Earle of Albemarle and was after slaine by the Duke of Orliance at Bangie bridge in France the ninth of K. Henry the fift without issue and his body being brought ouer into England was buried in Christ-Church in Canterburie Et portoit les armes d'France seme escartelle D'engleterre au lambell d'ermyn trois cantons gueulles RIchard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Lieutenant Generall vnder Iohn Duke of Bedford Regent of France was by King Henry the sixt created Earle of Albemarle Hee married for his second wife Isabell the Widdow of Richard Beauchampe Earle of Worcester his cousine Germane daughter and heire of Thomas Lord Spencer and Earle of Glocester by whom he had issue Henry Duke of Warwicke c. He dyed at Roan in the 17. yeare of King Henry the sixt and was buried at Warwicke Et portoit gueulles a vne fees six croiseletz d'or A Catalogue of the Earles of Anguish and Kyme their Armes Wiues and Children GIlbert Vmfreuile Earle of Anguish Lord of Prodhoo Otterborne Harbotle and Ridesdale a man of great Fame heere in England in King Henry the thirds time and King Edward the first married and had issue Gilbert and Robert both Earles of Anguish Et portoit gueulles a vne quintfoile le champe croisele patee d'or GIlbert Vmfreuile sonne and heire of Gilbert aforesaid was after the death of his Father also Earle of Anguish Lord of Prodhoo c. He fought the battell of Argile after which hee with William Valence Earle of Penbroke encountred Robert Brus King of Scots at S. Iohns Towne in Scotland This Gilbert sate in Parliament helde at Northampton in the first yeare of King Edward the first by the name and Title of Earle of Anguish in which yeare he died without issue Et portoit les armes de son Pere ' RObert Vmfreuile second sonne of the first Gilbert brother and heire to the last Gilbert was after his Brother Earle of Anguish Lord of Prodhoo c. He sate in Parliament held at Westminster the second yeare of King Edward the second and so continued vnto the seuenteenth of the same Kings reigne as Earle of Anguish and then dyed He married Luce daughter and heire of Phillip de Kime a great Baron and had issue Gilbert Robert and Thomas and a Daughter named Elionor married to Sir Gilbert Borrowdon Knight Et portoit les armes de son Frere ' GIlbert Vmfreuile sonne and heire of Robert was after his Father Earle of Anguish Lord of Prodhoo Otterborne Harebotle and Ridesdale and by his mother Lord of Kyme Hee married to his first wife Iane daughter of Robert Lord Willoughby and after he married Matild daughter heire of Sir Thomas Lucy of Cockermoth knight and dyed without issue in the yeare 1384. His last wife was maried afterwards vnto Henry Percy first Earle of Northumberland This Gilbert fought the battell of Gladesmore at which time hee was Marshall of Scotland sate in Parliaments in England from the eight yeere of K. Edward the third vntill the fourth of King Richard the second by the name and title of Gilbert Earle of Anguish Et portoit Gueulles a vne quintfoile le champe croisele patee d'or RObert Vmfreuile second Brother of the last Gilbert in the eight yeere of King Henry the fift was created Earle of Kyme and was after slain by the Duke of Orleance at Bangie-bridge in France the ninth of King Henry the fift was buried at Calice and after remooued from thence and interred in the Monastery of Kyme Hee married Anne daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland This Robert haue I made to be Earle of Kyme vpon the credit of Claurenciux Cooke and yet do I greatly doubt therof for that I cannot euer finde any of that Name and Family to sitte in Parliament after the last Earle Gilbert in the fourth yeare of King Richard the second brother of this Robert This descent of Vmfreuile is diuersly set forth by sundry persons who haue made many heyres male to the last Gilbert more then I can finde any good proofe for Therefore for the better cleering thereof take this out of the Kings Records Gilbert the last Earl of Anguish with Mauld Lucy his wife did entaile diuers lands to themselues and the heyres of their two bodies and for default thereof to Robert his brother and to the heirs male of his body and for default thereof to Thomas Vmfreuile his third Brother and to the heires male of his body and for default thereof the remainder to Elizabeth or Elionor his Sister wife of Gilbert Borrowdon and the heires of their two bodyes and that Elionor the wife of Henry Talboys is daughter and heire of Gilbert Borrowdon and Neece and heire of the saide last Earle Gilbert and is forty yeares of age A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Atholl their Armes Wiues and Children DAuid sur-named Strathbogie Earle of Atholl in King Henry the thirds time married Isabell one of the Daughters Heyres of Richard of Chillam base sonne of King Iohn and had issue two sonnes Iohn and Dauid Iohn was hanged and died without issue Dauid his Brother succeeded him in the Earledome Et portoit pale de six d'or de sable DAuid Stratbolgie or Strathbolgie second sonne and heire of Dauid Earle of Atholl married Ioane daughter one of the heires of Iohn Lord Comen of Badzenoth and of Ioane his Wife second sister and one of the heires of Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke with whom hee had in mariage the Barony and Castle of Mitford in Northumberland and sate in Parliament by the name and title of Earle of Atholl the 17. yeare of King Edward the second and the fifteenth of King Edward the third and had issue Dauid Earle of Atholl Elizabeth and Philip and was slaine by Andrew Murrey in the yeare 1335. Et portoit pale de six d'or de sable DAuid Strathbolgie after the death of his Father Dauid was Earle of Atholl in Scotland and Baron of Mitford in England he sate in Parliament helde at Westminster the 43. of King Edward the third by the name and title of Earle of Atholl and died in the 44. yeare of the same Kings reigne After whose death his inheritance was diuided betweene his two sisters and heires Elizabeth the eldest sister was maried to Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester and Philip the second was married to Sir Iohn Halsham Knight and had issue After the death of this last Dauid the title of Earle of Atholl went to the Family of Stewarts in Scotland Et portoit les armoiries de son pere A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles and Dukes of Buckingham their Armes Wiues and Children WAlter Gifford the second of that name Earle of Longuile in Normandy came into England with William the Conqueror and was a Witnesse to King Henry the first his Charter for the reformation of the Lawes and Customes of England He married _____ and had issue Walter the second Earle of Buckingham
Blount Lord Mountioy and brother and heire of William Baron of Mountioy Lord Deputy and Lieutenant of Ireland who expulsed the Spaniards there and compelled the Rebels to submission was by King Iames in the first yeare of his reigne 1603. created Earle of Deuonshire the 21. of Iuly at Hampton-Court He dyed without any lawfull issue in the Dutchy-house in the Strand and was buried at Westminster with great pompe in the Abbey in the yeare 1606. Et portroit burelle vndeé de six d'or de fable WIlliam Cauendish knight was created Baron of Hardwike on Satterday the fourth of May 1605. and after by King Iames in August 1618. he was made Earle of Deuonshire He married two wiues the first was Anne daughter and heyre of Henry Kighley of Kighley in Lancashire Esquire had issue William Lord Cauendish of Hardwike who married Christian daughter of Edward Bruse Baron of Kynlosse and Master of the Rolles Frances wife to Sir Henry Maynard knight Mary and Elizabeth This Williams second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Edward Boughton of Causton and widdow of Sir Richard Wortley knight by whom hee had issue Sir Iohn Cauendish knight of the Bath who dyed without issue Et portoit de sable au trois testes du cerf d'argent les cornes d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles Ferrars and Derby their Armes Wiues and Children HEnry Earle Ferrars a Norman borne sonne of Wakeline came into England with William the Conquerour who gaue him the Castles of Tutbury Oucume with diuers other great Seigneuries in England and Normandy He married one Berta and had issue Eugenulphus William and Robert and two daughters Gundred and Emelyn He founded the Abbey of Tutbury in the yeare 1080. Vnto which Foundation were Witnesses Eugenulphus William Robert his sonnes And for proofe that this Henry was an Earle which some great and late Writers denie I haue heere set downe the said Henries Epitath which I finde printed in the yeare 1577. and dedicated to the late Earle of Essex and said to be found in the Abbey of Tutbury Hic iacet Henricus de Ferrarijs comes huius Ecclesiae fundator Imago nomine cuius Anno milleno domini quater atque viceno Tutburiaque nono domus est fundata patrono It is said that he bare for his Armes argent 6. horse-shooes sable RObert de Ferrars after the death of Henry his Father and Eugenulphus and William his two Brothers without issue was the second Earle Ferrars and by that name was Witnesse to king Henry the first his Charter of lands which he gaue to the Abbey of Tutesbury Also in the 31. yeare of the said kings Reigne hee began the Foundation of the Abbey of Muriuall and dyed in the 19. yeare of king Stephen and was buried at Muriuall leauing issue William Earle of Tutesbury slaine in his lodging in London without issue Robert Earle Ferrars and Wakelyn de Ferrars the third sonne Les armes de son pere d'argent à fix Ferres de cheuall de fable RObert de Ferrars the second of that name after the death of Robert his Father and William his brother was the third Earle Ferrars whom diuers late Writers haue greatly mistaken they affirming him to be the first Robert Founder of Muriuall Abbey and to be Earle of Nottingham when as in truth it was this Roberts Father that was Founder of Muriuall Abbey and another Robert Ferrars grand-childe of this second Robert by his sonne William that was made Earle of Nottingham as heereafter will appeare in his due place And where they say they haue seen Deeds and Charters to approue their affirmation it is vntrue for those they meane are vnperfect Notes and Abstracts taken out of Glouer Somersets Booke of Miscellania which Book I haue and perusing the same finde them of small credite This Earle Robert married and had issue William Earle Ferrars the fourth Earle Ferrars and died in the yeare 1184. the 31. of king Henry the second but others haue that he dyed in the Holy-Land in the yeare 1190. the second of king Richard the first which is mistaken Et portoit lez armoities de son peré Now to the issue which M. Milles maketh this Robert to haue in his Booke of succession of Earles pag. 869. viz. William de Ferrars Earle of Derby Petronell or Pernell wife of Henry Lord Stafford and Elizabeth married vnto William Marshall Baron of Rie I confesse William onely but no daughters at all For by a Record of the 26. of King Henry the 3. it is proued that Henry Lord Staffords wifes name was Mabell daughter of Robert Musegros and Agnes his wife daughter of William Earle Ferrars and Derby great grand-sonne of Robert Ferrars Earle of Nottingham which Milles saith died in the holy-land 1190. And for Elizabeâ—h the other daughter to be married to William Marschall Baron of Rye and Hengham in Norfolko which died 1266. that is most vntrue for that William hee meaneth had to his wife Alina daughter and heire of Hubert Baron of Rye and died in the 11. yeare of king Edward the first as by an Inquisition of that date it doth appeare VVIlliam Earle Ferrars Lord of Tutbury in Staffordshire and Oucume in Rutlandshire sonne of the second Robert Earle Ferrars married Margaret daughter and heire of William Peuerill of Nottingham whose grand-father William was the base sonne of William Conqueror begotten of the wife of Randolphe Peuerell of Hatfield Peuerell and had issue Robert and William Robert the eldest sonne in the life time of his Father was made Earle of Nottingham and dyed without issue William the second sonne after the death of his Father was Earle Ferrars and first Earle of Derby This William Earle Ferrars the Father dyed as Roger Houedon hath Fol. 390. b. at Achon in the Holy-Land in the yeare 1190. But Milles in Glouer Somersets Book of successions of Earles pag. 870. hath that he dyed in the yeare 1247. and Margaret his wife to dye in the same year the 32. of king Henry the third which I doubt of Et portoit d'argent à six Ferres de cheual de sable WIlliam de Ferrars the second Earle Ferrars of that christen name was by king Iohn made the first Earle of Derby of that sur-name He married Agnes the third sister and co-heire of Randolphe Blundeuile Earle of Chester and Lincolne in whose right he was Lord of Chartley and had issue William Earle Ferrars and Derby Robert Hugh and Thomas de Ferrars and dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1242. and was buried at Muriuall the 27. of king Henry the third Et portoit vaire d'or de gueulles à la bordure de azur seme Ferrars de cheuall d'argent VVIilliam de Ferrars the third of that name was Earle Ferrars and Derby Lord of Tutbury and Chartley. He married two wiues the first was Sibell daughter of William Marshall the elder Earle of Pembroke and one of the fiue sisters and heyres of Auncelme Marshall
priuy Seale Chancellor of the Exchequer and Iustice of the Forrests Chases to the Riuer of Trent Northward He married three wiues the first was Anne daughter and onely heyre of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex from whom hee was diuorced His second wife was Elizabeth daughter of George Brooke Lord Cobham And his third wife was Helen daughter of George Suaueburgh a Swedian borne but had no issue by any of them He dyed in the yeare 1571. and was buried at Warwicke leauing Anne his sister married to William Herbert Earle of Penbroke his heyre Et portoit d'argent deux barres d'azur à la bordure engresleé de sable HEnry Howard Esquire second sonne of Henry Earle of Surrey beheaded in Anno 1546 and brother of Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke of that name was restored in blood by Queene Mary and by king Iames created Baron of Marnehill at the Tower of London the 13. day of March 1603 and the same day and time he was also created Earle of Northampton c. and died at his house by Charing-Crosse in the yeare 1614. His body was conueighed to Douer Castle and there buried without any solemnity Et portoit les armoiries de Howard à vec la cressant VVIlliam Lord Compton knight of the Bath sonne of Henry Compton knight who was made Baron Compton by writ the eight of May 1572. was created Earle of Northampton by king Iames at Salisbury the second day of August 1618. He married Elizabeth daughter and onely heyre of Sir Iohn Spencer knight sometime Alderman and Maior of London had issue Spencer Lord Compton knight of the Bath at the Creation of Charles Prince of Wales 1616. A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of NOTTINGHAM their Armes Wiues and Children RObert de Ferrars sonne of William Earle Ferrars and of Margaret his wife daughter of William Peuerell Lord of Nottingham disinherited by king Henry the second 1155. for consenting to the poysoning of Randall Earle of Chester was made the first Earle of Nottingham in the life time of his Father and Mother He gaue lands to the church of S. Oswalds by the name of Robert Earle of Nottingham and after died without issue and was buried in the Abbey of Lenton Et portoit vaire d'or de gueulles IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne and heyre of Iohn Lord Mowbray of Axholme and Elizabeth his wife daughter heyre of Iohn Lord Segraue and Margaret his wife daughter and heire of Thomas of Brotherton was created Earle of Nottingham at the Coronation of king Richard the second 1377. and after dyed at London without issue 1381. being but 18. yeares of age his Mother then being liuing After whose death king Richard bestowed the said Earledome of Nottingham vpon Thomas Mowbray this Iohns yonger brother who was after created Duke of Norfolke This Iohn was buried in the White-Fryars or Carmelites Fryars in London the sixt yeare of King Richard the second Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur THomas Lord Mowbray younger Brother of Iohn Lord Mowbray aforesaid was after his brothers death made Earle of Nottingham the sixt of Richard the second and by a Charter bearing date the 12. day of Ianuary the 9. of King Richard the second he had giuen him the name and honour of Earle Marshall of England to him and the heyres Male of his body Before which time they were but Lord Marshals And after in the 21. of the said Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Norfolke permitted to beare the Armes of S. Edward the Confessor impaled with the Armes of the Marshalshippe of England viz. Per pale d'or vert an lyon rampant Gueulles After al which fauours king Richard the second banished this Thomas with Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford Vpon which he tooke such exceeding griefe that he dyed at Venice and was buried there in the Abbey of S. George in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth He married Elizabeth sister and one of the co-heyres of Thomas Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue Thomas Iohn both Earles of Nottingham and Dukes of Norfolke Isabell married to Sir Iames Berkeley knight and Margaret married to Sir Robert Howard knight He writ in his stile Thomas Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Mowbray Segraue Bruse of Gower and Stuteuile Et portoit les armes de son peré THomas Mowbray after the death of Thomas his Father in banishment at Venice was Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England He married Lady Constance daughter of Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and Duke of Excester but by her had no issue He was after accused and found guilty of high treason and for the same was beheaded with Richard Scrope Arch-Bishop of Yorke in the sixt yeare of king Henry the 4. and his body was buried at Yorke Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur IOhn Lord Mowbray second brother of Thomas Mowbray beheaded at Yorke was Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England and in the fourth yeare of king Henry the sixt he was created Duke of Norfolke He married Katherine daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland had issue Iohn Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and Bruse of Gower c. and dyed at his Mannor of Epleworth in the Isle of Axholme and was buried in the Abbey or House of Carthusians there in the yeare 1432. Et portoit les armoiries de son frere IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne of Iohn aforesaid was after the death of his Father Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and Bruse of Gower He married Elianor daughter of William Lord Bourchier and sister of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex by whom he had issue Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolke and dyed in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth 1461. and lyeth buried at Thetford Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne and heyre of Iohn and Elianor Bourchier in the life time of his Father was created Earle Warren and Surrey by king Henry the sixt after the death of his Father he was Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and of Gower He married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Talbot first Earle of Shrewsbury of that name and had issue one onely daughter and heyre named Anne married to Richard Duke of Yorke second sonne of king Edward the fourth who dyed both without issue leauing all the Mowbrayes lands and liuings to be diuided betweene the two Families of Howards and Berkleys He dyed at Framingham Castle in the yeare 1475. and was buried with his Auncestors at Thetford Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam Lord Berkley of Berkley Castle in
