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 432 CORNWALL His widow d. s.p., on the Vigil of St. Luke, 17 Oct. 1277, and was bur. at the Friars Minors, Oxford. [JoHN,(') 1st s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. 31 Jan. i23i/2,('') d. 22 Sep. 1232, at MarloWjC") and was bur. (near Henry I), in Reading AbbeyjC) Berks.] [HenrYj(^) 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. ap., by ist wife, b. 2 Nov. 1235, and bap. at Hailes AbbeyjC") was knighted on the day of his father's Coronation, 17 May 1257, and was with him taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes, where he commanded the left wing of the King's army, 1 4 May 1264. He m., 15 May 1269, at Windsor, Constance, widow of the Infant Alfonso (s. and h. of Jayme I, King of Arragon), who d. s.p. and v.p., ist da. and coh. of Gaston de Moncada, Vicomte de Bearn, by his ist wife, Mathe, da. of Boson DE Mastas, Seigneur de Cognac.(') On his return from the Crusade he d. s.p. zndv.p., aged 35,being murdered 13 Mar. 1270/1, while at mass, in a chapel, or as some say in the Cathedral of San Nicolo, at Viterbo, Italy,() by Simon and Guy, sons of Simon de Montfort, in revenge for the indignities offered to their father's dead body, after his defeat at Evesham in 1265. Henry's heart was encased in a gold vase,(^) his body being bur. in Hailes Abbey,() under the Cotswolds, which his father had founded.] naturally long perished; tiles, however, bearing the eagle of his arms, and others bear- ing the "paly" coat of his 2nd wife, have been found in the Abbey. {ex inform. J. H. Round). V.G. Richard of Cornwall, one of his illegit. sons, was ancestor of the family of Cornwall seated at Burford (hence styled " Barons of Burford "), Salop, and at Berington, co. Hereford. (^) As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet," see vol. i, p. 183, note "c." V.G. C") Annala de Theokesberia. V.G. (■=) ex inform. G. W. Watson, who adds that they were m. " 1269, die Mercurii in septimana Pentecostes [15 May] apud Wyndlesores." [Chron. Maiorum et Fice- comitum London., p. 1 09). V.G. ('') See the latin verses in the said Cathedral, relating thereto, in Vincent, p. 135. G.E.C. The date and the name of the Church have been variously given. Philip of France, who may be supposed to have known, in his letter to Richard on the day of the murder, announced " nova. . que nos in crastino beat! Gregorii existentes Viterbii, et in ecclesia fratrum minorum Viterbiensium missarum solempnia audientes, ex relatibus quorundam fide dignorum didicimus, videlicet quod Gwydo et Simon de Monte Forti milites in Icarissimum consanguineum nostrum dominum Henricum primogenitum vestrum dum dictis die et hora in quadam alia capella Viterbii ante suum hospicium esset, causa audiendi missam seu orandi, manu irruerunt armata et ibidem eum instigante diabolo occiderunt. . . Datum Viterbii in crastino festi predicti." {Chron. Maiorum et ricecomitum London, p. 134). {ex inform. G.W.Watson). The murder and the memorial are mentioned in Dante's Inferno. V.G. (®) According to Villani the vase was set on a pillar on London Bridge, but there is better authority for its having been bur. in Westm, Abbey. V.G.