the 6. day of Iuly 1189. in the 61. yeare of his age when he had reigned 34. yeares 9. moneths and two daies and was buried at Founteuerald in the Dutchy of Alanson neere to the Towne of the Egle. Et portoit gueulles au deux leopard passant d'or The Jssue of King Henry the second and Queene Elianor bis VVife William eldest sonne borne in the yeare 1152 to whom the Nobility sware fealty at the Castle of Wallingford in Berkshire he dyed in the yeare 1156 being but fiue yeares olde and was buried at Reading by his great Grandfather King Henry the first Henry the second sonne after the death of William his Brother was Duke of Normandy Earle of Aniou and Mayne and was crowned king in the life time of his Father the 1â— of Iune 1170. His wife was Margaret daughter of Lewis the younger king of France and was married at Newburgh in Normandy 1160. and she was after crowned Queene at Winchester 1163. He dyed at Marcell in Touraine the eleuenth of Iune 1182. and was buried at Roan Richard the third sonne was borne at Oxford 1157. and was sur-named of the French Cuer-de-Lyon He was first created earle of Poyctou had the whole Dutchy of Aquitaine for which he did his homage to King Lewis the yonger of France 1170. After he fell at variance with his Father and maintained wars against him but he was afterwards reconciled into his Fathers loue againe succeeded him in his Kingdome Geffrey the fourth sonne borne the fift yeare of his Fathers Reigne he married Constance daughter and heyre of Conan Duke of Britaine and did his homage for the same to his brother Henry and dyed at Paris 1186. the 19 of August and was buried in our Lady Church there hauing issue Arthur Duke of Britaine borne after his Fathers death and a daughter named Elianor which dyed in prison in King Henry the thirds time This Constance was also married to Randoll Earle of Chester Philip the fift sonne was borne in the fifteenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne and dyed young and was buried in S. Paules Church in London Iohn the sixt sonne was borne in the yeare 1166. and sur-named Sanz-terre without Land because when he was King hee resigned his Crowne and Kingdome to the Pope which Pandulphus his Legate kept for the space of foure daies to the Popes vse He was created Earle of Mortaigne and had withall the Earledomes of Cornwall Glocester Derby and Lancaster the Honours of Wallingford and Nottingham and lastly was King Mauld the eldest daughter was borne in the third yeare of her Fathers reign and married Henry sur-named the Lyon Duke of Saxony and Sardinia she suruiued her husband and dyed in the first yeare of King Richard the first and was after buried by her husband in the Church of S. Blase at Brunswick leauing issue Othe Emperor Henry Duke of Saxony and William and a daughter named Elianor Elianor second daughter borne at Roan 1162. married Alfonsus the ninth of that name King of Castile in Spaine and had issue Sancheus that dyed yong as also his brother Ferdinando Henry King of Castile Blanch Queen of France wife to Lewis the eight and Mother of S. Lewis Berengar married vnto Alphonsus King of Leon Vrraca Queene of Portingall and Elianor wife to King Iames King of Arragon Ioane the third daughter borne in the Citty of Angiers in France 1166. being but eleuen yeares olde was conueyed to the Citty of Palermo and there married to William the second King of Cicill Duke of Apulia and Prince of Capua 1177. and was crowned Queene at the same place She had issue a sonne named Beaumond who was Duke of Apulia and dyed young She was after married to Raymond the fourth of that Name Earle of Tholouze and had issue Raymond the last Earle of that House or Family and a daughter married to Berald of Elbeine Prince of Orange Issue by his Concubine WIlliam sur-named Longspee or Long-Sword begotten of his Paramore the Lady Rosamond daughter of Walter Lord Clifford married Ela daughter and heyre of William Fitz-Patricke Earle of Salisbury and had issue William Longspee a Baron Stephen second sonne Nicholas Bishop of Salisbury and Richard the fourth sonne was a Cannon at Bradstocke Idona married to William Beauchampe Baron of Bedford Ella first married to the Earle of Warwicke and after to Philip Lord Basset and Isabell first married to William Lord Vescy and after to Walter Lord Clifford Father of Roger. King Richard the first His second wife was Berengaria daughter of Sanches the fourth King of Nauarre who married him at Ciprus and accompanied him to the holy land He was slaine by Bertram de Gurdonn with the shot out of a Crossebow at a Castle of the Viscount of Limoges called Chalons which wounding him in the shoulder the Surgeons hauing drawne out the wood of the Arrow and not the enuenomed yron forke mangled the Arme with cruell incisions that the paines thereof hastned his death when he had raigned almost nine yeares He was buried at Founteuerard in France at his Fathers feete the 6. of Aprill in the yeare 1199. without any lawfull issue He had two base children Philip a sonne and Isabell a daughter King Richard the first did beare for his Armes in his Pauis or Shield one lyon rampant and this is the first Armes that euer I could see any authority for King Iohn Isabell second wife to King Iohn was daughter and heyre of Aymer Earle of Angolesme by whom he had issue as heereafter followeth This Isabell ouer-liued King Iohn and married Hugh de Brun Earle of the Marches of Aquitaine Lord of Lusignan and Valence in Poyton to whom she should haue bene married before she married King Iohn by whom she had diuers children greatly aduanced by King Henry the third their halfe brother This King lying in the Abbey of Swansteed not farre from Lincolne was poysoned by a Monke of the Order of S. Bernard who to make his match sure and to auoide iealousie and suspition first dranke vnto the King and poysoned himselfe the King beeing brought from the saide Abbey in a Horse-litter vnto the Castle of Newarke there dyed on S. Lukes night the 14. Kalends of Nouember and was after buried at Worcester in the yeare 1216. when he had reigned 17. yeares fiue moneths lacking eight dayes at the age of 51. yeares This Iohn beeing King of England and Duke of Normandy in right of his Grand-mother Mauld the Empresse and Duke of Aquitaine by Elianor his Mother ioyned the Armes of Aquitaine being a Lyon passant gardant vnto the Armes of Normandy and England making it Gueulles trois Lyons passant gardant d'or King Johns Jssue by Isabell his last Wife King Henry the third borne at Winchester the first of October 1208. being the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne Richard second sonne of King Iohn was borne the next yeare after his Brother King Henry by whom he was made Knight and created
THomas Lord Spencer great grand-childe to Hugh Lord Spencer the younger and Elianor his wfe eldest sister co-heyre of Gilbert de Clare the last Earle of Glocester aforesaid was created Earle of Glocester in the 21. yeare of king Richard the second and in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth he was deposed by Acte of Parliament from the title and dignity of Earle of Glocester and was behâ—ded at Bristoll 1400. He married Constance daughter of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and had issue Richard Lord Spencer that dyed without issue the Kings Ward and two daughters Elizabeth that dyed yong at Caerdiffe in South Wales Isabell who was borne 7. months after her Fathers death was twice maried first to Richard Beauchamp Earle of Worcester and Lord of Abergauenny by whom she had issue Elizabeth her second husband was Richard Beauchamp Earle of Warwick cousin-germane to her other husband by whom she had issue Henry Duke of Warwicke Et portoit d'argent escartelle gueulles frette d'or au baston de sable brochant sur le tout HVmsrey Plantagenet fourth sonne of king Henry the 4. was at a Parliament held at Westminster the second of king Henry the fift created first Earle of Pembroke and after Duke of Glocester and in the first yeare of King Henry the sixt he was by Parliament made Protector of England during the Kings minority which was fifteene yeares and writ in his Stile Humfrey Duke of Gocester Earle of Henault Holland Zealand and Penbroke Lord of Frisia great Chamberleine of England and Defender of the Realme of England He married two wiues the first was Iaquet daughter sole heyre of William Duke of Bauaria Holland the then wife of Iohn Duke of Brabant from whom hee was diuorced hauing no issue by her his second wife was Elianor daughter of Reginald Lord Cobham of Sterburgh in Surrey who long before had bene his Paramore by whom he had no lawfull issue After at a Parliament held at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolke 1446. he was arrested of high Treason within few dayes after he was found strangled to death in the Abbey of Bury by the procurement of the Marquesse of Suffolke He builded the Diuinity Schoole in Oxford and his Mannour house of Greinwich and embattelled the same Hee had issue a base daughter named Antigone wife to Henry Grey Earle of Tankeruill his body was conuayed to the Abbey of S. Albons and there buried Et portoit France semé escartelle D'engleterre à la bordure d'argent RIchard Plantagenet fourth sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke and brother to king Edward the fourth was by his said Brother in the first yeare of his Reigne created D. of Glocester To this Richard was the gouernment committed of king Edward the fourths two sonnes K. Edw. the 5. Richard Duke of Yorke whom hee caused most vnnaturally to be murdred in the Tower of London after whose death he vsurped the Crowne and Kingdome in the yeare 1464. and was stiled king Richard the third Hee married Anne daughter and co-heire of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury widdow of Edward Prince of Wales slaine at Tewkesbury and was after slaine at Bosworth field by King Henry the seuenth the 22. of August 1485. leauing no issue to succeed him Et portoit France escartelle D'engleterre au lambell de hermines charge au trois cantons de gueulles EDward Seymour Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter was created Viscount Beauchampe the 28. of king Henry the eight and in the yeare after he was created Earle of Hartford which Earledome and the Title of Dignity had slept from the death of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hertford And in the first yeare of king Edward the sixt he was made Duke of Somerset as in the title of Somerset is more at large Et portoit gueulles à deux volz de L'aigle en L'eurre d'or EDward Seymour sonne of Edward Duke of Somerset aforesaid was by Queene Elizabeth in the first yeare of her Reigne restored and created Earle of Hartford and is now liuing 1618. A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Hereford their Armes Wiues and Children RAlphe de Maunt Earle of Hereford in Edward the Confessours time and William the Conquerors who being sent to encounter Algar Earle of Leicester then a banished man and returned into England fled very cowardly from his forces in Herefordshire leauing his Country Citty of Hereford to the mercy of the kings enemies in the yeare 1055. For which cause William Conqueror degraded him and tooke from him his Earledome of Hereford He dyed and was buried at Peter-borow WIlliam Fitz-Osborne Earle of Breteuile in Normandy son Osberne de Crepon by Albreda his wife daughter of Ralphe Earle of Iuery whose grand-father Herfast us the Dane was brother to Gonora wife of Richard the first D. of Normandy great grand-mother to William Conquerour This William came into England with the saide Conquerour and was the chiefe man that perswaded him to vndertake the Conquest of England for the which and his good seruice the said Conqueror made him Earle of Hereford in the yeare 1068. and Marshall and Lord Steward of England and in the kings absence in France the said William was made Vice-Roy and Gouernor in England He married Adelice daughter of Roger Tonny Standard-bearer of Normandy by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters William the eldest sonne succeeded his Father in all his honours and possessions in Normandy and Roger the second sonne after the death of his Father was Earle of Hereford and had all his Fathers lands in England Roald the third sonne was a Monke Emme the eldest daughter was wife to Ralphe de Waiet a Saxon and Earle of the East Angles that is Norfolke Suffolke and Cambridgeshire Itta the second daughter was wife to Robert Bellemont Earle of Leicester This William Fitz-Osberne was slaine as some haue at Kerdiffe in South Wales Others say in the warres in Planders taking part with Arnold Earle of Flanders in the yeare 1072. and William Gemiticensis hath that he was buried in the Monastery of Cormelias which was of his Foundation Et portoit de gueulles au bande d'argent sur le tout an face d'or ROger de Breteuile second sonne of William Fitz-Osberne was after the death of his Father Earle of Hereford in the yeare 1072. He made and concluded the marriage betweene Emma his sister and Ralphe de Wayet at which marriage the greatest part of the Nobility were present and there conspired together to turne out William the Conqueror againe Waltheof Earle of Huntington son of Siward Earle of Northumberland being one of them tooke shipping and went into Normandy and there reuealed the whole matter to the said King William committing himselfe wholly to his mercy But this Roger continuing in his intended conspiracy was taken prisoner by Vrso de Abtot Shirieffe of Worcestershire and others and being brought to his tryall by his