Botesworth 1563. Et portoit les armes de son peré EDward Mannors Knight of the Garter sonne and heire of Henry was after the death of his Father the third Earle of Rutland of this Family Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut and cheefe Commissioner appointed by Queene Elizabeth to continue the league betweene her and Iames the sixt King of Scotland now our most dread and Soueraigne Lord and King 1618. there being ioyned with him the Lord Euers Thomas Randolph Esquire and others He married Isabell daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft of the Vale Royall in Cheshire knight by whom he had issue one onely daughter and heyre named Elizabeth married to William Cecill Lord Burghley sonne and heyre of Thomas Earle of Excester by whom he had issue William Lord Ros that died beyond the seas in Italy without issue 1618. This Edward dyed in the 29. yeare of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth and lyeth buried at Botesworth Et portoit d'or deux burelles d'azur au chef escartelle d'azur de gueulles en le premier deux fleur-de-lizes d'or à la second au lyon passant gardant d'or IOhn Mannors brother and heyre male of Edward aforesaid was the fourth Earle of Rutland of that Family Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut and married Elizabeth daughter of Francis Charlton of Apley in Shropshire by whō he had issue Edward that dyed an Infant Roger that was Earle of Rutland Francis Earle of Rutland Sir George Mannors Knight and Oliuer Bridget wife to Sir Robert Tirwhit of Lincolnshire Knight Frances married to William Lord Willoughby of Parham Elizabeth married to Emanuell Lord Scroope of Bolton This Iohn dyed in the yeare 1587. Et portoit les armes de son frere ROger Mannors sonne and heyre of Iohn aforesaide was after the death of his Father the fift Earle of Rutland Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut and married Elizabeth daughter and heyre of that worthy and renowned Sir Philip Sidney knight slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland the 17. of October 1586. and dyed without issue in the yeare 1600. leauing Francis Mannors his brother to succeed him Et portoit d'or à deux burelles d'azur au chef escartelle d'azur de gueulles en la premier deux fleur de-liz d'or à la second au leopard passant d'or FRancis Mannors second sonne of Iohn Earle of Rutland and brother and heyre of Roger the fift Earle of Rutland of this Family was the sixt Earle of Rutland Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter 1618. He married two wiues the first was Mary daughter and one of the co-heyres of Sir Henry Knyuet of the West Country and had issue Katherine His second wife is Cecily daughter of Sir Iohn Tufton knight and widdow of Edward Hungerford by whom he had issue Henry Lord Ros that dyed a childe and Francis Lord Ros of Hamelake now liuing 1618. Et portoit d'or à deux burelles d'azur au chef escartelle d'azur de gueulles en la premier deux fleur-de-liz d'or à la second au leopard passant d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles Riuers their Armes Wiues and Children RIchard Widdeuill Baron of Wimington married Iaquet daughter of Peter of Luxenburgh Earle of S. Paul the widdow of Iohn Duke of Bedford Regent of France for which marriage he was fined to pay to King Henry the sixt the summe of one thousand pounds because hee did the same without the said Kings priuity and consent yet afterwards obtayning the said Kings fauour he was elect Knight of the Garter the 4. of August and enstalled the 30. of October Anno 28. of Henry the sixt and on the 26. of May the 4. of King Edward the fourth he was created Earle Riuers made high Constable of England He had issue by the saide Iaquet seuen Sons and sixe daughters viz. Anthony Widdeuill Earle Riuers after his Father Lewis dyed young Iohn dyed young also Iohn the fourth sonne was slaine with his Father at Edgcote-field Lyonell fift sonne was Bishop of Salisbury and Father to Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester by his Concubine Edward sixt sonne Richard the seuenth sonne was Earle Riuers after Anthony his elder brother Elizabeth the eldest daughter was first married to Sir Iohn Grey of Groby knight and after to King Edward the fourth Margaret was married to Thomas Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell Anne the third daughter was first married to William Bourchier sonne of Henry Earle of Essex and after to George Grey Earle of Kent and thirdly to Sir Edward Wingfield knight Iaquet was married to Iohn Lord Strange of Knocking Mary was wife to William Herbert Earle of Huntington and Katherine the sixt daughter was first married to Henry Stafford second Duke of Buckingham and after to Iasper of Hatfield D. of Bedford This Richard with Iohn his sonne were taken out of the Mannour of Grafton by Robin of Riddesdale Captaine of the lewd people of Northamptonshire and catried to Northampton and there beheaded without any Legall proceeding in the yeare 1469. Et portoit d'argent à la facé quanton de gueulles ANthony Wideuile was after the death of Richard his Father Earle Riuers and Lord Scales in right of his wife Elizabeth daughter and heyre of Thomas Lord Scales of Nucels in Hartfordshire He was made Knight of the Garter in the fift yeare of King Edward the fourth and in the first yeare of King Edward the fift by the procurement of Richard Duke of Glocester then Lord Protectour was sent to Pomfret there beheaded without any iust or lawfull cause laid against him the 13. of Iune 1483. This Anthony had issue onely a base daughter named Margaret who was married to Sir Robert Poynes knight Et portoit les armes de son peré RIchard Wideuile after the death of Anthony his brother without lawfull issue was Earle Riuers Lord Scales of Nucels and Grafton and dyed without issue in the seuenth yeare of King Henry the seuenth leauing his sixe sisters his heyres who were married as aforesaid Et portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Shrewsbury their Armes Wiues and Children ROger de Montegummery Earle of Belismo in Normandy sonne of Hugh de Montegummery of Sibell his wife fift daughter of Herfastus the Dane brother of Gonora wife to Richard the first Duke of Normandy of that Name came into England with William the Conquerour who gaue him the Earledomes of Shrewsbury and Arundell He married Maberia daughter of William Taluaise and sister heyre of Arnold de Belismo and had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters as William Gemiticensis hath Hugh Earle of Shrewsbury slaine at Anglesey in Wales 1097 without issue Robert was also Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell Roger the third sonne was Earle of Poitow and Lord of the Honor of Lancaster in England by the guift of William Ruphus Philip the fourth sonne and Arnold the fift sonne was
part of Humfrey de Bohuns Lands which before were conueyed to Mary the second daughter they being then in the Crowne for that this Duke Henry was then the onely heyre both of Elianor and Mary At which clayme and demand King Richard the third was greatly offended and saide Will you Duke Henry challenge the right of king Henry the fourth by which hee wrongfully held the Crowne and so make way vnto it Which speech of the king went so neere to the Dukes heart that euer after he sought and plotted how he might work the returne of Henry earle of Richmond out of France and to depriue king Richard of his Crowne And to effect the same he raised diuers forces and entred into Armes which King Richard hearing of leuied a greater and went to Salisbury to meete him but the Dukes Army being too weake he was forced to flye for succour to the house of Humfrey Banister his seruant neere Shrewsbury who for hope of gaine betrayed him to Iohn Mitton Shireffe of Shropshire who tooke and conuayed him to Salisbury where without any arraignment or lawfull tryall he was beheaded the second of Nouember 1483. This Duke Henry married Katherine sister and one of the heyres of Richard Wooduill Earle Riuers and had issue Edward Earle Stafford and Duke of Buckingham Henry Earle of Wiltshire and Humfrey that died young He had also two daughters Elizabeth maried to Robert Radcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter and Earle of Sussex and Anne first married to Sir Walter Herbert knight and after to George Lord Hastings Earle of Huntington Et portoit France d'engleterre escartellé an bordur d'argent EDward Stafford sonne and heire of Duke Henry aforesaid was after the death of his Father restored the first of king Henry the seuenth to all his Fathers honours dignities and possessions which king Richard the third tooke from him and was Duke of Buckingham Earle Stafford Hereford and Northampton and Constable of England He married Elianor daughter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland by whom he had issue Henry Lord Stafford for after the death of this Edward the Family of Staffords neuer attained other title of honour then onely of Barons He had issue also three daughters Elizabeth the eldest was married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and Lord high Treasurer of England Katherine the second daughter was married to Raphe Neuill fourth Earle of Westmerland and Mary the third daughter married George Neuile Lord of Abergauenny This Edward was a Prince of high spirit and very ambitious daily plotting of treason against king Henry the eight by which hee ouerthrew himselfe and all his Noble Family and for the same was beheaded at the Tower-Hill by London the 17. of May 1521. in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the eight Les armoiries de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Southampton their Armes Wiues and Children BEauois a Saxon and flower of Chiualry in his time was at the siedge of Yorke in the fourth yeare of William Conqueror and the yeare after fought the great battaile at Cairdiffe in South-Wales against the Normans he was made Earle of Southampton by the said Conqueror and was a Witnesse to his Charter of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of S. Edmonsbury in Suffolke by the name and title of Earle Beauois He dyed without issue knowne the tenth yeare after the Norman Conquest This is that Beauois of Southampton M. Camden in his Britannia pag. 272. saith That whiles the Monkes laboured to set out his fame with their faigned Fables they obscured his doughty and Martiall Actions in Armes VVIlliam Fitz-Williams knight of the Garter Treasurer of the houshold to king Henry the eight Lord Priuy Seale and Lord Admirall of England was created Earle of Southampton at Hampton Court the 29. yeare of the said Kings Reigne He married Mabell daughter of Henry Lord Clifford of Westmerland and sister and heyre of Henry first Earle of Cumberland and dyed without issue at New-Castle vpon Tine the 34. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit lozengie d'argent de â—ueulles THomas Wriothesley Knight of the Garter sonne of William Wriothesley Yorke Herald of Armes and grandchilde to Iohn Wriothesley alias Garter king of Armes was created Baron of Tichfield at Hampton Court the first of Ianuary the 35. of Henry the eight Anno 1543. and Lord Chancellor of England in May the yeare after in which Office he continued vntil the beginning of king Edward the sixt his reign when for his obstinacy in the Romaine Religion he was the sixt of March remoued and William Paulet Lord S. Iohn of Basing put in his place He was after created Earle of South-hampton the 17. of February in the first yeare of king Edward the sixt married Iane daughter and heyre of William Cheney by whom he had issue Henry the second Earle of Southampton of that name and foure daughters Mary the eldest was first married to William Shelley of Michelgroue in Sussex and after to _____ Lister sonne of Sir Michaell Lister knight Elizabeth was wife to Thomas Radcliffe Earle of Sussex Katherine married to Thomas Cornwallis Groom-Porter and Mabell the fourth daughter was wife to Sir Walter Sands knight He dyed at his house called Lincolne Place in Holborne the 30. day of Iuly in the fourth yeare of king Edward the sixt and was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holborne Et portoit d'azur à vn croix d'or enuironne de quatre faulcons close d'argent HEnry Wriothesley sonne and heyre of Thomas aforesaid was after the death of his Father the second Earle of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield He married Mary daughter of Sir Anthony Browne Viscount Mountague and knight of the Garter by whom he had issue Henry Wriothesly the third Earle of Southampton of that Family and Mary married to Thomas Arundell Baron of Warder He dyed at Ythell in Hampshire the fourth of October 1581. and was buried at Titchfield the 23. of Queene Elizabeth Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Wriothesley sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaid was the third Earle of Southampton of this Family and Baron of Tichfield Knight of the Garter and Captaine of the Isle of Wight He married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Iohn Vernon of Hodnet in Staffordshire and had issue Iames Wriothersley Thomas a second sonne Penelope Anne and Elizabeth 1618. Et portoit d'azur à vn croix d'or enuironné de quartre faucons d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Sussex their Armes Wiues and Children VVIlliam de Albeney the third of that Name grand-childe to William de Albeney and Queene Aelidise his wife the widdow of King Henry the first by his sonne William the second was in the life time of his Father created the first Earle of Sussex by King Henry the second and girded with the Sword thereof Roger Houeden pag. 320. a. line 36. 1177. He was faithfull to the said King in all his wars against Henry Courtmantell his sonne the
were the Daughters of William Lord Bruse of Brecknocke begotten of Eua his Wife one of the daughters of William Marshall the elder Earle of Penbrooke So that this Lora was their great Aunt not their mother Mil. pag. 836.  WIlliam de Clynton youngest sonne of Iohn de Clynton and of Ida his wife daughter and one of the heirs of William de Oding sells Baron of Marstoke was by King Edward the third created Earle of Huntington 1337. THis William de Clynton Earle of Huntington here mentioned was sonne of Iohn Lord Clynton and Mauld Beaumont and Grandchild to another Iohn and Idona Mil. pag. 916. Now he hath left out Iohn L. Clynton and Mauld Beaumont the said Williams right father and mother made him son to his Grandfather and Grand mother Idona IOhn Hastings son and heire of Lawrence was the second Earl of Penbroke who at his death lefte Anne Maney his wife great with child of Iohn Hastings the third Earle of Penbroke Mil. pag. 1098. HOw could Margaret daughter of King Edward the third be mother of Iohn Hastings the third Earl of Penbroke when as at the said Iohns death he sayth that Anne Manny his Fathers second wife was great with Childe of him except he proue that he had two Mothers Iohn Hastings third Earl of Penbroke was son of Iohn Hastings second Earle of Penbroke begotten of his first wife Margaret daughter of King Edward the third Milles page 1099.  A Table of the Seuerall Catalogues contained in this Booke ARundell 1 Albemarle 10 Anguish 15 Atholl 17 Buckingham 18 Bedford 21 Britaine Richmond 25 Bath 35 Bridge-water 36 Boughan 37 Chester 37 Cornwall 44 Carlile 51 Cumberland 53 Cambridge 54 Deuonshire 56 Derby 65 Dorset 73 Essex 78 Excester 85 Ewe or Augie 88 Ferrars 65 Glocester 90 Hartford 90 Hereford 99 Huntington 105 Kent 114 Kendall 121 Lincolne 122 Lancaster 127 Leicester 131 March 137 Mountague 140 Mountgomery 142 Northumberland 142 Norfolke 151 Northampton 161 Nottingham 165 Oxford 169 Penbroke 177 Rutland 189 Richmond Britaine 25 Riuers 193 Shrewsbury 194 Salisbury 200 Suffolke 208 Somerset 213 Stafford 219 Southampton 223 Sussex 225 Surrey 230 Tankeruile 239 Viscounts 269 Winchester 239 Worcester 244 Wiltshire 248 Westmerland 252 Warwicke 255 Yorke 265 Faults escaped in Printing to be Corrected thus IN Edward the 1. Children by his first wife reade Elianor borne the 50. yeare of her Grand-fathers Reigne In Edw. 1. Children by his second wife line 20. reade Edward the third for Edward the fourth In Edward the seconds issue reade Iohn of Eltham died in Anno 1334. for 1354. In Henry the 8. base children reade Henry Fitz-Roy created Earle of Nottingham at seuen yeares of age Pag. 13. line 33. reade Dunster for Dunsteth Pag. 18. line 9. reade before He maried by the name of Earle of Buckinghā Pag. 20. line 12. reade Vrsula for Vrsuld Page 21. line 22. reade Apulia for Turkey Page 22. line 39. reade Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams Father of William Pag. 23. line 1. reade Katherine for Margaret Ibid. line 4. reade 31. for 13. Page 24. line 7. reade Hampton-Court for the Tower of London Ibid. line 10. reade third for second Ibid. line 11. reade second for third Ibid. line last reade hath issue for had no issue Page 29. line 17. reade Euerard for Euerus Page 34. line 33. reade Tarbolton for Trebant Page 36. line 6. reade Edward Lord Fitz-Walter for Richard Ibidem The Earle of Bridgwaters Armes vide 276. Page 37. line 23. reade Aurenches for Aurenges Ibid. line 29. reade Rufus for Ruphus Pag. 38. line 18. reade Morcar for Mocar Pag. 39. line 11. reade Robert Quincy sonne of Sayre Earle of Winchester Page 47 line 23. reade Gauershith for Gauershife Page 48. line 22. reade Wenselaus for Veselanus Page 52. line 16. reade Dreux for Drux In the beginning of the Earles of Clare line 1. reade Richard sonne of Gilbert for Richard Fitz-Gilbert Ibid. line 11. reade 1131 for 1331. Ibid. leafe 2. line 26. reade Gilbert for Iohn Ibid. at Rich. the second Earle of Glocester line 8. reade Beuis for Benet Ibid. last page line 18. reade Kyme for Kent Page 54. reade Edward Neuill for Henry Neuill Pag. 62. line 11. reade Grandchilde for Grandfather Page 63. line 7. reade Somersetshire for Deuonshire Pag. 64 line 17. reade Sir William Maynard for Sir Henry Page 71. line 19. leaue out Einsham in Oxford Pag. 73 line 3. reade 217. for 2171. Pag. 74 line 16. reade Edmond Beauford sonne of Iohn Beauford Errata Page 79 line 29. reade for Geffrey Fitz-Piers Armes Et portoit escartelle d'or et de gueulles au bordure vaire Page 83. line 29. reade Sir Nicholas Tufton for Sir Iohn Pag. 83 line 32. In Parr reade 36 for 25. Ibid. line 30. reade Baron Parr of Kendall Page 90. line 20. reade Baieux for Bayon Page 98. line 21. reade was made Baron Seymour and Duke c. Pag. 99 line 11. reade sonne of Osberne Page 104. for Henry Plantagenets Armes reade Semè de France escartellè D'engleterre au lambell d'hermines Pag. 109 line 7. reade 1219. as Sir Robert Cotton saith Pag. 117 line 2. reade Sir Thomas Holland sonne of Sir Robert Pag. 120 line 16 reade Sir Henry Grey second sonne for third Pag. 122 line 34 reade 1151 for 111. Pag. 136 line 19 reade 1588. for 1586. Page 150. line 25 reade Sir Thomas Stanley for Sir Edward Ibid. line 42. adde Elianor Percy wife to Sir William Herbert Pag. 153 line 15 reade partition for petition Pag. 176. line 14. reade Elizabeth for Anne Ibid. line 16. reade 18. Earle of Oxford for 19. Pag. 187 line the last reade du trois lyons for lyons Page 190. line first reade Edmond Plantagenet third son for son and heyre Ibid. line 1. reade Edmond Plantagenet third son of Richard Duke of Yorke Page 191. line 9. leaue out Elianor married to Iohn Bourchier Page 192. line 16. reade Frances for Mary Pag. 199 line last reade 1616 for 1618. Page 202. line 24. reade 11. for 9. Page 210. line 4. reade had issue for had no issue Pag. 212 line 23. reade Harington for Huntington Page 213. line 6. leaue out Queene Elizabeth Page 214. line 8. reade Hugh for Henry Vere Page 215. line 23. reade which was by King Henry 8. to The Bullen as in pa. 250 Page 223. line 21. leaue out heyre Ibid. line 21. reade sister for sister and heyre Pag. 233 line 11. reade 38 for 28. Pag 234 line 12. reade 1347 for 1357. Page 242. line 33. reade M. 11. for M. 2. Pag. 263. line 8. reade Henry Lord Mountague Ibid. line the last reade 1499 for 1599. Page 265. line 3. reade Chancellor for Treasurer FINIS
