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 72 BEDFORD " 7,000 French and 2,500 Scots were slain. "(^) Admiral of England, Ireland, and Guienne, 26 July 1426. On 7 Sep. 1432 he crowned his nephew, Henry VI, at Paris, as King of France. He w., istly, (cont. dat. at Troyes, 18 May) at Troyes, June 1423, Anne, da. of Jean, Duke of Burgundy, by Marguerite, da. of Albrecht of Bavaria, Count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeland. She d. 14 Nov. 1432, in childbed, at Paris, and was bur. in the Church of the Celestines there. M-I.C") He w., 2ndly, 20 Apr. 1433, at TherouennejC") Jacquette, or Jacqueline, da. of Pierre DE Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, by Marguerite, da. of Francesco del Balzo, Duke of Andria in Apulia,('=) she being then aged about 17. He d. s.p.s.y 15 Sep. 1435, at his residence, " Joyeux Repos," at Rouen, aged 46, when all his honours became extinct. He was bur. at Rouen. M.I.('') Will dat. 10 Sep. 1435, P'"- 7 ^'^^- H4i ^t Lambeth. ("*) His widow in (1435-36) 14 Hen. VI, was one of the Ladies for whom robes of the Order of the Garter were provided.^ She m., between 6 Feb. 1435/6 and 23 Mar. 1436/7, when she had pardon for marriage without lie. Sir Richard Widville, afterwards Earl Rivers (beheaded 1469), and d. his widow, 30 May 1472, having lived ten years after her da. Elizabeth had become Queen Consort to Edward IV.(') II. 1470 I. George Nevill, styled Lord Nevill, s. and h. ap. of to John, Earl of Northumberland, f^fc. (afterwards, 1470, 1477. Marquess of Montagu), by Isabel, da. and h. of Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe, was b. about 1457, being still a minor 22 Oct. 1476. On 5 Jan. (1469/70) 9 Edw. IV, he was cr. DUKE OF BEDFORD, (s) by Edward IV, who had the intention of bestowing on him in marriage his ist da., Elizabeth, afterwards the wife of Henry VII. On the attainder of his father, who was slain at the battle of Barnet, 14 Apr. 1 47 1, and the consequent forfeiture of the family estate, having no means of sustaining his honours, he was degraded from his Peerage (^) by Act of Pari. (1477) 17 Edw. IV. He was unm. 9 Mar. 1479/80, when his marriage was granted to Richard, Duke of Gloucester. He d. s.p., (*) Vincent on Brooke. C") See note "c" on previous page. if) Stemmata iZ/ustria, by Sir Egerton Brydges (Paris, 1825), p. 51. (d) Test. Fct. 241, and Royal Willi, 2 70. if) See Appendix B in this volume. (*) On 21 Feb. 1469/70, she lodged a complaint before the King and Council against Thomas Wake Esq., for having "in the time of the late trouble caused her to be brought in a common noise and slander of witchcraft . . . saying that an image of lead, made like a man at arms, of the length of a man's finger, broken in the middle, and made fast with wire, was made by her to use with sorcery." V.G. (s) A singular instance of the creation of a Dukedom without the grantee having any inferior title, though it should be borne in mind that he was s. and h. ap. of an Earl. See note mh Francis, Earl of Lincoln [1692]. C") See Cokes Imt.^ vol. iv, p. 355.