Norfolke was banished England for ten yeares meane time dyed Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster his Father whom this Henry succeeded in the Dukedome of Lancaster and after deposing King Richard and obtaining the kingdome he ordayned by assent of Parliament that Henry his eldest sonne should enioy the same Dignities and be stiled Prince of Wales Duke of Lancaster and Cornwall and Earle of Chester and so this Henry being crowned King vnited the whole Inheritance of Lancaster vnto the Crowne Since which time the Ducall Title of Lancaster hath bene drowned in the Title of the Regall Dignity This Henry married Mary daughter and one of the two heyres of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England by whom he had issue Henry Prince of Wales Thomas Duke of Clarence Iohn Duke of Bedford Humfrey Duke of Glocester Blanch married to William Duke of Bauarre and Philip married to Iohn king of Denmarke and Norwey He dyed in the yeare 1412. Et portoit les armoiries de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Leicester their Armes Wiues and Children RObert de Bellomont a Norman borne sonne of Roger de Bellomont Lord of Ponteaudemer and Adelina his wife sister and heyre of Hugh Earle of Mellent after the death of Leofrike Algar and Edwin Saxon Earles was made Earle of Leicester by king Henry the first 1103. Hee married Elizabeth daughter of Hugh the great Earle of Vermandois and had issue Waleran Earle of Mellent in Normandie and of Worcester in England and Robert sur-named Bossu Adelina wife to Hugh Mounfort and Isabell married to Gilbert Strongbow Earle of Penbroke this Isabell daughter of Hugh the great Earle of Vermandois ouer-liued her first husband and after married William the second Earle Warren and Surrey This Robert dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1118. the 19. of King Henry the first Et portoit de gueulles à l'quintfoille d'hermyne RObert de Bellomont sur-named Bossu of his crooked backe was the second Earle of Leicester after the death of his Father he was Chiefe-Iustice of England in King Henry the seconds time and married Itta daughter of Roaldo de Waet Earle of the East Angles had issue Robert Blanchmaynes the third Earle of Leicester Henry Geffrey and Iohn Isabell married to Simon S. Lize Earle of Northampton and Hawis married to William Earle of Glocester This Robert dyed in the thirteenth yeare of king Henry the second and was buried at Leicester Et portoit les armes de son peré RObert de Bellomont sur-named Blanchmaynes of his white hands sonne of Robert Bossu was the third Earle of Leicester after the Conquest He married Pernell or Petronell daughter and co-heire of Hugh Grentmesnell Lord of Hinckley Lord Steward of England with whom he had in marriage the Honour of Hinckley and Office of Lord Steward of England She built the body of the great Church of Leicester and lyeth there buried in the Quier by the high Altar leauing issue Robert Fitz-Pernell Earle of Leicester William a leaper who built the Hospitall of S. Leonards in I eicester and dyed before his Father without issue Roger Bishop of S. Andrewes in Scotland Amicia wife to Simon Earle Mountfort Brother of Almericke Earle of Eureux and Margaret married to Saier de Quincy Earle of Winchester This Robert was slaine in the Holy-Land at Duras in Greece where he was buried in the yeare 1190. Et portoit de gueulles à l'quintfoille d'hermyne RObert surnamed Fitz-Pernell sonne of Robert Blanchmaynes was after the death of his Father the fourth Earle of Leicester and in right of his Mother Lord high Steward of England He married Lourette daughter of William Lord Brews of Brember in Sussex by whom he had no issue This Robert went with King Richard into the Holy-land and was there taken prisoner and paide for his ransome two thousand Markes He dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1204. and was buried in the Abbey of Leicester the sixt of King Iohn leauing Simon de Mountfort and Saier de Quincy who had married his two sisters his heyres Et portoit les armes de son peré SImon de Mountfort sonne of Simon Earle Mounfort in France sonne of another Simon Earle Montfort and Bertha his wife daughter of Richard Earle of Eureux and Constable of France which last Simon was grand-childe of Robert sur-named the Holy King of France by his base sonne Almericke Earle Mountfort married Amicia eldest fister and co-heyre of Robert Fitz-Pernell Earle of Leicester in whose right he was created Earle of Leicester made Lord Steward of England in the eight yeare of king Iohn as may appeare by his Charter dated at Slingesbie the tenth day of March 1206. This Simon with his sonne was after banished England disinherited for rebellion against the king and allying themselues to the French King He was Generall of the Army at the siedge of the Citty of Tholouse who before the Gates thereof was striken in the head with a stone shot out of an Engine whereof he dyed sodainly and his Brother Almericke besiedging a Castle hard by the said Citty at the same time was likewise slaine in the yeare 1218. This Simon had issue by his wife Amicia Almericke Earle Montfort in France and Simon that was after Earle of Leicester in England Et portoit gueulles au hon d'argent à la double queué passee en en Saulteur SImon de Montfort second sonne of Simon Montfort Earle of Leicester and Amicia his wife hauing compounded agreed with Almericke his elder brother for his right title of the Earledome of Leicester came into England and was graciously receyued of king Henry the third 1235. who did not onely restore to him the Earledome of Leicester with the Office of Lord Steward of England but also in the yeare 1237. gaue vnto him in marriage his sister Elianor the widow of William Marshall the yonger Earle of Penbroke by whoÌ„ he had issue Henry Montfort slaine with his Father at the battaile of Eueâ—sham in the yeare 1256. Simon Montfort Guy and Almerick were all three banished the Land by Acte of Parliament Edward and Richard dyed young and Elianor his daughter was married to Leolyne Prince of Wales When the Noblemen of England raised warre against king Henry the third for denying to performe the Orders and Decrees made a little before at a Parliament held at Oxford this Simon was made their Generall and at a battaile strocke neere Lewis in Sussex he tooke the King with his Brother Richard Earle of Cornewall and king of Almayne with Prince Edward his sonne prisoners but Prince Edward escaping bid the Barons battaile againe at Eueâ—sham where this Simon was slaine the Barons ouerthrowne in the 40 yeare of the said kings Reigne This Simon the second Earle of Leicester at the Coronation of Queene Elianor challenged the Office of Lord Steward of England in right of Amicia his Mother daughter of Robert Blanchmaynes
Kings Reigne he was created Marquesse Dorset he married Cicely daughter and heyre of William Lord Harington and Bonuill by whom he had issue as in the title of Dorset is more at large Et portoit burelle de six d'argent d'azur à chef trois torteaux au lambell d'hermines WIlliam Lord Herbert of Gower sonne and heyre of William Earle of Penbroke slaine at Banbury the 9. of king Edward the fourth was after his Father Earle of Penbroke which Earledome he surrendred vnto King Edward the fourth who made his eldest sonne Prince Edward Earle of Penbroke and this William Lord Herbert Earle of Huntington at Oburne the 19. of king Edward the fourth which Earledome of Huntington king Henry the seauenth confirmed vnto the saide William in the third yeare of his Reigne Hee married Mary daughter of Richard Wooduill Earle Riuers and Iaquet his wife and sister and one of the heyres of Richard Wooduill Earle Riuers her brother by whom he had issue one onely daughter his heyre named Elizabeth married to Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester He dyed the 16. of Iuly in the sixt yeare of King Henry the seuenth Et portoit per pale d'azur de gueulles trois lions rampant dargent GEorge Lord Hastings Hungerford Botreaux Molyns and Moeles was created at White-Hall in the 21. yeare of K. Henry the 8. Earle of Huntington he was sonne of Edward Lord Hastings Chamberlaine to king Edward the fourth married Anne daughter of Henry Lord Stafford second D. of Buckingham by whom he had issue Francis Lord Hastings and second Earle of Huntington Edward created by Queene Mary Lord Hastings of Loughborough in Leicestershire Sir Thomas Hastings knight Henry Hastings and William he had 3. daughters also Dorothy maried to Richard Deuereux sonne and heyre of Walter Viscount Hereford Mary and Katherine He died in the 36. yeare of king Henry the 8. was buried at Ashbye de la Zouch in Leicestershire Et porteit d'argent au manch de sable FRancis Hastings sonne and heire of George was after the death of his Father Earle of Huntington Lord Hastings Hungerford Botereux Molyns and Moeles He married Katherine daughter and one of the heyres of Henry Pole Lord Montacute sonne and heire of Margaret Plantagenet Countesse of Salisbury beheaded in the Tower of London 1541. condemned by Parliament neuer being arraigned nor tried before The said Francis and Katherine had issue Henry Lord Hastings and Earle of Huntington that dyed without issue Sir George Hastings knight Earle of Huntington Sir Edward Hastings kinght William Francis and Walter Katherine wife to Henry Clinton Earle of Lincolne Francis wife to Henry Lord Compton Anne Elizabeth married to Edward Somerset now Earle of Worcester 1618. and Mary Hastings This Francis Earle of Huntington dyed in the second yeare of Queene Elizabeth 1560. and was buried at Ashbie de la Zouch Et portoit d'argent au Manch de fable HEnry Hastings knight of the Garter after the death of Francis his Father was also Earle of Huntington Lord Hastings Hungerford Botereux Molyns and Moeles Lord President of the Counsell at Yorke married Lady Katherine daughter of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland sister to Ambrose Earle of Warwicke and Robert Earle of Leicester by whom he had no issue He dyed in the yeare 1â—95 Et poitoit les armes de son peré GEorge Hastings second sonne of Francis Earle of Huntington and brother and heyre of Henry aforesaid was the fourth Earle of Huntington of that Family sur-name and married Elianor daughter and co-heyre of Sir Iohn Port of Derbyshire knight and had issue Francis Lord Hastings that dyed before his Father who married Sara daughter of Sir Iames Harington and sister of Iohn Lord Harington by whom he had issue Henry now Earle of Huntington 1618. and others the saide George had issue also Sir Henry Hastings knight who married Dorothy daughter and co-heyre of Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollarton in Nottinghamshire knight Edward that dyed in Germany Katherine wife to Edward Vmpton and after his death shee married Sir Walter Chetwin of Staffordshire knight and Dorothy was married to _____ Stewart a Scotchman slaine at Islington in single combate by Sir George Wharton sonne and heyre of the Lord Wharton Et portoit d'argeut au Maunch de fable HEnry Hastings sonne and heyre of Francis Lord Hastings and grand childe to George Earle of Huntington after the death of his said Grand-Father was the fift Earle of Huntington of that sur-name and married Elizabeth third daughter and co-heyre of Ferdinando Earle of Derby and had issue Henry Lord Hastings Ferdinando Alice and Elizabeth Et portoit les armes de son peré A Catalogue of the Earles of Kent their Armes Wiues and Children ODO halfe brother to William Conqueror by the Mother was by the saide William first made Bishop of Baieux in Normandy and after Earle of Kent in England He was a subtile man and after the death of William Fitz-Osberne had the whole rule and gouernment of England vnder William Conqueror his brother He was a great enemy to Lanfranke Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and was banished England for taking part with Robert Duke of Normandy his Nephew against William Ruphus He went with the saide Robert his Nephew to the Holy-Land and at the siedge of Antioch he ended his life It is said he bare for his Armes Gueulles à lion rampant d'argent au Crosier stafe en band sinester d'or WIlliam de Ipre a Fleming borne and base sonne of Philip Viscount of Ipre came into England in the 4. yeare of king Stephen to ayde him in his warres against Mauld the Empresse for which seruice the said king created him Earle of Kent 1141. After which king Stephen was taken prisoner at Lincolne by Mauld the Empresse and Robert Earle of Glocester and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristoll But not long after Mauld the Empresse with her Brother Robert Earle of Glocester went to Winchester where Henry Bishop of Winchester brother to King Stephen and William of Ipre gathered a great Army and made her to abandon the Castle but Robert her brother seeking to backe her in her flight was himselfe taken prisoner and deliuered to king Stephens Queene then newly entred Winchester who deliuered the said Robert to William of Ipre to be imprisoned in the Castle of Rochester in Kent These two great prisoners being straitely kept at length through mediation of friends a peace was concluded that they should both be deliuered the King to his Kingdome and the Earle to his liberty This William of Ipre was after made Steward of the kings house and founded the Abbey of Boxley in Kent and was banished England by king Henry the second 11.4 and before his death became blinde and tooke vpon him the habite of a Monke in the Abbey of Loan and there dyed 1164. Et portoit geronne d'er d'azur à l'escusson de gueulles au baston sinester d'argent broch nt sur le tout HVbert
