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 242 COMPLETE PEERAGE arundel with Edward, the King's son, and many others, 22 May 1306. On 9 Nov. (1306) 34 Edw. I, he was sum. to Pari, as Earl of Arundel, and took part in the Scottish wars of that year. On 25 Feb. 1307/8 he officiated as Pincerna (^^) at the coronation of Edward II. In 13 16 he was Captain Gen. north of the Trent. For a long time he was in opposition to the King, and was violent against Piers Gavaston, who had beaten him in a tournament. However, in 132 i he changed sides, and married his ist s. to a da. of Hugh le Despenser, being thereafter one of the tew nobles who adhered to the King. In 1323 he was Chief Justiciar of North and South Wales. Warden of the Welsh Marches 1325. He »/., in 1305, while still a minor, Alice, only da. of William de Warenne (only s. and h. ap. of John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex), by Joan, da of Robert (de Vere), Earl of Oxford. Having been captured in Shropshire by the Queen's party, he was, without trial, beheaded at Hereford, 17 Nov. 1326, in his 42nd year. He was subsequently attainted, when his estates and honours became forfeited. His widow (who, in her issue was, in 1347, sole h. of her br. John, Earl of Surrey and Sussex, and consequently ot the great family of Warenne) was living 1330, but d. before 23 May 1338. (") in > )-< Y^ rt CS 3 ^ ro u ^ t— ( u C

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rt IJh u XIII. 1327.'' Edmund, C) Earl of Kent, 6th s. of to Edward I, received the Castle and Honour 1330. of Arundel, whereby (according to the ad- mission C) of 1433) he may be considered to have become EARL OF ARUNDEL. {^) He was beheaded 3 Sep. 1330, and, being attainted, all his honours became forfeited^ but the Castle and Honour of Arundel were retained by his widow, on whom they had been settled. XIV. 133 1. 10 or 3. Richard Fitz Alan, called "Copped Hat, " s. and h. of Edmund, (xii) 9th or 2nd Earl of Arundel, (") See p. 233, note " h. " A petition, however, is recited in Taylor's Glory of Regality (pp. 1 20-1 24), stating that the Earl " by his great power, though he never had any of the manors attached to it, obtained the office. " The manor of Kenning- hall in Norfolk, which was one of these (three) manors, was subsequently in possession of the Earls of Arundel, and, late in the 17th century, the office is said to belong to the then Duke of Norfolk " as Earl of Arundel and Lord of the Manor of Kenninghall. " C") Patent Roll, 12 Edw. Ill, pars ii, m. 33. (°) As to his supposed name of ' Plantagenet ' see ante, p. 183. V.G. (") See p. 231, note " b. " C) " It may not be presumed that the grant to the Earl of Kent made him Earl of Arundel, or that the restoration of the Castle and lands to Richard, s. and h. of Edmond, made him Earl of Arundel either ; inasmuch as there was in the Act of Restoration a special provision applying to the title of Earl of Arundel as a name of dignity, which would have been unnecessary had the restitution of the Castle and Honour been considered as sufficient. " [Courthope, p. 29). As to the latter part of this remark, it is however more probable that such " special provision " was only added ex ahundanti cauteld.