of Derby and Henry that dyed young of the sweat Margaret the daughter married Robert Radcliff Earle of Sussex This Thomas dyed in the 13. yeare of king Henry the eight 1521. Et portoit les armoities de son pere D'argent à la bande d'azur chargee de trois testes du cerf dor EDward Lord Stanley of Lathum Strange of Knocking of Man Son of Thomas aforesaid was the 3. Earle of Derby of that Family who had three wiues the first was Dorothea daughter of Thomas Howard the second D. of Norfolke by whom he had issue three sonnes and foure daughters Henry who after his Father was the fourth Earle of Derby Sir Edward Stanley of Einsham in Oxfordshire knight and Sir Thomas Stanley knight who married Margaret daughter and one of the heyres of George Vernon of Derbyshire knight Anne the eldest daughter was first married to Charles Lord Sturton and after to Sir Iohn Arundell of Cornwall knight Elizabeth was wife to Henry Parker Lord Morley Iane married to Edward Lord Dudley and Mary the fourth daughter was wife to Edward Lord Stafford This Edward had to his second wife Margaret daughter of Ellis Barlow of Lancashire by whom he had issue George that dyed young Katherine wife to Sir Thomas Kniuet knight Margaret married to Iohn Iermyn of Rushbrooke in Suffolke Lastly the said Edward married to his third wife Mary daughter of George Cotton but by her had no issue He dyed at Lathum the 24. of October in the 14. yeare of the most happy Queene Elizabeth and was buried at Burscogh two miles from Lathum Et portoit les armoiries de son pere HEnry Lord Stanley of Lathum Strange of Knocking and of Man sonne and heire of Edward was the fourth Earle of Derby of that sur-name and knight of the Garter He married Margaret daughter of Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland and Elianor his wife daughter and one of the co-heires of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by Mary Q. of France his wife and had issue Edward that dyed young FErdinando and William both Earles of Derby one after the other He dyed in the yeare 1593 and was buried at Et portoit d'argent à la bande d'azur chargee de trois testes de cerf d'or FErdinando Lord Stanley Strange and of the Isle of Man Sonne and Heire of Henry Earle of Derby was after his Father the fift Earle of Derby Lord Strange and of the Isle of Man and married Alice daughter of Sir Iohn Spencer of Northamptonshire knight and had issue three daughters his heires generall Anne married to Grey Bruges Lord Shandos Frances the second daughter was married to Sir Iohn Egerton knight and after Earle of Bridgwater and Elizabeth the third daughter was married to Henry Lord Hastings Earle of Huntingdon He dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1594 and was buried at Et portoit d'es armes de son pere WIlliam Lord Stanley Strange and of the Isle of Man second sonne of Henry Earle of Derby and Brother and heire Male of Ferdinando was the sixt Earle of Derby and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter He married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Edward Vere late Earle of Oxford by Anne Cicell his wife daughter of William Lord Burleigh and Lord Treasurer of England and hath issue Iames Lord Strange Robert second sonne and Anne married to Sir Henry Portman of Orchard in Somersetshire Baronet 1618. Et Portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Marquesses and Earles of Dorfet their Armes Wiues and Children OSmond Earle of Seez in Normandy was by William Conqueror made Bishop of Salisbury after the first Earle of Dorset as M. Camden hath in his Britannia pag. 217◠But Milles in Somerset Glouers Booke of the successions of Earles pag. 392. hath that the said Osmond was Earle of Somerset and therefore to which I shall giue credite I leaue to the indifferent Reader IOhn Brother of king Richard the first was Earle of Morton Lancaster and Cornwall and Lord of the Mannour of Wallingford Marlesburgh and Tikell and in the right of Haw is his wife daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocester Earle of Glocester and after by the guift of king Richard the first Earle of Somerset and Dorset and lastly King of England by the name of King Iohn Et portoit D'engleterre à la bande d'azur IOhn sur-named Beaufort sonne of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by the Lady Katherine Swynford his third wife was created Earle of Somerset at a Parliament held the 20. yeare of king Richard the second and in the 21. yeare of the said kings reigne he was created Marquesse Dorset and Lord Chamberlaine of England and in the first yeare of King Henry the fourth he was by Parliament deposed from the title of Marquesse Dorset and remained onely Earle of Somerset This Iohn with the rest of the Children which Iohn of Gaunt had before marriage of the said Lady Swynford were made legitimate by Parliament held at London in the yeare 1397. He married Margaret daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Duke of Surrey and one of the sisters and heires of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Lord Wake by whom he had issue Iohn Duke of Somerset and Edmond both Dukes of Somerset and Thomas a third sonne he had also two daughters Iane married to Iames the first king of Scots and Margaret which was married to Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuonshire This Iohn dyed in the 13. yeare of king Henry the fourth Et portoit escartellé France seme D'engleterre à la bordure gobonne d'argent d'azur THomas Beaufort third sonne of Iohn of Gaunt by the Lady Katherine Swynford was Earle of Perch and after created Earle of Dorset in the 13. yeare of king Henry the fourth 1412. And in the fourth yeare of king Henry the fift hee was created Duke of Exeter and had the leading of the Rereward at the battell of Egincourt and after dyed without issue at his house at Greenwich in the fift yeare of king Henry the sixt being Gouernor of the kings person He was buried at S. Edmonds-burie in Suffolke Et portoit escartellé France seme D'engleterre à la bordure gobonne d'ar gent de azur EDmond Beaufort second sonne of Beaufort Earle of Somerset and grand-childe to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was Earle of Moriton in Normandy Lord of Chirke Chirk-land in Wales by the gift of king Henry the fift and after was created Earle of Dorset in the 21. of king Henry the sixt 1442. And in the 23. of the said kings reigne he was created Marquesse Dorset and lastly in the 25. of king Henry the sixt he was created Duke of Somerset He was Regent of France and comming into England was slaine at the first battell of S. Albons on the part of king Henry the sixt against Richard Duke of Yorke and was buried in the Abbey at S. Albons He married
rampant d'azur escartelle de gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent IOhn Dudley knight was first created Viscount Lisle the 33. yeare of King Henry the eight and in the first yeare of King Edward the sixt he was created Earle of Warwicke and the eleuenth of October in the fift yeare of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Northumberland He married Iane daughter and hâ—yre of Sir Edward Guilford knight and had issue eight sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Henry who dyed at Bullen Iohn Earle of Warwicke who dyed without issue Thomas dyed young Ambrose Earle of Warwicke who dyed without issue Robert Earle of Leicester dyed also without any lawfull issue Guilford Dudley beheaded with the Lady Iane his wife Henry slaine at S. Quintins and Charles the yongest sonne dyed a Childe Lady Mary the eldest daughter was married to Sir Henry Sidney knight of the Garter and Lord President of Wales Father of Robert Baron of Penshurst Viscount Lisle Earle of Leicester and Knight of the Garter Lady Margaret dyed young Lady Katherine third daughter married Henry Hastings Earle of Huntington Lady Temperance and Lady Katherine dyed both young This great Duke on the 22. day of August in the first yeare of Queene Mary was beheaded at the Tower-Hill with Sir Iohn Gates and Sir Thomas Palmer knights Iohn Cocke Lancaster Herald some-time seruant to this Duke begged of Queene Mary to bury the head of his olde Master in the Tower of London which was granted him with the whole body and performed accordingly In remembranee whereof the said Lancaster did euer after beare for his Creast a Beares head siluer crowned gold Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant à la queué nouce de vert armé lampassé de gueulles THomas Percy Nephew to Henry Percy the sixt Earle of Northumberland by Thomas his brother put to death by K. Henry the 8. as aforesaid after the death of Iohn Duke of Northumber land was by Queene Mary restored in blood and by Letters Patents bearing date 1557. created a new Lord Percy and the seuenth Earle of Northumberland of that Family to him and the heyres male of his body and for default thereof to his brother Henry and the heyres male of his body After Queene Elizabeth made him knight of the Garter in the fift yeare of her Reigne of which he was degraded in the yeare 1569. for rebellion with Charles Earle of Westmerland and afterwards attainted by Parliament in Anno 1571 and lastly was beheaded at Yorke in the yeare 1572. He married Anne daughter of Henry Somerset Earle of Worcester and sister of William Earle of Worcester had issue Thomas that dyed young Elizabeth married to Richard Woodroofe of Yorkshire Mary wife to Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland knight Lucie married to Sir Edward Stanley of Einsham in Oxfordshire knight a younger sonne of Edward Stanley Earle of Derby and Iane married to the Lord Henry Seymour brother to the now Earle of Hartford Et portoit d'or an lyon rampant d'azur armé lampasse de gueulles escartelle de gueul es à trois Luces hauriant d'argent SIr Henry Percy knight second brother of Thomas aforesaid was after his said brothers death and attaindure by vertue of the former entayle and Grant the eight Earle of Northumberland in the 16. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and after being accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London shot himselfe to death with a Dag charged with two Bullets before either his cause was heard or he arraigned in the yeare 1585. Hee married Katherine one of the daughters and co-heyres of Iohn Neuill Lord Latimer by whom he had issue Henry now the 9. Earle of Northumberland 1618. Thomas that dyed young William third sonne Sir Charles Percy knight Richard Percy Sir Alan Percy knight Sir Ioceline Percy knight and George Percy Esquire Anne Percy dyed young and Lucy married to Sir Iohn Wotton knight Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant d'azur escartelle Lucy qui est gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent HEnry Lord Percy sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaide after the death of his Father was the ninth Earle of Northumberland Lord Poynings Fitz-Payne and Bryan hee was made Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter by Q. Elizabeth Anno 1593. and of the priuy Counsell to King Iames. He married Dorothy daughter of Walter Deuereux Earle of Essex and widdow of Sir Thomas Perrot knight by whom he hath issue two sonnes and two daughters Sir Algernon Percy Lord Percy and knight of the Bath at the Creation of Prince Charles and Henry Percy a second sonne Lady Dorothy Percy the eldest daughter married to Sir Robert Sidney Lord Lisle and Knight of the Bath at the creation of Prince Henry and Lady Luce the second daughter married Iames Lord Hayes Viscount of Doncaster 1618. Et portoit dor au lyon rampant d'azur escartelle gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Norfolke their Armes Wiues and Children Et portoit d'or à la croix de gueulles This Roger married Isabell daughter of Hamelyn Plantagenet base sonne of Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Anioye Earle Warren and Surrey and had issue Hugh Bigot Earle of Norfolke and others He dyed and was buried at Thetford Et portoit les armes de son peré This Roger married Isabell daughter of William king of Seots and sister of king Alexander and dyed of a bruise running at Tilt without issue Anno 1269. Leauing Roger his Nephew sonne of Hugh his Brother to succeede him in his Earledome Et portoit party pale d'or de vert au lyon rampant de gueulles Et portoit party pale d'or de vert au lyon rampant de gueulles Et portoit d'engleterre au lambell d'argent Et portoit lez Armoiries d'engleterre au lambell d'argent Et portoit gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur Et portoit les arm es de son peré Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur Et portoit gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre au lambell d'argent chargee d' e neuf torteaux Et portoit de gueulles à la bande entre six croix recroisettees au pred fiché d'argent Et portoit de gueulles à la bande à six croix recroisettees fitchez d'argent Et portoit les armoiries de son peré Et portoit de gueulles à la band à six croix recroisette es pied fiche d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Marquesses and Earles of Northampton their Armes Wiues and Children VVAltheof sonne of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland married Iudith Niece to William Conqueror and daughter of Lambert Earle of Lens in Artoys with whom the said Conquerour gaue in marriage the Earledomes of Huntington and Northampton by whom he had issue three daughters his heyres Mauld the eldest was
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
vnto which Isabell the Castle and Honour of Arundell fell by partition Some late Writers haue set downe that in respect the Family of Fitz-Alans had the Castle of Arundell they were Earles of Arundell which to me is very strange that a dead Stone or Castle made of Stones and Timber can giue an honour title of dignity to a liuing creature But this is contradicted and proued vntrue by many examples where Noblemen haue solde the place whereof their Title of Honour was and yet notwithstanding both they and their heyres haue retained their titles of honour still and can it be better manifested then in this very Family of Fitz-Alans For had not this Richards Father his Grand-father and great Grand-father all three Iohns the possession of the Castle of Arundell with the appurtenances and yet neuer any of them earles therof c. This Richard married Alison daughter of the Marquesse of Saluce in Italy and had issue Edmond Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell beheaded at Hereford 1326. as is more at large in the Title of Earles of Arundell He dyed in the 30. yeare of King Edward the first 1301. Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampani d'or armé lampasse d'azur RObert Radcliffe sonne of Iohn Radcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter was Knight of the Garter Lord Fitz-Walter Egrement and Burnell and after created Viscount Fitz-Walter at Bridewell the 18. of Iune in the 17. yeare of King Henry the eight and the 8. of December in the 21. yeare of the saide Kings reigne he was created at White-Hall Earle of Sussex He married three wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham by whom he had issue Henry Lord Fitz-Walter Sir Humfrey Radcliffe of Elstow knight and George Radcliffe third sonne His second wife was Margaret sister of Edward Earle of Derby by whom he had issue Anne wife to Thomas Lord Wharton and Iane married to Sir Anthony Browne Viscount Mountague His third wife was Mary daughter of Sir Iohn Arundell of Cornwall knight by whom he had issue Sir Iohn Radcliffe knight who dyed without issue in the yeare 1566. and was buried in S. Olaues in Hartstreete in London This Earle Robert dyed at Chelsey the 28. of Nouember 1542 the 34. of King Henry the eight Et portoit d'argent à la bande engresley de sable HEnry Radcliffe sonne and heyre of Robert aforesaid after the death of his Father was Earle of Sussex Viscount Fitz-Waâ—ter Lord Egremont and Burnell and knight of the Garter married two wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke by whom he had issue Thomas the third Earle of Sussex of this Family and Henry the fourth Earle of Sussex and Francis His second wife was Anne daughter of Sir Philip Calthorp knight by whom he had issue Egremont Radcliffe attainted of treason Mary married to Sir Thomas Mildmey of Essex knight This Henry dyed in the fourth yeare of Queene Mary 1557. and was buried in S. Laurence Poultneys Church neere London-Stone in London Et portoit les armes de son peré D'argent à la bande engresley de sable THomas Radcliffe sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaide was after the death of his Father Earle of Sussex Viscount Fitz-Walter Lord Egremont Burnell and Knight of the Garter Lord Chamberlaine of the Houshold to Queene Elizabeth and Iustice of Eyre of all the Forrests and Parkes beyond the Trent He married two wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Wriothesley Earle of Southampton by whom he had issue Henry and Robert that dyed young without issue His second wife was Frances daughter of Sir William Sidney knight and sister of Sir Henry Sianey knight of the Garter He dyed without issue at his house at Bermondsey in Southwarke the 9. of Iune 1583. and was very honourably carried through London to New Hall in Essex and there buried with a Hearse and the Officers of Armes giuing their attendance the 9. of Iuly after Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Radcliffe second sonne of Henry the second Earle of Sussex and brother and heyre of Thomas the third Earle of Sussex was after the death of his brother the fourth Earle of Sussex of his Family Viscount Fitz-Walter Lord Egremont and Burnell Knight of the Garter and Captaine of Ports-mouth married Honora daughter and heyre of Anthony Pound of Hampshire Esquire and had issue Robert Radcliffe the fift Earle of Sussex He dyed in the yeare 1593. Et portoit d'argent à la bande engreslee de sable RObert Radcliffe sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaid was after the death of his Father the fift Earle of Sussex of that Family Viscount Fitz-Walter Lord Egremont and Burnell and knight of the Garter 1618. Hee married Bridget daughter of Sir Charles Morison knight by whom hee had issue Henry Radcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter who married Iane daughter of Sir Michaell Stanhop knight Thomas Radcliffe second sonne Elizabeth wife to Sir Iohn Ramsey Viscount Hadington and Honora Radcliffe Et portoir d'argent à la band engreslee de sable A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Surrey their Armes Wiues and Children Donaui c. pro salute Domini mei Willielmi Regis qui me in Angliam adduxit pro salute Dominae meae Matildis Reginae matris vxoris meae prosalute Domini mei Willielmi Regis fillij sui post cuius aduentum in Anglicam terram hanc Chartam feci qui me Comitem Surregiae fecit c. To this will I adde this taken out of the Originall booke of Lewis which I hope will ende this Controuersie and cleare the doubt Willielmus de Warren primus Comes Surrey et fundator Ecclesiae Lewensis diem suum clausit extremum viij Kal. Iulij Anno gratiae 1088. et fundationis Ecclesiae praedictae xi et A conquestu xxiij Iste primo non vocabitur nisi solummodo Willielmus de Waren postea vero processu temporis a Willielmo Rege et Conquestore Angliae cuius filiam disponsauit plurimum Honoratus est atque comes Surrey factus et appellatus est Iste iacet in Capello Lewensis iuxta Domina Gundradam Comitissam suam et filiam praedicti Regis Conquestoris c. By this it is manifestly proued that William the Conqueror and not William Ruphus did create and make this William de Warren the first Earle of Surrey Also it is to be remembred that the Countesse Gundred died three yeares before her Husband and two yeares before her Father and how could she then haue the Title and Name of Countesse vnlesse her Husband had beene an Earle before she dyed in William Conquerors time Et portoit Eschequetteé d'or d'azur Et portoit les armes de son peré Et portoit les armoiries de son peré Et portoir de gueulles à trois palz de vair au chef d'or charge de vn Aigle de gueulles membrez becquez d'azur Et portoit semé de France à la bordure
