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 AUMALE COMPLETE PEERAGE 357 Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (so cr. 6 Aug. 1385), 6th s. of Edward III, was, on 3 Sep. 1385, sum. to Pari, by writ (enrolled as) directed " Carissimo Avunculo Regis Thome Duci Albe- marlie. " (") He i^. 8 or 9 Sep. 1397, being murdered at Calais. On 24 Sep. following he was declared in Pari, to have been guilty of treason, where- by all his honours were forfeited. See " Gloucester, " Dukedom of, cr. 1385- DUKEDOM. I. Edward, Earl of Rutland (so tr., by charter, . 25 Feb. 1389/90), s. and h. ap. of Edmund, Duke of J7/ York, 5th s. of Edward III, was, on 29 Sep. 1397, en, in ^° Pari., DUKE OF AUMALE. (") He, the Duke of I7QQ ^', -'-'"■ Surrey, and the Duke of Exeter, were adjudged by the Lords in Pari., with the King's assent, 3 Nov. 1399, to " lese and forgo de Lucy (see p. 353, note " d "). A jury found in John's favour {Misc. Inq., file 35, no. 28). Sir C.G.Young, in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. vi, p. 261, suspects "that the claim of Aston was a mere fiction, to give the King a colourable pretence for retaining the honour in his own hands, as by admitting the fictitious claim and then purchasing it from him, he shut out all real claim that might have been justly made by Wivelby, who afterwards proved his descent from Stephen, Earl of Albemarle, only one gene- ration further back than the pretended descent of Aston. " The truth is that neither the English nor the French Kings at this period were over scrupulous as to the means they employed to get the great fiefs into their own hands. John d'Eston surren- dered his right to the comt^ of Aumale and to all the lands in England and Normandy which had belonged to Aveline, John, Thomas, and William, de Forz, to William /e Gros sometime Count of Aumale, and to Hawise his da. (Deed enrolled on Close Roll, 6 Edw. I, m. 2d), and on 7 Nov. 1278 he received in return 4 [or 4^] knights' fees in Thornton by Pickering [Thornton Dale] and elsewhere, valued at 100/. a year, to hold by the service of i knight {Charter Roll, 6 Edw. I, m. 3). The heirs to the lands, in Essex, Bucks, and Surrey, which Aveline had inherited from the family of Montfichet, were : — (i) the 4 daughters of Hugh de Bolebec (s. of another Hugh who had m. her grandmother's elder sister Margery), viz., Philippe, wife of Roger de Lancaster, Margery, wife of Nicholas Corbet, Alice, wife of Walter de Huntercombe, and Maud, wife of Hugh de Laval. (2) Ralph de Playz, s. of Richard, s. of Hugh (which Hugh had m. her grandmother's yr. sister, Philippe). (Ch. Inq. p.m., Edw. I, file 10, no. 8). C) Close Roll, 9 Ric. II, m. 45d, where the word is certainly Albenuirl'ie : but it is an error for G/ai/CMfr/V, as Thomas of Woodstock could never have possessed the former title. Four weeks before, as " Buk' et Essex' comes, " he had been cr. Duke of Gloucester {Charter Roll, m. 15, no. 27), yet this undoubted title is omitted in the writ : he was invested with the Dukedom of Gloucester, and that Dukedom only, in full Pari. {Pari. Roll, m. 5, no. 15): in the orders, Nov. 1385, that divers rents granted him "pro statu suo ducali decencius sustinendo " should be paid him, " quern in ducem ereximus eidem du- catus Glouc' titulum assignantes et nomen " {Close Roll, m. 'i^<^ no dukedom of Aumale is mentioned, nor is this title ever again attributed to him. His full style (1394) is on his seal : — " Sigillu thome filii regis ducis glouc coitis essex buk constabular anglie. " (Brit. Mus., Ixxxix, no. 37). He did not obtain Holderness till 7 June 1394. (") Pari. Roll, 21 Ric. II, m. 1 1, «a. 35 : Charter Roll, 21-23 Ric. II, m., no. 23.