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 CORNWALL. 365 23 April 1314, what) not yet 14, tW not fully qualified till (2 years afterwards) he had received his Knighthood. On 19 Sep. 1356 he gained the splendid victory of Poitiers, taking prisoner John, King of France. From 1355 to 1372 he was Lieut, of the Duchy of Aquitaine, and by charter/ 11 ) 19 July 1362, was cr. PRINCE OF AQUITAINE Tin France], being sum. to Pari. 24 Feb. 1368/9 to ti Oct. 1372, under the style of " Prince of Aquitaine and Wales," soon after which he, apparently, resigned the Principality of Aquitaine, and was sum. as " Prince of Wales " (only) on 28 Dec. 1375. Ou 23 Sep. 1366 he had been cr. (by Pedro, King of Castille) Lord of Biscay and CaBERO Urdialks, in Spain. He m. 10 Oct. 1361, by papal dispensation (the lady being first cousin to his father), Joan, suojure C'odntess op Kent, the repudiated wife of Thomas (Montaou), Earl of Salisbury, and the widow of Sir Thomas Holand, K.G., who, in her right, was Earl of Kf.nt, and who d. 28 Dec. 1360. This lady, usually culled "Ttu Fair Maid of Kent," was, in 1352, heir to her br. John, Earl of Kent, being da. of Edmund (Plantagenet), Earl of Kent, by Margaret, da. of John (Ware), Lord Wake, the said Earl Edmund being s. of King Edward I, by his 2nd wife, Margaret of France. The Black Prince d, v.p., after a long illness, at Westm., 8 June 1376, and was bur. with great state in Canterbury Cathedral. M.I. On his death all his 'peerage dignities (none of which devolved on his son in consequence of the spec, reins, thereof) lapsed to the Crown.( b ) His widow, who, under the name of " The King's M other," was one of the ladies for whom robes of the Order of tlte Garter were provided in 1378-79, d. at Wallingford, Berks, 8 July 1385. II. 1376, RicnARD Plantagenet, styled " of Bordeaux," 2nd but to 1st surv. s. and h. of Edward, Prince of Wales, Ddke of Cornwall, 1377. and Earl of Chester abovenamed, by Joan, his wife, suo jure Countess of Kent, was 6. 6 Jan. 1367 at Bordeaux iu Aquitaine, but ilid not (owing to the spec. clauses( c ) creating those dignities) inherit any of his father's said honours. Being grandson of the reigning King (Edward III) and h. ap. to the Crown, he was, by charter, dat. at Havering, 20 Nov. 1376, cr Prince of Wales, DUKE OF CORNWALL, and EARL OF CHESTER. On 22 June 1377 heiiscended the throne as Richard II, when all his honours merged in the Crown. III. 1399, Henry Plantagenet, styled "op Monmouth," s. and to h. ap. of King Henry IV, by his 1st wife Mary, da. and coheir of 1-113. Humphrey (m Bohun), Earl of Hereford, was b. 16 Sep. 1386 at Monmouth, and was, on 15 Oct. 1399, cr.( d ) in Pari. Prince of Wales DUKE OF CORNWALL(«) and EARL OF CHESTEK, being, by (") See, ante, Vol. i, p. 113, note " b." ( b ) Of his two sons, each successively his h. ap., neither (as was afterwards customary) was styled by any courtesy title, and, indeed, neither was such heir to any of his English honours. The eldest, "Edward of Angouleuie,," was b. there 1865, and d. young v.p. 1372 in Gascony ; while the youngest Richard was cr. in 1376, Duke of Cornwall. See above. ("=) See p. 227, note " b." ( d ) Though, on the accession of his father to the Crown, he was the eldest s. of a King of England, that King was not the heir general (the obvious construction of hwrcs), though he was heir male of the Black Prince, the original grantee of the Dukedom of Cornwall. It was therefore supposed that Prince Henry was not entitled thereto, under the terms of the grant of 1337, and that "a new creation became therefore necessary ; but notwithstanding the express limitation contained in the preceding aud subsequent charters, the limitations in this case are the same as those of the Principality of Wales— sibi et haredihus sais Regibus Anglice— the effect of which would be to vest that dignity in the Crown upon accession, there to remain till regranted." See " Courthope," p. 9, part of note "e." (") Iu an act (9 Hen. V), 1421, reciting the act of (11 Ed. Ill) 1337, all allusion to the heirs of the grantee (the Black Prince) is ommitted. Mr. Courthope speaks of this (garbled; recite! as S " comli notion given to the original statue." See infra, p. 372 note " c." This theory would no doubt, if admitted, account for the allowances of the Dukedom in Dec. 1421 and in 1453, as well as for certain other allowances before,