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
sight of the blinde and mishapen whelps which the ouer-hasty brought forth But now as well for the Reasons afore-shewed as also at the instance of some of my Honourable Friends I haue thought meete hauing first made his Maiesty acquainted therewith to publish and present the same vnto your Lordships wherein besides the errors aboue cited your Honours shall haue heere in the next leafe following many others yea such as cry out to bee reformed by your authority which I trust of your owne Noble care and Honourable dispositions you will so execute that henceforth the Nobility and Gentry of this Land together with the Officers of Armes may hold their owne better And that the vndigested Notes of dead Heraulds and Painters bookes to the preiudice of the liuing be not published by any And that in these matters of Armes and Descents none but sworn Officers of Armes may be suffered to meddle yea that amongst our selues none may be suffered to giue the ancient Ensignes and tokens of Honour and Armes vnto such as haue neither Descent nor Deserts to commend nor enable them thereunto These and the like abuses done to our Profession are enough my good Lords for me to point at by way of Epistle and fully sufficient I hope to draw your Honourable cares for amendment thereof But many more great errors haue I likewise discouered yea almost in euery page of my Booke which Booke with my poore endeuours I humbly offer vnto your most Noble protection and Patronage And if your Honors shall be pleased fauourably to censure and accept the same as earnestly I wish and pray you I shall thinke my paines heerein well bestowed take encouragement to perfect and finish a farre greater worke begun in this my Profession otherwise to do you the best seruice I am able Your Lordships deuoted in all duty and seruice RAPHE BROOKE Yorke Herauld A CATALOGVE OF THE Kings of England since the Norman Conquest their Armes Wiues and Children For the authority of the Armes of the Kings of England from William Conquerors time to king Richard the first I finde none of any great credite but what hath beene vsed by traditions that will I set downe as I finde them William Conqueror as it is saide vsed the Armes of Rollo the Dane and first Duke of Normandy which he bare as belonging to the Dukedome of Normandy Gueulles deux Lyons passant gardant d'or His Issue Robert sur-named Curtuoise which is Short Bootes being Duke of Normandy was taken prisoner at Tenarchbray in Normandy in the yeare 1106. and by commandement of William his brother he had both his eyes put out and dyed in the Castle of Cairdiffe in the yeare 1134. when he had beene prisoner there 28. yeares and was buried at Glocester He married Sibill sister of William Earle of Conuersana in Italy by whom he had issue William and Henry Richard second sonne of William Conqueror was slaine in the New Forrest by a Stag and was buried at Winchester William the third sonne sur-named Ruphus of his red haire serued vnder his Father at the battaile of Gerberoth in Normandy where hee was wounded After being King and hunting in the New Forrest the second of August Walter Tirrell a French Knight shot him with an Arrow whereof he presently dyed in the yeare 1100. hauing reigned twelue yeares and eleuen moneths being 43. yeares olde Henry the fourth sonne was borne at Selby in Yorkshire 1070. and sur-named Beauclarke or sine Scholler was by his Father knighted at Westminster in the yeare 1086. Cicely eldest daughter borne in Normandy was Abbesse at Cane where shee dyed without issue Constance the second daughter married to Alan Earle of Britaine sur-named Fergant dyed without issue and was buried at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolke This is that Constance which the honest man Dolman alias Parsons setteth downe to haue issue Conan le Grosse the second Duke of Britaine and Conan le Grosse to haue issue Hoell disinherited by his Father and Bertha married to Eudo Earle of Porret Alice the third daughter was married to Stephen Earle of Bloys in France and had issue King Stephen and others and after professed her selfe a Nun at Marciquy in France and was there buried Ela in her childhood was promised in marriage to King Herauld of England but hee refused her and married another by reason whereof she died vnmarried without issue Gundred the fift daughter married William de Warren a Nobleman of Normandy whom William Conqueror made Earle of Surrey by whom she had issue William the second Earle Warren and Surrey and dyed in childebed at Castle-Acre in Norfolke and was buried at Lewis in Sussex 1085. Margaret the sixt daughter promised to Alphonsus King of Gallicia in Spain and dyed without issue William Peuerell base sonne of William Conqueror was Lord of Nottingham and had issue William a sonne King William Rufus WIlliam Rouse or Rufus sur-named of his red haire the third sonne of William Conqueror This William serued vnder his Father at the battaile of Gerberoth in Normandy where he was wounded He began his Reigne of King of England the ninth day of September in the yeare of our Lord 1087. was crowned at Westminster by Lanfranke Archbishoppe of Canterbury the first day of October He was of person a square man red coloured his haire somewhat yellow his eyes not one like another he was of meane stature somewhat big bellied hee was very variable inconstant couetous and cruell he ouer-burdened his Subiects with vnreasonable taxes pilled the rich and oppressed the poore And being a hunting in the New Forrest the second day of August in the yeare 1100. Sir Walter Tirrell a French Knight shooting at a Deere vnawares smote him in the breast that he fell downe starke dead and neuer spake word His body being conuayed to Winchester was there buried in the 43. yeare of his age hauing reigned almost thirteene yeares leauing no issue to succeed him Les armes de son peré King Henry the first His second wife was Adelicia daughter of Godfrey first Duke of Louaine and sister of another Godfrey and Iocelyn of Louaine She was married the 29. of Ianuary 1121. and continued his wife fifteene yeares but had no issue by him She was after married to William de Albeney Earle of Arundell by whom she had issue William the second Earle of Arundell Godfrey and Ioane married to Iohn Earle of Angi. This Henry dyed of a surfet at Dennises in the Forrest of Lions in Normandy the first day of December in the yeare 1135. being about 67. yeares olde hauing reigned King 35. yeares and foure Moneths In this Henry ended the line of the heyres male of the Norman Kings hauing reigned heere 69. yeares after whom came the French by marrying the heyre generall Les armoiries de son peré His Issue William sonne of King Henry and Queene Mauld his first wife was borne in the yeare 1102. and being 14. yeares old the Nobility did him
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
brought and deliuered to Sir Robert Mallet Knight who sent him to the Tower of London and after banished the Land and all his goods confiscated to the Kings vse William Brampton Roger Leicester Iohn Luneth and Richard Lithbury before named being accused of wrongfull iudgements and other foule mis-demeanors were deliuered out of the Tower of London by paying each of them a thousand Markes fyne and Salomon de Rogester Thomas de Sudington Richard de Boiland and Walter de Hopton Iustices that rode the circuites were charged with the like offences were punished accordingly Sir Raphe de Hingham a Iustice of great account and who had the managing of the whole affaires of the Realme was charged with many notorious abuses and purchased his peace with a great summe of money Adam de Stretten Lord Chiefe-Baron of the Exchecquer a man of great possessions lost all his liuings and 34. thousand Markes in ready money and yet it was thought he had great fauour in that he lost not his life King Edward married two wiues and had issue by them both Queene Elianor his first Wife was sister of Alphonsus King of Castile and daughter of Ferdinando the third She was married to him at Bures in Spaine 1254. and was crowned with him and liued with him 36. yeares and dyed at Herdeby in Lincolnshire the 29. of Nouember 1290. and was buried at Westminster and at euery place where she rested comming from Herdeby he erected a Crosse Margaret his second wife was sister of Philip the faire King of France and eldest daughter of Philip the Hardy son of S. Lewis she was married vnto him at Canterbury the 8. of September 1299. She ouer-liued King Edward and remained a Widdow ten yeares after and dyed the 10. of Edward the second 1317. and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London before the high Altar in the Quier which before she had built King Edward dyed at Brugh vpon the Sands in the yeare 1307. the seuenth of Iuly when he had reigned 34. yeares seuen moneths and odde dayes being 68. yeares olde and was buried at Westminster vnto which Church he had giuen a hundred pound lands a yeare Et portoit de gueulles au trois lyons paffant gardant d'or armé lampasse d'azur His Issue by his first Wife Iohn eldest sonne borne at Winchester and dyed a childe and was buried at Westminster the 8. of August in the last yeare of King Henry the third Henry second sonne dyed young his Father being then in the Isle of Cicill was buried at Westminster the 20. of Nouember 1272. Alphons third sonne borne in the Towne of Mayne in Gascoigne as his Father and Mother were comming out of the Holy-Land to England the 23. of Nouember 1273. and dyed at Windesore the 4. of August 1285. and was buried at Canterbury Edward the fourth sonne borne at Cairnaruon in North Wales the 25. of Aprill 1284. After the death of Lewellyn ap Griffith was created Prince of Wales by his Father being the first of the Kings sonnes of England that had that Title He was also Earle of Ponthieu and of Chester and was made Knight by his Father on Whitsonday 1306. Elianor eldest daughter borne at Windesore in the 50. yeare of her Fathâ—â—â— Reigne and was married with a Proxie to a Deputy for Alphons King of Arragon sonne of King Peter who dyed before marriage leauing his Kingdome to his Brother Iames. She was after married at Bristow 1292. to Henry the third Earle of Barrie in Champayne in France and had issue Edward Earle of Barrie from whom the Dukes and Earles of Barrie do descend Ioane her daughter was married to Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey in England Ioane second daughter was borne at Acon in the Holy-Land where her Mother remained during her Fathers wars with the Sarrazins and beeing 18. yeares olde was married to Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford by whom she had issue Gilbert Earle of Clare slaine in Scotland without issue and others as in the Title of Earles of Glocester She married to her second husband Sir Raphe Mounthermer Knight who during his wiues life was Earle of Glocester and sate in all Parliaments by that Title She liued 38. yeares and dyed in the first yeare of the Reigne of King Edward the second and was buried in the Fryers Augustines in Clare Margaret third daughter borne in the Castle of Windesore 1275. and at 18. yeares of age was married at Westminster on the 9. day of Iuly 1290. to Iohn the second Duke of Brabant and had issue Iohn the third Father of Margaret wife of Lewis of Mechlyn Earle of Flanders and Mother of the Lady Margaret heyre of Brabant and Flanders who was married to Phillip Duke of Burgundy Berengaria the fourth daughter borne 1276. and dyed a childe Alice the fift daughter dyed young Mary sixt daughter borne at Windesore the 22. of Aprill 1279. was at ten yeares of aâ—â— made a Nun at Ambresbury in Wiltshire at the request of Queene Elianor her Grand-mother who at that time was Lady Abbesse there Elizabeth the seuenth daughter was borne in Rutland Castle in Flintshire 1284. and being 14. yeares olde was married at London to Iohn the first of that name Earle of Holland and Lord of Freezeland who dyed two yeares after without issue After whose death she was married to Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford without any dowry by whom she had issue Iohn and Humfrey as in the Title of Earles of Hereford Beatrix the eight daughter of King Edward the first Blanch the ninth daughter dyed a Childe Issue by Queene Margaret the second Wife Thomas the fift sonne of King Edward the first was borne at Brotherton a little Village in Yorkshire in the yeare 1300. and was after the death of Roger Bigot created Earle of Norfolke and Marshall of England He had two wiues the first was Alice daughter of Sir Roger Hayles of Harwich in Suffolke by whoÌ„ he had issue Edward and others as in the Title of Earles of Norfolke His second wife was Mary daughter of William Lord Ros widdow of Sir Raphe Cobham who out liuing him married the third time William Lord Bruse of Brember in Sussex Edmond the sixt sonne was borne at Woodstocke in Oxfordshire the fift of August 1301. and was created Earle of Kent He married Margaret daughter of Iohn and sister and sole heyre of Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell in Northamptonshire and had issue two sonnes that dyed without issue and one daughter as in the Title of Earles of Kent The daughter was Ioane sur-named The faire Maid of Kent first married to William Mountague Earle of Salisbury from whoÌ„ being diuorced she was after married to Sir Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and by him had issue Thomas and Iohn both Dukes of Surrey and Earles of Huntington Lastly she married for her third husband Edward the blacke Prince had issue King Richard the second This Edmond was beheaded at Winchester the 19. of
the 21. of Iune 1377. after hee had liued 65. yeares and reigned 50. yeares 4. moneths and 28. dayes His body was conuayed from Sheene by his foure sonnes Lionell Duke of Clarence Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Cambridge with others and was buried at Westminster His Issue Edward eldest sonne borne at Woodstocke the fifteenth of Iuly 1329. was created Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall and Earle of Chester and Earle of Kent in right of his Wife Ioane daughter of Edmond Earle of Kent brother by the Father to King Edward the second She had bin twice married before first to the Earle of Salisbury and after to Thomas Holland She had issue by Prince Edward two sonnes Edward borne at Angolesme who died yong and Richard borne at Burdeaux who was after King of England by the name of King Richard the second This Prince had issue also two bastard sonnes Sir Iohn Sounder and Sir Roger Claridon Knights the latter was attainted in King Henry the fourths time William second sonne was borne at Hatfield in Hartfordshtre 1335. and was sur-named William of Hatfield he had his christen name of William Earle of Henauls his grand father and dyed in his childhood and was buried at Yorke Lionell third sonne was borne in the Citty of Antwerpe the 29. of Nouember 1338. and was sur-named of Antwerpe He had two Wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter and heyre of William Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland in whose right he was first created Earle of Vlster And because he had with her the Honour of Clare in Norfolke as parcell of the Inheritance of her Grandmother Elizabeth sister and co-heyre of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester He was in Parliament 1362. created Duke of Clarence from which Dutchic the name of Clarenceux King of Armes of the South parts of England taketh his denomination He had issue by the saide Elizabeth one onely daughter named Phillip married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March Grand-father of Anne Countesse of Cambridge Grand-mother of King Edward the fourth He was after married at Millaine in Lumbardy to the Lady Violanta daughter of Galeazo the second Duke thereof as in the Earles of Clare is set forth Iohn fourth sonne borne at Gaunt in Flanders 1340. was first created Earle of Richmond which was surrendred to Iohn Duke of Britaine sur-named The valiant who had married Mary his sister to whose Dukedome formerly it had belonged This Iohn married three Wiues the first was Blanch daughter and heire of Henry Duke of Lancaster sonne of Edmond Croochbacke by whom he had issue King Henry the fourth Phillip Wife to Iohn the first King of Portingall and Elizabeth first married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and after to Sir Iohn Cornwall Baron of Fanhope His second Wife was Constance eldest daughter of Peter King of Castile and Leon in whose right he intituled himselfe King of both those Realmes and had issue Katherine Wife to Henry the third sonne of King Iohn King of both those Realmes His third Wife was Katherine Swynford Widdow of Sir Otho or Otes Swynford Knight of Lincolnshire daughter and co-heyre of Sir Payn Roet alias Guien King of Armes a Gascoigne borne whose other daughter Anne was married to Sir Geffrey Chaucer Knight the Poet. By this Katherine Swinford he had issue before marriage and made legitimate by Acte of Parliament the 20. yeare of King Richard the second Iohn Earle of Somerset Thomas Duke of Excester Earle of Dorset Henry Bishop of Winchester and Cardinall and Ioane first married to Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and after to Robert Ferrars Baron of Ouesley These children begotten of Katherine Swynford were sur-named Beauforts of Beaufort Castle in France where they were borne Edmond of Langley fift sonne was created Earle of Cambridge in the 36. yeare of King Edward the third and after Duke of Yorke 1386. He married Isabell daughter and co heyre of Peter King of Castile and Leon as in the Title of Earles of Cambridge and Dukes of Yorke William sur-named of Windsore where he was borne dyed young Thomas the youngest sonne sur-named of Woodstocke where he was borne was by King Richard the second first created Earle of Buckingham and after D. of Glocester as in those Titles is more at large Isabell eldest daughter of King Edward the third was married at Windsore to Ingelram de Guisnes Lord of Coucy Earle of Soysons and Duke of Austria whom King Edward her Father made Earle of Bedford by whom she had issue two daughters Mary married to Henry of Barre and Philip Wife to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Duke of Ireland and Marquesse of Dublyn who after forsooke her and married one Lancerona a Ioyners daughter who came into England with Queene Philip out of Bohemia Ioane second daughter married by Proxy to Alphons the eleuenth King of Castile and Leon. Blanch third daughter dyed young and was buried at Westminster Mary fourth daughter married to Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine Margaret youngest daughter was the first Wife of Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke King Richard the second He married two Wiues the first was Anne daughter of the Emperor Charles the fourth and sister of Wenceslaus Emperour and King of Bohemia who was crowned Queene the 22. of Ianuary 1384. hauing bene his Wife ten yeares and dyed at Sheene in Surrey 1394. and was buried at Westminster without issue His second Wife was Isabell daughter of Charles the sixt King of France whom he affianced in the 19. yeare of his Reigne she being then but 7. yeares olde by reason whereof he neuer had any company with her She was after the said Richards death sent back againe into France being then not full twelue yeares olde without any dowry because the marriage was neuer consumated The Lord Henry Percy had the conuaying of her in the yeare 1401. Et portoit France seme escarâ—elle d'engleterre King HENRY the Fourth He yeelded to God his spirit the 20. day of March 1412. the 46. yeare of his age when he had reigned 13. yeares sixe moneths lacking ten dayes His body being conueyed to Canterbury was there buried He married two Wiues the first was Mary second daughter and co-heyre of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England who dyed in the yeare 1394. and was buried at Canterbury His second Wife was Ioane daughter of Charles King of Nauarre and Widdow of Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine who dyed at Hauering in the Bower in Essex without issue the tenth of Iuly 1437. and was buried at Canterbury His Issue by his first Wife Henry eldest sonne was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester in the first yeare of his Fathers Keigne This Henry in the time of his Fathers banishment was sent into Ireland and vpon hearing of his Fathers ariuall into England King Richard caused him