issue This Edmond was Lieutenant of Gascoigne in the first yeare of king Edward the first being sent into Aquitaine with an Army dyed at Bayon in the yeare 1296. and his body being brought ouer Seas into England was buried at Westminster on the North-side of the high-Altar Et portoit gueulles au trois leopards passant d'or au lambell de cinq pointz seme de France Or thus d'engleterre au lambell de France THomas Plantagenet sonne and heire of Edmond Crouchbacke was after the death of his Father Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Derby and Lord Steward of England Hee married Alice daughter and heyre of Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne by the daughter and heyre of William Longspee Son and heyre of William Longspee Earle of Salisbury by whom he had no issue This Alice was held to be a very loose and vnchaste woman of her body for in the life time of this Thomas her husband she maintained Sir Richard S. Martyn for her Sweet-heart and after her husbands death she married two other husbands the first was Ebulo Lord Strange of Knocking and the second was Hugh de Frenes by whom she neuer had any issue Notwithstanding she gaue all her lands and inheritance to Thomas her first husband and to his heyres for euer This Thomas siding with the Barons against king Edward the second in hatred of the Spencers was taken prisoner at Burrough Brigge by the treachery of Robert Holland and Andrew of Hercley and brought to Pomfret a Castle of his owne and without the Walles thereof was beheaded in the 14. yeare of King Edward the second leauing Henry his Brother his heire Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry of Lancaster Lord of Monmouth brother and heire of Thomas Earle of Lancaster beheaded at Pomfret aforesaid was restored to the Earledome of Lancaster Leicester Derby with the Office of high Steward of England in the first yeare of king Edward the third He married Mauld daughter and heire of Sir Patrick Cadurcis or Chaworth knight Lord of Kidwelly and Ogmore in Wales and had issue Henry Earle of Derby and first Duke of Lancaster and sixe daughters Blanch the eldest was married to Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell Mauld the second was first married to William Lord Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland and after to Sir Ralphe Vfford knight Ioane the third daughter was married to Iohn Lord Mowbray of Axholme Isabell was Abbesse of Almesbury Elianor the fift daughter was first married to Iohn sonne of Henry Lord Beaumond and after to Richard Earle of Arundell and Mary the sixt daughter was married to Henry Lord Percy of Alnewike He dyed at Leicester and was there buried in the Monastery of the Channons in the yeare 1345. Et portoit les armes d'engleterre au band d'azur HEnry of Monmouth sur-named Tortcoll sonne heyre of Henry Earle of Lancaster and grand-childe of Edmond Crouch-backe aforesaid was created Earle of Derby in the tenth yeare of king Edward the third his Father being then liuing after whose death he was also Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Lord high Steward of England and at a Parliament helde at Westminster the 25. of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Lancaster and about two yeares after the saide King gaue him the Earledome of Lincolne He married Isabell daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont cousin-germane to Queene Isabell wife to king Edward the second by whom he had issue two daughters his heyres Mauld married William Duke of Bauarre Earle of Henault Holland Zeland and Frizeland Blanch the second daughter was married to Iohn of Gaunt fourth sonne of king Edward the third and after Duke of Lancaster This Henry for some disgracefull words supposed to be spoken by him against the Duke of Brunswicke was by the saide Duke challenged to a single combate before king Iohn of France which this Henry gladly accepted of and at the appointed time they beeing both prouided entred the listes with haughty courage for the triall of their cause but King Iohn reconciled them to the great contentment and honour of the Duke of Lancaster This Henry dyed of the plague and was buried in the Collegiate at Leicester which himselfe founded and placed therein a Deane twelue Maior Canons and so many inferior Brethren in the 35. yeare of king Edward the third Et portoit d'engleterre au band d'azur IOhn of Gaunt so named of the place where he was borne fourth sonne of king Edward the third was created Earle of Richmond in the yeare 1355. and in the 38. yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee sate in Parliament with the title of Duke of Lancaster and Earle of Richmond and did write in his stile Iohn sonne to the King of England Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster Earle of Derby Lincolne and Leicester high Constable of England and as some haue high Constable of France but of that I doubt For Robert de Morell Lord of Fiennes was then Constable of France And in the fiftieth yeare of King Edward the third he sate in Parliament by the name of Iohn King of Castile and Lions also in the 14. yeare of king Richard the second his Nephew he was made Duke of Aquitaine by deliuering him a golden Rod and putting vpon his head a rich Bonnet He married three wiues the first was Blanch daughter and co-heyre of Henry the first Duke of Lancaster by whō he had issue Henry after king of England Phillip wife to Iohn king of Portingall and Elizabeth married to Iohn Holland Duke of Excester His second wife was Constance daughter and one of the co-heyres of Peter king of Castile by whom he had issue Katherine married to Henry sonne of king Iohn of Spaine with the Title to the kingdomes of Castile and Lions His third wife was Katherine daughter of Payne Ruet alias Guien king of Armes and Widdow of Sir Otes Swynford knight by whom he had issue before marriage Iohn sur-named Beaufort Earle of Somerset and Marquesse Dorset Henry Beaufort Bishop of Winchester and Cardinall of S. Eusebius as also Chancellor of England Thomas Beaufort Earle of Dorset Duke of Excester and Chancellour of England Ioane Beaufort first married to Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and after to Robert Ferrars Lord of Ousley This last marriage with Katherine Swynford the legitimating of her children was made good by a Bull from Rome This great Duke and Prince dyed in the 22. of king Richard the second and lyeth buried in Paules Church in London Et portoit semé de France escartellé d'engleterre au lambell d'hermines HEnry Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke sonne and heire of Iohn of Gaunt was created Earle of Derby in the life time of his Father 1385. by king Richard the second and in the 21. yeare of the said kings reigne he was made Duke of Hereford and by that name and title sate in the Parliament held at Westminster and after being accused of treason by Thomas Mowbray Duke of
he was generally accounted a man of singular vertue and vnto him was ioyned Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent and Henry Plantagenet Earle of LaÌ„caster as assistants A Parliament being held at Northampton 1328 a dishonourable peace and marriage was made wherein the King by the directions of his Mother and this Roger Mortimer released to the Scots their homage fealty and seruice due to him for that kingdome and deliuered vp to them also the grand Charter called Ragman which vnder the hands and seales of their late King and of the Nobility of Scotland testified their tenure and subiection to the Kings of England This Roger in the fourth yeare of king Edward the third was taken at Nottingham Castle at midnight in Queene Isabell the Kings Mothers chamber with whom he had bene ouer familiar by William Lord Montague others and sent to the Tower of London and condemned of high treason at Westminster in presence of the whole Parliament and after drawne to the common Gallowes and there hanged two dayes and two nights and then taken downe and buried in the Grey-Fryars Church He married Ioane daughter and heyre of Peter Iamuile Lord of Mede Vaucolour and Trime in Ireland and had issue Edmond Mortimer knighted at the Coronation of King Edward the third with his Brother Sir Roger Mortimer and Geffrey Mortimer Lord of Cowich Iohn the fourth sonne of this Roger was slaine at a Iusting at Shrewsbury Katherine the eldest daughter was married to Thomas Beauchampe Earle of Warwick Ioane married to Iames Lord Audley Agnes married to Laurence Hastings Earle of Penbroke Margaret married to Thomas sonne and heyre of Maurice Lord Berkeley Mauld married to Sir Iohn Charlton Lord Powis Blanch wife to Peter Lord Grandison and Beatrix the seuenth daughter was married first to Edward sonne and heyre of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke and after to Thomas Brews Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer grand-childe to Roger Mortimer the first Earle of March aforesaid by his sonne Edmond was restored in the 29. yeare of king Edward the third to the Earldome of March and all other lands honours and possessions which his said Grand-Father was possessed of for that he was contrary to law as the Lawyers then saide put to death being neuer brought to answer which course of Iustice was vsed before at the triall of the Earles of Lancaster Winchester Glocester and Kent by the aduice of the said Roger and Queene Isabell This Roger was one of the first Founders of the Order of the Garter and married Phillip daughter of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury and had issue Roger Mortimer that dyed without issue before his Father and Edmond Mortimer that was the third Earle of March Margaret married to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford and Margery married to Iohn Lord Audley He dyed in Burgundy at a Towne called Roueray in the three and thirtieth yeare of King Edward the third and his body being brought into England was buried by his Auncestors at Wigmore Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent EDmond Mortimer second sonne and heyre of Roger Mortimer the second Earle of March was after the death of his Father the third Earle of March and Lord of Wigmore He married Phillip daughter and onely heyre of Lionell of Antwerpe Duke of Clarence Earle of Wiltshire and Vlster Lord of Conaught and Trime in Ireland by whom he had issue Roger Mortimer the fourth Earle of March and Sir Edmond Mortimer knight that married the daughter of Owen Glendour Sir Iohn Mortimer knight the third sonne was beheaded for treason the third of king Henry the sixt Elizabeth married to Henry Lord Percy sur-named Hotspurre Philip first married to Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke and after to Richard Earle of Arundell and lastly to Iohn Lord S. Iohn and dyed without issue This Edmâ—nd recâ—â—ered from William Mountague Earle of Salisbury the Castle and honour of Denbeigh which king Edward the third had giuen before to Roger Mortimer Earle of March this Edmonds Grand-Father This Edmond died at Corke in Ireland the fift of king Richard the second and was buried at Wigmore Et portoit burelle de six pieces do'r ' d'azur au chef de la primier deux paletts entte deux base equites de la second sur le tout à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer after the death of Edmond his Father was the fourth Earle of March of that sur-name whom king Richard the second nominated for his successour in the kingdome of England 1387. being descended of the body of Philip onely daughter and heyre of Lionell Duke of Clarence third sonne of king Edward the third He married Elianor daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent Lord Wake and Duke of Surrey and sister and co-heyre of Thomas her brother by whom he had issue two sonnes and two daughters Edmond the first sonne was the fift Earle of March Roger the second sonne dyed young Anne was married to Richard of Coningsbourgh Earle of Cambridge sonne of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and Elianor married to Edward Courtney Earle of Deuonshire He was writ and stiled Earle of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare and Conaught and was slaine by the wilde Irish being then Lieutenant of the Kings Forces in Ireland in the two and twentieth yeare of King Richard the second and bare the Armes of his Father EDmond Mortimer sonne and heyre of Roger aforesaide was after the death of his Father the fift Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare Conaught and married Anne daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford and dyed without issue in the Castle of Trime in Ireland the third of King Henry the fixt and was buried at Stoke neere Clare leauing Richard Duke of Yorke his Nephew and heyre to succeed him Anne his widdow was after married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington Les armes de Mortimer RIchard Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard of Conesburgh Earle of Cambridge by Anne his wife sister co-heyre of Edmond Mortimer the fift Earle of March after the death of his Father and Edmond Mortimer his Vnckle did write himselfe Duke of Yorke Earle of Cambridge Vlster March and Rutland Lord of Wigmore and Clare He married Cecily daughter of Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Edward Earle of March after king by the name of king Edward the fourth and others as in the title of Yorke This Richard was slaine at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. and the 39. of king Henry the sixt Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à bordure d'argent seme lyons rampant purpre EDward Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard Duke of Yorke aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore and Clare and lastly king of England by the
where he pleaseth and to speake truely I haue not seene but one Letters Patents otherwise which was by King Henry the sixt 1458. to Iames Butler who had the Earledome of Ormond to him and his heires male and the Earledome of Wiltshire to him and his heires generall And this I hope shall be sufficient to proue that King Henry the sixt did no wrong to this Margaret in giuing her Fathers title of honour to his brother nay had he giuen it to a meere stranger it had beene iustifiable This Iohn dyed in the 24. yeare of king Henry the sixt and lyeth buried in Winborne Minster in Dorsetshire Et portoit les armes de son perè EDmond Beaufort Earle Moriton in Normandy and Lord of Chirke and Chirkland in the Marchesse of Wales brother of Iohn Duke of Somerset aforesaid and grand-childe of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was after the death of his elder brother without issue male created first Marquesse Dorset 1444. and in the 25. yeare of king Henry the sixt hee was made Duke of Somerset and after he with Henry Earle of Northumberland Humfrey Earle Stafford and Thomas L. Clifford were slaine at the battaile of S. Albons on the part of king Henry the sixt 1455. and the king himselfe taken prisoner brought to London This Edmonds death greatly greeued K. Hen. because in him he had put all his trust and confidence and for that also such a Chiefetain as he who had long gouernd in Normandy bin Regēt of France for his Countries sake had so valiantly borne himselfe against the French shold now be slaine at home by his owne countrimen He married Elianor daughter one of the heires of Richard Beauchamp earle of Warwick had issue foure sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Henry the eldest sonne was after his Father Duke of Somerset and was beheaded in the yeare 1463. Edmond the second sonne was also Duke of Somerset after his Brother Iohn the third sonne was slaine at the battaile of Teukesbury without issue 1470 and Thomas the 4. sonne dyed without issue Elianor the eldest daughter was first married to Iames Butler Earle of Wiltshire and after to Sir Robert Spencer knight Ioane the second daughter was first married to the Lord Hoth of Ireland and after to Sir Richard