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 68 DERBY. Bavaria) became sole heir of tho body of her father (cr. Earl of Derby to him and his heirs) and therefore may be considered as, suo jure, Countess of Derby. She m. 19 May 1359, at the age of 12 years, John (Plantauenet), Ea.hl op Richmond (4th .;. of King i'elward III), who as Earl of Lancaster (in her right) was, 13 Nov. 1362, cr. Duke of Lancaster, and who d. 3 Feb. 1399. (") See fuller particulars of him under that dignity. Ho in her right styled himself Earl of Derby, &c. She, who was bis first wife, d. 1369. IX. 13G9, J. Henry (Plantagenet), Earl op Derby, s. ami h, or b. at Bolingbroke, about 1360, sum. to Pari. 3 Sep. (1385) 9 Hie. ii, 1385, as Earl of Derby. He was, 29 Sep. 1397, cr. Duke of Hereford, to and on his father's death, 3 Feb. 1398/9, beenme DUKB of Lan- 1399 CAST ER, 4ft See fuller particulars under that dignity. On 29 Sep. 1399 he sue. to the throne as Henry IV, when all his honours became merged in the Crown. X. 1485. 1. Thomas (Stanley), Lord Stanley, 1st s. and h. of Thomas, Lord Stanley (so cr. by writ dat. 1 156), by Joan, da, and coheir of Sir Robert Goushill of Hoveringham, Notts, and Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, da. and at length coheir of Richard (Fit/.alan), Earl of Arundel, was b. about 1485 ; sue. his father, 20 Feb. 1158/9, being then aged 21, and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (Lord Stanley), (>') from 30 July (1400), 3S Hen. VI, to 9 Dec (14S3), 1 Ric. III. He was also Sovereign Lord of the Isle of SIan,(«) and possessor of the large estates at Lathom and Knowsley, in the hundred of West Derby, cd. Lancaster, inherited from the family of Lathom.(' 1 ) Knighted 9 July 1160 by Henry VI, to whom, in 1151, he had been Esquire of the body ; was P.C. and ( a ) The legend round one of his seals, affixed to a deed 2S Jauy. 1375 is "S. privet; Johannis, Ducis Lancaster; Comit Richmond, Derb., Line, Leyc; Senesealli Angl/ See " Sandford " p. 249. Dugdale says that he used the title of Karl of Derby " amongst the rest of his great titles, not in respect of any formal creation, but because he had married Blanch above named,'' while Thorns, in his " Book of the Court," p. 105, after remarking that, till the time of Henry III, Earldoms appear in several instances to have been held like Baronies, by the tenure of certain lands, which had been created into Earldoms" remarks that "even as late as the reign of Edward III, the titles of the Earldoms [Lancaster, Derby, Leicester and Lincoln] of which Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster died [1361] possessed, were assumed by John of Gaunt, the husband of Blanch Plantagenet, his da. and eventually sole heir." ( b ) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. " IJominus Stanley " sat in the Pari, of Coventry 11 Dec. 1459. It is tolerably certain that it was his father (who (/. Feb. 1458/9) not he himself who was the 1st Lord, sum. by writ, 15 Jany. (1455/6) 34 Hen. VI. See sub " Stanley." ( c ) The Lordship of the Isle of Man was granted by Henry IV in 1400 (on the for- feiture of Lord Scrope) to Henry (Percy) Earl of Northumberland to be holdeu in Sovereignty. He, however, forfeited it some few years later. The Crown granted it in 1400 to Sir John Stanley, K.G., on condition of presenting "a cast of falcons" at each Coronation. See Taylor's " Glory of Regality." In the Stanley family it, together with some 170,000 acres, remained till 1736, when it passed thro' an heiress to that of Murray, Dukes of Athole [S.] See also p. 73, note "c." ( d ) Isabel da. and h, of Sir Thomas Lathom m. Sir John Stanley, K.G., grantee of the Isle of Man (1406) leaving issue Sir John Stanley, the father of Thomas, Lor.l Stanley, whose son was the first Earl. The curious story how "Sir Thomas de Lathom begot a child called Oskytel on a woman who lived not far thence and having no child by his own Lady designed to adopt this Oskytel for his heir" which he did by causing it to be placed in an eagle's nest, situated so that his wife should see it, and persuading her to adopt it inasmuch as " he looked upon it as a miracle " is told by Dugdale, as the origin of the crest still born bv Mr. Oskytel's descendants. The romance is a good deal taken off by Seacombe, in his history of the " House of Stanley to 1735," according to whose version tho peccant Sir Thomas Lathom was father of Isabel Stanley and, in his old age, preferring her (his legitimate daughter) to his bastard son, left to her the Lathom estate and the bulk of his lands, whereby the Stanleys "in derision" of Oskytel's introduction and ultimate fate adopted this