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 CORNWALL 433 III. 1272 2. Edmund (') styled "of Almaine,"('') Earl of to Cornwall, 5th tut ist surv. s. and h., being ist s. by the 1300. 2nd wife, b. 5 Dec. 1250; was invested with his father's Earldom, and knighted by the King, at Westm., 13 Oct. 1272; Joint Guardian of the Realm, Nov. 1272 to Jan. 1273, and Apr. 1279 to 1280. Sheriff of Cornwall, 1278-1300; Sole Guardian of the Realm, June 1286 to Aug. 1289; Sheriff of co. Rutland, 128 8-1 300; Councillor to the Prince of Wales, 1297 to 1298. He w., 6 Oct. 1272, in the chapel at Ruislip, Midx., Margaret, da. of Richard (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester AND Hertford, by Maud, da. of John (de Lacy), Earl of Lincoln. She was divorced, or legally separated, Feb. i293/4,('^) and condemned '■^ vitam vivere delibem." She, who was b. 1250, d. s.p., in 13 12, before 16 Sep.(^) He d. s.p., shortly before 26 Sep. I300,(^) at the Abbey of Ashridge, Bucks (which he had founded in 1283), and was bur. near his father in the Abbey of Hailes afsd., 23 Mar. 1300/1, aged 49, when the Earldom of Cornwall became extinct, and, all legit, issue of his father having failed, the King was found his cousin and next heir. His Inq.p. m. 28 Edw. I.(*) IV. 1307 Sir Piers de Gavaston, possibly s. of Arnaud de to Gavaston (who d. May 1302), a Gascon knight of Beam, 1 3 12. by Clarmonde de Marsan et de Louvigny,(^) b. there about 1284, was attendant on the Prince of Wales, by whom he was knighted, 22 May 1306; and by whom (directly after his accession as Edward II) he was, in 1307, made Secretary to the King; P.C; Sheriff of Cornwall. Having received a grant of the county of Cornwall by charter dat. at Dumfries 6 Aug. 1307, habendum et tenendum eidem Petro et (^) See note " a " on preceding page. (•') The inscription on his seal was "s. eadmundi de allemannia comitis cornubi.t"; that on his father's royal seal was "ricardus dei gratia romanorum rex, semper AUGUSTUS." [Sandford). (<=) In Patent Rolls, 1293/4, is an assignment to her of jTSoo in land by the Earl, and a long document in French under her name. V.G. if) There is an engraving referred to in Sandford of her coat of arms, viz. Cornwall dimidiating Clare, the latter coat. Or, 3 chevronels Gules, thus resembhng (owing to its dimidiation) three bendlets. Fine Roll. V.G. (♦) The Patent Rolls, 1 292- 130 1, p. 63, show that he left a will, but no trace of it has been discovered. V.G. (8) The name Gavaston is from Gabaston, to the north-east of Pau, one of the chief baronies of B^arn. No actual proof can be given of the paternity of Piers, but his father seems to have been that Arnaud whose loyal service in Gascony to Edward I is several times mentioned on the Gascon Rolls, and of whose burial at Winchester in May 1302 there is record. He married as in the text, getting with his wife the castles of Montgaillard and Hagetmau. Their son, Arnaud Guillaume de Marsan, is named in the Gascon Rolls, and held Saint Sever in the Landes for the English King in 1296. {ex inform. J. H. Round). V.G. 55