Fry knight Anne the third daughter was married to Sir William Paston knight Margaret the fourth daughter was first married to Humfrey Earle Stafford and after to Sir Richard Darell knight and Elizabeth married vnto Sir Henry Lewis knight This Edmonds body was buried at S. Albons in the Abbey there Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à vn bordur gobonne d'argent d'azur Henry Beaufort sonne and heyre of Edmond aforesaide was after the death of his Father Duke of Somerset Marquesse Dorset Earle Moriton Lord of Chirke and Chirkland and Lieutenant of Callis He by assaults tooke the Castle of S. Auian in Mayne and slew therein 300. Scots and hanged all the French he found therein He most disloyally fell from king Henry the sixt to Edward of Yorke who then had gotten the Crowne but when king Henry had obtained succour of the Scots and was entred the Bishopprick of Durham this Duke Henry reuolted from Edward and came to king Henry againe and sighting the battaile at Exham was with William Talboys the Lord Ros Molyns and Hungerford Sir Henry Neuill Sir Thomas Wentworth and Sir Richard Tunstall vnluckily taken prisoner by Iohn Marquesse Mountague and there beheaded in the yeare 1462. He had issue a base sonne named Charles Somerset begotten of Ioane Hill his Concubine who was after created Earle of Worcester of whom the now Earle of Worcester is descended Et portoit les armes de son peré EDmond Beaufort brother and heyre of Henry Duke of Somerset aforesaid and second sonne of Edmond Duke of Somerset slaine at S. Albons was the last Duke of Somerset of this Name and Family who taking part with the house of Lancaster was with Prince Edward sonne of king Henry the sixt taken prisoner at the battaile of Tuekesbury by King Edward the fourth 1471. and within two dayes after beheaded there without issue leauing his fiue sisters his heyres before mentioned Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à la bordur gobonne d'argent d'azur EDmond third sonne of King Henry the seuenth was born at Greenwich in Kent 1495. and was created Duke of Somerset and after dyed at Bishops Hatfield in Hertforashire in the yeare 1499 being not full fiue yeares olde and was buried in the Abbey at Westminster HEnry Fitz-Roy knight of the Garter and base sonne to king Henry the eight begotten of the Lady Talboys daughter of Sir Iohn Blount knight beeing a childe of sixe yeares olde was by his Father in the 17. yeare of his reigne created Duke of Somerset and Richmond at Bridewell and married Mary daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke but by her had no issue He dyed at S. Iames house by Charing-Crosse being but 16. yeares of age and was honourably buried at Thetford in Norfolke the 27. of king Henry the eight 1535. as Grafton hath Others hath that he lyeth buried at Framingham in Norfolke He bare for his Armes Escartellé France d'engleterre à bordur escartellé ermyn compone d'argent d'azur abatun sinestre d'argent à vn escutcheon de pretence escartellé gueulles varrey d'or vert sur la tout au lyon rampant d'argent au chef d'azur vn Chastel entre deux testes du cerf d'argent EDward Seymour knight of the Garter was created Viscount Beauchamp in the Whitson weeke 1536. and Earle of Hertford the 18 of October 1537. and lastly Duke of Somerset the 17. of February 1547. the first of king Edward the sixt He was Lord Protector both of the Kings person Kingdomes and to leade to war as wel by Sea as by Land all the Kings Armies as Lord Lieutenant Generall he was also Lord high Treasurer and Earle Marshall of England Gouernor of the Isles of Gernesey and Iersey He maried two wiues the first was Katherine daughter and co-heyre of Sir William Foliot of Woodland in Dorsetshire knight had issue Lord Edward Seymour of Berye Pomery in Deuonshire Iohn second Son His second wife was Anne daughter of Edward Stanhop Esquire by whō he had issue Edward Seymour now Earle of Hertford 1618. Lord Henry and Edward Anne the eldest daughter was married to Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwicke Iane was the second daughter Mary the third daughter was married to Andrew Rogers Katherine the fourth daughter and Elizabeth the fift daughter was married to Sir Richard Knightley knight This Edward was arraigned at Westminster Hall the first of December the fift of king Edward the sixt of high treason and was found guilty of Fellony for which the 22. of Ianuary after he was beheaded at the Tower-Hill Et portoit de gueulles à deux Ailes de l'agle en leuure
March in the fourth yeare of King Edward the fourth his Nephew Elianor the tenth daughter was borne at Winchester the 6. of May 1306. dyed young without issue and was buried in S. Peters Church at Westminster King Edward the second Heereupon they assembled together in a Parliament time at the New Temple in London and there agreed that the said Pieres should depart and be banished the Realme againe the second time and not to returne againe at any time after To this the King but sore against his will agreed and made his Letters Patents to the saide Lords to witnesse the same and the Archbishop of Canterbury did pronounce the said Pieres accursed if he tarried any longer then the time appointed him and likewise all those that should ayde helpe or maintaine him Whereupon Pieres was constrained to ship himselfe at Bristow for Ireland though sore against the Kings will threatning the Lords to bee reuenged But not long after Pieres returned againe into England and came to the King at Yorke at whose comming the King greatly reioyced and lying in the Bishops Pallace caused Pieres to be lodged in the Castle not farre from him Not long after the King was willing for his recreation to take the Sea leauing Pieres of Gaueston at Yorke The Barons pursued Gaueston who fledde to Scarborough where the Barons tooke him and carried him to a place called Blacklow and there the 9. of Iune caused his head to be stricken off Afterwards the young Prince the Queene and Nobility finding fault with the two Spencers Hugh the Father and Hugh the sonne for misleading and abusing the King State in like manner as Gaueston had done caused them likewise to be taken put to death without any triall or answer Which done the Queene with her Sonne and the Nobility called a Parliament wherin King Edward was iudged not worthy to beare or weare the Crowne but for diuers causes was to be deposed and Prince Edward his sonne to bee chosen in his place This beeing agreed on King Edward being all this while prisoner in Kenilworth Castle was taken and carried from thence by night to Corffe Castle and from thence to Barkely Castle where he was most cruelly murdered by Thomas Gorney Iohn Maltreuers and others his keepers He was deposed the 25. of Ianuary 1326. when he had reigned almost twenty yeares and was murdered the 21. of September 1327. and his body was buried at Glocester He married Isabell daughter of Philip the faire King of France and sister and heire of her three Brothers Lodowike Hutin Philip the long and Charles the faire She was married in our Lady Church at Bolloigne the 22. of Ianuary 1308. being but twelue yeares olde and was his wife twenty yeares and his widdow thirty and dyed at Rising neere London and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London Et portoit les armes de son peré His Issue Edward sur-named of Windsore eldest sonne borne in Windsore Castle the 13. of October 1312. the sixt of his Fathers Reigne He was first created Prince of Wales and Duke of Aquitaine in a Parliament held at Yorke 1322. and was made Lord warden of England vnto whom all the Lords swore fealty and receiued the oath of allegiance He was after King of England by the name of King Edward the third Iohn sur-named of Eltham second sonne was borne at Eltham in the yeare 1315. and at twelue yeares of age was created Earle of Cornwall at a Parliament held at Salisbury 1327. and after dyed in Scotland at S. Iohns Towne vnmarried 1333. and lyeth buried at Westminster Ioane eldest daughter was borne in the Tower of London and was married at Barwicke being very young the eighteenth day of Iuly 1329. to Dauid Prince of Scotland sonne and heyre of Robert Bruse being but seuen yeares of age This Dauid was after King by the name of Dauid the second She was his wife 28. yeares and comming into England to visite her brother King Edward the third dyed without issue 1353. and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London Elianor second daughter was married to Reginald second Earle of Gelders for his second Wife and had giuen her in marriage 15000. pounds 1332. Who being Vicar general of the empire to the emperor Lewis of Bauaria created him the first Duke of Gelders She had issue Reginald and Edward both Dukes after their Father and dyed without issue leauing his Dutchy and his Wife to his Nephew William Duke of Gulike his halfe sisters sonne King Edward the third And because he was but 14. yeares of age and not able to gouerne of himselfe it was decreed that twelue of the greatest Lords within the Realme should haue the rule and gouernment vntill hee came of more yeares which were the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and Yorke the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford Henry Earle of Lancaster Thomas of Brotherton Marshall of England Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Rent Iohn Earle Warren Thomas Lord Wake Henry Lord Percy Sir Oliuer Ingham and the Lord Iohn Ros who were sworne of the Kings counsell and charged with the gouernment as they would answere the same In the first yeare of this Kings Reigne dyed Charles King of France the third Brother of Queene Isabell Mother of King Edward the third by whose death the Kingdome of France did descend to King Edward by Isabell his Mother the onely sister and heyre of her three Brothers Kodowike Hutin Philiple Long and Charles the faire Kings of France But the said Kingdome was vsurped and possessed by Philip de Valois Vnckle to the saide Charles who did intrude himselfe by force In the yeare 1339. King Edward going to make his clayme to the Kingdome of France praied ayde of the Flemings who before had sworne and bound themselues in a bond of a Million of golde in the Popes Chamber that they should alwayes helpe the King of France and fight vnder his Ensigne for release whereof King Edward by the perswasion of Iaques D'Artuell of Gaunt did quarter the Armes of France with the Armes of England and proclaimed himselfe King of France By which acte the Flemings held themselues discharged of their band and oath After Charles the sixt French King of that Name enuying greatly that the Kings of England should beare the Armes of France which was semie de luces changed the same vnto three De luces of which thing King Henry the fift of England tooke example and bare the like By reason whereof the Kings of France haue euer since ceased to make any further change of their Armes He married Philip daughter of William Earle of Henault and Holland and sisters daughter of Philip of Valoys King of France afore mentioned This marriage was at Yorke the 24. of Ianuary and she was crowned at Westminster the first Sunday in Lent following 1327. She was his Wife 42. yeares and dyed the 15. of August 1369. and was buried at Westminster King Edward her husband dyed at Sheene now called Richmond
to bee imprisoned with Humfrey sonne and heyre of Thomas of Woodstocke in the Castle of Trime in Ireland but in the first yeare of King Henry the 4. they were both deliuered and comming into England Humfrey dyed of the plague at Chester Thomas second sonne was created Duke of Clarence in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the 4. and in the 8. yeare of King Henry the 5. he was made Lieutenant Generall of France and Normandy and in the yeare after was slaine at Bangy-Bridge in France by the Duke of Orliance He married Margaret daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Widow of Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset as is more at large in the Title of the Dukes and Earles of Clarence Iohn third sonne was made Duke of Bedford the 11. yeare of King Henry the 4. his Father and in the fift yeare of Henry the 5. his brother he was by Parliament made Regent of England and Head of the publike Wealth He knighted King Henry the 6. his Nephew at a Parliament held at Leicester in the 4. yeare of his Reigne And in the first yeare of the said King Henry the 6. being made Regent of France Charles King of France dying the most part of France was deliuered to him by the Nobility there to the vse of King Henry the sixt His marriages and death is more at large in the Title of Bedford Humfrey fourth sonne of King Henry the 4. was by his Brother King Henry the 5. made Duke of Glocester and in the first yeare of Henry the 6. he was made Protector of the Kingdome of England for 15. yeares during the said kings minority and was stiled Humfrey by the grace of God Sonne Brother and Vnckle to Kings Duke of Glocester Henault Holland Zeland and Penbroke Lord of Friezland great Chamberlaine of England Protector and Defender of the Kingdome and Church of England He had two Wiues His first Wife was Iaquet daughter and heyre of William Duke of Bauaria and Earle of Holland who was before betrothed to Iohn Duke of Brabant and was therefore after diuorced from this Humfrey without issue His second Wife was Elianor daughter of Reginald Lord Cobbam of Sterburgh in Surrey who for witchcraft and poysonings was much defamed Queene Margaret Wife to King Henry the sixt enuyed greatly his estate gouernment and practised with others his ouerthrow and destruction for after he was found murdered in his bed at Bury in Suffolke and was after buried at S. Albons in Hertfordshire Blanch eldest daughter was married at Collen to William Duke of Bauaria sonne and heyre of Lewis of Bauaria After she married the King of Arragon and thirdly she married the Duke of Barre but had no issue by any of them Philip second daughter of King Henry the 4. was married to Iohn King of Denmarke and Norway and dyed without issue King HENRY the fift This King following his Father vsed euery day when no state was kept after dinner to haue a Cushion laid on the cupboord there to leane a whole houre or more to receiue Petitions and heare complaints of whosoeuer would come And in those dayes when the King dyned in his Chamber the Steward of the Houshold sate alwayes in the Hall vnder the