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 258 CLARENCE " Lady of Clare" wife of John de Burgh, 3rd and yst. sister and coh. of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester, ^c., abovenamed. He was, accordingly, on 13 Nov. 1362, ^r. in full Parl.(^) DUKE OF CLARENCE {^'■de Clarentia "). He had, when a mere child, been made Guardian of England, i July 1345 and 25 June 1346, and had (as Earl of Ulster), probably shortly before Apr. 1361, been nom. K.G.;('') Chief Gov. of Ireland, i July 1361-64, again 1364-65, and again for some part of 1367. His wife, who was six years his senior, was b. 6 July 1332, and d. 1363, at Dublin, being bur. at Clare Priory. He m., 2ndly (cont. Westm., 1 5 May 1367), with great state, 28 May 1368, at Milan, Violanta, da. of Galeazzo ViscoNTi, SiGNORE Di MiLANO, by Bianca Maria, da. of Aimo, Count of Savoy. Soon after this he d. s.p.m., 17 Oct. 1368, aged nearly 30, at Alba {Longuevil), in Piedmont, and was bur. at Pavia, but subsequently removed to England, and bur. at Clare Priory afsd. Will dat. 3 Oct. 1368, at Alba, "pr. 8 June 1369, at Lambeth. (') By his death the Dukedom of Clarence became extinct, the Irish Earldom of Ulster, as also the Honour of Clare, devolving on his da. and sole h.('^) His widow m., 2 Aug. 1377, at Pavia, Ottone Paleologo, Marquis of Monferrato, who was mur- dered at Langhirano, near Parma, Dec. 1378. She m., 3rdly, her ist cousin, Lodovico ViscoNTi, Signore di Lodi, who was b. Sep. 1358, and d. 18 Apr. 1381. She d. 1382. II. 141 1 Thomas,(') styled " of Lancaster," 2nd s. of Henry IV, to by his ist wife, Mary, da. and coh. of Humphrey (de 1421. Bohun), Earl of Hereford, was b. 29 Sep. 1389; on 4 Oct. 1399 he was app. Seneschal of England,^) but on (=) Rot. Prtr/., vol. ii, p. 273. "Having also the Honour of Clare in co. Suffolk [he] was in a Pari, held 1362, cr. Duke of Clarence, as it were of the country about the town. Castle and honour of Clare, from which Duchy the name Clarenceux (being the title of the King of Arms for the south, east, and west parts of England on this side Trent) is derived." See " Sandford," p. 222. As to the fanciful derivation of the word Clarence from a Greek title " Clarenza," conjectured to have been borne by the Hainault family, there is certainly no evidence (even granting that it ever existed) for its transfer to the family of Edward III. See an article on " Clare," by J. W. Donaldson, in vol. i of the transactions oi The Bury and IVest Suffolk Arch. Inst., 1853, in which vol. is also an article describing the Castle of Clare, by Samuel Tymms. See further observations as to the title of Clarence and Clare, ante, p. 247, note " f." For the designation of the present members of the College of Arms, see vol. ii. Appendix E. C') For a list of the Knights of the Garter, see vol. ii, Appendix B. (<=) Royal Wills, p. 88. {^) This was Philippe, who m., 1368, Edmund (de Mortimer), Earl of March, and whose great-great-grandson and heir ascended (in her right) the throne, as Edward IV, whereby the Honour of Clare became vested in the Crown. (^) As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet," see vol. i, p. 183, note " c." (') His father "dans ei virgam officii." {Jnnales Henrici quarti). V.G.