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 CORNWALL 439 nine months old at the death of his father, he was never created either Earl of Chester or Prince of fVcj!es.{^) On i Sep. 1422 he ascended the throne as Henry VI, when all his honours merged in the Crown. V. 1453 Edward, DUKE OF CORNWALL, at his birth.C) to being only s. and h. ap. of Henry VI, by Maro-aret 1471. da. of Rene, Duke of Anjou, titular King of Jerusalem ^c. He was b. 13 Oct. 1453, at Westminster. On 15 Mar. 1454 he was, by charter, confirmed the same day in Pari, cr PRINCE OF WALES and EARL OF CHESTER. He was knighted by the King, 17 Feb. 1461. In Aug. 1470 he w. in France, at the age of 17, Anne, yr. of the 2 daughters and coheirs of Richard (Neville), Earl of Warwick and Salisbury (the celebrated " King-maker "), by Anne, sua jure Countess OF Warwick. He cLs.p. and'u./'., being slain 4 IVlay 1 471, aged 17, at the defeat of the House of Lancaster at Tewkesbury, in the Abbey of which he was bur., when his peerage dignities lapsed to the Crown. His young widow m., 12 July 1472, Richard (Plantagenet), Duke of Gloucester, afterwards (1483-85) Richard III, who is said to have been her husband's murderer. She d. (a few months before him) 16 Mar. 1484/5, and was bur. in Westm. Abbev. Richard (Plantagenet), Duke of York (whose son, shortly after- wards, ascended the throne as Edward IV), having obtained possession of the person of the then King, Henry VI,was,on 25 Oct. 1460, declared by consent of Pari., heir apparent to the Crown, and on 8 Nov. following. Protector of the Realm, and was granted in Dec. of that year, for the King's lifCjC) the Principality of Wales, the Counties of Chester and Flint, and the Duchy of Cornwall. It has been supposed that he thus became (*) There have been six Dukes of Cornwall (heirs ap. to the Crown), none of whom were cr. Prince of Wales, viz. (i) Henry (afterwards Henry VI), s. and h. ap. of Henry V, 1421-22; (2) Henry, ist s. and h. ap. of Henry VIII, 1510; (3) [Henry?], 2nd s. but h. ap. of Henry VIII, 15 14; (4) Edward (afterwards Edward VI), 3rd s. but h. ap. of Henry VIII, 1537-47; (5) Charles, s. and h. ap. of Charles I, 1628; and (6) James Francis Edward {titular Prince of TFales, and afterwards titular King Jama I If), s. and h. ap. of James II, 1 688- 1 70 1. C>) "Henry VI expressly states {Rot. Pari., vol. v, p. 293) that his 'first begoten sonne [at the] tyme of his birth was Duke ot Cornewayle ' so that the limitation [of 1399] was considered to have been the same as in the case [1337] of the Black Prince; added to which King Henry VI gives the Duchy to his said son to be enjoyed in as ample form as Edward, son of King Edward III, or as Henry V, his father, has enjoyed it." {Courthope, p. 9). (■=) Not for his own life, as stated by Courthope, and by Ramsay in his Lancaster and York, but "ad terminum ite ipsius regis" {Rot. Pari., vol. v, pp. 380-1). V.G.