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 136 SHREWSBURY. (says Henry of Huntingdon in his letter to Walter), " no one knew after he was in prison, whether he was alive or dead, aud report was silet t as to the day of his death."(') IV. 1442. 1. Jonx (Talbot), Lord Talbot, Lohd Fuuxivall or Lord Talbot de Hai.i.a.msuirb, and Loud STRANG! de Bl ackmkre, 2d s.( b ) of Richard (Talbot), Lour Talbot, by Aukaret, tun jure Baroness Strange de Blackmere, was h. 1390; m. before 12 March 1406 (aa his first wife) Maud, sun jure Baroness Furnivall (a coheir of the Barony of Verdun), da. of Thomas (Nevill), Lord Furnivall or Lord Nevill de Hallaalshikk, and only child ami heir of her molher. his first wife, Joan, tun jure Hahonkss Furnivall. By this match he acquired the vast estate of Hallaiushire (of which the castle of Sheffield was the "caput") and in Consequence thereof was sum. to Pari, as a Baron LOUD FURNIVALL or LOUD TALBOT DE HALLAMSHIKE, from 26 Oct (H09), 11 Heu. IV'., to 2ti Feb. (1420/1), 8 Hen. V.,( c ) the first writ, as alto the greater number of the others being directed " J alumni Talbot, D' no tU Farnyvail," tho' one writ ("that of 1 Dec. (1413), 1 Hen. V.], was directed " Jolii Talbot dc Ualamshirc "('') while," in I few instances, they are addressed " Johanni Talbot tic Fumi/rall." By the death, 13 Dec. 1421, of his niece, Ankaret, sw> jure Baroness Talbot, &c, and the consequent failure of the issue of Gilbert, Lord Talbot, «fcc., his eldest br., he became LORD TALBOT [1381] and LOUD STRANGE DE BLACKMERE [13081, both Baronies, however, being of later creation than that of Furnivall [1295] in which he had already been summoned. He was also, by inheritance, Lord of the honour of Wexford, in Ireland, one of the five divisions into which the great Lordship of Leinster was, in 1246, divided. (") In his Ion!,' and glorious military career in France, under Henry V., (") G'ourthope gives this note, " The character of this extraordinary man. whose great talents distinguished him from most of the turbulent nobles of the age, seems to have inspired all contemporary historians with horror. Henry of Huntingdon says 'he was a very l'luto, Megiera, Cerberus, or anything you can couceive still more horrible," and give details of his cruelties surpassing those narrated by Ordericns Vitalis." Brooke [uncontradicted by Vincent) says " He was a man very outrageously given and most cruel to his own children aud hostages, whose eyes (with his own hands) he plucked out." William of Malmesbury speaks of him as " Froutis Bereno et sermouum affabilitate credulos decipiens." Further particulars of him, his wife, and their descendants are in Sir E. Brydges's " Xtcmmata Ulmlria " (p. 9), where is shewn the descent from him of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I., thro' her grandmother, Mary, Countess of Ponthieu (wife of Simon de Dammartin) who was da. aud h. of William (d. 1221), s. and h. of John (d. 1191), s. aud h. of Guy II. (if. 1147), s. and h. of another William (d. 1143), s. and h. of the aboveuamed Robert de Belesme, otherwise Montgomery, all of them Counts of Ponthieu. See also the (admirably worked up) " Seize Quartiers" of the said Eleanor by G. W. Watson in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. xi, p. 31. ( b ) His yr. br., Richard Talbot, was Archbishop of Dublin, 1417-49, besides being L. Chancellor, L. Justice Deputy, and L. Deputy of that Kingdom. (e) There is proof in the rolU of Pari, of his sitting. ( a ) If it can be supposed that a new Barony {Talbot de Uallamshire) was cr. by this writ of 1413 such Barony would follow the course oi' the Baronies of Furnivall, Strange de Blackmere, and Talbot. (») See vol. i, pp. ix aud x, au6 " Irish Peerage, &c, before the 16th century '' In the patent of 17 July 1446, whereby he (then Earl of Shrewsbury) was cr. Earl ot Waterford [I.] he is styled '< Comes Salop et de Wegtfard [i.e., Wexford), Dotninus de Talbot, de Furnyall et Le Straunge." He certainly did not have a peerage- Earldom or even a peerage-Barony of Wexford vested in him, tho' he held the great Lordship of that name. The remarks of Courthope thereon are as under, Weysford or Wexford was an Earldom or Lordship which had descended to the Lords Talbot from Elizabeth, da. and at length coheir of John, Lord Comyn of Badeuach, by Joan, oungest da. and coheir of William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, by Joan, da. and eir of Warine de Munchensi, by .loan, 2d sister and coheir of Auselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Upon the division of the lands of the said Auselm, his said sister, Joan, had, for her share, Wexford, in Ireland, and Pembroke, &c, in England, and again upon the partition of the estates of the Earldom of Pembroke, after the death of John, Earl of Pembroke, 1391, the county of Wexford was awarded to Richard, Lord