20. of August carried in a Chariot drawne with foure horses couered with blacke Veluet to S. Peters at Westminster and after all ceremonies performed was buried in a faire Toomb made by commandement of King Iames. King IAMES I Ames King of Scotland onely sonne and heyre of Henry Stewart late King of Scotland and of Queene Mary his Wife Dowager of France and daughter and heyre of Iames the fift King of Scotland was borne in Edenburgh-Castle the 19. of Iune 1566. and was proclaimed King of England France and Ireland at London the 24. of March 1602. being then 36. yeares of age And on the 25. of Iuly after 1603. was crowned with Queene Anne his Wife at Westminster by the hands of the most reuerend Father in God Iohn whitift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the presence of the Nobility and States of the Realme Whose greatnes with all honour happinesse and peace God now sanctifie and encrease in him and his issue to all posterity This potent magnificent Monarch of Great Britaine married Anne daughter of Fredericke the second King of Denmarke Norway and Sister to Christian the 4. now King of Denmarke 1618. She was borne at Scanderburgh the 12. of December 1574. and at the age of 16. years was married by Proxy at Groningburg in Denmark the 20. of August 1590. vnto this most high and most mighty Prince by whom she hath had most royall Issue as followeth Their Issue Henry Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester was borne on Tuesday the 19. of February 1593. and dyed without issue at S. Iames House neere Charing-Crosse and was buried at West minster very Prince-like the 7. of December 1612. Robert Stewart second sonne dyed very young Charles Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Ros and Lord of Ardmanoch third sonne of Iames King of Great-Britaine was borne the 27. of February 1600. and was created Duke of Yorke at White-Hall on Tuesday the 6. of Ianuary 1604. and after on the 4. of Nouember 1616. he was likewise at White-Hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester Lady Elizabeth borne the 19. of August 1596. was married to Fredericke Elector Palatine of the Rhyne and hath issue Henry Fredericke and Charles Lewis Margaret borne the 24. of December 1598. and dyed in Scotland young Mary borne in England and dyed an Infant and was buried at Westminster Sophia borne at Greenwich and dyed an Infant and was buried at Westminster A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Clare and Clarence their Armes Wiues and Children RIchard Fitz Gilbert Earle of Aucencis and Brionniae in Normandy came into England with William the Conqueror who gaue him the Townes Castles of Clare in Suffolke and Tunbridge in Kent with diuers other great Seigneuries in England This Richard maried Roheisia daughter of Walter Gifford Earle of Longueuile in Normandy and had issue Gilbert Roger Lord of Clauering Walter a great Baron and Founder of Tinterne Abbey 1â—31 and Robert Lord of Woodham Water and was after slaine in Wales in the yeare 1136. GIlbert Fitz-Richard sonne and heyre of Richard aforesaid was the first Earle of Clare and married Adeliza the daughter of the Earle of Cleremont and had issue Iohn the second Earle of Clare who dyed without issue Richard Earle of Clare whom some say dyed before his Father Gilbert sur-named Strongbow Earle of Penbroke Walter and Heruy de Montmauritio and dyed in the yeare 1152. Et portoit d'or au trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard Fitz-Gilbert third Earle of Clare and Lord of Tunbridge in Kent married Adelize sister of Randoll Earle of Chester and had issue Gilbert that dyed without issue and Roger who was after Earle of Clare and Hartford This Richard dyed in the yeare 1156. Et portoit les armes de son pere Place this Catalogue of Clare and Clarence betwixt page 52. and 53. GIlbert Earle of Clare and Hartford after his Father He married as William Gemeticensis hath Elizabeth sister of Walleran Earle of Meullent and dyed without issue ROger de Clare brother and heyre of Gilbert aforesaide was Earle of Clare and Hartford He married Mauld daughter and heyre of Iames S. Hillary she married after William Earle of Arundell and had issue Richard Earle of Clare and Hartford and others and died in the yeare 1174. Et portoit d'or trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard Earle of Clare and Hartford sonne of Roger aforesaid married Amicia second daughter and one of the heyres of William Earle of Glocester and had issue Gilbert Earle of Clare Hartford and Glocester and Ioane wife to Rice Grig Prince of Demiciae and dyed in the yeare 1218. and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge Et portoit les armes de son pere ' GIlbert Earle of Clare and Hertford and Earle of Glocester by his Mother Amicia after the death of his two Aunts without issue He was a witnesse to King Henry the thirds Charter of Lands that he gaue in the 9. yeare of his Reigne to the Abbey of Peterborough by the name of Gilbert Earle of Clare Hertford and Glocester He married Isabell third sister and one of the heyres of Anselme Marshall Earle of Penbroke and had issue Richard Earle of Clare Hertford and Glocester and William de Clare Isabell wife to Robert Bruse Amie wife to Baldwin Earle of Deuon and others He dyed at Penrose in Britaine as the Book of Teuksbury hath 1230. and lyeth there buried Et portoit d'or trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard de Clare the second Earle of Glocester sonne of Gilbert aforesaid married first Margaret daughter of Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent but by her he had no issue His second wife was Mauld daughter of Iohn Lacy Earle of Lincolne and Constable of Chester by whom hee had issue as the booke of Teukesbury mentioneth Gilbert the second Earle of Glocester c. Thomas de Clare that was Steward of the Forrests in Essex Beâ—es Treasurer of Yorke Mynster Isabell a Nun at Barking Margaret Wife to Edmond Earle of Cornwall Rose Wife to Roger Lord Mowbray This Richard dyed at Fsmeresfield in Kent 1262. and lyeth buried at Teukesbury but others haue he dyed in France and was brought into England and buried at Teukesbury Et portoit les armes de son peré GIbert de Clare sur named the Red after the death of Richard his Father was Earle of Clare Hertford and the third Earle of Glocester of that sur-name Hee married two Wiues the first was Alice daughter of Hughle Brun Earle of Angolesme and the Marchesse of Aquitaine and had issue Isabell Wife to Morris Lord Berkley This Alice fell lunaticke and was diuorced from this Gilbert After which he tooke to wife Ioane sur-named of Acres daughter of King Edward the first with whom the saide Gilbert had neyther lands nor money but onely the Kings fauour which before he had lost for refusing to goe with him the said King to the aid of Guy Earle of
Flanders against the French King 1287. He had issue by his last wife Ioane Iohn that dyed young leauing his three sisters his heires Elianor wife to Hugh Lord Spencer Elizabeth first married to Iohn Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland and after to Theobald Lord Verdon lastly to Sir Roger Damory Baron of Armoy in Ireland Margaret the 3. daughter was first maried to Peter or Pieres of Gaueston Earle of Cornwall after to Hugh Lord Audley the yonger who after was Earle of Glocester This Gilbert dyed in Wales 1295. and was buried at Teukesbury After the death of this Gilbert the Title of Clare fell to the Crowne which after King Edward the 3. bestowed that Title on Lyonell his sonne Et portoit d'or au trois cheurons de gueulles LYonell sur named of Antwerpe the place of his birth third sonne of King Edward the third was created Earle of Wiltshire in the 26. yeare of his Fathers Reigne and in the 36. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Clarence He married to his first wife Elizabeth daughter and heyre of William Burgh Earle of Vlster and had issue Phillip his onely childe married to Edmond Mortuomary Earle of March and Vlster and to his second wife he married Violenta daughter of Galeas Viscount of Millayne and sister to Iohn Galeas first Duke of Millaine in whose right the State and Lords of Italy did fully determine to crowne him King of Italy but halfe a yeare before the time appointed he dyed at Venice 1368. and was there buried hauing no issue by his last Wife Et portoit France seme D'engleterre escartellé au lambell d'argent en chescun point au Canton de gueulles THomas Plantagenet second sonne of King Henry the fourth and brother to King Henry the fift was created Earle of Albemarle and Duke of Clarence in the yeare 1411. He was also Lord Steward of England and Constable of the Kings Hoste and Lieutenant Generall of his Army in France and Normandy He was also President of the Kings Counsell after Prince Henry his brother was dismissed that Office for striking the Lord Chiefe-Iustice and after was slaine at the battaile of Bangy by the Duke of Alanson and the treachery of Andrew Forgusa a Lumbard whom hee ouermuch trusted and with him was slaine the Earles of Tankeruile Sir Gilbert Vmfreuile the Earle of Kent and the Lord Ros and the Earles of Somerset Suffolke and Perch with the Lord Fitz-Walter were taken prisoners the 9. of King Henry the fift leauing no issue of his body and was buried in Christ Church in Canterbury Et portoit France semé escartellé D'engleterre au lambell d'argent chargé de trois cantons de gueulles GEorge Plantagenet borne at Dublyn in Ireland third Son of Richard Duke of Yorke and brother to King Edward the 4. was created Duke of Clarence 1461. and after the death of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke his Wiues Father he writ himselfe George Duke of Clarence Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury Lord of Richmond great Chamberlaine of England Hee married Isabell eldest daughter and co-heyre of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury aforesaide and had issue Edward commonly called Earle of Warwicke who dyed without issue being beheaded in the Tower of London the 15. of King Henry the 7. and Margaret Countesse of Salisbury who was wife to Sir Richard Pole Knight Father of Henry Lord Montague and Reginald Pole Cardinall which Margaret was also beheaded in the 33. yeare of King Henry the eight This George was secretly murdered in the Tower of London 1477. and was buried at Teukesbury Et portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Arundell with their Armes Wiues and Children ROger Montgomery Earle of Belesmo in Normandy sonne of Hugh Montgomery and Sibell his wife daughter of Herfastus the Dane brother of Gonor wife of Richard the first Duke of Normandy of that name came into England with William the Conqueror vnto whom the saide William did giue for his good seruice the Earledomes of Arundell and Shrewsbury He married Mabiria daughter and heyre of William Taluays with whom he had all her Fathers Inheritance as William Gemiticensis hath page 686 and had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters viz. Hugh and Robert both Earles of Arundell and Shrewsbury Roger the third sonne surnamed Pictauensis was Lord of the Honour of Lancaster Arnulph the fourth sonne was Castle-keeper of Penbrooke and Philip was the fift sonne His daughters were Emma Matilda the second daughter was married vnto Robert Earle of Moretaigne Mahell was the third daughter and Sibell the fourth daughter was maried vnto Robert Fitz-Hamon Lord of Glamorgan in South-Wales which Robert founded or re-edified the Monastery of Tewkesbury This Earle Roger was left by William Conqueror to be Gouernor to his sonne William Rufus and was after slaine at Cairdiffe in South-Wales 1091. and was buried in the Abbey at Shrewsbury which before he had founded HVgh de Belismo sonne and heyre of Roger aforesaid was after his Father Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury and was slaine at Anglesey in North-Wales 1098 by Magnus a Pirate of the Isles of Orcades with the shot of an Arrowe which strooke him in the eye He dyed without issue was buried by his Father in the Abbey at Shrewsbury I finde no Armes borne by him RObert de Belismo after the death of Hugh his Brother was the third Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury who entring into rebellion manned and fortified his Castle of Arundell against King Henry the first 1103. and was by the said King banished England and his Castle and Honour of Arundell giuen in dower to Queene Adeliza the Wife of King Henry the first And after being taken at the battaile of Trenchbray in Normandy with Robert Courtoise Duke of Normandy were both brought into England imprisoned in the Castle of Cairdiffe where they had their eyes put out remained prisoners during their liues as in the title of Shrewsbury is more at large WIlliam de Albeneio sonne of William de Albeneio who came into England with William the Conqueror and had giuen him the Castle of Bockenham and the Mannor of Wymondham in Norfolke to hold of the King to him and his heires to be the Kings Butlers at their Coronations He was after Earle of Chichester in the 19. yeare of King Stephen as doth appeare by the Charter of King Stephen of the pacification of the troubles betwixt him and Henry Duke of Normandy Holinshed page 63. and diuers other the said Williams owne Charters He married Queene Adeliza the widow of King Henry the first and daughter of Godfrey Duke of Loraine with whom he had the Castle and Honor of Arundell being her dower which Mauld the Empresse afterwards proclaimed him Earle thereof which title it is said that King Henry the second confirmed to the saide William and his heyres in the first yeare of his Reigne This William with Reginald de
Earle belonged to the said Castle and Honour and had alwaies done to the Lords of the said Castle of time that no minde is long before So as it was then by the King with the aduice of the Lords spiritual temporal declared and decreed that the said William Earle of Arundel shold haue keep enioy his seat roome and place in the Parliaments and Councels and in other places in the Kinges presence by way of preheminence and worship as euer had any of his Ancestors Earles of Arundell afore this time as in the saide Parliament Rowle is more at large This William married Ioan daughter of Richard Neuill Earle of Salisbury and sister of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke by whom hee had issue Thomas Fitz-Alan the 9. Earle of Arundell William George and Iohn and a daughter named Mary and dyed in the third yeare of King Henry the seauenth Et portoit le◠armes deson peré THomas Fitz-Alan after the death of William his Father was the ninth Earle of Arundell of that name Lord Maltreuers and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter and married Margaret daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers and Baron of Wimington slaine at Banbury the 10. of King Edward the fourth and second sister and one of the heires of Richard Earle Riuers her brother had issue two sonnes and two daughters viz. William the tenth Earle of Arundell and Edward Margaret the eldest daughter was married vnto Iohn de la Pole Earle of Lincolne and Ioan the second daughter was married vnto George Neuill Baron of Abergauenny He dyed in his Parke of Dunlee the 16. of King Henry the 8. was buried at Arundell the 21. of Nouember 1524. Et portoit gueulles au Lyon rampant d'or arme lampasse d'azur WIlliam Fitz-Alan sonne and heire of Thomas aforesaid was the tenth Earle of Arundel Lord Maltreuers Clun and Oswaldstre hee married to his first Wife Anne daughter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland had issue Henry the eleuenth Earle of Arundell Anne and Katherine which two daughters dyed both without yssue His second Wife was Elizabeth daughter of Robert Willoughby Lord Brooke by whom he had issue two daughters Margaret and Elizabeth that dyed also without yssue This William dyed in the 35. yeare of King Henry 8. and was buried in the Castle of Arundell 1543. Et portoit le◠armories de son peré HEnry Fitz-Alan sonne of William aforesaide was after his Father Earle of Arundell Lord Maltreuers Clun c. and Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter He married two Wiues the first was Katherine daughter of Thomas Gray Marquesse Dorset Lord Bonuile and Harington and sister of Henry Gray Duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Henry Lord Maltreuers which married Anne daughter and sole heyre of Sir Iohn Wentworth Knight and died and was buried at Bruxels without issue 1556. being but nineteene yeares of age Hee had also two daughters his heires Iane the eldest was married to Iohn Lord Lumley and had issue Charles Thomas and Mary which dyed all three without issue Mary the second daughter and co-heire was married to Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke of that family and had issue Phillip Howard after Earle of Arundell This Henry maried to his second wife Mary daughter of Sir Iohn Arundell of the West Country Knight the widdow of Robert Radcliffe Earle of Sussex by whom he had no issue He was Gouernor of Callis when King Henry the eight besiedged Boloine and Lord Marshall of his army Lord Chamberlaine to King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt and Lord Steward of the Houshold to Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth and dyed very old the 25. of February 1579. the 22. of Queeene Elizabeth was buried at Arundell with his Ancestors Et portoit gueulles au Lyon rampant d'or arme lampasse d'azur PHillip Howard eldest son of Thomas late Duke of Norfolk attainted as aforesaid of Marie his wife second daughter and co-heire of Henry Fitz-Alan abouesaid vnto whom was conueyed the Castle and Honour of Arundell did in right thereof vpon the death of Henry Fitz-Alan his grand father assume the Name and Title of Earle of Arundel being not as yet restored in blood and by that name was summoned to the Parliament holden at Westminster the 16. day of Ianuary following in the 23. of Queen Elizabeth and sate there in presence of the said Queene as Earle of Arundell almost two monthes before his restitution in blood which was concluded in the vpper house of Parliament on the tenth day of March after as doth appeare by the Iournall booke of that Parliament He married Anne daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres and sister and co-heire of George Lord Dacres of Gillesland by whom he had issue Thomas Howard now Earle of Arundell 1619. This Phillip was attainted of Treason the 14. of Aprill 1589. and died a naturall death in the Tower of London the 19. day of Nouember 1595. Et portoit les armes de son pere THomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey the onely sonne of Phillip Earle of Arundel was restored in blood by King Iames in the second yeare of his reigne 1604. and after made one of the saide Kings most Honourable Preuy Councell Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lordes Commissioners for the office of Earle Marshall of England This Noble Lord out of his loue and honourable disposition with the other Lords Commissioners was the means that his Maiesty did augment and double the pensions of the Kings Heraulds and Pursuiuants of Armes with an allowance of ten pounds the yeare for euer towards the maintenance and repairing of their Office or Colledge He married Aletheia yongest daughter and coheire of Gilbert Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury by whom he had issue Iames Lord Maltreuers and Knight of the Bath Sir Henry Howard knight of the Bath Thomas and Gilbert died both young William and Charles Howard Anno 1618. Et portoit Gueulles a vn band entre six croislets botonny siche d'argent A CATALOGVE of the Earles of Albemarle with their Wiues Armes and Children STephen sonne of Eudo Earle of Blesensis and Champaine by Matild his Wife halfe sister by the Mother to William Conquerour was Lord of the Citty of Albemarle in Normandie by the gift of Odo Bishop of Bayon and Earle of Kent his Vnckle Of which Citty King William Rufus in the sixt yeare of his Reigne did not onely create him Earle of but also gaue him the Isle of Holdernesse with the Castle and Towne of Bitham and other great Seigniories Lands in England and Normandie In the fiue and twentieth yeare of King Henry the first this Stephen was Witnesse to the saide Kings Charter of Lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Reading He married _____ daughter of Roger Mortimer sonne of Raphe and had issue three sonnes and foure daughters William Earle of Albemarle Stephen and Ingeram the daughters were all married out of
