honour of Wallingford, 1230-31 ; of the Honour of Knaresborough, 1235; took the Cross, 1236; was on an Embiissy to the Emperor Frederick, 1237 ; Lord of the forest of Dartmoor, 1239 ; Com. -in-Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-41, when he entered into a truce with the Soldan of Babylon. Joint Plenipo. to France, ami Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV, 1250 ; P.C., 1253 ; Joint Guardian of England, 1253-54. He acquired vast estates and great wealth by farming the Mint, the Jews, fee., and in consequence/ 0 ) probably, whereof was, in Dee. 1256. by the Princes of the Empire, elected King of the Romans, being crowned 27 May 1257, at Aachen. He was, however, " s i dispossessed, forsaken, and forced to return into England a poorer king than he went out an Earl "( rt ) In Oct. 1959 he was Ambassador to Pope Alexander IV. He was a faithful adherent to the King, his br., against the rebellious Barons, and both were taken prisoners at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1261. He m. firstly. 30 March 1231, Isabel, widow of Gilbert [DE Clare), Earl OF GLOUCESTER, da. of William (MARSHALL), Earl ok Pembroke, by Isabel, da. and h. of Richard (dk Clare), also Earl ok PEMBROKE. She d. 19 Jan. 1240, and was bur. at Ueaulieu, co. Sonthon. her heart being sent to Tewkesbury Abbey. M.I. He ni. secondly, 23 Nov. 1213, Sauchia, 3rd da. and coheir( e ) of Raymond (Bkrf.nuar), Count ok PROVENCE, by Beatrix, da. of Thomas, Count ok Mauiuknne. She, who was crowned ftueen^) (with her husband) 1257, d. 9 Nov. 1261, and was bur. at Hailes Abbey, co. Olouc, of which her husband had, in 1251, been founder. He )n. thirdly, 16 Juue 1269, Beatrice, da. of Theodorie Von Falkestein, niece of Conrad, Archbishop of Cologne. He d. at Berkhampsted Castle, Herts, 2 April 1272, and was bur. in Hailes Abbey afsd., his heart being sent to Rewley Abbey, Oxon, of which, also, he was the founder. M.I.f) His widow d. on the Vigil of St. Luke, 1277, and was bur. at the Friars' Minors, in Oxford. [John Plantagexet, 1st s. and h. ap. by 1st wife, b. and d. 1232, and was bur. (near King Henry I,) at Reading, Berks.] ( a ) " Brooke," uncontradicted by " Vincent,'' says he d. in Gascony, but ' Brooke " seems to have known little about him, not even mentioning his acquisition of the Earldom. ( b ) The Earldom of Cornwall was subsequently confirmed by charter, 10 Aug. 1231, liabend et teneud. de nob. et hered. n'ris, ipsi Com. et hered. suis." ( c ) " Nummus ait pro me ; uubit Cornubia Romie. ( a ) See "Sandford." In Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire'* (p. 212) it is said that " Three of the Electors finding his bribe to them was lower than to the others, seceded in disgust and chose Alfonzo X of Castile." (°) " One of those 4 daughters of an Earl that by marriage came to be exalted to the thrones of so many Kings, an example not to be paralleled in any history." See "Sandford." The other three Queens were (1) Margaret, wife of Louis IX of France (2) Eleanor, wife of Henry III of England, and (3) Beatrix, wife of Charles I of Naples. (■) Richard de Cornwall, one of his illegit. sons, was ancestor of the family of Cornwall seated at Burford, co. Salop, and at Eerington, co. Hereford.