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 DERBY 207 office of Lord High Steward at the Coronation of the King and his Consort. Reappointed Constable of England 5 Mar. 1485/6. He was godfather (i486) to Prince Arthur, the King's eldest son. On 24 June 1495, he received a visit lasting nearly a month, trom the King and Queen, at Knowsley and at Lathom. He m., istly, apparently after 10 May 1457,0 Eleanor, sister of Richard, Earl of Warwick, (the celebrated King Maker), 4th da. of Richard (Neville), Earl of Salisbury, by Alice, da. and h. of Thomas (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury. She was bur. at St. James's, (iarlick- hithe, London. He ?«., 2ndly, in 1482 (before Nov.), Margaret, widow of Sir Henry Stafford,('') and before that of Edmund (Tudor), Earl of Richmond, da. and h. of John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, by Margaret, da. of John (Beauchamp), Lord Beauchamp (of BIctsoe). He d. 29 July I 504, at Lathom, aged about 69, and was bur. with his ancestors at Burscough Priory, co. Lancaster. Will dat. 28 July, pr. 9 Nov. 1 504. His widow, who was b. 3 I May 1443, at Bletsoe, was the well-known founder of Christ's and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge. (See fuller account of her sub Richmond). She J. 29 June 1509 (three months after the death of her son, Henry VII), in her 67th year, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. Will, as "Countess of Richmond and Derby," pr. 17 Oct. 15 12. [George Stanley, styled (after 1485) Lord Stanley, but who in 1482 became Lord Strange, s. and h. ap., by ist wife, b. about 1460; K.B. 18 Apr. 1475; Constable of Pontefract Castle 21 Sep. 1485; Constable of Earldom (27 Oct. i Hen. VII), "pro diversis obsequiis suis impensis in Comitem Derb' ereximus . . . Ac nomen . . . Comitis Derb' eidem dedimus . . . et viginti libras habendas . . . de firmis exitibus . . . de Com' Notingham et Derb' pro- venientibus," and, reciting a release of the said pension, the King grants a new pension of ;{^40, " de manerio sive dominio nostro de Derb' in Com' Lancastr' sol vend'." The date is the last day of Feb. [1487/8] 3 Hen. VII. {fx inform. W. H. W. Bird). It appears to have been the custom, till the I 8th century, on the grant of an Earl- dom or any higher dignity, to take the name of some county, city, or principal town, if possible one connected with the grantee. However, it would seem the title of Bristol v/Tii in 1698 conferred on Digby and again in 1714 on Hervey; that oi Buckingham in 1702 on Sheffield and again in 1736 on Hobart; that of Cardigan in 1661 on Brudenell; of Carmarthen in 1689 on Osborne; of Carnarvon in 1628 on Dormer, in I 7 14 on Brydges, and in 1793 on Herbert; that of Chichester in 1644 on Leigh and in 1675 on Fitzroy; that of Derby in 1485 on Stanley; of Devon in 1 6 1 8 on Cavendish (a family that had estates in almost every part of England except the West); that of Dorset in 1603 on Sackville; of Dover in 1627 on Carey, in 1685 [as a Barony] on Jermyn, and in I 708 on Douglas. Most of these families had apparently little or no connection with the place from which the title was taken, or even with any family that previously held such title. (') She is named as a legatee in her father's will of that date without any indication that she was then married, though her married sister is spoken of therein as Countess of Arundel. V.G. C') The remarks of Vincent on Brooke (who had denied this match with Stafford) are worth reading for their extreme pungency.