brother of William Lord Compton now Earle of Northampton 1618. Et portoit d'azur au Lyon rampant seme ' de lices d'or Place this leafe of Buckingham betwixt Follio 20 and 21. A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Bedford their Armes Wiues and Children Et portoit burelle de six vair de Gueulles This Ingelram de Coucy had a base daughter named Mauld married vnto the Lord Strange by whom she had issue Ancarat wife to Sir Henry Husee knight Et portoit France seme D'engletterre escartelle a lambell per pale ermyn azur aule second 9. de Luces d'or The King by aduice and assent of his Lords Spiritual and Temporall and by the Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same ordained establisheth enacteth That from henceforth the 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 henceforth voyde and of no effect And that the saide George and his heires from henceforth be no Dukes nor Marquesse Earle nor Baron nor be reputed nor taken for no erection or Creation afore made but of that name of Duke and Marquesse Earle and Baron in him and his heires cease and bee voide and of none effect the said Erection or Creation nothwithstanding This George dyed without issue and was buried at Shrief Huton the fourth of May 1483. twelue yeeres after his Father leauing his fiue Sisters his heires viz. Anne married vnto Sir William Stoner Knight Elizabeth wife to the Lord Scrope of Vpsall Margaret married to Sir Iohn Mortimer and after to Robert Horne Luce wife to Sir William Fitz-Williams Earle of Southampton and after wife to Sir Anthony Browne Knight and Isabell the fift Sister was married to Sir William Hudleston Knight all which fiue Sisters had issue Gueulles au Saulttur d'argent aulambell gobonne d'argent d'azur Et portoit eschartelle France D'engletterre au bordur d'azur seme Martlets d'or Et portoit d'argent au Lion rampant de Gueulles arme lampasse d'azur au la chef sable charge de trors coquilles d'argent Et portoit les armes de son Pere ' Et portoit d'argent au Lion rampant d'Gueulles arme lampasse d'azur au la chef sable charge de trois coquilles d'argent A Catalogue of the Dukes and Earles of Britame and Richmond their Armes Wiues and Children ALan sur-named Fergant or the Red Earle of Britaine and Richmond sonne of Hoel second sonne of Alan Caignard by Hawis his Wife daughter and heire of Alan Duke of Britaine and great Aunt to William Conquerour to whom the saide Conqueror in the fourth yeare of his Reigne at the siedge of Yorke did giue vnto him and his heires all the Lands Honours late belonging vnto Earle Edwin in Yorkshire This Alan Fergant married first Constance daughter of William Conquerour who died without issue And after he married Ermingard daughter of Foulk Rechin Earle of Anion and had issue Conan sur-named le Grosse vnto whom also was giuen the Earledome of Britaine but the Earledome of Richmond the saide William Conquerour gaue to his Cousin Alan sur-named Niger or the Blacke Sonne of Eudo the sonne of Geffrey first Duke of Britaine of that name by Hawis his wife daughter of Richard the first Duke of Normandy This Alan Fergant died in the yeare of our Lord 1093. and was buried in the Monastery of Rhedon in the seuenth yeare of King William Rufus Et porteit eschiquettee d'or d'azur à canton ermyn STephen Derien Earle of Ponthiur Lord of Goelo and Treguer was after his Brother Alan the Blacke the third Earle of Richmond vnto whom King Henry the first did giue Waltham with the Soke in the County of Lincolne Hee married Hawis Countesse of Guingamp and had issue Alan sur-named the Sauag Henry Earle of Ponthieur Geffrey sur-named Botterell and others Henry Earle of Ponthieur had issue Alan to whom King Iohn did confirme Waltham with the Soke in these words I Iohn King of England Lord of Ireland Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and Earle of Aniou c. Know you that I haue giuen and granted vnto Alan sonne of Henry of Britaine sonne of Earle Stephen Waltham with the Soke c. Witnesse William of London Henry of Winchester Bishops and Geffrey Fitz-Piers Earle of Essex and others of which Henry is descended Lords Fitz-Alans of Bidall This Stephen Derien as Somerset Glouer hath died in the yeare 1104 and was buried at Begar and his heart was buried in the Monastery of S. Maries at Yorke as he himselfe desired ALan sur-named the Sauage Lord of Auangour sonne of Stephen Derien was after the death of his father the 4. Earle of Richmond and married Bertha eldest daughter and co-heire of Conan le Grosse in whose right hee was the third Earle of Britaine and had issue Conan le Petit. This Alan was faithfull to King Stephen in his warres with Mauld the Empresse and besiedged the Citty of Lincolne in her behalfe and Henry Duke of Normandy her sonne Hee dyed in the yeare 1166. and was buried in Britaine in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the second COnanle Petit sonne of Alan the Sauage was the fourth Earle of Britaine and the fift Earle of Richmond He married Margaret daughter of Henry Earle of Huntington and sister of William King of Scots by whom he had issue one only daughter named Constance his heire who was first married to Geffrey Plantagenet third sonne to King Henry the second afterwards shee married Randolph Earle of Chester from whom shee was diuorced her third husband was Guydo Viscount of Torraine by whom shee had issue two daughters Alice the eldest was married vnto Peter de Dreux Duke of Britaine and Katherine the second daughter was married to Andrew de Vetre All which three husbands the said Constance honoured with the Title of Earle of Britaine and Richmond This Conan founded the Monastery of Richmond and was there buried in Anno 1170. Et portoit les armoiries de Britaine ermin GEffrey Plantagenet third Son of King Henry the second in the 17. yeare of his fathers reigne married Constance daughter and sole heire of Conan le Petit in whose right hee was both Earle of Britaine and Richmond and had issue Arthur and Elianor whom King Iohn kept in prison in the Castle of Bristow where she dyed a Virgin in Anno 1241. and was buried in the Monastery of Ambresbury vnto which Monastery she gaue the Mannour of Mekesham with the appurtenances This Geffrey dyed and was buried at Paris in France the 33. yeare of King Henry the second beeing but twenty and eight yeares old Et portoit gueulles trois Leopards d'or Qui sont composees des armes de Guyenne de Normandy ensemble ARthur Plantagenet Earle of Britaine and Richmond Son of Geffrey aforesaid by Constance his wife the heire of Britaine was proclaimed King of England and Duke of
vert sur la tout au Lion rampant d'argent au chefe d'azur vne chastel entre deux testes du cerf d'argent LEwis Stewart Duke of Lenox and Lord Aubigny created Earle of Richmond and Baron of Setterington in England by Letters pattents vnder the great Seale of England without any ceremony of creation in the yeare 1614. He was also Lord Darnley â—rebant and Methuen Lord Great Chamberlaine and Admirall of Scotland Lord Steward of the houshold to King Iames and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell Knight of the Garter and one of the Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England 1618. Et portoit France a' la boâ—â— de gueulles fermaille d'or de huit pieces escartelle d'or à la face eschiquette d'argent de azur bordure de gueulles sur le tout d'argent au saulteur de gueulles entre quatre quintesuilles de mesme A Catalogue of the Earles of Bath their Armes Wiues and Children PHilibert de Chandew a Britaine borne in France a kinde friend to King Henry the seauenth in the time of his banishment out of England which to requite the said King in the first yeare of his Reigne from the degree of a Baron created him Earle of Bath and gaue him also a hundred markes yearely issuing out of the profits of Somersetshire Dorset IOhn Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin of Tauestoke in Denonshireâ— sonne of Foulke Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin of Tauestoke was created Earle of Bath at White-Hall the ninth of Iuly in the 28. yeare of King Henry the eight He married Cecily daughter of Giles Lord Daubeny and sister and heyre of Henry Lord Daubeny Earle of Bridgwater and had issue Iohn Bourchier second Earle of Bath and two daughters Elizabeth the eldest was married vnto Sir Iohn Chichester of Deuonshire knight Dorothy the second daughter was married to Sir Iohn Fulford knight This Iohn the second Earle of Bath dyed in the 31. yeare of King Henry the eight Et portoit d'argent à la Croix eugreslee de gueulles accompaignee de quatre bouces de sable à lambel d'azur chargee de neaf fleurs de liz d'or Iohn Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin the 2. of that name and 3. Earle of Bath married to his first Wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford knight and had issue Elizabeth His second wife was Elianor daughter of George Mannors Lord Ros by whom he had issue Iohn Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin that died before his father sir George Bourchier knight and Henry he had also two daughters Mary the eldest was married vnto Hugh Wyot of Exeter Cecily the second daughter was married to Thomas Peyton Customer of Plimouth This Iohn married to his third wife Margaret daughter and heire of Iohn Donington Esquire and had issue Susan Bridget Bridget was married to _____ Price of Montgomerishire in Wales This Earle dyed in the third yeare of Queene Elizabeth Et portoit les aâ—moiâ—ies de son pere WIlliam Bourchier sonne and heire of Iohn Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin that died before his Father grand-childe to Iohn Bourchier second Earle of Bath was the third Earle of Bath of that sur-name and Lord Lieutenant of Deuonshire and Cornwall married Elizabeth daughter of Francis Russell Earle of Bedford and had issue Richard how Lord Fitz-Warin and Frances a daughter 1618. Quiporta d'argent à la croix engreslee de gueulles entre quatre Bouces de sable à lambell d'azur chargee de neuf fleurs de liz d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Bridg-Water their Armes Wiues and Children HEnry Lord Daubeny sonne of Giles Lord Daubeny Chamberlaine to king Henry the seuenth on the 21. day of Iuly in the 30. yeare of king Henry the eight at his Mannour of Ocking was created Earle of Bridg-Water in Somersetshire and married Katherine daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and the widdow of Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight of the Garter and dyed without issue leauing Cecily his sister and heire married vnto Iohn Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warin and first Earle of Bath Et portoit gueulles cinq Lozenges en face d'argent IOhn Egerton Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of king Iames second sonne and heire Male of Thomas Egerton Baron of Ellesmore Viscount Brackley and Lord Chancellor of England was by Letters Patents bearing date 1618. made Earle of Bridg-water He married Lady Frances daughter and co-heire of Ferdinando late Earle of Derby and hath issue Iames Viscount Brackely and nine daughters viz. Frances Arbella Elizabeth Cecily Mary Penelope Katherine Magdalen and Anne A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Boughan their Armes Wiues and Children HEnry Lord Beaumont of Fokingham came into England with Queene Isabell wife to king Edward the second and married Alice daughter and one of the heyres of Alexander Boughan Earle of Boughan in Scotland which Alexander was sonne of Alexander Comen Earle Boughan by Elizabeth his wife third daughter and one of the heires of Roger Quincy Earle of Winchester had issue Iohn L. Bello-Monte who married Elianor daughter to Henry Earle of Lancaster and had issue Henry Lord Beaumont This Henry Lord Beaumont of Fokingham sate in Parliament held at Westminster the ninth of King Edward the third by the name and title of Henry de Bello-Monte Earle of Boughan and so continued vnto the thirteenth of the same kings Reigne Et portoit d'azur flurette au lion rampanr d'or à vne baston gobonne d'argent de gueulles A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles Palatine of Chester with their Armes Wiues and Children HVgh sur-named Lupas a Norman borne sonne of Richard Viscount of Aurenges in Normandy by Margaret his wife halfe sister by the Mother to William Conquerour came into England with William the first who gaue vnto him and his heires the Earldome of Chester to hold as freely of him by the sword as he the said William held England by the Crowne This Earle Hugh in the 12. yeare of king William Ruphus conquered Anglesey in Wales he married Ermentrude daughter of _____ and had issue Richard the second Earle of Chester Robert Abbot of S. Edmonsbury and Otwell that was Tutor to the Children of king Henry the first he dyed and was buried by Ermentrude his Countesse in the Abbey of S. Werburge in Chester which was of his owne foundation 1103. Et portoit d'azut à vn test de Lou erased d'argent RIchard sonne of Hugh Lupus after the death of his Father was the second Earle of Chester after the Norman Conquest who in the 19. yeare of King Henry the first was married in France to Lucy daughter of Stephen Earle of Bloys and Champaine by Adela his wife daughter of William Conqueror and in the 20. yeare of King Henry the first hee with his wife the Kings sonne and daughter and Otwell his Brother and others to the number of 160. persons were drowned comming out of Normandy into England without issue leauing Randoll Meschines his cousin-germane by Margaret his Fathers sister to succeed
escartelle France seme D'engleterre au lambell d'argent RIchard of Burdeaux sonne and heire of Edward the black Prince was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and after king of England by the name of king Richard the second Et portoit les armes de son pere HEnry of Monmouth sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester and after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift as more at large is set downe in the Title of Cornwall This Henry was dismissed of being President of the kings priuy Counsell for striking the then Lord chiefe Iustice Et portoit escartelle France seme D'engleterre au lambell d'argent HEnry Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the fift was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ster and after king of England by the name of 〈…〉 the sixt Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the 6. was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester This young Prince was murdred at Tewkesbury 1471. there buried as in the title of Cornwall is more at large Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Edward the fourth was borne Duke of Cornwall and after in the yeare 1470. was by Parliament created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and was after king of England by the name of king Edward the fift and was murdered in the Tower of London Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Richard the third was also Duke of Cornwall and in the first yeare of his fathers Reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and after dyed without issue ARthur sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth vvas Duke of Cornwall and in the fifte yeare of his Fathers reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and dyed without issue being but 14. yeares of age Et portoit escartelle D'engleterre au lambell d'argent HEnry second son to King Henry the seauenth was Duke of Yorke and after the death of Arthur his brother was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester in the 19. yeare of his Fathers reigne and was after king of England by the name of king Henry the eight Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambel d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Henry the eight was D. of Cornwall and after created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester he was after King of England by the name of king Edward the sixt Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambel d'argent HEnry Frederick sonne and heire of Iames King of Great Britaine France and Ireland the fourth of Iune 1610. was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and died without issue 1612. Et portoit les armes d'engleterre an lambell d'argent CHarles second sonne of Iames King of Great Britaine France and Ireland being Duke of Albany Marques of Ormount Earle Ros and Lord of Ardmanoch was Created Duke of Yorke at White-hall the sixt of Ianuary 1604. and afterwards at the same place the 4. of Nouember 1616. he was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles and Dukes of Cornwall their Armes Wiues and Children RObert Earle Mortaigne sonne of Harlowyn de Comitis Villa and Herlot his wife Mother of William Conqueror who coming into England with the said Conqueror had giuen him the Earledome of Cornwall and made Earle thereof He maried Mauld daughter of Roger Montgomery Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell by whom he had issue William Earle Mortaigne and Cornewall and Mauld wife to the Earle of Tolouse who had issue a daughter named Helen married to William Duke of Aquitame This Robert was slaine in Northumberland in the yeare 1087. WIlliam Earle Mortaigne in Normandy sonne of Robert aforesaide was after his Father the second Earle of Cornwall who with Robert de Bellismo William Estoteuile and William Crispin did aide Robert Curthose Duke of Normandy against king Hen. 1. his brother at the battell of Trenchbray in Normandy where they were taken prisoners in the eight yeare of the said kings reigne the said William being before disinherited and his Earldome giuen vnto Stephen sonne of the Earle of Champaigne who was after King of England and were sent ouer sea into England to be kept in perpetual prison Robert Duke of Normandy being sent to the castle of Cardiffe in Wales had his eyes put out and this William became a Monke at Bermondsey in Southwarke and there dyed without issue His Armes as Glouer Sowerset hath is d'hermines au chief endented de gueulles REginald base sonne of king Henry the first begotten of his Concubine the daughter and co-heire of Robert Corbet Lord of Alencester in the County of Warwick was made the third Earle of Cornwall in the fift yeare of king Stephen He maried Beatrice had issue 4. daughters his heires Hawis the eldest was married to Richard de Riueris the third Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of the Isle of Wight Matild married Robert Earle of Mellent Vrsulâ— the third daughter was wife to Walter Dunstanuile Baron of Castlecombe and Sarah the fourth daughter was married to the Viscount of Lymocense He had also issue by his Concubine Beatrix de Vannes a sonne sur-named Henry filius Comitis who dyed in Gasconie without issue This Reginald died at Cicester in the yeare 1176. as Robert Montencis hath and was buried at Redding Et portoit gueulles à deux lions passant gardant d'or à baston sinester d'azur RIchard Plantagenet sur-named Cuer-de-Lyon the third sonne of king Henry the second was Earle of Poictiers and the fourth Earle of Cornwall as doth appeare by the Corporation of the Towne of Helleston in Cornwall He was after the death of Henry his brother Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and writ himselfe king of Ierusalem He conquered Cipers and died of a shot out of a Crosse-bow at the fiedge of Limosin in Britaine in the yeare 1199. He married Berengaria daughter of Sanchius King of Nauarre but by her had no issue he had a base sonne named Philip. I haue his Seale of Armes to a Charter wherein is a Lyon rampant onely IOhn sur-named Without Land fourth sonne of king Henry the second first married Alice daughter and one of the heires of Hubert Earle of Moriton in Anno 1172. In whose right his father made him Earle of Moriton and after Lord of Ireland this Alice died without issue after whose death he married to his second wife Isabell third daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocester from whom he was diuorced without issue He was also Earle of Glocester and after king of England and by king Richard the