Cloth of Estate the same being rolled vp aboue his head and such Knights with him as waited that time vpon the King He dyed in the Castle of Boys de Viscenne not farre from Paris the 13. day of August 1422 when he had reigned nine yeares fiue moneths and odde dayes being 36. yeares old and was buried at Westminster He married Katherine daughter of Charles the sixt King of France at Troyes in Champaigne the third of Iune 1420. and the 14. of February after she was crowned at Westminster and was his Wife two yeares and three moneths She was after married to a Noble Gentleman named Owen Theodor of Wales by whom she had issue three sonnes Edmond Iasper and Owen Edmond was made Earle of Richmond and married Margaret daughter and sole heyre of Iohn D. of Somerset and had issue King Henry the seuenth Iaspher the second sonne was Earle of Penbroke and after Duke of Bedford This Queene Katherine dyed at Bermondsey in Southwarke the second of Iune 1436. and was buried at Westminster leauing issue by King Henry the fift her husband King Henry the sixt This King left Seme de lices and bare three Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre King HENRY the sixt Hee espoused Margaret daughter of Reyner Duke of Aniou and titulary of Cicily Naples and Ierusalem by Proxy at the Citty of Towers in Touraine in Saint Martyns Church by William de la Pole his Procurator in the presence of the French King and Queene which King was Vnckle to the Brides Father and the French Queen Aunt to her Mother She being conueyed to the Abbey of Tichfield was there solemnly married to King Henry the sixt the 22. of Aprill 1445. and was crowned at Westminster the 30. day of May after In the 33. yeare of this Kings Reigne he lost the battaile at S. Albons and was tataken prisoner at the battaile of Northampton by the Earle of Warwicke the 38. yeare of his Reigne and the yeare after was deliuered againe by Queen Margaret his Wife after the second battaile of S. Albons but in the same after the battaile at Mortimers Crosse the King and Queene fled to Yorke and the Earle of March comming to London with his power was proclaimed King of England And in the fourth yeare of his Reigne hee tooke King Henry neere the Abbey of Selby in Lancashire and brought him prisoner to the Tower of London And in the ninth yeare of his Reigne King Henry the sixt was againe deliuered by the Duke of Clarence and the Earle of Warwicke King Edward flying into Flanders was proclaimed a Vsurper but the next yeare after King Edward returning againe into England and comming to London tooke king Henry in the Bishops Pallace and after gaue battaile to the Earle of Warwicke at Barnet where the said Earle with his brother Iohn Neuill Marquesse Mountague were slaine And in the same yeare 1471. he also gaue a great ouerthrow to Queene Margaret at Tewkesbury in which battaile the saide Queene with Prince Edward her onely sonne were taken prisoners Prince Edward being first stricken by King Edward Richard Duke of Glocester stabbed him to the heart with his Dagger The Queene his Mother was conuayed to London where she remained in prison vntill Reyner her Father purchased her deliuerance with great summes of money who after returning to her owne Country there dyed After this battaile at Tewkesbury King Edward the fourth came to London on the 21. of May 1471. with thirty thousand men and the same night King Henry was murdered in the Tower of London and the morrow after brought into S. Paules Church in London in an open Coffin bare-faced where hee bled From thence he was conuayed to the Blacke-Fryars and there
him in the Earledome of Chester Et portoit d'gueulles crusuly d'or a'un teste de Lou craze d'argent RAndolphe sur-named Meschines sonne of Randolphe Meschines Earle of Carlell by Margaret the sister of Hugh Lupus the first Earle of Chester was the third Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest He married Lucy daughter of Algar the Saxon Earle of Leicester and sister to Edwin Earle of Mercia and Mocar Earle of Northnmberland who before was the Wife of Roger Romara and Mother of William Romara Earle of Lincolne This Randolphe surrendred Carlell his Fathers Earledome to King Henry the first and dyed in the yeare 1129. and was buried at Chester in the 30. yeare of the saide Kings Reigne leauing issue Randolphe sur-named Gernonijs the fourth Earle of Chester and William Earle of Cambridge and a daughter named Adeliza married to Richard Fitz-Gilbert Lord of Tunbridge Auncestor to the Earles of Clare Glocester and Penbroke as William Gemiticensis affirmeth Et portoit d'or a'vn Lion rampant de gueulles la cowe estant RAndolphe sur-named Gernonijs sonne of Randolphe Meschines was after his father the fourth Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest hee with his Brother William Earle of Cambridge was Witnesse to the Charter of Alexander Bishop of Lincolne of his gift of the Island of Hafreholme to the religious Nuns of S. Maries of the order of Sister-sences 1139. the fourth of King Stephen And in the yeare 1141. this Randoll and Robert Earle of Glocester tooke the saide King prisoner at Lincolne He married Mauld daughter of Robert Earle of Glocester base sonne of King Henry the first by whom he had issue Hugh the fift Earle Palatine of Chester and Richard and died poysoned by the practise of his Wife and William Peuerell Lord of Nottingham in the yeare 1156. Et portoit de gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent à la cowe estant HVgh sur-named Kiuilioc sonne of Randolphe Gernons was the fift Earle Palatine of Chester he married Bertrade daughter of Simon Earle Mountford and Eureux in Normandie and had issue Randolphe Blundeuile the fixt Earle Palatine of Chester and Earle of Lincolne and foure daughters Mauld the eldest was married to Dauid Earle of Anguish Gallaway and Huntington Mabell the second daughter was married to William de Albenieo Earle of Arundell Agnes the 3. daughter was married to William Ferrers Earle of Derby Lord of Chartley and Hawis the fourth daughter was wife to Robert Quincy Earle of Winchester had issue Margaret married to Iohn Lacie Earle of Lincolne and Mabell wife to Hugh Lord Audley This Hugh died the 27. of King Henry the second 1180. Et portoit d'azur à six garbes d'or RAndolphe sur-named Blundeuile sonne heire of Hugh Kiuilioc was the 6. Earle Palatine of Chester as also Earle of Lincolne whom K. Hen. the 2. made knight in the 33. yeare of his reigne and gaue him in marriage Constance the onely daughter and heire of Conan Duke of Little Britaine Earle of Richmond in England the widdow of Geffrey his son with the Dutchy of Britaine Earldome of Richmond and in the second yeare of K. Iohn this Randolph was diuorced from the said Constance and after married Clemence daughter of William de Fengeres and sister of Geffrey He had also a third wife which was Margaret daughter of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Constable of England but had no issue by any of them This Randolph was restored to the Earldome of Lincolne in the 3. yeare of K. Hen. 3. as Cousin and next Heire of William Romara Earle of Lincolne and in the 9. yeare of the said kings reigne he was a Witnesse to the kings charter of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Peterborow by the name of Randolphe Earle of Chester Lincolne and after his returne out of the Holy-Land he died at his Castle of Wallingford in the 17. yeare of K. Hen. the 3. and was buried at Chester leauing his foure sisters his heires before mentioned This Randolph was of great fame and esteeme in the times of King Henry the second King Richard the first King Iohn King Henry the third In which time he built the Castles of Beeston and Chartley and the Monastery of de la Croix Et portoit d'azur à trois garbes d'or IOhn by the place of his birth sur-named the Scot was Earle of Huntingdon and Cambridge by his Father Dauid Earle of Anguish and Huntingdon aforesaid which Danid was brother to William king of Scots and by Mauld his Mother eldest sister and co-heire of Randolphe Blundeuile Earle of Chester he was also the seuenth Earle Palatine of Chester Also in the 21. yeare of king Henry the third he was restored to the Earledome of Northampton as cousin and heire of Simon Seintlize Earle of Northampton and in the 22. of the said Kings reign he died at Darnall was buried at Chester without issue hauing married Helyn the daughter of Llewellyn ap Iorworth Prince of North-Wales Which Earldome of Chester King Henry the 3. 1238. assumed into his owne hands and gaue other lands to the saide foure Sisters of Iohn surnamed the Scot afore named the issue of whom after claymed the kingdome of Scotland in King Edward the firsts time since which time the Princiality of Chester hath beene vnited to the Principality of Wales by Acte of Parliament held at Westminster the 21. of King Richard the second at which time as Somerset Herald hath the King created William Brugs Chester Herald by his Letters Patents sealed with his Seale of the said Principality Et portoit d'or à trois pens d'gueulles EDmond sur-named Crowch-backe second sonne of king Henry the third was by his Father created Earle of Chester which Title and Earledome hee surrendred to his Brother Prince Edward and was after made Earle of Lancaster and after the attaindore of Simon Mountford Robert Earle Ferrars he was also made Earle of Leicester and Derby as in the Title of Lancaster is more at large Et portoit les armes D'engleterre au lambell de France EDward first sonne of King Edward the first was Prince of Wales Earle of Cornwall and Chester and after King of England by the name of King Edward the second This Prince Edward in Anno 1298. vpon complaint made by Doctor Langton then Byshop of Chester was committed to prison and Pierce of Gaueston banished England and not to returne againe vpon paine of death Et portoit D'engleterre au lambell d'argent EDward first sonne and heire of king Edward 〈…〉 was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and 〈◊〉 of Chester and Flint and after king of England by the name of king Edward the third Et portoit D'engleterre au lambell d'argent EDward sur-named the blacke Prince sonne and heire of king Edward the third was Duke of Cornwall and Aquitaine and Earle of Chester and Flint This Edward died before his Father 1376. and was buried at Canterbury Et portoit
first his brother Earle of Cornwall Lancaster and Somerset Lord of the honours of Wallingford Tikell Marlesborough and Ludgarshall Lastly this Iohn married to his third wife Isabell daughter of Aimer Earle of Engolesmi by whom he had issue king Henry the third Richard Earle of Cornwall c. Et portoit gueulles à trois leopards d'or à baston d'azur RIchard second sonne of King Iohn in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the third his brother was created Earle of Poictou and Cornwall and in the twelfth yeare of the said Kings reigne the king gaue him all the Lands in England which were Reginald Dampmartins Earle of Bologines And in the yeare 1257. he was by the Princes of Germany chosen king of the Romaines and crowned at Aquisgrane Hee did write himselfe Richard King of the Romaines and alwayes Augustus and married to his first wife Isabell sister and one of the heires of William Marshall the younger Earle of Penbroke and had issue Iohn that dyed young Henry slaine by Guy and Simon sonnes of Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester in the Church of S. Siluester in Viterbium in Italy 1272. in reuenge of their Fathers death that was slaine in the Barons wars in England and Richard that died without issue His second wife was Sanchia daughter and one of the heires of Reymond Berengar Earle of Prouince and sister to Queene Elianor by whom he had issue Edmond Earle of Cornwall and Richard that dyed at the siedge of Barwicke with an Iron shot in his head 1296. He had also Richard a base sonne who was the Father of Sir Geffrey Cornwall knight of whom is descended the Family of Cornwalles of Burford This Richard dyed at his Castle of Barkhamsted neere London 1272. and was buried in the Abbey of Hales in Glocestershire which was of his foundation Et portoit d'argent à vn lion rampant de gueulles Corone d'or au bordure sable besantee EDmond Plantagenet Earle of Cornwall sonne and heire of Richard King of Almaine and Earle of Cornwall with Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester had the gouernement of England in the absence of king Edward the first beyond the Seas He married Margaret daughter of Richard de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford and dyed without any lawfull issue at Ashbridge in Buckinghamshire the 29. of king Edward the first where he had built an Abbey of Bonhommes Order and was buried by his Father in the Abbey of Hales 1300. Et portoit les armes de son pere EDward first sonne of king Edward the first In the 27. yeare of his Fathers reigne 1298. Doctor Langton then Byshop of Chester complained grieuously to the King vpon this Prince Edward who by the lewd aduice of Pierce Gaueston his gracelesse companion brake forcibly into his Parke and made hauocke of his game for which this Prince was committed to prison Gaueston was banisht the land and commanded not to returne againe vpon paine of death This Prince in the thirteenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne 1301. came to Chester and receiued homage of the free-holders of Wales in which yeare he was created Earle of Cornwall and after King of England by the name of king Edward the second Et portoit les armes D'engleterre au lambell d'argent PIerce Gaueston a Gascoigne borne was made Baron of Wallingford and after in the first yeare of king Edward the second was created Earle of Cornwall and Lord of the Isle of Man and in the third yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee married Isabell second sister and co-heire of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford and in the sixt yeare of the said Kings reigne after he had bin banished England twice he was taken by Guy Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke and beheaded at a place neere vnto Warwicke called Gauershiâ—â— or Blacklow and was after buried in the Fryars at Langley without issue Et portoit Sinope six aigles d'or membrez becquez d'gueulles IOhn of Eltham so named of the place where he was borne second sonne of King Edward the second and brother to King Edward the third in the second