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A16939	A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeare, 1619 Together, vvith their armes, vviues, and children: the times of their deaths and burials, with many their memorable actions. Collected by Raphe Brooke Esquire, Yorke Herauld: discouering, and reforming many errors committed, by men of other profession, and lately published in print ...	Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 3832; ESTC S107111	214,884	345

name of King Edward the fourth Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à vnlambell d'argent charge de neuf torteaux A CATALOGVE OF THE Marquesses Montague their Armes Wiues and Children IOhn Neuill brother of Richard Neuil sur-named the great Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury was in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth created Lord Mountague and in the fourth yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee was created Earle of Northumberland at Yorke at which time Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland liued in banishment attainted but afterward obtayning the Kings fauour he returned into England and was restored to his Earledome of Northūberland againe in the eight yeare of king Edward the fourth And in the tenth yeare of the said Kings Reigne the saide Iohn hauing surrendred his grant of the said Earledome was created Marques Mountague and in the yeare after was slaine at Gladmore Heath at the battell of Barnet and being brought to London in one Coffin with his brother the Earle of Warwicke was set in S. Paules Church in London with their Faces bare to be seene three dayes and then carried to the Priory of Bisham and there both buried in one graue This Iohn married Isabell daughter and heyre of Sir Edmond Engelesthorp knight and had issue George Neuill created Duke of Bedford the tenth of king Edward the fourth and fiue daughters who after the death of the saide George without issue were his heyres Anne the eldest was married to Sir William Stoner knight Elizabeth married to the Lord Scroope of Vpsale Margaret married to Sir Iohn Mortimer knight and after to _____ Horne Lucy was first married to Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams of Aldwarpe Father of Williā Fitz-Williams Earle of Southampton and after to Sir Anthony Browne knight and Isabel the 5. daughter was maried to Sir William Hudleston knight Al which fiue daughters had issue This Iohn Marquesse Mountague and George Duke of Bedford his sonne were by Acte of Parliament the 17. of Edward the 4. degraded of all honourable Titles in these words Where afore this time the King our Soueraigne Lord for the great zeale and loue he bare to Iohn Neuill late named Marquesse Mountague and other considerations him mouing did erect and make George Neuill the eldest sonne of the saide Marquesse to bee Duke of Bedford and at that time for the great loue his saide Highnesse bare to the saide Iohn Neuill purposed and intended to haue giuen to the saide George for sustentation of the same dignity sufficient life-lode And for the great offences vnkindnesse and mis-behauing that the saide Iohn Neuill hath done and committed to his saide Highnesse as is openly knowne he hath not cause to depart any life-lode to the saide George And for asmuch as it is openly knowne that the saide George hath not nor by inheritance may haue any life-lode to support the saide Name Estate and Dignity or any name of Estate And oft-times it is seene that when any Lord is called to high Estate and hath not life-lode conueniently to support the saide Dignity it induces great pouerty and indigence and causes oft times great extortion embracery and maintenance to be had to the great trouble of all such countrtes where such estate shall hap to be inhabited Wherefore the King by the aduice and assent of his Lords spirituall and temporall and the Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same or dained established and enacted that from henceforth the saide Erection and making of Duke and all the names of Dignity giuen to the saide George or to the saide Iohn Neuill his Father be from hence-forth voide and of no effect And that the said George his heires from hence-forth be no Dukes nor Marquesse Earle nor Baron for no erection or creation afore made but of that name of Duke and Marquesse Earle and Baron in him and his heires ceasse and he voide and of none effect the saide Erection or Creation notwithstanding This haue I thought good to mention heere that Noblemen and others may be warned how they sell and consume their auncient Liuings and Patrimonies left them by their Ancestors least wanting where-with-all to maintaine their Estates the King degrade and disable them from bearing any honorable Title as he did these two Noblemen the Father and the Sonne Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argen au lambell gobonne d'argent d'azur A CATALOGVE OF THE Earle of Mountgomery his Armes Wife and Children PHilip Herbert second sonne of Henry Herbert Earle of Penbroke and brother of William now Earle of Penbroke 1618. was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames and on Satterday beeing the fourth day of May 1605. he was created at Greenwich first Baron