belonging and not by birth He was after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift Et portoit France seme D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent HEnry Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the fift was borne Duke of Cornwall and being not full 〈◊〉 moneths of age was proclaimed king of England in the yeare 1422. by the name of king Henry the sixt and on the 6. of Nouember 1429. being the eight yeare of his reigne he was crowned king of England at Westminster and in the yeare 1431. he was crowned king of France in Paris in our Ladie Church there and after was murdred in the Tower of London 1470. by Richard Duke of Glocester as the report then commonly went The body of this king was conueyed from the Tower to the Church of S. Paul in London and there laide on a Beere bare-faced which did bleed in the sight of all the beholders From thence by boate it was carried vnto the Monastery at Chertsey fifteene miles from London and there was first buried and after remoued to Windsore and there in a new Vault entoombed Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne heire of king Henry the sixt being borne Duke of Cornwall in the 32. yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester by Acte of Parliament This young Prince at the battell of Tewkesbury 1470. was taken prisoner by Sir Richard Crofts and after murdered by the Dukes of Clarence and Glocester and by Thomas Marquesse Dorset the Lord Hastings This Prince married Anne second daughter and co-heire of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury but had no issue by her she was after married to Richard Duke of Glocester after king of England Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward eldest sonne to king Edward the fourth borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster the 49. yeare of king Henry the sixt was created Prince of Wales by authority of Parliament and Earle of Chester in the eleuenth yeare of his Fathers reigne being before Duke of Cornwall who with his young brother the Duke of Yorke was murdred in the Tower of London by the wicked practise of Richard Duke of Glocester his Vnckle who after vsurped the Crowne of England Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent Edward the onely sonne of king Richard the third was Duke of Cornwall and in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and died being but ten yeares of age without issue Et portoit escartelle France D'engleterre an lambell d'argent ARthur Duke of Cornwall sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth in the fift yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and married Katherine daughter of Ferdinando Duke of Austria and king of Spaine when he was but fourteene years of age dyed in the next yeare after 1501. without issue at Ludlow and lieth buried at Worcester France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent HEnry Duke of Yorke second sonne of king Henry the seuenth after the death of Arthur his brother was D. of Cornwall and in the nineteenth yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester after he was king of England by the name of king Henry the eight Et portoit les armes de son frere HEnry Stewart sonne and heire of Iames king of great Britaine France and Ireland was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester the fourth of Iune 1610. and died after at S. Iames neere Charing-Crosse without issue and was buried in the Abbey at Westminster the seuenth of December 1612. A Catalogue of the Earles of Carlile their Armes Wiues and Children RAndolphe Meschines sonne of Randolphe Viscount of Baieulx and Alice his wife base daughter of Richard the third Duke of Normandy came into England with William the Conquerour who gaue him the Earledome of Carlile He married Margaret sister of Hugh Lupus the first Earle of Chester after the Conquest and Aunt and heire of Richard the second Earle of Chester by whom he had issue Randolphe the third Earle of Chester William Meschines Lord of Egremont and Geffrey Lord of Gillesland and died Anno Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de gueulles la cowe estant Andrew de Harcla of Westmerland knight for his good seruice in vanquishing and taking prisoner Thomas Earle of Lancaster and other his abetters the kings enemies disloyall subiects was by king Edward the second in the 14. yeare of his reigne girt with a sword and had giuen him the Title and Earledome of Carlile for this was the vsuall making of Earles in those dayes But afterwards this Andrew proued vngratefull to his King and Country in his warres in Scotland receiuing secretly from the Scots a great sum of money for a bribe to betray his Master for which his offence he being apprehended and taken was degraded first of his knight-hood and after of all honourable Titles by cutting off his Spurs from his heeles then by disgirding of him breaking his sword ouer his head and lastly by tearing his Coate of Armes off his body by a Herald This done he was drawne and hanged beheaded and quartered the last day of October 1322. Et portoit les armoiries de seint George au primier quanton à marlette de sable IOhn Plantagenet third sonne of king Henry the fourth was in the second yeare of king Henry the fift his brother created the first Duke of Bedford Earle of Richmond and Lord of Kendall and in the fift yeare of the said kings reigne hee was made Protector of the Realme of England as in the Title of Bedford is more at large and Earle of Carlile which diuers late Writers deny for thus do I finde him written in his owne Deeds and Charters Iohn Regent of the Realme of France Duke of Bedford Aniou and Alanson Earle of Mayne Harecourt Drux Richmond and Carlile and Viscount Beaumont He married in the yeare 1433. Iaquelline daughter of Peter of Lucemburge Earle of S. Paul but by her had no issue He dyed in France the tenth of September 1435. and was buried in the Cathedrall Church in the Citty of Roane in Normandy in a very stately Toombe Et portoit semé de France D'engleterre à vn lambell de cinq ermyn d'azur neuf fleurs de liz d'or RIchard fourth sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke and brother of king Edward the fourth was in the first yeare of the said kings reigne 1460. created Duke of Glocester and Earle of Carlile and after was made Constable and Lord Admirall of England And lastly when hee had caused his two Nephewes king Edward the fift and Richard Duke of Yorke his brother to be murdered in the Tower of London He vsurped the Crowne and was
king of England by the name of king Richard the third Et portoit France escartelle D'engleterre d'lambell ermyn charge à trois cantons de gueulles A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Cumberland their Armes Wiues and Children HEnry Clifford Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescie was by king Henry the eight created Earle of Cumberland at Bridewell the eighteenth of Iune 1525. the 17. year of the said kings reigne and married Margaret daughter of Henry Lord Percy fift Earle of Northumberland by whom he had issue Henry Earle of Cumberland and Sir Ingram Clifford knight and foure daughters Katherine the eldest was married to Iohn Lord Scroope of Bolton Matilda was wife to Iohn Coigniers of Hornby and Elizabeth was married to Sir Christopher Medcalfe knight and Iane was married to Sir Iohn Hudleston knight This Henry dyed the 22. of Aprill in the 34. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit eschequette d'or d'azur à la face de gueulles HEnry Lord Clifford sonne and heire of Henry aforesaide after the death of his Father was the second Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescy married to his first wife Elianor daughter and co-here of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by his wife Mary Queene of France second daughter to king Henry the seuenth by whom he had issue Margaret married to Henry Stanley Earle of Derby by whom he had issue Ferdinando Earle of Derby that dyed without issue Male and William now Earle of Derbie 1618. This Henry maried to his second wife Anne daughter of William Lord Dacres of Gillesland and by her had issue George Lord Clifford the third Earle of Cumberland Francis the fourth Earle of Cumberland and three daughters Frances the eldest daughter was married to Philip Lord Wharton Elianor and Mary dyed both young This Henry dyed in Anno 1569. the 12. of Queene Elizabeth Les armes de son peré GEorge Lord Clifford after the death of Henry his father was the third Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescy and Sheriffe of Westmerland by inheritance a most Noble and Martiall man both by Sea and Land and honoured with the honorable Order of the Garter 1592. He married Margaret daughter of Francis Lord Russell and Earle of Bedford the 25. of Iune 1577. and had issue Francis Lord Clifford and Robert that died young and a daughter named Anne married to Richard Sackuile Baron of Buckhurst and Earle of Dorset This George dyed in the Strand at Landon in the yeare 1605. without issue Male. Et portoit eschiquettee d'or d'azur à la face de gueulles FRancis Clifford brother of George aforesaid succeeded and was the fourth Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland Vescy now liuing 1618. he maried Grizell daughter of Hughes of Vxbridge Esquire and widdow of Henry Neuill Father of Edward Neuill now Baron of Abergauenny 1618. and hath issue Henry Lord Clifford Margaret and Frances Et portoit les armes de sonperé A Catalogue of the Earles of Cambridge their Armes Wiues and Children WIlliam Meschines sonne of Randolphe Earle of Chester and second brother of Randolphe Gernonijs Earle of Chester was the first Earle of Cambridge by that name and title I finde him a Witnesse to the Charter and guift of Alexander Bishop of Lincolne of the Island of Hafreholme which the said Alexander gaue to the religious holy Nuns of the order of Sister-sences bearing date the fourth of king Stephen 1139. Whom hee married or what issue hee had I finde not WIlliam Marquesse of Iuliers or Iuliac vnto whom king Edward the third on the seuenâ— day of â—ay in the 14. yeare of his reigne did giue the Earl 〈…〉 bridge with the Towne and Castle and twenty pounds by yeare in fee to him and the heires of his body begotten and inuested him into the said Earledome at Westminster by the girding of him with a sword and besides gaue him by letters patents a thousand pounds of yearely rent He maried Mary sister and heire of Edward Duke of Gelderland Nephew to king Edward the third and had isssue Mary married vnto Iohn sonne and heire of Iohn Duke of Cleeue Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de sable IOhn of Henault Vnckle to Queene Philip wife to king Edward the third a younger sonne of the Earle of Henault was in the sixteenth yeare of the said kings reigne 1342. created Earle of Cambridge which honour Earledome soone after he lost by reuolting to the French king Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de sable arme lampasse de gueâ—lles escartelle d'or au lion rampant de gueulles EDmond of Langley so called of the kings Mannor house of Langley where he was borne fift sonne of king Edward the third was created Earle of Cambridge in the 36. yeare of his Fathers reigne he was also Lord of Tyndall after Duke of Yorke and married Isabell daughter and one of the heires of Peter king of Castile and Lions and had issue as in the Title of Yorke He dyed in the third yeare of king Henry the fourth 1401. and was buried at Langley by Isabell his wife Et portoit France seme D engleterre au lambell d'argent neuf â—orteaux RIchard of Conesburgh second sonne of Edmond of Langley aforesaid was created Earle of Cambridge at a Parliament held the second yeare of king Henry the fift and in the yeare after by the procurement of the Dolphine of France he with Henry Lord Scroope of Masham then Lord Treasurer of England and Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland knight did conspire the kings death at Southampton as the said king was shipping his men for France for which their treason they were beheaded there He married Anne sister and heire of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster and had issue Richard Earle of Cambridge and Duke of Yorke and Isabell married to Henry Lord Bourchier and Earle of Essex Et portoit les armes de son pere ' RIchard Plantagenet sonne of Richard of Conesbourgh in the fourth yeare of king Henry the sixt was created D. of Yorke Earle of Cambridge and Rutland and Lord of Tyndall he was also Earle of Marche and Vlster Lord of Wigmore and Clare by his Mother He married Secily daughter of â—alphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Edward who was after king by the name of king Edward the fourth Edmond Earle of Rutland and Richard D. of Glocester and after king of England by the name of K. Richard the 3. diuers daughters as in the title of Yorke This Richard with his Son Edmond was slaine at the battell of Wakefield 1460. Et portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Deuon and Marquesses of Exeter their Armes Wiues and Children RIchard de Riparijs sonne of Baldwine Riuers to whom M Camden saith king Henry the first gaue the Towne of Tiuerton and the honour of plimpton and created him Earle of
Deuonshire and granted to him the third penny of the yearely reuennew of the same County being ten Marks Lastly the said king gaue him the Isle of Wight whereby euer after he was called Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of the Isle He married and had issue Baldwine de Riuers Earle of Deuon BAldwine de Riuers sonne of Richard aforesaid was the second Earle of Deuonshire and builded three Monasteries viz. Christ-Church Quarara in the Isle of Wight and Lira in Normandy he fortefied the Citty of Exeter against king Stephen and was banished England with his wife and children and had the Isle of Wight taken from him in the yeare 1136. He married Adelizia daughter of _____ by whom he had issue Richard Henry that dyed yong and William sur-named Vernon the place where hee went to schoole or was brought vp in This Baldwine dyed in the yeare 1155. and was buried in the Abbey of Quarara RIchard de Riuers eldest sonne of Baldwine aforenamed was the third Earle of Deuonshire and did giue lands to the Abbey of Quarara in the 13. yeare of king Henry the second to pray for the soules of Baldwine his father Adelizia his mother Countesse of Deuon He married Hawis daughter and one of the heires of Reginald Earle of Cornwall base sonne of king Henry the first and had issue Baldwine and Richard both Earles of Deuonshire who dyed without issue This Richard dyed in the Citty of Cenomania in Franc in the yeare 1161. BAldwine de Riuers sonne and heire of Richard aforesaid was after his father the fourth Earle of Deuon and married Alice daughter of Raphe de Dol in Berry as Milles hath pag. 457. he was Earle but a while and dyed without issue leauing Richard his brother to succeed him in his Earledome and lands RIchard de Riuers second sonne of Richard the third Earle of Deuon and brother and heire of Baldwine the fourth Earle of Deuonshire was the fift Earle of Deuonshire and married Margaret daughter and one of the heyres of Iohn Lord Biset and gaue lands to the Abbey of Bruer to pray for the soule of Earle Richard his Father his own health and Margaret the Countesse his wife hee died without issue and was buried at Montbroge in Normandy the thirtieth of King Henry the second Etportoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur This is the first man that bare this Armes that euer I could finde and for the Griffyn which hath bene vsually set downe for their Armes it is but a deuice and no Armes WIlliam sur-named de Vernon of the Towne of Vernona in Normandy where he was borne as some haue but the booke of Forde Abbey hath where he went to schoole after the death of Baldwine and Richard his two Nephewes without issue was the sixt Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of the Isle of Wight He married Mabell daughter to Robert Earle of Mellent with whom her Father did giue in marriage all his lands of Kiderminster Moreis and Redeliston which were before the lands of her Mother Mauld one of the daughters heires of Reginald Earle of Cornwall base sonne of K. Henry the first by whom this William had issue Baldwine who married Margaret daughter of Waryn Fitz-Gerald Chamberlaine to king Iohn and dyed before his Father leauing issue Baldwine his sonne and heire This William had issue also two daughters the eldest was Iane married vnto William Bruer the younger Lord of Torbay who dyed without issue Mary the second daughter was first married to Sir Robert Courtney knight sonne of Reginald and after to Peter de Prouz and had issue This William de Vernon by his Deed or Charter bearing date the fourth of September 1206. did giue lands to the Abbey of Quarara to pray for the soules of king Henry and Baldwine his father and A lelicia the Countesse his Mother and Earle Richard his brother and for the health of Mabell the Countesse his wife and Baldwine his sonne and after dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1216. the first of king Henry the third Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur armé lampasse de gueulles BAldwine de Riuers the fourth of that christen name Son of Baldwine the third which dyed before his father was after the death of William de Vernon his grand-father the seuenth Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of the Isle of Wight He married Amicia daughter of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hertford by whom he had issue Baldwine the fift and eight Earle of Deuonshire of that sur-name and Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle the wife of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle This Baldwine in the 25. yeare of the reigne of king Henry the third was created Earle of the Isle of Wight at the sute and petition of Richard Earle of Cornwall the kings brother whose Ward this Baldwine had bene and in the 29. yeare of the said kings reigne the saide Baldwine dyed in his youthfull yeares After whose death his Countesse Amicia gaue lands to the abbey of Bruarne to pray for the soules of Gilbert de Clare late Earle of Glocester her Father and for Isabell the Countesse her Mother and Baldwine late Earle of Deuonshire her husband and for the health of her owne soule Baldwine her sonne She dyed in the yeare 1283. Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur BAldwine de Riuers the fift of that name and eight Earle of Deuonshire of that sur-name Lord of the Isle of Wight Hee married Auice daughter of _____ a Sauoyan borne and neere kineswoman of Queene Elianor and had issue a sonne named Iohn that dyed yong in France without issue This Baldwine the fift dyed in the 46. yeare of K. Henry the third leauing Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle his sister and heire Et portoit les armes de son Pere ' HVgh Courtney knight the second of that name cousin and heire of Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle that is to say sonne of Hugh grand-childe of Mary de Riuers sister of Baldwyne the third that dyed before his Father grand-father of Isabell de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle was by Letters Patents made the ninth Earle of Deuonshire the ninth of king Edward the third and married Agnes sister of Sir Iohn S. Iohn knight by whom he had issue foure sonnes and three daughters viz. Hugh Courtney the tenth Earle of Deuonshire Thomas the second Son married Murâ—ell daughter of Iohn de Mules Iohn the third sonne was Abbot of Tauestoke and Robert was the fourth Son Elianor the eldest daughter was wife to Iohn Grey Elizabeth the second daughter was married to Bartholmew de Lasle of the Isle of Wight Egelyne the third daughter was wife to Robert Lord Scales This Hugh dyed in the fourteenth yeare of king Edward the third 1340. and was buried at Cowike Et portoit d'or trois torreaux au lambell d'azur HVgh Courtney the third of that christen name sonne of Hugh the second