yeare of his said Brothers reigne was made Earle of Cornwall and in the ninth yeare of the said Kings reigne he died at S. Iohns Towne in Scotland without issue and was buried in the Abbey of Westminster 1334. After whose death king Edward the third in the 12. yeare of his reigne made the Earledome of Cornwall a Dukedome and gaue it to his Sonne Edward the blacke Prince with the Earledome of Chester since which time the Kings eldest sonnes haue bene Dukes of Cornwall Et portoir d'argent à lion rampant de gueulles corone d'or au bordure sable bezanteé EDward sur-named the Blacke Prince sonne and heire of King Edward the third in the eleuenth yeare of his Fathers reigne was created the first Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester and in the 17. yeare of the said Kings reigne hee was created Prince of Wales and in the 36. yeare he had giuen him the Principality of Aquitaine and in the 42. yeare of of king Edward the third he sate in Parliament by the name and title of Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine he tooke Iohn the French King prisoner at the battaile of Poictiers in the yeare 1356. He married Ioane the repudiat wife of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury and daughter of Edmond of Woodstock Earle of Kent by whom he had issue Edward that dyed yong Richard sur-named of Burdeaux who was after king of England by the name of king Richard the second This noble Prince Edward died at Canterbury the 8. of Iune 1376. and was buried in Christ-Church there Et portoit France seme D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent RIchard sur-named of Burdeaux sonne and heire of Edward the blacke Prince was after the death of his Father Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and after created Prince of Wales at Hauering at Bowre in the â—0 of King Edward the third his grand-father He married Anne daughter of Weselaâ—us king of Bohemia who died and was buried at Westminster in the 17. yeare of his reigne without issue And to his second wife he married Isabell daughter of Charles the French King being very young but by her had no issue hee was after King of England by the name of king Richard the second and was deposed from the kingdome and she sent into France againe the first of king Henry the fourth and married vnto Charles sonne of Lewis Duke of Orleance Et portoit lez armes de son pere HEnry sur-named of Monmouth the place of his birth sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth was in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne created Prince of Wales he being Duke of Cornwall before for the eldest sonne and heire apparant of the king of England is Duke of Cornwall by birth but he is Prince of Wales by speciall creation inuesture and donation of the lands thereunto
and was buried in the Black-Fryars in Yorke and Elizabeth his wife dyed the 9. of king Edward the second and was buried in the Abbey of Walden in Essex Et portoit les armes de son pere IOhn de Bohun sonne and heire of Humfrey the eight was after his Father Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England He married two wiues the first was Alice daughter of Edmond Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell who dyed in childe-bed and was buried at Walden with her infant sonne His second wife was Margaret daughter of Ralphe Lord Basset by whom he had no issue He dyed at Kirby There 1334. the 9. of king Edward the third was buried at Stratford Abbey neere London Et portoit d'azur â la bande d'argent à deux cottices entre six lions rampant d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the ninth second sonne of Humfrey the eight and brother and heyre of Iohn de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England succeeded his Father and Brother he ouer-liued his brother William of Northampton one yeare one moneth and fiue dayes and dyed without issue at Plaisie in Essex 1361. and was buried in the Augustine-Fryars in London leauing Humfrey de Bohun the tenth his Nephew by his brother William de Bohun Earle of Northampton to succeed him in all his Lands and Dignities Les armes de son pere HVmfrey de Bohun the tenth and last of that name was after the death of William his Father Earle of Northampton after the death of Humfrey his Vnckle Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England Lord of Brecknock Patron of the Abbey of Lanthony He married Ioane daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue onely two daughters his heires Elianor the eldest was married to Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester a younger sonne of king Edw. the third and Mary the second daughter was wife to Henry Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and after King of England by the name of king Henry the fourth He dyed in the 46. yeare of king Edward the third 1371. and was buried at Walden Et portoit d'azur à la band d'argent à deux cottices entre six lions rampant d'or HEnry Plantagenet or Henry of Bullingbroke Earle of Derby sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster married Mary second daughter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun the tenth of that name with whom he had the Earledome of Hereford and Northampton with the Lordship of Brecknock and the Patrionage of Lanthony and in the yeare 1397. he was created Duke of Hereford by King Richard the second and after the death of his Father hee was also Duke of Lancaster This Henry Duke of Hereford being accused of diuers points of high treason against king Richard the second by Thomas Mowbray then Duke of Norfolke for clearing himselfe thereof he challenged the saide Duke of Norfolke to a single combate which was by him accepted and allowed by the King But when the appointed day was come and the two Dukes within the lists in field ready to performe the same the king would not suffer them to proceed but banished the Duke of Norfolke the land for euer who shortly after dyed at Venice and the Duke of Hereford for sixe yeares But this Duke Henry returned backe againe the same yeare and by force tooke king Richard prisoner at Flynt Castle and brought him to the Tower of London where he was vniustly constrained to resigne his kingdome to this Henry who was after crowned king by the name of king Henry the fourth He had issue by his wife Mary Henry who was after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift and dyed the 20. of March 1412. Et portoit semé de France escartelié d'engleterre au baston de gueullce A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Huntington their Armes Wiues and Children VVAltheof sonne of Siward the great Earle of Northumberland married Iudith daughter of Lambert Earle of Lens in Artoys and Niece to William the Conqueror by Mauld his halfe sister by the Mother daughter of Herlwyn Comittis Villa and Arleta his wife with whom the said Conqueror gaue in marriage the Earledome of Huntington The said Waltheof and Iudith had issue three daughters onely Mauld the eldest was married first to Simon Saint Lize and had issue Simon the second Earle of Northampton after shee married Dauid sonne of Malcolme Makduncan and brother to the second Mauld Queene of England and had issue Henry Earle of Huntington Iudith the second daughter was married to Ralphe Lord Toney of Flamsted and Bertha the third daughter was wife to Robert Fitz-Richard Dapifer descended out of the Family of Clare This Waltheof at the marriage of Ralphe de Waiet with Emme the sister of Roger Bretiuile with diuers other great Lords did conspire together to turne William the Conqueror and his Normans againe out of England which conspiracy being reuealed by Waltheof and he submitting himselfe to the Kings mercy the said Conqueror notwithstanding caused him to be beheaded at Winchester 1075. and his body to be buried in the Fields neere the Towne which afterwards was taken vp againe and buried at Crowland in Lincolnshire Et portoit d'argent au lion rampant d'azur au chef de gueulles SImon Saint-Lize the first of that name sonne of Randoll sur-named the Rich a Norman borne with Warner le Rich his brother came into England to the ayde of William Ruphus who bestowed the Hundred of Falkeley valued then at forty pounds a yeare vpon him to shooe his Horses For the saide Simon and his brother Warner had brought with them to ayde the saide King forty knights King Henry the first entreated a marriage betweene the saide Simon and Iudith the Widdow of Earle Waltheof which she refused because the saide Simon was lame whereupon the King gaue him in marriage Mauld the eldest daughter and co-heyre of Waltheof Iudith with the Earledome of Huntington This Simon with Mauld his wife builded the Castle and Abbey of S. Andrewes in Northampton in the sixt yeare of king Henry the first and had issue Simon the second Earle of Huntington Waltheof Abbot of Melrose and after dyed in the yeare 1127. and was buried in the Abbey of Bourne Et portoit per pale endente d'argent gueulles DAuid sonne of Malcolme king of Scots and brother to king Alexander by the fauour of king Henry the first had to wife Mauld the eldest daughter and co-heyre of Earle Waltheof the widdow of Simon Saint-Lize Earle of Huntington and by that title of Earle of Huntington the said Dauid was a Witnesse to king Henry the firsts Charter of lands and liberties he gaue to the Citty of London But when Alexander his brother was dead without issue and he sent for to be king there was a peace made betweene King Stephen him with condition that the Earledome of Huntington should abide and remaine to Henry
sonne of the said Dauid for which he should sweare fealty and doe homage to king Stephen By reason whereof Simon Saint-Lice the second of that name to whom of right as the elder sonne of Mauld his Mother the said Earledome of Huntington did belong was neglected and excluded This Dauid had issue Henry Earle of Huntington in his Fathers life time and dyed in the yeare 1153. and was buried at Dunfirmlyn in Scotland Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'gueulles HEnry sonne of Dauid king of Scots was Earle of Huntington in the life time of his Father He married Ada daughter of William de Warren the second and sister of William the third Earle Warren and Surrey and had issue Malcolme and William both Kings of Scots and Dauid the third sonne was Earle of Huntington and Carect hee had also three daughters Ada married to Florence Earle of Holland Margaret married to Conanle Petit Earle of Britaine and Mauld that dyed young This Henry dyed at Calcone the 18. of king Stephen 1152. his Father being then liuing Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de gueulles SImon Saint-Lice the second of that name Earle of Northampton after the death of king Henry the first and Henry sonne of Dauid king of Scots entred into peaceable possession of the Earledome of Huntington which he could neuer obtaine before during the said kings Reigne for that he had giuen the saide Earledome to Dauid his wiues brother who had married this Simons Mother whose children by her first husband Simon Saint-Lice the first being young were sent into Normandy and committed to the custody of Stephen Earle of Albemarle their Mothers Vnckle This Simon married Isabell daughter of Robert Bellomont sur-named Crouch-backe or Bossue Earle of Leicester had issue the third Simon Saint-Lice Amicia and Hawis He founded the Abbey of S. Mary de Pratis neere Northampton Sawtre in Huntingtonshire and dyed the 18. of king Stephen 1152. as Henry of Huntington hath Fol. 227. b. Et portoit per pale endente d'argent gueulles MAlcolme king of Scots eldest sonne and heyre of Henry Earle of Huntington aforesaid and grand childe to king Dauid in the minority of Simom Saint-Lice the third was Ward to king Henry the second and was with him in his expedition to Tholosse for which he had giuen vnto him the Earledome of Huntington which he held during his life The King was often sued vnto in the behalfe of young Simon the right heyre for Iustice but it was euer denyed him at the ende of 12. yeares and sixe moneths of his Reigne of King of Scotland he dyed at Gedworth and was buried at Dumfirmelyn without issue 1165. leauing William his brother to succeed him in whose time Simon Saint-Lice could obtaine no fauour or grace vntill king Henry the yonger and the said William Dauid his brother with others made wars against king Henry the second Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam second sonne of Henry Earle of Huntington aforesaid in the life time of king Malcolme his elder brother by the fauour of king Henry the second was Earle of Huntington but after his brothers death and hee in the kingdome forgot his duty and in Armes forcibly entred Northumberland where he was taken prisoner at Anwike led to Richmond in the yeare 1174. and after was ransomed vpon these conditions that he should acknowledge himselfe the king of Englands Liegeman against al men for the Relme of Scotland his other lands to pay one hundred thousand pounds sterling part wherof he should pay presently and for the rest he should pawne and morgage Cumberland Huntington and Northumberland vntill the money were paide and for farther security that he should neuer after inuade or moue warre against England hee should deliuer into King Henry the seconds custody foure Castles viz. Barwick Roxborow Edenborough and Sterling Castles and so Huntington was taken from King William and restored to Simon S. Lice the third of that name who was right heyre thereof but he dying without issue the Earledome of Huntington returned againe to William king of Scots who with the consent of king Richard the first gaue it to Dauid his yonger brother Hollingshed pag. 189. Title of Scotland This William married Ermingard daughter of Richard Beaumont sonne of Roscellin Viscount Beaumont and had issue Alexander king of Scots Isabell married to Roger Bigot Earle of Norfolke that dyed without issue Margaret wife to Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent Mariona wife to Eustace de Vescy Ada wife to Patricke Earle of Dunbarre and Aufrica married to William de Say of Ireland This William king of Scots dyed 1124. Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de gueulles SImon Saint-Lice the third of that name and sonne and heyre of Simon the second after that William king of Scots was depriued of the earledome of Huntington receiued both the Castle and Earledome of Huntington as his right inheritance and so peaceably enioyed the said title and Earldome during his life by king Henry the second and restored euery man to his right whom the Scots had eyther wronged or dispossest in that County But the saide king Henry seeing daily contention to arise betweene the Scots and the Saint-Lices for this Earledome of Huntington caused the Castle to be raced to the ground but Simon held the Earledome and married Alice daughter of Gilbert de Gaunt Earle of Lincolne but died without issue in the yeare 1184. the 31. of Henry the 2. After whose death the said King restored the Earledome of Huntington againe to William King of Scots who by the permission of king Richard the first surrendred the same to Dauid his yonger brother Et portoit lez armoiries de son peré DAuid Earle of Carect third son of Henry Earle of Huntington was knighted by king Henry the second the day of his sonne Henries Coronation and had by the guift of William king of Scots his eldest brother the Earledome of Huntington with the third penny of the County of Cambridge giuen him in Anno 1190. after the death of Simon Saint-Lice the third without issue And hauing sworne fealty to King Richard the first he went with him towards the Holy-Land and carried with him 500. knights whom hee carried vpon his owne charges He maried Mauld the eldest daughter of Hugh Kiuilioke and sister and co-heyre of Randoll Blundeuile the sixt Earle of Chester and of Lincolne and had issue Iohn sur-named Scot Earle of Huntington and Chester and Margaret wife to Alan of Galloway Constable of Scotland Isabell the second daughter was married to Robert Brus Lord of Annandale Ada was married to Henry Hastings and Mauld dyed a Virgin He dyed at Yerdley in Northamptonshire and was buried in the Abbey of Saultrey neere Counington in Huntingtonshire as Sir Robert Cotton hath Et portoit d'or trois estaches de gueulles ioynantz en point IOhn sur-named Scote sonne of Dauid Earle of Huntington before
