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 8 LANCASTER. Lord of Brigerak and Btauforl," is dat. at Leicester Ciistle 15 and pft at Leicester 30 March and in London 9 May 1361.1*) His wife survived liini. Earldom. / m1  RlUHJtONP, a dignity which (30 wars later) he resigned to the 11. Iob_. Ring, 1»5« Fadier f 38 Jvme 137a( b ) Having m. 1U May 1359, Blanche da. and eventually (1G April 1362), sole heir to Henry (Pl.,iT.ViKNRT|, Vvkf. or Laxcastkk aborenained, lie in her right obtained, lirstly [1361] tin- moiety and finally [1362] the entirety of the great possessions of her father becoming (possibly) thus fin 1361], Haul ok Laxcastk«,( c ) Dki;iiv(j and Lincoln. (■) and [in 1362], Eakl ok Leicestkk(') and High Steward of England, no less than 1 Earldoms in addition to his own Karldomof Richmond It is certain that these I were in several official documents allowed to him. I s ) KG, 13iil, being, 13 Nov. 1362, »'. DUKE OR LANCASTER.!') In right of his second marriage in 1372 (shortly after her Father's death), with Constance, da. and heir of lino of Pedro, King of Castile and Leon, he assumed the style ..f KING 0 P CASTILE AND LBONf*) in 1372, which however, in 13.SS. he relinquished in favour of his son in law. He was thrice (1369, 1370, ami 1373;. in chief command in France, but neither there nor in his expedition for the conquest of Castile was he much distinguished, lie was, however, on («) Nichols's " Royal H'i7/s." (b) Patent 48 Ed. 111., in. 25. ( c ) " In the notice of his creation to the Dukedom of Lancaster in the Rolls of Parliament, he is styled Earl of Lancaster, a dignity to which he could only have succeeded in right of his wife, under the Charter of 30 June 1267." [Caurlhnpel " The Jura Begalia. however, which were attached to the earldom." and which had become, in 1361, vested in the Crown, ''remained there until IMo'l, in which year King Edward 111. granted them t" his son John of Gaunt and Blanche his wife (who had inherited her sister Maude's portion, and had become sole heir of her father Henry, Duke of Lancaster] in nearly the same tends as in the before-mentioned charters severally granted in [1312 and 1349J lii and 23 Ed. III. I li the recital of the charter [of 1364] 38 Ed. III. to John of (Jaunt and Blanche his wife, it is, how- ever, distinctly stated that the surrender by Earl Henry in 1349, and the cancellation of the charter granted in 1312, were invalid acts, because they were in disherison of the heirs of the Earl's bod; issuing according to the custom of the realm, and could not be cancelled, but in vigour ought to remain. King Richard 11., in the 20th year of his reign [1396-97] granted a further extension of those rights and settled them in perpetuity on the D'tutea of Lancaster." (<») It does not appear, however, that the title of Carl of Derby was at this time considered as attendant on the possessions of the Ferrers family, which had been inherited by the Lady Blanche of Lancaster, but this Earldom was undoubtedly one of four (Richmond, Derby, Lincoln and Leicester) used by her husband, when Duke of Lancaster. See Vol. iii, p. 08, note. " a." «tt6. " Derby." (•) The estates of the de Lacy family, Kails of Lincoln, appear to have been part of the heritage of the Lady Blanche, whose husband styled himself Earl of Lincoln. See note " d " next above. ( r ) The Castle and honor of Leicester (on which, however, remarks Courthope ''it doea not appear that at this time, the title of Earl of Leicester was considered as attendant) was allotted to the Lady Maud, the elder coheir, but on her death s.p, 10 April 1362, devolved on the Lady Blanche her only sister, whose husband styled himself Earl of Leicester. See note " d " next above. (S) " Johan Fitz du Hoy Deiigleterre, Due de Guyene et de Lancastre, conic dc Derby, de Nicol. [the most usual terme for Lincolnc, in all ancient French records and evidences] el Leyeeslrc, Seneschal] Deiigleterre. a tons, &c. This is out of his owne deed." See " Vincent," pp. 298 and 321. This deed was after his resignation of the Earldom of Richmond. ( h ) He was sum. to Pari. G Oct. (1372), 46 Ed. Ill, by writ directed, " carissimo filio nostro Johanui, Regi Castcllcc et Lcyionu, duci Lancastrian, &c " and so also on subsequent occasions.