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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

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

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