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 CHESTER i6g and coheirs or their descendants,('') while the Earldom lapsed to the Crown. His widow, who had dower in 1233, survived him 20 years, and d. 1252. VIll. 1232 John (le Scot), Earl of Huntingdon and Cam- to BRIDGE (nephew of William the Lion, King of Scotland), 1237. being 3rd and yst., but only surv. s. and h. of David, Earl of Huntingdon, i^c, by Maud, ist sister and coh. of Ranulph (de Blundeville), Earl of Chester abovenamed, was b. about 1207; sue. his father as Earl of Huntingdon, i^c., 12 June 12 19, having livery of his lands 25 Apr. 1227; was knighted by Alexander III 30 May 1227; and, after the death of the Earl of Chester, his uncle, though apparently in the lifetime of his mother (who d. Epiphany 1233), having inherited the whole County Palatine of Chester, was cr. at North- ampton, 21 Nov. 1232, EARL OF CHESTER. At the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, 20 Jan. 1235/6, he bore the " Curtana," one of the three swords of State, as Earl of Chester, and claimed to bear the second sword as Earl of Huntingdon.('') He took the Cross about 8 June 1236. He «?., 1222, Helen, da. of Llewellyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, and by her is suspected to have been poisoned. He d. s.p., at Darnal, very shortly before 6 June('') 1237, and was bur. at St. Werburg's, Chester, leaving the two daughters of his eldest sister and his three surv. sisters ('') as his coheirs,(^) but in 1246 (3 1 Hen. Ill) the Earldom of Chester (^) These were (i) Maud, Countess of Huntingdon, b. 1171, d. Epiphany 1233 (a few months after her br. the Earl), leaving a s. and h. John (le Scot), Earl of Huntingdon, who in Nov. 1232 was cr. Earl of Chester. (2) Hugh (d'Aubigny), Earl of Sussex, surv. s. and h. of Mabel (wife of William, Earl of Sussex), the 2nd of the four sisters. This Hugh sue. to Coventry (as his chief seat), to Leeds, co. York, l^c. He d. s.p. 1 May 1243, leaving his four sisters his coheirs. (3) Alice, wife of William (de Ferrers), Earl of Derby, who had the manor of Chartley, co. Stafford, all the lands between the rivers Ribble and Mersey, is'c. (4) Hawise, sua jure. Countess of Lincoln, who in 1221 had m. Robert de Quincy, by whom she had Margaret, her da. and h., wife of John de Lacy, cr. Earl of Lincoln 1232. Hawise inherited the Castle and Manor of Bolingbroke and other large estates in co. Lincoln. (b) See J. H. Round's The Kings Serjeants, pp. 339-342. V.G. (*=) The King has heard for certain that John, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon is dead. {Patent Roll, 6 June 1237). ^-G. i^) These were Christian (ist wife of William (de Forz), titular Count of Aumale), and Devorgild (wife of John de Balliol, and mother of John de Balliol, King of Scotland, 1292-96), who were respectively ist and 2nd daughters and coheirs of Alan, Lord of Galloway, by his 2nd wife, the Earl's eldest sister Margaret; and his three surviving sisters, viz. (i) Isabel (living 1242), m. Robert de Bruce, whose great- grandson, Robert de Bruce, was King of Scotland, 1306; (2) Maud, d. unm. (3) Ada (living 2 Nov. 1 241), m., before 7 June 1237, Henry de Hastings, being ancestress of the Lords Hastings. (') On his death, William (de Forz), titular Count of Aumale, husband of the senior coh., claimed, in right of his wife, the entire county of Chester, and to be 22