of Sherland and the same day Earle of Mountgomery and lastly he was made Knight of the Garter 1608. He married Susan daughter of Edward Vere Earle of Oxford and hath issue Anne Sophia Et portoit per pale d'azur de gueulles au trois lyons rampant d'argent à vn bordur gobonny d'or de gueulles au cressant pur la difference A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Northumberland their Armes Wiues and Children COpso was made Earle of Northumberland by William the Conqueror and was after slaine by Osculph the late disinherited Earle of Northumberland as hee was entring into the Church of Newburne MOrchar sonne of Algar Duke of Mercia and brother to Edwyn as witnesseth Ingulph fol. 511. was made earle of Northumberland by William Conqueror after the death of Copso This Morchar with his brother Edwyn others misliking of the gouernment of king William fled the Realme and returning againe fortifyed the Isle of Elie and seated themselues in a place called Thorney But after long siedge of that place Morchar was taken prisoner and so kept all William Conquerors dayes and dyed in prison in the second yeare of William Ruphus He had a sister named Lucia first married vnto Iuo Talboys a great Baron of Angeo and after to Roger Romara Lord of Bullingbroke by whom she had issue William Romara Earle of Lincolne and the third time she married Randall Meschines the third Earle of Chester and had issue another Randall sur-named Gernonijs the fourth Earle of Chester Et portoit de sable à l'aigle d'or membrè beque de gueulles Gospatricke sonne of Maldred and Aldgith his wife Sister of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland was after the depriuation of Earle Morchar the next Earle of Northumberland and because he suffered Malcolme King of Scotland with a power to enter England was by the Conquerour depriued of this Earledome in the yeare 1072. and after dyed in banishment Of this Gospatricke did descend the Noble Families of Neuils of Midelham Branspath Raby Et portoit de gueulles au Saulteur d'argent VVAltheof sonne of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland by Alfleda his wife daughter of Aldred sometime Earle of Northumberland was the next earle of

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

A CATALOGVE and Succession of the Kings Princes Dukes Marquesses Earles and Viscounts of this Realme of England since the Norman Conquest to this present yeare 1619. TOGETHER With their Armes Wiues and Children the times of their deaths and burials with many their memorable Actions Collected by RAPHE BROOKE Esquire Yorke Herauld Discouering and Reforming many Errors committed by men of other Profession and lately published in Print to the great wronging of the Nobility and preiudice of his Maiesties Officers of Armes who are onely appointed and sworne to deale faithfully in these causes Quam quisque norit Artem in hac se exerceat Printed by WILLIAM IAGGARD and fold at his house in Barbican 1619. TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Prince IAMES King of Great-Britaine France and Ireland c. Most Gracious Soueraigne ALthough I thinke not the meane fruite of my Studies worthy so great a Patron as your selfe and therefore dedicate the same onely to those Honourable Lords your Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England vnto whose Censure and Office all matters of Honour and Armes belongeth and are committed yet after fiftie yeeres labour and experience Now treating of Nobility Honour and Armes which are deriued from the fountaine of Royall authoritie of Kings and Princes and being heereunto partly led by vertue of my Office of Herauld wherein I haue serued your MAIESTY and the late Queene ELIZABETH of famous memory these forty yeeres I held it my bounden dutie thus much at least by humble Praeface to intimate vnto your HIGHNESSE that heere I discouer and reforme many things heeretofore grossely mistaken and abused by ignorant persons who venturing beyond their owne element and skill to write of this subiect haue shewed themselues more bold and busie then skilfull in Herauldry and haue thereby so troubled the cleare fountain of Honorable Titles and Descents flowing from your MAIESTY and former Princes that true Nobilitie is greatly blemished and obscured thereby For the amendment and preuention of these and the like abuses hereafter I most humbly pray a reformation and that vpstarts and Mountebankes within this our profession may be prohibited to make their profite and credite vpon the discredite and impouerishing of your MAIESTIES poore seruants the Officers of Armes who labor daily and spend both their bodies and substance faithfully to preserue and keepe in Register the Descents and Achiuements of the Nobilitie and Gentrie of this Kingdome with their Noble and worthie Actes Marriages Issues and Armes which is no easie thing now to do And much more harder it will be heereafter if these busie bodies catching by chance the imperfect Notes of Heraulds deceased shall be suffered to publish in print their owne inuentions as true and infallible verities whereby in time to come it will be hard to distinguish light from darknesse and truth from falshood vnlesse your Princely care and feeling heereof may bee signified vnto the Lords