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 366 COKNWALL. charter of the same date, invested with the said Principality and Dukedom, together with the Counties of Chester and Flint, " sibi et heredibus suis, Regibus Augliie." On 10 Nov. 1399 he was declared PUKE OF LANCASTER in Pari., as also DUKE OF AQU1TAINE iu France, and that he should bear the titles of '' Prince of Wales, Duke of Aquitaine, of Lancaster ami of Cornwall, the Earl of Chester." On 21 March 1412/3 he ascended the throne as Henry V, when all his honours merged in the Crown. IV. 1421, Henry (Plaktagenet), DUKE OF COKNWALL, to at his birth, beings, and h. ap. of King Henry V, by (Catherine, da. 1422. of Charles VI, King of Fiiasck. He was 6. 6 Dec. 1 421, at Windsor. Being but nine mouths old at the death of his father, he was never created either Marl of Chester or Prince of Walcs.( b ) On 1 Sep. 1422 he ascended the throne as Henry VI, when all his honours merged in the Crown. V. 1453, Edward (PlantaWet), DUKE OF CORNWALL, to at his birth,( c ) being only $. and h. ap. of King Henry VI, by Mar- 1471. garet, da. of Bene, Di'KE OF Anjou, titular King of Jerusalem, &c. He was b. 13 Oct. 1453 at Westminster. On 16 March 14f>4 he was, by charter, confirmed the same day in Pari., er. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER He was knighted by the lving, 17 Feb. 1401. In Aug. 1470 he m. in France, at the age of 17, Anne, yst. of the 2 daughters and coheirs of Richard (Nevill), Eahl of Salisbury and of Warwick (the celebrated " King-maker "), by Anne, suo jure Countess of Warwick. He d. s.p. and v. p., when his peerage dignities lapsed to the Crown, being slain 0 May 1471, two days after the defeat of the House of Lancaster at Tewkesbury, iu the Abbey of which he was bur Hi* young widow m., 12 July 1172, Richard (Plantage.net),' Duke of Gloucester, afterwards (14S3-85) King Richard 111, who is said to have been her husband's murderer. She rf. (a few months before him) 16 March 1485, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. VI. 1460. KicnABD (Plaxtagenet), Duke of York (whose son, shortly afterwards, ascended the throne as Edward IV), having ob- and all after, 1714: but it seems hardly tenable, inasmuch as the net of 1421 was not passed for the purpose of explaining the original statue, and, apparently, was itself totally ignored in all subsequent proceedings respecting the Dukedom of Cornwall. The following is the account of this act of 1421 given in "Court- hope," p. 12, note " r " : — " This Act, which is for disuniting the manor of Isleworth from the Duchy of Cornwall, and annexing it to the Monastery of Sion, recites the intent and meaning of the Act of 11 Edw. Ill in the following words : — ' fuist accordee qe les fitz eisnes des Rois d'Engleterre e'est assavoir ceux qc serroient heirs prosehiens du lioialmc d'Engleterre fuissent Dues de Cornewailte & q. le Countee de Cornewaille touts jours deuioreroit come Duchee a les eisnes fitz des Rois d'Engle- terre q. serroient heirs proscheius du dit Roialme sans estre aillours donee.' — Rot. Pari. 9 Hen. V. (1421)." ( a ) Probably by the same force majeure as that under which Henry IV became King ; possibly by interpreting " hceres," in the act of 1337, as heir male ; or, under the con- struction given, to that act, in the act of 1421. See p. 365, note "e." ( h ) There have been six Dukes of Cornwall (heirs ap. to the Crown), none of whom were cr. Prince of Wales, viz. II) Henry (afterwards King Henry VI), s. and h. ap. of King Henry V, 1421-22 ; (2) Henry, 1st s. and h. ap. of King Henry VIII, 1510 ; (3) [Henry »], 2nd s. but h. ap. of King Henry VIII, K)14 ; (4) Edward (afterwards King Edward VI), 3rd 8. but h. ap. of Henry VIII, 1537-47 ; (5) Charles, s. and h. ap. of King Charles I, 1628 ; and (6) James Francis Edward {titular P rince of Wales, and afterwards titular King James III), s. and h. ap. of King .lames II, 1688-1701. ( c ) " Henry VI expressly states (Hot. Pail., Vol. v, p. 293) that bis ' first begoten sonne [at the] li/me of his birth was Duke of Cornewayle' so that the limitation [of 1399] was considered to have been the same as in the' case [1337] of the Black Prince ; added to which King Henry VI gives the Duchy to his said son to be enjoyed in as ample form as Edward, son of King Edward III, or as Henry V, his father, has enjoyed it." See " Courthope,' p. 9, part of note « e."