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 148 COMPLETE PEERAGE angus Earl of Buchan [S.], (') by Elizabeth, 3rd da. and coh. of Roger (de Quincy), Earl of Winchester. He d. shortly before 13 Oct. 1307, ("'') and was bur. in Hexham Priory. Q His widow d. shortly before 1 7 Feb. 1328/9. [Gilbert de Umfreville, s. and h. ap. He was brought before the " Courthope's view is evidently based on the Lords' Reports on the dignity of a Vetr^ from which his argument is practically derived, and which were issued (i 820-22) sub- sequent to Townsend's day. (See ist Report, p. 432; 3rd Report, pp. 116, 117). The Reports incline rightly to the view ' that those Earls, though summoned by the names of Earls, were really summoned as Barons of the Realm. ' It may be added that the summonses were not addressed to them, as stated by Courthope, as ' Umfrevill [sic Comiti de Anggos, ' but as ' Umframvill', Comiti de Anegos ; ' and a more serious error is committed by Courthope [as also by Nicolas, both of them following Dug- dale's Summons'] in the dates of the writs ; Gilbert, the father, not having been sum. after 26 Aug. (1307) r Edw. II, while Robert, his son, was first sum. on 19 Jan. (1307/8) I Edw. II. The father and son are also confused by a most careless error in the Lords' Reports (3rd Report, p. 171), where the writ of 25 Edw. I is twice said to have been addressed to Robert {sic) de Umframville. " With respect to the summons to Gilbert de Umfreville as Earl of Angus, there is in Camden's Britannia, (ed. Gough, vol. iii, p. 403) the following statement. — " The English lawyers indeed refused to allow this title in their proceedings, because Angus was no part of the Kingdom of England, till he produced in the court the writ by which the King had summoned him to parliament by the title of Earl of Angus. " (") Her Christian name is sometimes given as Agnes, but of the marriage itseli there is no doubt. Wyntoun, in his account of the Earls of Buchan, (Cronykil, ed. Macpherson, vol. ii, p. 35) states that of the " systris fywe " of Earl John — " The thryd [had] Schyr Gylbert Wmfrayvyle, Erie of Angws in that qwliile, (Of Angws and of Ryddysdale Erie he wes, and Lord all hale) On that Lady eftyrwart Of Wmfraywylle he gat Robert : On that Lady he gat alswa Othir Brethyr to Robert ma. " (*) Writ of diem cl. ext. 13 Oct. i Edw. II. He d. seized of the castle 0/ Prudhoe, the liberty of Redesdale (which included the castle of Harbottle and the manor of Otterburn), and the manors of Harlow and Birtley, etc., in Northumber- land. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. II, file 2, no. 21). V.G. C^) According to the ancient Rolls of Arms, the Umfrevilles, Earls of Angus, bore. Gules semy of cross crosslets and a cinquefoil Or. On the effigy of this earl at Hexham the crosslets are however crosses patoncees, and in the arms cut on the battle- ments of Elsden castle, Northumberland, they are cross crosslets patees, which is much the same thing. The crest depicted with these latter arms is a cinquefoil, supporters two wolves, no doubt in allusion to the ancient tenure of Redesdale, the Umfrevilles holding " castrum de Herbotell et manerium de Otterburn de domino rege in capite per servicium custodiendi vallem et libertatem de Riddesdale ubi dicta castrum et manerium situantur a lupis et latronibus. " The earlier Umfrevilles sealed with a single cinquefoil. C) Writ oidiem cl. ext. 17 Feb. 3 Edw. III. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 15, no. 26).