Commissioners to redresse the same So most humbly praying your MAIESTIES pardon I beseech the King of Kings long to continue and prosper your happy Reigne ouer vs. Your Maiesties most humble deuoted Subiect and Seruant RAPHE BROOKE Yorke Herauld TO THE RIGHT HONOVrable Edward Earle of Worcester Lord Keeper of the Priuy Seale Lodowicke Duke of Lenox Lord Steward of his MAIESTIES Houshold George Marquesse of Buckingham Maister of his Maiesties Horse Charles Earle of Nottingham High Admirall of England William Earle of Penbroke Lord Chamberlaine of his Maiesties Houshold Thomas Earle of Arundell and Thomas Earle of Suffolke Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England Priuy Counsellors to IAMES King of GREAT-BRITAINE and Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter Right Honourable THE meane Artificer that found fault with Apelles so long as hee presumed not vltra Crepidam was heard and allowed so well that the most Excellent Painter thereupon amended his picture and yet the same being the onely one perhaps of some ordinary person well or ill done could greatly hurt no man But great hurt and preiudice my Lords may ensue vnto many yea euen vnto your selues and your posterity ioyned as they are and may bee with other Noble families by the mishapen ill wrought and deformed Pictures of false Pedigrees and Descents of English Nobilitie which some busie Antiquaries as they would be called of late intruding haue published in Print It were therefore to be wished that Bookes of that kinde should bee examined by experienced Officers and therewith haue your Lordships allowance before they passe the Presse But sithence hitherto it hath bin neglected and lightly passed ouer as a matter of smal importance and of lesse profit I trust I shall with your Honourable fauours doe my Prince and Countrey the seruice yea my selfe and fellow-Officers of Armes the right presuming not vltra Caduceum to examine the writings of these intruders and reforme their errors whereof to giue you a taste Iohn Stow in the Vinnet of his Annales printed 1592. hath made Richard Duke of Yorke and Anne Mortimer to be Father and mother to K. Edward 4. in doing whereof he hath made the said Richard to marry his owne mother M. Milles page 543. saith that Charls Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Margaret Lady Mortimer his second wife had issue Henry Earle of Lincolne Frances wife to Henry Grey Marquesse Dorset and Eleanor maried to Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland whereas the said Henry Frances Eleanor were the children of Charles Brandon by Mary the French Queen M. Martin in his History of the Kings of England page 60. hath That King Iohn of England had issue foure sons Henry who was after King Richard elect King of the Romanes William of Valence Earle of Penbroke and Guydo Disnay which William and Guydo were the sons of Hugh le Brun Earle of the Marches of Aquitain in France and not King Iohns What a confusion and trouble may this breed in after Ages both for Descents Armes and true Kindred as also suits of Law Duelloes and Challenges Nay my good Lords were not the Crowne so well established in the King and his Royall issue which God long preserue what a Way is heere opened if it bee not stopt in time for vaine Titularies and Competitors to presume on So dangerous a thing it is for the vnskilfull to deale in matters of Herauldry that are not sworne professed Officers thereto Had I bene as forward to set out mine owne labors as those haue bene to vent the imperfect Collections of others I might I thinke haue written of this subiect before some of them were borne for any time these fiftie yeeres it hath bene my studie And when I had almost finished a true Catalogue of the Kings Princes and Nobles of this Realme that haue bin since the Normane Conquest with intent to leaue it to posterity only in Writing and in the Office and Colledge of Armes which indeede ought to be the Store-house of all honourable Actions and Designes I staide awhile at

homage three yeares after he married Mary the daughter of Foulk Earle of Aniou and the same yeare was made Duke of Normandy for which he did homage to King Lewis the Grosse of France and after was drowned comming out of Normandy into England the 26. of Nouember 1120. beeing then eighteene yeares of age leauing no issue of his body Mauld the only daughter of king Henry the first by Mauld his first wife was borne the fourth yeare of her Fathers Reigne and was married to the Emperour Henry the fourth for his second wife being but seuen yeares olde at her espousing and married and crowned at eleuen at Mentz in Germany in the yeare 1114. with whom she continued twelue yeares and out-liued him but had no issue by him After she married Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Aniou son of Foulke king of Ierusalem in the yeare 1127 and had issue Henry after King of England Geffrey Earle of Nantes in Britaine and William Earle of Poytou She was his wife 23. yeares and a widdow 17. yeares and after dyed in Roan 1167. and was buried at Bec Abbey in Normandy His Issue by Concubines Robert of some Writers called the Consull of Glocester base sonne of King Henry the first begotten of Nest the daughter of Rice ap Teuder the great