Hugh dyed in the yeare 1263. and was buried at Colne the 48. of King Henry the third Et portoit de gueulles escartellé d'or le premier brisé de vn molette d'argenâ— RObert de Vere the second of that christen name sonne heyre of Hugh aforesaid was the fift Earle of Oxford of that sur-name Lord Bulbec and great Chamberlaine of England who siding with the Barons in the ciuill dissentions against king Henry the third was taken prisoner by Prince Edward the kings sonne in a battaile neere Kenelworth in the yeare 1265. He married Alice daughter and heyre of Gilbert Lord Samford and Chamberlaine to Queene Elianor and had issue Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Hugh de Vere second sonne who married Dionisia daughter and heyre of William Montchensey Lord of Swanescamp knight and dyed without issue and Alphonsus de Vere knight third sonne who dyed before his other two elder brothers and was buried at S. Albons the second of king Edward the third Ioane the eldest daughter married William de Warren sonne of Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey Lora the second daughter was wife to Reginald Argentein with whom her Brother Robert as Milles hath pag. 682. did giue in marriage the Mannor of Ketlingham in Norfolke This Robert died in the yeare 1295 and was buried at Colne in the 24. yeare of king Edward the first Et portoit les armes de son peté RObert de Vere the third of that name sonne and heire of Robert the second was after the death of his Father the sixt Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England and was called The good Earle of Oxford He was sent by king Edward the first into Aquitaine with an Army to releeue his people against the French He married Margaret daughter of Roger Lord Mortimer and sister of Roger first Earle of March and dyed without issue in the yeare 1331. and was buried at Colne in Essex Et portoit gueulles escartelle d'or le premier beise de vn molette d'argent IOhn de Vere sonne of Sir Alphons de Vere knight and Nephew and heire of Robert and Hugh his Vnkles whom hee succeeded and was the seuenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England He married Mauld daughter of Bartholmew Badelismer Baron of Leeds in Kent and sister and one of the heyres of Giles Lord Badelismer her brother by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters viz. Thomas and Aubrey both Earles of Oxford and Iohn Vere third sonne dyed without issue Margaret the eldest daughter was first married to Henry Lord Beaumont and after to Sir Iohn Deuereux knight Isabell the second daughter was first married to Sir Iohn Courtney Grand-father of Hugh the first Earle of Deuonshire of that Family and after to Sir Oliuer Dynham knight This Iohn Earle of Oxford dyed in the 33. yeare of king Edward the third 1358. Et portoit de gueulles escattelle d'or le prinâ—ier brise de vn Molette d'argent THom as de Vere sonne and heyre of Iohn aforesaide after the death of his Father was the eight Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and Lord great Chamberlaine of England and married Matilda daughter and heyre of Sir Raphe Vfford knight Lord Chiefe-Iustice of England vnder King Edward the third and had issue Robert de Vere Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublin and Duke of Ireland and after died at Bentley in Essex the 18. day of September the 45. of King Edward the third Et portoit les Armes de son peré RObert de Vere the fourth of that name and 9. Earle of Oxford at eight yeares of age was Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England and to augment his honour king Richard the second in the 9. yeare of his reigne created him Marquesse of Dublyn and gaue him a thousand Markes lands by the yeare with the Castle of Flynt in Wales also he gaue to him the sonne and heyre of Charles de Bloys theÌ„ a prisoner for whose redemption he had 20000. pounds and in the 10. yeare of the saide Kings reigne he was made Duke of Ireland After all which the King granted him by Letters Patents to hold the kingdome and Soueraignty of Ireland and to beare for his Armes Azure three Crownes gold within a bordure argent quartered before his owne Coate He was much hated of the Nobility for abusing the Kings eares to the hurt of the Sate Hee married Philip daughter of Ingelram de Guisnes Lord of Coucie and Earle of Bedford by Isabell his wife daughter of king Edward the third whom he diuorced and tooke to wife Lantegronia a meane woman that came with the Queene out of Bohemia but had no issue by eyther of them At last he was banished England by the Barons and went into France where about fiue yeares after being a hunting he was slaine by a wilde Boare King Richard hearing thereof out of his loue caused his body to be brought into England and to bee apparelled in Princely Ornaments and Robes and put about his necke a chaine of gold and Rings vpon his fingers and so was buried in the Priory of Earles Colne in Essex 1392. The king being thereat did weare blackes Et portoit les armes de son peré AVbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Milles which his Auncestors did hold in Fee he surrendred vnto king Richard the second who bestowed the same vpon Iohn Holland Duke of Excester his halfe brother by the Mother He married Alice daughter of Iohn Lord Fitz-Walter of Woodham Walter in Essex and had issue Richard Earle of Oxford and Iohn that dyed without issue the ninth of Henry the fift Alice a daughter was married to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis knight This Aubrey dyed in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earles Colne in Essex in the yeare 1400. Et portoit gueulles escartelle d'or le premier brise de vn Molette d'argent RIchard de Vere twenty foure yeares olde at the death of his Father Aubrey was the eleuenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford and in the third yeare of King Henry the fift he was made Knight of the Garter He married Alice daughter and one of the heyres of Sir Richard Sergeaulx knight and widdow of Guy S. Albon by whom hee had issue Iohn Earle of Oxford and Sir Robert Vere knight who married Margaret daughter of Sir Hugh Courtney of Hacham knight and heyre to her Mother Phillip one of the daughters and heyres of Sir Warren Archdeacon knight and had issue Iohn who married Alice daughter and heyre of Walter Kilrington alias Colbroke by whom he had issue Iohn de Vere Earle of Oxford This Richard dyed in the 4. yeare of King Henry the fift Et portoit les armes de son pere IOhn de
OF THE Earles of Penbroke their Armes Wiues and Children GIlbert sur-named Strongbowe of drawing of a Strong Bowe second sonne of Gilbert Earle of Clare in Suffolke and Lord of Tunbridge in Kent and grand-childe of Richard Fitz-Gilbert Sewer to William Conquerour and Rohesia his wife daughter of Walter Gifford Earle of Longeuile in Normandy was created Earle of Penbroke in the 4. yeare of King Stephen hee was also Marshall of the Kings Pallace and Lord of Chepstow Strighull Tudenham Wolaston Aluerdeston and halfe the Country of Liege Hee was heyre of Roger and Walter Fitz-Richard his Vnkles which Walter was a great Baron and Lord of Caer-went in Monmouthshire and Founder of Tinterne Abbey in Wales 1131. He married Elizabeth sister of Walleran Earle of Mellent and Robert Earle of Leicester twin brothers and had issue Richard Strongbow Earle of Penbroke and Basill married to Raymond sonne of William Fitz-Gerald of Ireland This Gilbert dyed in the 14. yeare of King Stephen and was buried by his Vnkle Walter Fitz-Richard in the Abbey of Tinterne Et portoit d'or trois cheurons de gueulles au lambell de cinq points d'azur RIchard of Clare sonne of Gilbert sur-named Strongbow of whom it is saide that this Richard standing vpright with the Palmes of his hands would touch his knees he was after his Father Earle of Penbroke L. of Strighull Chepstow and Caer-went and Lord Marshall Dermoc Mac-Murough sonne of Patricke King of Leinster in Ireland whose Subiects rebelling against him prayed this Richards ayde who being a most valorous Captaine granted his request went with sufficient strength and conquered all Leinster In recompence whereof this Dermoc gaue his daughter Eua vnto him in marriage with all the Country of Leinster which contayned weshford Kildare Kilkenny Ossory and Carlogh Al which Lands he enioyed with the good liking of King Henry the second eight whole yeares He had issue one onely daughter his heyre named Isabell who being 14. yeares Ward to King Henry the second was giuen in marriage to Willliam Marshall the elder Earle of Penbroke This Richard dyed and was buried at Kilkenny in Anno 1176 and afterwards his body was taken vp againe and buried at Dublyn in Ireland Et portoit les armes de son peré VVIlliam the Kings Marshall sonne of Iohn grand-childe of Gilbert was in right of his wife Isabell daughter and heyre of Richard Strongbow aforesaid created Earle of Penbroke by King Iohn on the day of his Coronation 1199. and had giuen him the Marshalship of England King Richard the first in the first yeare of his Reigne 1189. gaue this Isabell in marriage to this William Marshall she being then his Ward by whom he had issue fiue sonnes William Richard Gilbert Walter and Anselme all Earles of Penbroke and Marshals of England and dyed without issue Hee had also fiue daughters who were married as followeth Matild the eldest was married to Hugh Bigot Earle of Norfolke with whom he had in marriage the Marshalship of England and Hemsted Marshall in Barkshire by which the said Office is held Ioane the second daughter was married to Warin de Montchensey Lord of Swanescamp Isabell the third daughter was first married to Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and after to Richard Plantagenet Earle of Cornwall younger sonne of King Iohn Sibill the fourth daughter married William Ferrars Earle of Derby and Eua the fift daughter was married to William Bruse Lord of Brecknock This William after the death of King Iohn had the gouernment of King Henry the third being but ten yeares of age vntill the said William dyed which was in the yeare 1219. and was buried in the Temple in London the 16. of March the fourth of king Henry rhe third This Williams Father did beare for his Armes Gueulles à la bande fizelle d'or as his Seale doth witnesse But after he and his sonnes came to be Marshals they vsed for their Armes D'or party de vert au lyon rampant de gueulles sur le tout arme lampasse d'azur WIlliam Marshall the younger sonne and heyre of William Marshall the elder was the fourth Earle of Penbroke and Marshall of England Lord of Strighull Chepstow Caer-went Leigh or Liege Weshford Kildare Kilkenny Ossorie and Carlogh and married two wiues the first was Alice daughter and heyre of Baldwin de Betun Earle of Albemarle and Holdernesse by Auis his wife daughter and heyre of William le Grosse Earle of Albemarle His second wife was Elianor daughter of king Iohn and sister of king Henry the third He dyed without issue the 6. of Aprill 1231. the 15. of king Henry the third and was buried by his Father in the Temple of London leauing Richard his brother to succeed him Et portoit les armoiries de son peré RIchard Marshall second sonne of William Marshall the elder who after the death of William his Brother the 5. Earle of Penbroke and Marshall of England Lord of Longeuile in France Strighull Chepstow and Caerwent c. did giue to the Church of S. Maries of Thame certaine Woods in Crendon to pray for his owne soule and Geruasia his Wife and as Mathew Paris hath when king Henry the third did vpon the suggestion of Peter Bishop of Winchester remoue all his home-bred Subiects from their Offices in his Court and preferre certaine strangers of Poictiers in their roomes this Richard not liking thereof came boldly vnto the King in the presence of many the Nobility others and tolde him that by ill counsell he had sent for strangers into the Land to the great hurt of his kingdome and subiects to the impeachment of the Lawes and Liberties of this Realme For redresse whereof he vowed he would sight so long as hee had any life and thereupon ioyned league with Luellyn Prince of Wales others But whilest the King was busied in leuying an Army to send against him and Luellyn word was brought to this Richard that Morice Fitz-Gerald and other Irish had sacked his Countries and Lands in Ireland Vpon the hearing whereof he hasted thether with fifteene Knights to encounter with his enemies and ioyned battaile with them vpon Satterday the first of Aprill 1234. and fought eleuen houres vntill his horse was slaine vnder him And he then falling to the ground one of the Irish perceiuing his backe part ill armed lifted vp his habergeō thrust a knife into his backe vp to the haft giuing him his deadly wound and then brought him to a Castle of his owne named Kilkenny which the said Maurice Fitz-Gerald had taken a little before from him where he dyed fifteene dayes after withoutissue hauing beene Earle but three yeares Hee was buried in the Quier of the Fryars Minories at Kilkenny the 18. of King Henry the third Et portoit les armes de son frere GIlbert Marshall third Son of William Marshall the elder after the death of Richard his brother was restored to King Henry the thirds fauour and grace to all his
