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 43^ CORNWALL by a charter of a fortnight later (17 Mar.) certain possessions were inseparably annexed to the Dukedom. On 12 May 1343 he was, also in Pari., cr. PRINCE OF WALES,0 and invested with a coronet, ^c. He was knighted by the King, 12 July 1346, at la Hogue, winning his spurs at the battle of Crecy on 26 Aug. following.('') K.G., being included in the list of the founders of that Order.('') On 19 Sep. 1356 he gained the splendid victory of Poitiers, taking prisoner Jean, King of France. From 1355 ^° 1 37- he was Lieut, of the Duchy of Aquitaine, and by charter,(^) 19 July 1362, was cr. PRINCE OF AQUITAINE. On 23 Sep. 1366, he was cr. (by Pedro, King of Castile) Lord of Biscay and Castro Urdiales, in Spain. He was sum. to Pari. 24 Feb. (1367/8) 42 Edw. Ill, 8 Jan. (1369/70) 44 Edw. Ill, and 6 Oct. (1372) 46 Edw. Ill, under the style of " Prince of Aquitaine and Wales," and the Principality of Aquitaine having been confiscated by the King of France, 14 May 1370, was sum. as "Prince of Wales" (only) on 28 Dec. (1375)49 Edw. III. Hew., 10 Oct. 1 36 1, at Windsor, by papal disp. dat. 10 Sep. (she being ist fuerint" ought to possess as belonging "ad ipsum ducatum." This it does by a grant of certain specified possessions to him as Duke ("sub nomine et honore ducis dicti loci") for the support of the dignity, with the habendum " eidem duci et ipsius et heredum suorum regum Anglie filiis primogenitis et dicti loci ducibus in regno Anglie here- ditarie successuris " and the reservation that in the event of no qualified heir being in existence, at any time, the whole of the premises and the Duchy ("idem ducatus cum castris burgis villis et omnibus aliis supradictis") should revert to the Crown until such heir made his appearance. It is this limitation, "inconsistent with the ordinary rules of law," which eventually gave rise to the famous "Prince's Case" (see below); but it will also be observed that there is nothing to show if or how the dignity itself was limited when it was actually created, though the intention seems to have been to annex the possessions to the dignity and to make them both descend in accordance with the above limitation, [ex inform. J. H. Round). V.G. (^) There had only been one Prince of Wales before, viz. his grandfather, Edward " of Carnarvon " (afterwards King Edward II), who was, in 1301, cr. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. See "Chester," Earldom of, cr. 1301. His father, King Edward III, though Earl of Chester in 1320, or before, was never created Prince of Wales. (*") The tradition that the three ostrich feathers, with the motto " Ich Dien " (I serve), borne by him and by subsequent Princes of Wales, was the device of John of Luxem- burg, King of Bohemia, slain at Crecy (1346), is discredited by the fact that such device does not appear to have appertained to that King, whose crest was an eagle's wing, the arms of his kingdom being the double-headed eagle. Moreover the ostrich feathers appear to have been a badge, not only of this Prince, but of Edward III, Richard II, and even of John "of Ghent," Duke of Lancaster, and his descendant, the Duke of Somerset. The motto seems singularly appropriate to the heir apparent, in the sense of St. Paul's words, "that the heir, while he is a child, difFereth nothing from a servant." See Sandford (who evidently distrusts the " Bohemian" story), and see also an able article on "Feathers" in Parker's Glossary of Heraldry^ l847> where the matter is fully discussed. (■=) For a list of these see vol. ii, Appendix B. (^) See vol. i, p. 183, note "a."