Prince of South Wales who was after married to Girald de Windsore Constable of the Castle of Penbroke This Robert married Mabell daughter of Robert Fitz-Hamond Lord of Glamorgan by whom he had issue William Earle of Glocester and others as in the Title of Earles of Glocester is more at large Reginald base sonne of King Henry the first begotten of the daughter of Robert Corbet of Alencester in Warwickshire had issue foure daughters his heires as in the Title of Earles of Cornwall is more at large Henry slaine in Anglesey in North Wales without issue Richard Mary and Margaret were drowned with their brother William comming out of Normandy into England 1120. Elizabeth base daughter of King Henry the first begotten of Elizabeth sister of Walleran Earle of Meulan and Robert Bossue Earle of Leicester was wife to Gilbert Strongbow Earle of Penbroke and Mother to Richard Earle of Penbroke as in the Title of Earles of Penbroke Iulian Countesse of Passy King Stephen STephen Earle of Mortaine and Bolloigne in Picardy third Son of Stephen Earle of Bloys and Champaigne begotten of Alice the third daughter of William the Conqueror and Queene Mauld was crowned King on S. Stephens day by William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Westminster 1135 by the plotting of his younger Brother Henry who was Bishop of Winchester and Abbot of Glostenbury and who had drawn vnto his Faction William Archbishop of Canterbury the very first man that before had sworne fealty to Queene Mauld the Empresse and to stir vp the Nobility of the Realme against the saide Mauld protesting that it was basenesse for so many great Peeres to be subiect vnto a womā And further to helpe forward this mischieuous plot another of the same brood Roger Bishop of Salisbury the late Kings Treasurer protested that the Nobility were free from the Oath they had before made to Mauld the Empresse by reason that she had married Geffrey Plantagenet without their priuity and consent as though free Princes could not marry without the consent of their Subiects which false instigations of these wicked Bishops made the Nobility to forswear themselues in swearing fealty vnto King Stephen a Vsurper And these were the fruites of these honest Churchmen who were the cause and losse also of many a mans life This Stephen married Mauld daughter of Eustace Earle of Bolloigne Brother of Godfrey and Baldwyn kings of Ierusalem by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters he reigned eighteene yeares ten moneths and odde dayes and dyed at Douer the 25. of October 1154. being 49 yeares olde and was buried at Feuersham in Kent where his Queene and Sonne were also buried She dyed at Heningham Castle in Essex the third of May 1151. It is said that King Stephen entring this Realme the signe being in Sagittarius and obtayning great victory by the helpe of his Archers assumed the Sagitarius for his Arms. Et portoit gueulles a Sagitarius d'or Their Issue Baldwyn the eldest sonne dyed in his infancy and was buried at London in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate founded by Queen Mauld wife to king Henry the first Eustace second sonne was by his Father created Earle of Bolloigne and married Constance sister of Lewis the seuenth King of France and dyed without issue the tenth of August 1152. and was buried at Feuersham William the third sonne married Isabell daughter and heyre of William the third Earle Warren and Surrey in whose right he was Earle Warren and Surrey Lord of Norwich and Peuensey Earle Mortaine and Lord of the Egle in Normandy He dyed in his returne from Tholouz in the yeare 1160. Mauld the eldest daughter of King Stephen dyed young and was buried at London in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate cald Christ-Church now the Dukes place Mary second daughter of King Stephen was Abbesse of the Nunnery at Rumsey in Hampshire after she forsooke her habite and married Mathew Brother of Philip Earle of Flanders who in her right was Earle of Bolloigne and had issue Ida and Mauld King Henry the second HEnry the second of that Name sur-named Short-mantle borne in France Son of Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Antou and Mauld the Empresse daughter of King Henry the first began his Reigne ouer this Realme of England the twentieth day of October 1154. His first comming was to Winchester where the Nobles of the Realme came vnto him of whō he tooke homage and fealty then comming to London he was crowned at Westminster by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury the 17. of December 1154. being then 23. yeares of age He chose to be of his Counsell the grauest and wisest he could finde such as were best experienced in the Lawes of the Land He expelled by publike Proclamation all strangers out of the Land who had swarmed into England in the time of variance betweene king Stephen and him amongst whom William of Ypers Earle of Kent was also compelled to be gone taking into his hands all such lands and possessions as pertained to the Crowne which had bene before alienated and made away to any person of what degree soeuer From Hugh Mortimer he took the Castles of Clebery Wigmore Bridgnorth He maried Elianor daughter and sole heyre of William Duke of Aquitaine Earle of Poictiers and Tholouze the fift of that name begotten of the daughter of Raymond Earle of Tholouse This Elianors Title was the cheefe cause of those bloody warres betwixt England and France yea and the Bellowes that blew that vnnaturall discord betwixt the Father and his Sonnes She ouer-liued her husband and did see three of her sonnes to be kings and dyed the third of the Kalends of Aprill 1204. This Henry dyed

