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 138 SHREWSBURY. V. 1453. ~. Jms (Talbot), Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Tal- bot, &c, also Earl of Watkhkord [I.], 2.1 but 1st surv. ». ami li.(') by first wife, 4. 1418 ; Knighted, 19 May 1426, serving in the French wars under his father; L. Chancellor [1. 1, 1446; sue. to the peerage, 2C July 1453; I'.C, 1454 ; L. Tb«asubeb, 1456-68 : KG., 14 May 11:.". He w. firstly Katharine (aged 14 in 1420), widow of Sir John K UVLIKFK, da. and coheir of Sir Edward Bi'Hnkll, s. and h. ap. of Hugh, Lord Bi'HSKLL. By lier lie had no inane. He m. secondly, before 1148, Elizabeth, da. of James (Bi ti.kk). 4th Kaui. ok Ormonde [I.], by his first wife, Joan, da. of William (BlACCBAMP), LORD AbEROAVKNNT. He was slain (together with his br., Sir Christopher Talbot), 10 July 1460,( b ) at the battle of Northatnpt fighting for the Lancastrian cause, Slid was bur. (with his mother) at Worksop Abbey. .M.l.( c ) Will dat. at Sheffield, 8 Sep. 1446. pr. 24 Nov. 1461, at Yorfcf*] by his widow. Inq. p. mortem, 26 Sep. 1460. His widow, who took the veil, 19 July 1460, d. 8 and was bur. 11 Sep. 1473, in Shrewsbury Abbey. M.I.(°) VI. 1460. & John (Talbot), Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Tal- bot, «.v.c, also Earl ok Watkrkord [I ], s. and h.,( r j by second wife, b. 12 Dec. 144S, bt-iug about 12 when he sue. to the peerage, 10 Sep. 1460; Knighted, by the Prince of Wales, 17 Feb. I 101 ; Chief Justice of North Wales, 1471 1 Commissioner to James III. [S.]. 1 172 ; one of the Guardians of the Prince of Wales, 1473. He m. about 1467 Katharine, 5th da. of Humphrey (STAFFORD), 1st DOKI or BfCKlNOHAM, by Anne, da. of Ralph (NnviLI.1, 1st EaKL OF Wk.stmohi.aND. He d.ii June 1473, aged 24, at Coventry, aud was bur. at Worksop afsd. His widow d. 26 Dec. 1476. VII. 1473. 4- George (Talbot), Haul of Shrewsbury, Lord Tal- bot, &c, also Earl OF Watkhkord [L], s. and h., 6. at Shifl'nal, 1468, and sue. to the peerage, 28 June 1473 ; K.B., IS April 147o ; Bearer of the Sword (" Curtana "), 30 Oct. I486, at the corou. of Hen. VIL, and 24 June 1509, at the coron. of Hen. VIII. For the former King be fought at the battle of Stoke, 16 June 1487; inst. K G. 27 April 1488 ; was in command against France in aid of Germany 1490. To Hen. VIII. he was, in 1509, P.C., Steward of the Household, and Chamberlain uf the Exchequer ; was employed in several important Embassies; was in command hi 1513 at the siege of Thevouenue, and was present in 1520 at the interview between Henry VIII. and Francis I. of France. He was one of the Lords who in 1529 sub- Lord Strange of Blaekmere, Lord Verdou of Aston, Lord Crumwell of Wiugfield, Lord Lovetot of Worsoppe, Lord Furnivall of Sheffield aud Lord Faiiconbridge, Knight of the most noble order of St. George, St. Michaell, and the Gouldeu Fleece," &c. [See " Coll. fop. el 'Jen.," vol. vii, p. 139.] This is the epitaph which Brooke states to be at Kouen, in Normandy, w here he says the l^arl was buried. Vincent makes rare sport with it (1) with all the [assumed] titles (2) with the place itself (" do you think so to gull us as to make us believe that there is Biich au epitaph at Roan in Normandy ") inasmuch as Kouen having been " surreudered to the French three or four years before his death " would be " therefore unlikely " to be the burial place of an English warrior killed near Bordeaux, and (3) with the Earl being a Knight of St. Michael, when he died 1153, "sixteen years before that Order was [1469] devised." Vincent quotes the first mentioned epitaph " truely as it is to be seen at Whitchurch," but it is, however, still more " truely " given in the C'o((. Toji. et Qen. as above quoted. (") Thomas, his eldest br., d. v.p. ( b ) The Duke of Buckingham, Viscount Beaumont, and Lord Egremout shared the same fate. ( c ) The inscription (with several curious Latin verses) is given in Vincent's " Brooke." In it he is called " Comes SalopitC secundus," a curious and perhaps some- what suspicious designation. He is also stated to be " ex Regio sanguine." C) Printed by the Surtees Society in Test. Ehor., vol. ii. (") The curious inscription thereon, given in Milles's " Cat. of Honour " states that she was " da., sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and kinswoman of the Earles of Arundell, Wynton, Ormond, and Shrewsburie." ( f ) His yr. br., Sir Gilbert Talbot, of Grafton, co. Worcester, was ancestor of all the Earls of Shrewsbury, who sue. as such after the death of the 8th Earl in 1617.