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 434 CORNWALL heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris, he became thereby EARL OF CORNWALL,('') and was sum. to Pari, as such 19 Jan. 1307/8. In 1307 he obtained the Lordship of the Isle of WightjC") granted to him, "his wife and the heirs of his body," but the next year the King's eldest son received a grant of, and resumed, the Lordship. He was Guardian of the Realm, Dec. 1307 to Feb. 1308; was Bearer of the Crown at the Coronation, 25 Feb. 1308; Chief Governor of Ireland, June 1308 to Sep. 1309. Constable of Berkhampstead Castle, and Provost of the county and city of Bayonne, 1307/8; Keeper of the Castles and Honours of Knaresboroughand Walling- ford, 1309; Keeper of Nottingham Castle and Chief Justice in Eyre, North of Trent, 13 10 and again 13 12; Keeper of Carlisle Castle, and Con- stable of Scarborough Castle, 131 1/2. The nobility being, not unnaturally, displeased at the influence over the King exercised by this foreigner, demanded his banishment, and on the refusal thereof, captured the Earl, at Scarborough, and beheaded him, without any form of trial, 19 June 1312, on Blacklow Hill (where a cross has been erected), near Warwick. He »?., 1309, Margaret, da. of Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, by Joan, da. of Edward I, the said Margaret being, conse- quently, niece of the Earl's patron, the reigning King. He d. s.p.m.,(^'') when the Earldom of Cornwall reverted to the Crown. His body was carried to Orford, whence, two years afterwards, it was bur. in the presence of the King and others, 2 Jan. 13 14, at King's Langley, Herts, in the church of the Friars Preachers, newly founded by the said King. His widow, one of the coheirs of the great family of Clare, being sister of Gilbert, the last Earl of Gloucester and Hertford of that family, ?«., 28 Apr. 13 17, Hugh d'Audley, who, on 16 Mar. 1336/7, was cr. Earl of Gloucester, and d. 10 Nov. 1347. She d. Apr. 1342, before Easter, and was bur. at Queenhithe. V. 1328 JoHN,('') styled "of Eltham," 2nd s. of Edward II, to by Isabel, da. of Philippe IV, King of France, was b. 1336. 25 Aug. 13 16, at Eltham Manor House, Kent. He was made Warden of the City and Tower of London, Oct. (f) "By a subsequent charter, 5 Aug. 1309, the county of Cornwall with its appurtenances was settled upon the said Piers and Margaret his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, by reason of which charter Margaret, widow of Gaveston and wife of Hugh de Audley, petitioned for restoration of the lands which had been seized into the hands of the Crown, and stating that there was issue of the said Piers by the said Margaret then living. But the Parliament ordained that the county, isfc, should remain to the King, quit of the claim of Hugh and Margaret and of the issue of Gaveston and Margaret for ever." {Courthope). C') See vol. vii, Appendix B. if) His only da. and h., Joan, was by him destined to have m. Thomas Wake, s. and h. ap. of John [Lord] Wake, but the said Thomas having m. elsewhere, King Edward II, in May 131 7, granted her marriage to John, s. and h. ap. of Thomas de Multon, Lord of Egremont, as soon as they should attain to the legal age of marriage. ('') As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet " see vol. i, p. 183, note "c."