of Lancaster came from being a banished man to be King by the name of king Henry the 4. he tooke this William Lord Scroope Sir Iohn Bussie Sir Henry Greene King Richard the seconds Fauorites and beheaded them at Bristow in the yeare 1399. This William bought the Isle of Man of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury which Island after the said Williams attaindor King Henry the 4. did giue it to Henry Percy the first Earle of Northumberland in the first yeare of his Reigne to hold the same by the seruice of carrying the sword with which he entred England before him at his Coronation He dyed without issue leauing Roger his Brother to succeed him Et portoit d'azur à la band d'or IAmes Butler sonne and heyre of Iames Butler fourth Earle of Ormond was in the life time of his Father created earle of Wiltshire in the 27. yeare of King Henry the sixt and in the 37. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was made Knight of the Garter and the yeare after Lord high Treasurer of England And in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth he was beheaded at New-Castle without issue leauing Thomas his brother his heyre who after succeeded him and was Earle of Ormond Et portoit d'or au chef endenté d'azur IOhn Stafford second sonne of Humfrey Duke of Buckingham was made Knight of the Garter in the tenth yeare of King Edward the 4. and in the 12. yeare of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Earle of Wilishire He married Constance daughter and heyre of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in Northamptonshire Knight and had issue Edward Earle of Wiltshire and dyed in the 14. yeare of King Edward the fourth 1473. Et portoit escartellé France d'engleterre au bordure cressant d'argent EDward Stafford sonne and heyre of Iohn aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of Wiltshire and died without issue the 14. of King Henry the seuenth 1498. and was buried at Drayton in Northamptonshire which Lordship he had by his Mother Constance Greine Et portoit lez armoiries de son peré HEnry Lord Stafford second sonne of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham and brother of Edward the third Duke of Buckingham beheaded at the Tower-Hill the 13. of Henry the eight was created Earle of Wiltshire in the first yeare of King Henry the eight 1509. He was made Knight of the Garter before in the 20. yeare of King Henry the seauenth and married Muriell sister and co-heyre of Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle but by her had no issue This Henry dyed the 6. of March the 14. of King Henry the eight THomas Bollen sonne and heyre of Sir William Bollen of Blickling in Norfolke Knight and of Margaret his wife daughter and one of the heyres of Thomas Butler Earle of Ormond Brother and Heyre of Iames Butler Earle of Wilt-Wiltshire afore mentioned was first created Viscount Rochford in the 17. yeare of King Henry the eight and in the 21. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was created Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond and to haue the State Title and Dignity of Wiltshire to him and his heyres male and the State Title and Dignity of Ormond vnto him and his heyres for euer a president not to be sampled He was made Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Houshold to King Henry the 8 in the 15. yeare of his Reigne He married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and Earle Marshall of England and had issue George Bollen Viscount Rochford beheaded without issue and two daughters Anne the eldest was first created Marchionesse of Penbroke after married to King Henry the eight Mary the second daughter married to William Cary Esquire for the body to King Henry the eight This Thomas Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond dyed in the 30. yeare of the said Kings Reigne 1538. Et portoit d'argent au cheuron entre trois testes de Boef cope de sable armé d'or WIlliam Powlet Knight descended of a second Brother of the Powlets of Wiltshire was created Lord S. Iohn of Basing in the 30. yeare of Henry the eight and made Knight of the Garter the 35. of the same Kings Reigne and after in the third yeare of King Edward the sixt he was created Earle of Wiltshire and in the fift yeare of the said kings Reigne he was created Marquesse of Winchester as more at large doth appeare in the Title of Winehester Et portoit sable trois espees avec le points embas d'argent au cressant d'or IOhn Powlet sonne and heyre of William succeeded his Father and was Marquesse of Winchester and Earle of Wiltshire and Lord S. Iohn of Basing and dyed at his house at Chelsey 1576. and was buried at Basing the 19. of Queene Elizabeth as is more at large in the title of Winchester Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam Powlet sonne and heyre of Iohn was in the life time of his Father summoned to Parliament 1575. as Lord S. Iohn of Basing and after the death of his Father he was both Marquesse of Winchester and Earle of Wiltshire and dyed in the yeare 1598. as in the Title of Winchester Et portoit sable trois espees auec le pointz embas d'argent au cressant d'or WIlliam Powlet Lord S. Iohn of Basing Earle of Wiltshire and Marquesse of Winchester now liuing 1618. married Lucie daughter of Thomas Cecill Earle of Excester by whom he hath issue as aforesaid in the Title of Winchester Et portoit sable trois espees auec le pointz embas d'argent au cressant d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of VVestmerland their Armes Wiues and Children His second Wife was Ioane daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by the Lady Katherine Swinford by whom hee had issue also eight sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Richard Neuill Earle of Salisbury William Neuill Lord Falconberg Edward Neuill Lord of Aburgauenny George Neuill Lord Latymer Robert Neuill Bishop of Duresme Cuthbert Henry and Thomas Neuill dyed without issue Katherine the eldest daughter was married to Iohn Mowbray second Duke of Norfolke by whom she had issue Elianor second daughter was Wife to Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland Anne the third daughter was married to Humfrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham Iane a Nun and Cicely the fift daughter was married to Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke who had issue King Edward the fourth and King Richard the third Which Richard Duke of Yorke by the greatnesse and the number of his Wiues kindred was able to bandy for the Kingdome of England against the House of Lancaster This Raphe dyed in the 4. yeare of King Henry the sixt 1425. Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit les armoiries de son peré Et portoit de gueulles au Saulteur d'argent He married Anne daughter of Henry Howard Earle of Surrey and fifter
in Germany who for memory of their alliance and kindred with the Kings of England bare for their Armes the ancient Armes of the Dukes of Normandy Gueulles deux leopards passant d'or EDmond fift sonne of King Edward the third sur-named of Langley the Kings Mannor house neere S. Albons where he was borne was created first Earle of Cambridge in the 36. yeare of his Fathers Reigne and Lord of Tindale and was Knight of the Garter and in the ninth yeare of King Richard his Nephew hee was created Duke of Yorke He married two Wiues the first was Isabell second daughter and one of the heyres of Peter King of Castile Leon by whom he had issue Edward Earle of Rutland Duke of Albemarle and Yorke Richard after Earle of Cambridge and Constance first married to Thomas Spencer Earle of Glocester and after to Thomas Holland Earle of Kent This Edmonds second Wife was Ioane daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and sister and co-heyre of Edmond Holland Earle of Kent but by her had no issue He was in the absence of his Father in France made Protector of the Realme of England and after dyed in the third yeare of King Henry the 4. his Nephew and was buried at Langley Et portoit France seme d'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent chargee au 9. torteaux EDward Plantagenet sonne and heire of Edmond of Langley aforesaid was created Earle of Rutland of Corke in the 13. yeare of King Richard the second and in the 21. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Albermale and Constable of England and after the death of his Father he was also Duke of Yorke and Lord of Tyndall He married Phillip daughter and one of the heyres of Iohn Mohun Lord of Dunster but by her had no issue He was slaine at the battaile of Egincourt the 25. of October the third of King Henry the fift 1414. At which battaile were slaine Charles Lord Dalabreth high Constable of France Iaques le Chastilion Lord of Dampier high Admirall of France Iohn Duke D'Alanson Anthony Duke of Brabant Edward Duke of Barry the Earles of Marle Vawdemont Blawmont Grand preè Russey Faulconbridge Fois and Lastrake 25. Lords 8000. Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of Name Armes This Edwards body was brought ouer sea into England and buried at Fotheringhay Et portoit lez armoiries de son pere RIchard Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard of Conesburgh Earle of Cambridge second sonne of Edmond Langley Duke of Yorke aforesaid was after the death of Edward his Vnckle without issue restored to be Duke of Yorke Earle of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore and Clare c. He was Lieutenant to King Henry the sixt in his Kingdome of France and Dukedome of Normandy 1435. and was Chiefe of the Faction of the White Rose being descended of Lyonell Duke of Clarence This Richard raised a deadly war against the House of Lancaster clayming his lawfull right in the Kingdome of England which after his sonne Edward obtained and was King by the Name of Edward the fourth He wonne the battaile of S. Albons against King Henry the sixt 1455. and in the same yeare he was made by Parliament heyre apparent to the Crowne and Lord Protector of the Realme And after in the 39. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was slaine with his young sonne Edmond at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. at Fotheringhay He married Cecily daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Henry that dyed young Edward that was after King by the Name of king Edward the 4. Edmond Earle of Rutland slaine in the Towne of Wakefield by the Lord Clifford the same day his Father was slaine in the battell Iohn William and Thomas dyed young George Duke of Clarence and Richard Duke of Glocester after King Anne the eldest daughter was first married to Henry Holland Duke of Excester and after to Sir Thomas Saint-Leoger Knight by whom he had issue Anne Mother of Thomas Mannors Earle of Rutland Elizabeth Wife to Iohn de la Pole Duke of Suffolke Margaret third daughter wife to Charles Duke of Burgundy and Vrsula Et portoit France semé d'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent chargee au neuf torteaux RIchard sur-named of Shrewsbury the place of his birth second sonne of King Edward the 4. was by his Father at a Parliament helde at Westminster the 20. day of May 1474. created Duke of Yorke and in the 19. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he married Anne the onely daughter and heyre of Iohn Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle Warren and Surrey Earle Marshall of England in whose right he was Duke of Norfolke c. This Richard beeing but a childe was with his brother King Edward the fift by the command of Richard Duke of Glocester their vnnaturall Vnckle most cruelly murdered in the Tower of London the 9. day of the Kalends of Iune 1483. without issue his place of buriall was neuer knowne certainly to this day His wife died also young without issue and was buried at Westminster Et portoit France d'engleterre escartelle à lambell d'argent chargee au neuf torteaux HEnry second sonne of King Henry the seuenth in the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne was created Duke of Yorke in the Parliament house at Westminster and after Prince of Wales and lastly King of England by the name of King Henry the eight Father of Elizabeth that most worthy and triumphant Queene of most happy memory Et portoit escartelle France d'engleterre à lambell d'argent chargeé au neuf torteaux CHarles second sonne of Iames King of Great Britaine France and Ireland being Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormont Earle of Ros and Lord of Ardmanoch was created Duke of Yorke by his Father at White-Hall on Twelfe-day being the sixt of Ianuary 1604. and after created Prince of Wales at White-Hall the third of Nouember in the yeare 1616. A CATALOGVE OF THE Viscounts since the Norman Conquest their Armes Wiues and Children IOhn Lord Beaumont sonne of Henry Lord Beaumont sate in Parliament the tenth yeare of King Henry the sixt as Lord Beaumont and was after by Letters Patents bearing date at Reading the 12. of February in the 18. yeare of King Henry the 6. made Viscount Beaumont He maried Elizabeth daughter and heyre of Sir William Phillips Lord Bardolph had issue William and Henry both Viscounts and dyed without issue leauing Iane their sister and heyre married to Iohn Lord Louell This Iohn was slaine at the second battaile of Northampton the 9. of Iuly the 38. of King Henry the sixt Et portoit d'azur au lyon rampant seme de lices d'or I finde before this Iohn Viscount Beaumont Iohn Robsert Captaine of S. Samers in France sonne of Sir Lewis Robsert knight of the Garter to be Viscount Robsert in King Henry the fifts time But by whom or where hee was made Viscount I finde not