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 44 GLOUCESTER, King Richard II. against tho party of the late Duke of Gloucester was himself cr., 29 Sep. 1397, EARL OF GLOUCESTER, a title to which in right of his repre- sentatiou of his great grandmother (the senior coheir of the family of Clare) he had some claim. Tho' on 30 Sep. 1399, he was in the commission for deposing the King, he was tried for having formerly upheld him and on 6 Oct. 1399, degraded from his Earldom. He was beheaded 17 Jan. 1399/1-100, when, having beeu attainted on the 5th, all his honours became for/cited. See fuller particulars under " Despencer " Barony, cr. 1261, sub the 3d Lord; Dukedom. Humphrey Plantagenet, called " The Good," and styled II. 1414 (like all his brothers) "of Lancaster," 4th and yst 8. of King j 0 ' Henry IV., by his 1st wife, Mary, da. and coheir of Humphrey 1 147 ( DE BoHDN )> Earl op Hereford, was 6. 1391 ; KB., 12 Oct. 1399 ; KG. (probably) in 1400 ;(*) said to have been ed. at Balliol Coll., Oxford ;( b ) was by his br., King Henry V., cr. Great Chamberlain op England, 7 May 1413 and was dr. (for life), 16 May 1414, EARL OF PEM- BROKE and DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. He obtained the Castle and Lordship of Pembroke ; the Lordship of the Isle of Wight,( c ) distinguished himself at Agincourt and elsewhere in the wars with France, was several times (1417, 1419-21, 1422 and 1430-32), Guardian of the Realm, being Protector thereof and Principal Councillor to the King (his nephew, Henry VI.), during his minority ; Lord Steward, for the coronation, 6 Nov. 1429. Deputy of the order of the Garter, 1423 ; President, 1437. He surrendered his (life) peerages to the King receiving them back, 8 July 1433, with (the usual) rem. to the heirs male of his body.C) On 30 July 1436, he was cr. EARL OF FLANDERS, for life, to be held of the King in right of his crown of France. He m. firstly, March 1423, Jaqueline, Countess op Holland, Zealand and Hainault (on which occasion he himself assumed those titles), da. and h. of William, Ddke of Bavaria, by Margaret, da. of Philip (the bold), Duke op Burgundy. This marriage was, however, set aside by the Pope, a betrothal of that lady with John, Duke of Brabant, being found good.(°) The Duke then IB. in 1428 (his paramour), Eleanor, da. of Reginald Cobham, dc jure apparently Lord Cobham op Stkrborough, by his first wife, Eleanor, da. of Sir Thomas Colepeper. This lady, for whom robes of the Garter were prepared in 1436, was in 1440, tried for witchcraft and sorcery, indicted for treason, put to penance and condemned to perpetual imprisonment. The Duke, having incurred the ill will of the Queen Consort, was arrested at Bury St. Edmund's (where a Pari, was being held), and found dead, 28 Feb. 1446/7, at St. Saviour's Hospital there. He was bur. under a stately monument at St. Alban's Abbey, Herts.( f ) Having died s.p. legit, all his honours became extinct. His widow d. a prisoner, 1454, at Peel Castle, iu the Isle of Man. III. 1461, Richard Plantagenet, 8th but 4th surv. and yst. 8. of to Richard, Dcke OF York, by Cicely, da. of Ralph (Nevill), Earl op 1483. Westmorland, was 6. 2 Oct. 1452, at Fotheringay Castle, co. Northampton ; KB., 27 June 1461, at the coronation of his br., (») See vol. ii, p. 273, note " c," sub " Clarence." ( b ) To that University he was a great benefactor, founding the Divinity schools therein, &c. ( c ) See vol. ii, p. 100, note " f," sub " Devon " as to tho holder of this Lordship. ( d ) A reversionary grant was made 27 Feb. 1443, to William Delapole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, of the Earldom, of Pembroke, in the event of the Duke's death without heirs male of the body. ( e ) She m. a third time Franco of Borselen, a Dutchman, and d. 1 436. (<) The popular notion that he was bur. in St. Paul's Cathedral, London (the tomb of Sir John Beauchamp, who d. 1360, being mistaken for his), is an error. See Stow' s, " London" (edit. 1720, bk. iii, p. 165), as to the punishment of losing their dinners daily there," being ".a due and fit penance for fond Duke Humfrey's idle servants."