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 CORNWALL. 363 [Henry Plantagenet, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h. apt,, by 1st wife, b. 2 Nov. 1235, wils knighted on the day of his father's coronation, 27 May 1257, being, with lii tn, taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. On his return from the Crusade he d. unm. and v.p., being murdered in the church of St. Nicholas, at Viterbium, in Italy, by the sons of Simon de Montfort (in revenge for their father's death ami defeat in 1 2G. r )) in or about 1271. ( a ; IX. 1272, 2. Edmund (Plantagexet, styled "of Almainb/'X 1 ') to Earl OF Cornwall, 5th but 1st surv. s. and 1... being 1st s. by the 1300. 2i«d wife, Dee. 12.10 ; was invested with his father's Earldom and knighted by the King, 13 Oct. 1272 ; Joint Guardian of the Realm, Nov. 1272, to Jany. 127a, and April 1 270 to 12S0. Sheriff of Corn- wall, 127S-1300 ; Side Guardian of the Realm, June 12S0 to Aug. 1289 ; Sheriff of, co. Rutland, 1288-1300 ; Councillor to the Prince of Wales, 1297 to 1298. He in. fi (Jet. 1272. Margaret, da. id Richard (pe CLARK), Earl of Gloucester and HERTFORD, by Maud, da. of John (de Lacy), Karl of LINCOLN. She was divorced 1294, (<=) and condemned " vitam virere etelihaa." He d. s.p. 1 Oct. 1300, at the Abbev of A.-hridge, Bucks (which he had founded in 12?3), and was bwr. near his father in" the Abbey uf Hailes afsd., w hen the Baridam of Corn mill became extinct, and, all legit, issue of his {other having failed, the King was found his cousin and next heir. X. 1307, Sir Piers l>e Gavestox, s. of Arnold de Gaveston, to Seigneur D'Olcron in Gascony, 6. there about 1284, was attendant on 1313. the Prince of Wales, by whom he was kuighted, 22 May 1306 ; and by whom (direetly after his accession as Edward II) lie was, in 1307, made Secretary to the King : l'.C. : SheriH of co Cornwall, and receiving a grant of the county of ( 'ornwall by charter dat. at Dumfries 6 Aug. 1307, " habcud. H tcncitd. citlt m Pctro ct hercdibits suit*, dt nob. cl hcrcdibits nostris'' became thereby EARL OK CORNWALL^) and was sum. to Pari, as such the 19th Jan. following. He was Guardian of the Realm, Dec. 1307 to Feb. 130S ; was Bearer of the Crown at the coronation, 25 Feb. 130S ; Lord Lieut, of Ireland, June 1308 to Sep. 1309. He was made Constable of Berkhampstead Castle and Provost of the county and city of Bayonne in 1308 ; Keeper of the Castles and Honours of Kuaresborough and Wallingford in 1309 ; Constable of Nottingham Castle anrl Chief Justice in Eyre, north of Trent, in 1310 and again iu 1312 ; Keeper of Carlisle Castle and Constable of Scarborough Castle in 1312. The nobility being, not unnaturally, displeased at the influence over the King exercised by this Foreigner, demanded his banishment, and on the refusal thereof, captured the Earl, at Scarborough, and bclieaded him, without any form of trial, 19 June 1312, at Blacklow, near Warwick. He m. 1309, Margaret, da. of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by the Lady Joan PlantaGENEt, da, of King Edward I, the said Margaret being, con- sequently, niece of the Earl's Patron, the reigning King. He d. s.p.m.,(°) when the Earldom of Gormcidl is presumed to kmc reverted to the Crown. His body was carried (») See the latin verses in the said church, relating thereto, iu " Vincent," p. 135. ( b ) The inscription on his seal was "S. Eadmundi de Allemannia Oomitis Cornubios"; that on his father's royal seal was " Ricardus, Dei gratia, Rohanobum Hex, Semper Augustus." See " Sandford." ( c ) There is an engraving alluded to in " Sandford " of her coat of arms, viz., "Cornwall" dimidiated, impaling " Clare," also dimidiated, the latter coat, "Or, 3 chevronels, gules," thus resembling (owing to its dimidiation) three bendlets. ( d ) " By a subsequent charter, 5 Aug. 1309. the county of Cornwall with its appurtenances was settled upon the said Peter and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, by reason of which charter Margaret, widow of Gaveston and wife of Hugh de Audley, petitioned for restoration of the lands which had been seized into the hands of the Crown, and stating that there was issue of the said Piers by the said Margaret then living. But the Parliament ordained that the county, &c, should remain to the King, quit of the claim of Hugh and Margaret and of the issue of Qaveston and Margaret for ever," See " Courthopa'' (°) His only da.* and h., Joane, was by him destined to have m. Thomas Wake, and h. ap. of John, Lord Wake, but the said Thomas having m. elsewhere, King Edward 11, in 1318, granted her marriage to John, s. and h. ap. of Thomas de Multon Lord of Egremont, as soon as they attained to the legal age of marriage.