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

the second daughter was first married to Iohn Burgh Earle of Vlster secondly she was married to Theobald Lord Verdon and thirdly to Sir Roger Damory Baron of Armoye in Ireland Isabell the third daughter was first married to Pierce of Gaueston Earle of Cornwall by whom she had no issue and after to Hugh Lord Audley the younger This Gilbert before the marriage with his last wife Ioane had lost the fauour of king Edward the first for refusing to go with him ouer Seas to the ayde of Guy Earle of Flanders against the then French King for which cause king Edward seized all the said Gilberts Lands and forced him after to marry his daughter without dower lands or money which done the said King granted backe againe all the Lands confirming them to the said Gilbert and Ioane his wife the issue begotten of their two bodies in Fee-Farme This Gilbert dyed in the Castle of Mounmoth in the 24. yeare of king Edward the first and was buried in Tewkesbury Priory by his Father 1295. Et portoit d'or à trois cheurons de gueulles RAlphe de Mounte-hermer seruant to Gilbert de Clare and Ioane of Acres after the death of Earle Gtlbert married the said Ioane his Mistris in the yeare 1296. Which marriage being done without the knowledge and consent of king Edward her Father this Ralphe was committed to prison in the Castle of Bristoll and all those Lands and Castles as he had formerly made ouer to the saide Ioane and her former husband Gilbert he caused to bee seized againe into his hands But shortly after by the intercession of Anthony Bec Bishop of Duresme a peace was made betweene the K. his daughter her new husband the yeare following 1297. at a Parliament held at London her former lands were restored to her again with others in the 27. yeare of the said kings Reigne the same Ralphe was summoned to Parliament by the name and title of Earle of Glocester and Hertford and by that name and title of honour hee sate in all Parliaments after vntill the first yeare of king Edward the second 1307. In which yeare young Gilbert de Clare being of age was admitted to his lands and honours and sate in Parliament alwayes after as Earle of Glocester and Hereford during his life And the said Ralphe Mount-hermer his Father in law was euer after summoned and sate in all Parliaments as Lord Mount-hermer This Ralphe had issue by his Countesse Ioane two sonnes Edward Mount hermer that dyed without issue and was buried in the Augustine-Fryars at Clare and Sir Thomas Mount-hermer knight who married and had issue Margaret married to Iohn Mounta-cute and had issue Iohn Mounta-cute Earle of Salisbury He dyed in the 17. yeare of king Edward the second 1323. and Ioane his Countesse dyed in the yeare 1305. at her Mannor of Clare Et portoit d'or à l'aigle de vert membres becquez de gueulles GIlbert de Clare sonne heire of Gilbert de Clare sur-named the Red Ioane of Acres was the last Earle of Glocester and Hartford of that firname and Family He married Matilda daughter of Iohn de Burgh son heire of Rich. Earle of Vlster in Ireland and had issue a son which died in his infancy This Gilbert being with K. Edw. the 2. in Scotland to raize the siedge of Sterling-Castle was there slaine in the yeare 1313. whō the Scots would gladly haue saued for ransome had they knowne him but he had neglected to put on his Coate of Armes ouer his armor With him were slain as Tho Walsingham hath Sir Edmond Mauley Sir Robert Clifford Sir Paine Tiptoft Sir William Marshall Sir Gyles Argentyne knights with many others K. Robert Brus caused the bodies of this Gilbert Earle of Glocester Sir Robert Clifford to be sent to K. Edw. being then at Barwick to be buried at his pleasure demanding no reward for the same This Gilbert was borne at Tewkesbury in the yeare 1291. was there buried by his Father leauing his inheritance to be diuided between his three sisters his heires who were married as before is expressed The partition of these lands were made in the eleuenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the second Et portoit les armes de son peré HVgh de Audley second sonne of Nicholas Lord Audley and grand-childe of Iames Lord Audley of Heleigh and of Ela his wife daughter of William Longespee sonne heire of William Longespee Earle of Salisbury after the death of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester at a Parliament held at Westminster the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third This Hugh Audley was made Earle of Glocester Henry of Lancaster Earle of Derby William Mountague Earle of Salisbury William Clinton Earle of Huntington and Robert Vfford Earle of Suffolke and did all sitte and had place and voyce in the saide Parliament by those honourable Titles He married Isabell the third sister and co-heire of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and