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 440 CORNWALL Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, but there was no creation of such titles, the lands being granted to him as an appanage worth 10,000 marks/). «. to support his position as heir to the Crown. He d. 30 Dec. 1460, aged 48, being slain at the battle of Wake- field. For fuller particulars see "York.," Dukedom of, cr. 1385, under the 3rd Duke. VI. 1470 Edward (Plantagenet), DUKE OF CORNWALL, and at his birthjC) being ist s. and h. ap. of Edward IV, 147 1 by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Wydevile. He was b. to - or 3 Nov. 1470, in the Sanctuary at Westminster. By 1483. charter, 26 June 147 1, he was cr. PRINCE OF WALES and EARL OF CHESTER, being invested by charter of 17 July following with the Principality of Wales and the counties of Chester and Flint. By patent of the same date 17 July 1471, he was, in Pari., cr. DUKE OF CORNWALL,^) "habend. et tenend. eidem Duci et ipsius et heredum suorum Regum Anglie fil. primogenitis et dicti loci Ducibus," i^c. He was knighted by the King, 18 Apr. 1475. Nom. K.G., 15 May 1475. O" 18 July (1479) 19 Edw. IV, he was cr. EARL OF MARCH and EARL OF PEMBROKE, to hold the same during the King's pleasure. On 9 Apr. 1483 he ascended the throne as Edward V, when all his honours merged in the Crown. VII. 1483 Edward (Plantagenet), Earl of Salisbury, has been to held to have become, on the accession of his father to the 1484. throne, 26 June 1483, DUKE OF CORNWALL.(') He was b. at Middleham Castle, co. York, 1473, being only s. and h. ap. of Richard, Dukle of Gloucester (afterwards Richard III), (*) Under the Act of 1 337. C") "Edward IV, though heir of Edward theyJn/ created., was not the heir of Henry [afterwards Henry V] the last created Duke of Cornwall. He probably considered therefore, that a new creation was the safer means of vesting the Duchy in his eldest son, and quotes the acts of his predecessors, Edward III and Henry IV, the latter 'indede and not in ryght Kyng of Englond' as the 'reason for his having delyvered the said duchie to his said first begoten sone.' " [Courthope, p. 10, note " g "). It seems, however, more probable that the reason of this creation was that the King considered that the original creation of 1337 was somewhat invalidated by the usage of the last 70 years, which had set it aside. The death (6 May 147 1) of Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, i^c. (of the house of Lancaster) had occurred but a few months before this creation. if) " There are several documents to testify to the fact of his having been con- sidered Duke of Cornwall, amongst them a patent for the foundation of a chantry at St. Mary of Rykall (York) to say mass for the earthly welfare and the souls of the King, Queen Anne, Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Ches- ter, and the founders, dated 4 Dec. 1483; it is, nevertheless, difficult to conceive upon