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 CHESTER 173 XV. 1376 RiCHARD,(^) Styled " ov Bordeaux," 2nd but ist surv. to s. and h. of Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Corn- 1377. WALL and Earl of Chester abovenamed, by Joan, suo jure Countess of Kent, was b. 6 Jan. 1367, at Bordeaux in Aquitaine, but did not (owing to the spec, clauses creating those digni- ties) C") inherit any of his father's said honours. Being grandson of the reigning King (Edward III) and h. ap. to the Crown, he was, by charter, dat. at Havering, 20 Nov. 1376, cr. Prince of Wales, DUKE OF CORNWALL, and EARL OF CHESTER. On 22 June 1377, he ascended the throne as Richard II, when all his honours merged m the Crown. ["By an Act 21 Ric. II, cap. 9 [1398], the Earldom ot Chester was erected into a Principality,('') and it was ordained 'que nulle done ne grante en ascun temps advenir ne serra faite del dite Principaltee ne de les Chastelx sireries et villes susdites a nulloy fors soulement aleisne fitz du Roy qui serra Prince illoeques sy plerra au Roy affaire,' and although this Act was ' wholly reversed, revoked, voided, undone, repealed, and annulled for ever' by Act, i Hen. IV, cap. 3, the Earldom of Chester has ever since been granted in conjunction with the Principality of Wales." See Courthope, sub " Chester."] XVI. 1399 Henry,(^) styled "of Monmouth," s. and h. ap. of to Henry IV, by his ist wife, Mary, da. and coh. of Hum- 1413. phrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford, was b. 9 Aug. 1387, at Monmouth, and was, on 15 Oct. 1399, cr. in Pari. Prince of Wales, DUKE OF CORNWALL f-^) and EARL OF CHESTER, being, by charter of the same date, invested with the said Principality and Dukedom, together with the Counties of Chester and Flint, " sibi et heredibus suis Regibus Anglie." On 10 Nov. 1399 he was declared DUKE OF LANCASTER in Pari., as also DUKE OF AQUITAINE in France, and it was directed that he should bear the titles of " Prince of Wales, Duke of Aquitaine, of Lancaster and of Cornwall, (*) See ante^ page 1 71, note "a." ('') In the case of the Earldom of Chester the remainder of the dignity was granted in 1333 to the heirs of Prince Edward, they being Kings of England, while in that of the Dukedom of Cornwall it was to the eldest son of the said Prince and of his heirs, they {j.e. the said Prince Edward, or his heirs) being " Kings of England." Richard of Bordeaux, in 1376, was neither himself King (when he would have inherited the Earldom of Chester)nor the son of a King (when he would have inherited the Dukedom of Cornwall) so that a new creation of both was necessary. (') " At which time the King cr. his beloved servant, William Bruges, his Herald at Armes and styled him Chester by his letters patents under the seal of the said Principality." (Milks' Catalogue of Honour). See also vol. ii, Appendix E. (<*) See note under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1399, as to the reason, in this case, for a new creation of that Dukedom.