had issue one onely daughter Isabell married to Ralphe first Earle Stafford and after dyed in the yeare 1347. and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge Et portoit gueulles fretté d'or à la bordure d'argent THomas of Woodstocke sixt sonne of King Edward the third in the fiftieth yeare of his Fathers Reigne sate in Parliament held at Westminster by the title onely of Constable of England which Office he did execute in right of Elianor his wife eldest daughter and one of the two heyres of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex Northampton and Constable of England and in the first yeare of king Richard the second he was made Earle of Buckingham and Northampton and in the ninth yeare of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Glocester and after in the yeare 1397 he was taken by force from his Castle of Plessy in Essex by Thomas Mowbray first Earle Marschall and conuayed to Callis and there strangled to death with Towels after whose death Elianor his wife became a Nunne in the Abbey of Barking in Essex This Thomas by Elianor his wife had one onely sonne named Humfrey Earle of Buckingham and 4. daughters the sonne after his Fathers death with Lord Henry sonne to the Duke of Hereford was by King Richard the second banished into Ireland where he remained as prisoner in the Castle of Tryme vntill the first yeare of king Henry the fourth and then being sent for into England dyed of the plague at Chester in his returne homeward without issue in the yeare 1399. Anne the eldest sister and co-heyre of this Humfrey was married first to Edmond Earle Stafford and after to William Bourchier Earle of Ewe in Normandy Ioane the second sister was married to Gilbert Lord Talbot Isabell was a Nunne in the Minories by London and Philip the fourth sister dyed young without issue Et portoit escartelleé France seme D'engleterre à la bordure de argent

the battaile of Shrewsbury Sir Thomas Percie knight Father of Henry Percy Earle of Atholl in Scotland Sir Ralphe Percie third sonne slaine in battaile by the Sarrazins and Alan the fourth sonne dyed young This Henries second wife was Mauld daughter of Thomas Lord Lucy and sister and heyre of Anthony her brother by whom he had no issue notwithstanding she gaue all her lands to her husband conditionally that he and his heyres should for euer after quarter and beare her Armes next to his owne and before the Percies Armes which was granted and to this day is performed Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escarelle Percy qui est d'azur au cinq fizelles en face d'or HEnry Lord Percie grand-childe to Henry Lord Percy first Earle of Northumberland by his sonne Sir Henry Hotspur was restored and made the second Earle of Northumberland the third of King Henry the fift Hee was sent pledge into Scotland for his Grand-father who was taken prisoner at the battaile of Otterborne the 12. of King Richard the second 1388. and there continued vnto the yeare 1414. Who after taking part with King Henry the sixt against Richard Duke of Yorke was slaine at the first battaile of S. Albons in the yeare 1455. He married Elianor daughter of Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Henry the third Earle of Northumberland Thomas Lord Egremant slaine at the battaile of Northampton the 39. of king Henry the sixt William Percie Bishop of Carlell Anne married to Thomas Lord Hungerford Katherine wife to Edmond Grey Earle of Kent and Elizabeth was married to the Lord Clifford and diuers other children which dyed without issue Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escartelleacute gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent le tierce de Percy qui est d'azur cinq fizelles en face d'or le quart de la premier HEnry Lord Percy the third Earle of Northumberland of that Family taking part with King Henry the sixt was slaine on Palme-Sunday the 29. day of March in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth betweene Touton Saxton with the Earles of Shrewsbury and Deuonshire and the Lord Clifford He married Elianor daughter and heyre of Richard Lord Poynings Brian and Fitz-Payne by whom he had issue Henry the fourth Earle of Northumberland Elizabeth married to Henry Lord Scroope of Bolton Elianor married vnto Reginald West Lord Laware and Margaret married to Sir William Gascoine knight Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant d'azur armé lampassé d'gueulles escattelle Lucy qui est gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent IOhn Neuill Lord Mountague Brother to Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury was created Earle of Northumberland by Letters Patents dated at Yorke the 28. day of May in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth by reason Henry Lord Percy sonne and heyre of Henry the third Earle of Northumberland was then fled into Scotland with King Henry the sixt and for a time remained there yet after returning againe and obtayning the Kings fauour was restored to the Earledome of Northumberland againe this Iohn Neuill surrendring his Grant of that Earledome was created Marquesse Mountague the eight of king Edward the fourth as in the title of Mountague is more at large Et portoit de gueulles au Saultier d'argent au lambell gobonne