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328 She d. 9 Feb. 1290/1, and was bur. in Lewes Priory. He d. 27 Sep. 1305, at Kennington, near London, aged about 7 0, and was bur. in Lewes priory. M.I.

[, only s. and h. ap., m. in or before 1283, Joan, da. of Robert. He d. v.p., being killed at a tournament at Croydon, 15 Dec 1285, and was bur. in Lewes priory. His widow d. 21 Nov. 1293 and was bur. there].

7 or 4., and , or , grandson and h., being posthumous s. and h. of William  and Joan his wife, both abovenamed; b. 29 June 1286; suc. his grandfather, as above. 27 Sep. 1305, and is styled in several of the numerous writs addressed to him from 1313 to 1325, "Earl of Surrey and Sussex" He was Knighted (by Ed. I. 22 May 1306, with Prince Edward From 1306 to 1335 he was constantly in the Scotch wars; he obtained a grant in 1311 of the Castle and Honour of the Peak, co. Derby; assisted in the capture of Piers Gaveston at Scarborough in 1312; was one of the judges at the condemnation of the Earl of Lancaster in 1322; one of the twelve Lords appointed in Jan. 1326/7 as council to the young King, Ed. III, a commissr. to treat with Scotland in 1327, and with France in 1331. In 1333, having assisted his cousin, Edward Balliol, calling himself King of Scotland, he was cr. {{sc|Earl of Stratherne [S.] by hin, to whom there is a letter, dat, 2 March 1334, from Ed. III, recognising this grant. He was one of the mobles who witnessed, 22 July 1331. Balliol's surrender of part of Scotland to England. His Scotch Earldom was, of course, not recognised by David II. [S.], by whom it was bestowed elsewhere in 1343. He was a councillor of Regency 1 July 1345. He m. (in his 20th year) 20 May 1306, with great state, Joauna, only da. of Henry III, {{sc|Count of Bar}}, by the Lady Eleanor {{sc|Plantagenet}}. ) 1st da. of Edward I. To her he was singularly unfaithful, and from her he ineffectually endeavoured to obtain a divorce on ground of a precontract with Maud {{sc|de Nerford}}, by whom he had many children. He {{rule}}{{smallrefs}}