d'argent d'azur HEnry Lord Percie sonne and heyre of Henry Percy the third Earle of Northumberland after the surrender of Iohn Marquesse Mountague of the Earledome of Northumberland was restored to his Fathers Earledome in the yeare 1467 and was the fourth Earle of that name and Family Knight of the Garter who being with king Richard the third at the battaile of Bosworth neere Leicester against Henry Earle of Richmond where the said king was slaine was taken prisoner whom king Henry the seuenth after pardoned and tooke to fauour and made him of his priuy Counsell After all which 1488. a taxe being granted by Parliament of the tenth penny of all lands and goods to the ayde of the Duke of Britaine which those of the Bishopprick of Durham and Yorkshire did refuse to pay the king commanded this Earle Henry to distresse or otherwise to leuie the money which being made knowne to the rude people they with great violence set vpon the Earle and furiously slew him in a place called Cockledge by Thurske 18. miles from Yorke in the 4. yeare of king Henry the 7. was buried in Beuerley Minster with his wife He married Mauld daughter of William Herbert Earle of Penbroke by whom he had issue Henry Lord Percy the 5. Earle of Northumberland Sir William Percy knight Alan Percy a Clarke and Ioceline Percy and three daughters Elianor wife to Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham Anne married to William Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and Elizabeth which died young Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escartelle gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent HEnry Lord Percy after the death of his Father was the fift Earle of Northumberland Lord Poynings Fitz Payne and Bryan knight of the honourable Order of the Garter married Katherine daughter and one of the heires of Sir Robert Spencer knight and of Elianor his wife daughter of Edmond Beauford D. of Somerset sister and co-heire of Henry Beauford Edmond Dukes of Somerset her brothers and had issue Henry Percy the 6. Earle of Northumberland of that name Sir Thomas Percy knight Sir Ingelram Percy knight Margaret married to Henry Clifford first Earle of Cumberland He died in the 18. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Lord Percy after the death of Henry the fift his Father was the sixt Earle of Northumberland of that surname and was made Knight of the Garter in the two and twentieth yeare of king Henry the eight he was sent by the saide King with a Commission vnder the great Seale of England to attache and arrest Cardinall Wolsey and to carry and deliuer him prisoner to the Earle of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle which he did although the Cardinall proudly checked him told him that he was a member of the Colledge of Cardinals in Rome and that neyther the King nor any other temporall Prince vnder Heauen could or ought to intermedle with him for any cause or matter whatsoeuer This Henry married Mary daughter of George Talbot Earle of Shrewesbury and dyed without issue at Hackney neere London the thirtieth day of Iune in the 29. yeare of king Henry the eight and was there buried His second brother Thomas being before executed for taking Armes against King Henry the eight in the first difference about Religion He gaue a great part of his Lands and Inheritance to the said King and others After this Henries death the Earledome of Northumberland lay vacant vntill King Edward the sixt made Iohn Dudley Viscount Lisle Duke of Northumberland Et porte it d'or au lyon

d'or RObert Carr a man greatly fauoured and honoured by King Iames who first created him Baron of Branspath and after Viscount Rochester at White-Hall on Monday the 25. day of March 1611. and lastly Earle of Somerset in the yeare 1614. And for a further fauour the saide King made him Lord Chamberlaine of his Houshold Knight of the Garter and one of his honourable priuy Counsell He married Francis second daughter of Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke and Lord high Treasurer of England by whom hee had issue a daughter named Anne This Robert and his wife beeing suspected to bee of the counsell and consenting to the poysoning of Sir Thomas Ouerbury knight sometime his familiar friend and fauourite were both called in question endited and arraigned at Westminster Hall in May 1616 and there by the Peeres were found guilty and had iudgement to dye for the same Et portoit de gueulles au cheuron d'argent chargé de trois estoilles de sable brise de vn leopard passant d'or du primier canton de l'escu A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Stafford their Armes Wiues and Children RAphe Lord Stafford Steward of Gascoigne descended lyneally as heyre male of the body of Heruy Bagot and Millescent his wife sister heire of Robert Lord Stafford in king Iohns time This Raphe was created Earle Stafford in the 25. yeare of king Edward the third and married Margaret daughter and heyre of Hugh Lord Audley Earle of Glocester and had issue Hugh Earle Stafford and Sir Richard Stafford knight and three daughters Beatrix the eldest was first married to Maurice Earle of Desmond in Ireland and after to Thomas Lord Ros of Hamlake Ioane the second daughter married Iohn Charlton Lord Powes and Margaret the third daughter was maried to Iohn Stafford Patron of the Church of Bromhall in Staffordshire This Raphe dyed in the 45. of king Edward the third 1370. and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge by his wife Margaret Et portoit d'or au cheuron de gueulles HVgh Lord Stafford sonne of Raphe Earle Stafford after the death of his Father was the second Earle Stafford and married Philip daughter of Thomas Beauchamp the elder Earle of Warwicke and had issue Thomas William Edmond al three Earles of Stafford and Raphe slaine by Iohn Holland and foure daughters Margaret wife to Raphe Neuill Earle of Westmerland Katherine married to Michaell de la Pole Earle of Suffolke Ioane the third daughter married Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and the fourth daughter was married to Iohn Lord Ferrars of Chartley. This Hugh dyed in his returne from Ierusalem in the Isle of Rhodes in the tenth yeare of king Richard the second and was buried by his wife in the Abbey of Stone in Staffordshire Et portoit d'or au cheuron de gueulles THomas Lord Stafford sonne and heyre of Hugh aforesaid was the third Earle Stafford and died without issue in the fourteene yeare of king Richard the second and was buried by his Father and Mother in the Abbey of Stone leauing William and Edmond his brothers to succeed him in the Earledome of Stafford But William dying without issue Edmond the third sonne succeeded Earle Et portoit les armes de son peré EDmond Stafford third sonne of Hugh Earle Stafford and brother and heyre of Thomas and William his brothers was after their deaths the fift Earle Stafford and Lord of Tunbridge He married Anne daughter of Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham and Duke of Glocester and sister and onely heyre of Humfrey her brother by whom he had issue Humfrey Earle Stafford and first Duke of Buckingham and Philip that dyed young Anne first married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster but by him had no issue after she married Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and had issue Henry Duke of Excester This Edmond with Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester and Henry Percy his Nephew was slaine at the battaile of Shrewsbury in the fourth yeare of king Henry the fourth and was buried at Stafford in S. Augustines Fryars Et portoir d'or au cheuron de gueulles HVmfrey Stafford sonne of Edmond was the sixt Earle Stafford whom king Henry the sixt in the 23. yeare of his Reigne created the first Duke of Buckingham and gaue him place and precedence before all other Dukes of England He writ in his Stile Humfrey Duke of Buckingham Earle Stafford Hereford and Northampton Lord of Brecknock and Holdernesse This Humfrey in the eight yeare of king Henry the fift did his homage at Roan for the Earledome of Perch and at the same time Arthur Duke of Britaine did the like for the Earledome of Yurye He married Anne daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland had issue Humfrey Earle Stafford who married Margaret sister and co-heyre of Edmond Beaufort Duke of Somerset and was wounded with an Arrow at the first battaile at S. Alb●●s the 33. of Henry the sixt of which wound he dyed the yeare after in the life time of his Father 1455. Iohn the second sonne was created Earle of Wiltshire and Richard the third sonne was slaine with the fall from a horse George William were twins and dyed both young Anne the eldest daughter was first married to Aubrey de Ver sonne and heyre of Iohn Earle of Oxford and had no issue After she maried Sir Thomas Cobham knight sonne of Reginald Lord Cobbam of Sterborough and had issue Anne the second daughter was first married to William Lord Bardolph and after to Sir William Kniuet knight and Katherine the third daughter married Iohn Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury This Humfrey was slaine at the battaile of Northampton in the 38. yeare of king Henry the 6. and his body buried in the Grey Fryers in Northampton He bare for his Armes France and England quarterly within a bordure argent which was the Armes of Thomas of Woodstocke his Grand-father by his Mother HEnry Lord Stafford sonne and heyre of Humfrey Stafford by Margaret his wife sister and co-heire of Edmond Beaufort Duke of Somerset grandchilde of Humfrey Stafford the first Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neuill his wife was after the death of his said Grandfather the second Duke of Buckingham Earle Stafford Hereford and Northampton Lord of Brecknock Kimbalton and Tunbridge and Knight of the Garter who falling in dislike with king Richard the third laboured the returne of Henry Earle of Richmond out of France Diuers Authors diuersly report the cause thereof but one amongst the rest saith that Humfrey the tenth Earle of Hereford Northampton and Essex and Constable of England in king Richard the seconds time had two daughters his heyres Elianor the eldest married to Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester and Mary the second daughter married to Henry Earle of Derby after King by the name of Henry the 4. whose issue being spent and ended in Prince Edward sonne of king Henry the 6 this Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham made clayme to that