Baron of Buckhurst and the third Earle of Dorset and sonne and heire of Robert Sackuile the second Earle of Dorset of that Family married the Lady Anne Clifford daughter and sole heire of George Clifford Earle of Cumberland by whom he hath issue now liuing Lady Margaret Sackuile Et portoit escartelle d'or de gueulles au baston de vair A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Essex their Armes Wiues and Children GEffrey Magna-uilla sonne of William and Grand-childe to Geffrey Magna-uilla which came into England with William the Conqueror was created Earle of Essex by King Stephen vnto whose Lettes Patents or Charter were Witnesses William de Ipres Henry de Essex Iohn Son of Robert Fitz-Walter Robert de Newborough and others After Mauld the Empresse winning him to her Faction gaue him the Tower of London the Towne of Walden in Essex with the Shriffealty of Middlesex Essex and Hertfordshire to hold them as Geffrey his Grand-father held them as also all the lands which Eudo his grand-father by the Mother the Sewer to king Henry the first held in Normandy He married Rohesia daughter of Alberick de Vere Chiefe-Iustice of England and had issue Arnold banished by king Stephen Geffrey and William and was after slaine with the shot of an Arrow out of the Castle of Burwell in the 9. yeare of King Stephen 1143. Rose his wife was after married to Payne Beauchamp Baron of Bedford Et portoit escartelle d'or de gueulles GEffrey Magnauile or Mandeuill second sonne of Geffrey aforesaid after the banishment of Arnold his elder brother without issue and the disinheriting of his Father by K. Stephen was restored by king Henry the second to the Earledome of Essex with the third penny of the pleas within that County In which his Charter he had confirmed vnto him all honours priuiledges and lands held by Geffrey his great grand-father William his grand-father and Geffrey his Father aswell in England as in Normandy commanding that he and his heyres should haue and hold the said County of Essex as freely and lawfully as any Earle in England or Normandy held his Earledome Vnto which his Charter were Witnesses Reginald Earle of Cornwall Robert Earle of Leicester Roger Earle of Clare and others He married Eustachia kineswoman to king Henry the second but had no issue by her He dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1165. Et portoit les armes de son pere WIlliam Mandeuill brother of Geffrey aforesaid was the third Earle of Essex vnto whom king Henry the second gaue license by his Charter to fortefie his Castle of Plessy in Essex He married Auice daughter and heire of of William le Grosse Earle of Albemarle in whose right he was also Earle of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse in Yorkshire and to his second wife he married Christian daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter Lord of Woodham Water in Essex and after dyed at Roane without issue in the second yeare of King Richard the first leauing Beatrix de Say his Aunts grand-childe his heire who was married to Geffrey Fitz-Piers of Ludgarshall the fourth Earle of Essex Et portoit elcartellé d'or de gueulles GEffrey Fitz-Piers of Ludgarshall-Castle in Wilishire Chiefe-Iustice of England married to his first wife Beatrix eldest daughter of William Say son heire of Will. Say Beatrix his wife sister of Geffrey Mandeuile Earle of Essex In whose right the said Geffrey Fitz-Piers at the Coronation of K. Iohn was made earle of Essex the family of Mandeuils being then spent He had issue 3. sons and one daughter viz. Geffrey sur-named Mandeuile Earle of Essex William his brother also Earle of Essex and Henry that was Deacon of Wolfren-Hampton Mauld the daughter was married to Henry de Bohun Earle of Hereford after this Geffrey married to his second wife one Auelyne and by her had issue Iohn Fitz-Pters Lord of Berkhamsted and Chiefe-Iustice of Ireland who had to wife Isabell daughter and heyre of Ralphe Bigot and widdow of Gilbert Lacie This Geffrey dyed in the 14. yeare of King Iohn 1212. Et portoit gueulles à trois Cheurons componnee d'argent d'azur GEffrey Fitz-Piers sirnamed Mandeuile eldest son of Geffrey de Ludgarshal was after his Father Earle of Essex Lord of Plessy He married Isabell third daughter heire of William Earle of Glocester the repudiat wife of K. Iohn for which he was fined to pay the king twenty thousand Marks and so to haue all the Lands and Fees belonging to her except the Castle of Bristoll and the Chases belonging to the same He was slaine at a Tournament held neere London without issue 1216. and was buried in the Priory of the Trinity in London after whose death the said Isabell tooke to husband Hugh de Burgo Chiefe-Iustice of England Et portoit escartellé d'or de gueulles à le escarboucle pomette fleurette de sable brochant sur le tout WIlliam Fitz-Piers second brother of Geffrey aforesaid was after his brothers death the next Earle of Essex and tooke part with Lewis the French kings sonne against king Henry the third He intayled all his Lands with the Earledome of Essex vpon Mauld his sister and heire married to Henry de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Lord high Constable of England He dyed without issue in the three and twenty yeare of king Henry the third Et portoit les armes de son frere viz. Escartelleé d'or de gueulles à l'escarboucle pommette fleutette d'or brochant fur le tout HVmfrey de Bohun the fift of that name sonne and heire of Henry de Bohun and Mauld his wife sister and heyre of Geffrey and William Fitz-Piers aforesaide was Earle of Hereford and Essex and Constable of England and married Mauld daughter and heire of Ralphe de Issodon Earle of Angi in Normandy and brother of Hugh le Brun Earle of the Marches of Aquitaine as more at large doth appeare in the Title of Earles of Hereford Et portoit d'azur à la band d'argent à deux cottizes entre six lions rampant d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the seuenth of that name was after the death of Humfrey his grand-father Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England and Lord of Brecknock He married Mauld daughter of Ingelram de Fines and had issue Humfrey the eight and dyed at Plessy in Essex the 27. of king Edward the first 1298. Et portoit les armes de son pere HVmfrey de Bohun the eight of that name sonne of Humfrey the sixt which dyed before his Father was Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England He married Elizabeth daughter of king Edward the first being the widdow of Iohn Earle of Holland and had issue Iohn Humfrey and William all three Earles and Edward and William twins as in the Title of Earles of Hereford This Humfrey was slaine at Borough-bridge the 15. of king Edward the second 1322. IOhn de Bohun sonne and heire of Humfrey de Bohun the eight after the death
le tiers le mesme le quart Riuerijs qui est d'or au lion rampant d'azur THomas Cecill Baron of Burghley sonne and heyre of William Cecill Baron of Burghley and Lord high Treasurour of England was created Earle of Excester at Greenewich in the third yeare of King Iames. He married Dorothie daughter and one of the co-heyres of Iohn Neuill Lord Latymer and had issue foure sonnes and sixe daughters viz. William Cecill Lord Burghley who married Elizabeth daughter and heyre of Edward Mannors Earle of Rutland and had issue William Lord Ros Sir Richard Cecill Knight Sir Edward Cecill knight and Thomas Cecill Esquire fourth sonne Luce the eldest daughter was married to William Paulet Marquesse of Wynchester Mildred the second daughter was married first to Sir Thomas Read knight and after to Sir Edmond Trafford of Lancashire knight Mary the third daughter was married to the Lord Denny Elizabeth the fourth daughter first married to Sir William Hatton alias Newport knight and after to Sir Edward Coke knight Lord Chiefe-Iustice of the kings Bench one of his Maiesties most honorable priuy Counsell Dorothy the fift daughter was married to Sir Gyles Allington of Hounslow-Heath knight and Francis the sixt daughter was married to Sir Richard Tufton knight Et portoit burelle de six pieces d'argent d'azur sur le tout six escussons de sable charge de six lyons d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Ewe or Augy in Normandy their Armes Wiues and Children VVIlliam Earle of Ewe and Mutterell came into England with William Conqueror who gaue him the Mannors of Tudenham Woleston and Aluerdeston with all other such lands as hee could get or conquer from the Welsh He was after banished England for rebellion and his lands giuen away to Walter Fitz-Richard sonne of Constance sister of this William Earle of Ewe The saide Walter Fitz-Richard conquered Nether-Gwent and halfe the Country of Lege He founded the Abbey of Tynterne and dyed without issue in the third yeare of King Stephen leauing his inheritance to Gilbert sur-named Strongbow Earl of Pembrooke his Nephew and was after buried at Tynterne IOhn Earle of Augie sonne of Iohn married Alice daughter of William Daubigney Earle of Chichester by Alice his wife late widdow of king Henry the first and had issue Henrie Earle of Augie Iohn de Augie Matilda and Margaret and after dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1171. the 18. of Henry the second HEnry Earle of Augie sonne of Iohn gaue to the Monks of Bermondsey in Southwarke his lands called Oswareston neere Romenelin in the Parish of Lida and the lands of Iohn the Clarke in Belsinton and married and had issue Alice his onely daughter and heire married to Ralphe de Isodon 1241. 26. Henry the 3. RAlphe de Isondon sonne of Geffrey de Luzigna Earle of the Marchesse of Aquitaine in France and brother of Hugh le Brun married Alice daughter and heire of Henry Earle of Angy in Normandy and in her right was Earle of Angie after the death of Henry her Father aforesaid This Ralphe in the first yeare of king Iohn was one of the Noblemen that swore the league betweene the saide king and the Earle of Flanders Hee had issue one onely daughter his heire named Mauld married to Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Essex and Constable of England Et portoit barre d'argent d'azur au lambell de gueulles de cinq pieces WIlliam Bourchier created Earle of Ewe at Maunt in Normandy the fift of king Henry the fift and married Anne daughter of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester and sister and one of the heyres of Humfrey her brother and had issue Henry Bourchier Earle of Ewe and Essex William Lord Fitz-Warrin Iohn Lord Bernes and Thomas Arch Bishop of Canterbury and Cardinall of S. Cirac in Rome and Anne his daughter was married to Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke This William dyed in the eight yeare of King Henry the fift at Troys in Champaine and his body being brought ouer Sea into England was buried at Eyston in Kent Et portoit d'argent au croix engreslee de gueulles entre quatre buffeux de fable HEnry Bourchier sonne and heire of William aforesaide was after the death of his Father Earle of Ewe in Normandy vntill the 28. yeare of king Henry the sixt that Charles the French king had recouered that earledome to the crown of France Afterwards he sate in Parliament by the name title of Lord Bourchier vntill the 35. yeare of the said Kings Reigne that he was created Viscount Bourchier king Edward the fourth in the first yeare of his reigne created him Earle of Essex and in the 13. of king Edward the fourth he was Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England as in the title of Essex is more at large Et portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Glocester and Hartford their Armes Wiues and Children RObert sur-named the Consull of Glocester base sonne of King Henry the first begotten of Nest the daughter of Rhice ap Tewder Prince of South Wales who was after married to Girald de Wyndesore Constable of Penbroke-Castle and auncestour of the Earles of Kildare in Ireland in the 11. yeare of his Fathers Reigne was created Earle of Glocester He assisted and tooke part with Mauld the Empresse his halfe sister against K. Stephen the Vsurper which Stephen being taken prisoner and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristoll This Robert very shortly after was likewise taken by King Stephens forces whereupon it was concluded that a King for an Earle and an Earle for a King should make an exchange and eyther set the other at liberty He married Mabell daughter and one of the foure heyres of Robert Fitz-Hamon Lord of Corboil in Normandy Cardiffe in Wales and Tewksbury in England and had issue William Earle of Glocester Roger Bishop of Wynchester Richard Bishop of Bayon in Normandy and Hamon slaine at Tholouze with William King Stephens sonne 1160. He had also two daughters one named Mabell married to Aubre de Vere the second was Matilda married to Randolphe Gernonijs Earle of Chester This Robert builded the Castles of Bristoll and Caerdiffe in Wales and the Monastery of S. Iames by Bristoll and dyed in the 12. yeare of King Stephen and was buried in the saide Monastery 1146. Et portoit de gueulles au trois Restes des Armes d'or WIlliam sonne and heire of Robert Consull was after his Father Earle of Glocester and Lord of Glamorgan in right of his grand-father Robert Fitz-Hamon who wonne the said Lordship from Iustine ap Gurgan Lord of Glamorgan in King William Ruphus time and made his abode in the said Castle of Caerdiffe where the saide Robert kept his Courts Monethly and vsed therein Iura Regalia hauing his twelue Knights to attend him the first day they hauing senerall Lodgings giuen to them their heires for euer within the said Castle He married Hawis
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
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
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
and heyre of Sir Iohn Beauchampe of Bletso knight the widdow of Sir Oliuer S. Iohn knight descended of the S. Iohns of Fanmon in South-Wales by whom he had issue Margaret his onely daughter and heyre married first to Edmond of Hadham Earle of Richmond by whom she had issue king Henry the seuenth she married afterward Thomas Stanley Earle of Derby but by him had no issue This Iohn dyed in the 22. of king Henry the sixt and was buried at Wimborne Minster in Dorsetshire Et portoit France escartelleé d'engleterre au bordure gobonne d'argent d'azur IOhn de Foix Viscount Casleton and Lord Greyley sonne of Gaston de Foix knight of the Order of the Garter brother to the Counte de Foix Capitaine de la Bouche Countie de Longueuile et de Beuancies for his good seruice done against the French was by king Henry the sixt 1446. created Earle of Kendall in England and made Knight of the Order of the Garter some of the house of Foys now Earles of Longueuile in France do write themselues at this day Earles of Longueuile and Kendall He married Margaret daughter of Michaell de la Pole Earle of Suffolke and sister to William de la Pole Duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Iohn de Foys father of Anne wife of Vladislaus king of Hungary This Iohn de Foix had his Armes pulled downe at Winsore the third of king Edward the 4. Et portoit à deux vaches passans de gueulles accolees accornees clarinees de azur escartelle d'or à trois palz de gueulles sur le tout au lambell de fable charge de cinq coquilles d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Lincolne their Armes Wiues and Children VVIlliam de Romare a Norman borne sonne of Roger de Romare and halfe brother of Randoll Meschines the fourth Earle of Chester by his Mother Luce daughter of Algar the Saxon Earle of Chester and sister of Morcar Earle of Northumberland Lincolne was created Earle of Lincolne in the sixt yeare of king Stephen to whom the said king gaue the Mannour of Chircheton the Castle of Geynsborough and the Castle of Pontfret in Yorkshire Vnto which Grant were Witnesses Randoll Meschines Earle of Chester Gilbert de Clare Earle of Penbroke and Gilbert de Clare Earle of Hartford and others He married Hawis daughter of Stephen sonne of Eudo Comes Blesensis Champaine and sister of William le Grosse Earle of Albemarle by whom he had issue William de Romare the second Lord of Bullingbroke who tooke to wife Mauld daughter of Baldwyn Riuers Earle of Deuonshire and dyed before his Father in the yeare 11â—1 leauing issue a sonne named William the third who also dyed without issue in Anno 1175. and one daughter named Hawis married to Gilbert de Gaunt Earle of Lincolne This last William de Romare by his Deed gaue lands to the Abbey of Reuesbie to pray for the soule of William his Father William the Earle his Grand-father 1172. the 19. of King Henry the 2. Et portoit gueulles sept macles d'or sené de croix recroisettees de mesme GIlbert de Gaunt Lord of Lindesey in Lincolnshire sonne of Walter de Gaunt by Mauld daughter of Alan Earle of Britaine and grand-childe to Gilbert de Gaunt that came into England with William Conqueror by Eustacia daughter of the Earle of Cenomania taking part with king Stephen against Mauld the Empresse was taken prisoner by king Henry the second being then Duke of Normandy who committed him to the custody and keeping of Randoll Meschines alias Gernons the fourth Earle of Chester who married him to Hawis daughter of William de Romara his halfe brother by the Mother by whom he had issue Gilbert de Gaunt that dyed in the yeare 1160 Father of the last Gilbert Earle of Lincolne Baldwyn second sonne Lord of Bourne and Dipping who founded the Abbey of Bourne 1140. and dyed in the yeare 1156 and one daughter named Alice married to Simon S. Lize Earle of Northampton who dyed without issue This Gilbert the Earle dyed in the yeare 11â—6 and was buried in the Abbey of Bardens in Lincolnshire Et portoit burelle d'or d'azur au bande de gueulles GIlbert de Gaunt grand-childe of Gilbert de Gaunt Earle of Lincolne by his sonne Gilbert who was disinherited by King Henry the second for taking part with king Stephen was made Earle of Lincolne by Lewis King Philip the French kings sonne in the 18. yeare of king Iohn which king Henry the third did afterwards confirme to the said Gilbert in the third yeare of his Reigne In which yeare he dyed was buried in the Abbey of Ramsey without issue after whose death king Henry the third did giue the saide Earledome of Lincolne to Randoll sur-named Blundeuile the sixt Earle of Chester Et portoit burelle d'or d'azur au bande de gueulles RAndoll Meschines sur-named Blundeuile the sixt Earle of Chester from Hugh Lupus and the fourth Earle of this Family sonne of Hugh Keueliock sonne of Randoll Gernons halfe brother by the Mother to William Romara Earle of Lincolne was restored to the Earledome of Lincolne in the yeare 1218. the third of king Henry the third after the death of his kinesman Gilbert de Gaunt the last Earle of Lincolne of that sur-name It is set downe by some exquisite Writers that this Randoll dying without issue did giue the Title and Earledome of Lincolne to his sister Auice the wife of Robert Quincy and so he the said Robert became Earle of Lincolne which thing I can hardly beleeue for that all honours and titles of Dignities are deriued and enioyed by the bounty and fauour of the King or Soueraigne and therefore that this guift of Randoli to his sister could make her Countesse or Robert her husband Earle of Lincolne is idle and altogether vntrue He married first Constance daughter of Conan Earle of Britaine and Richmond the widdow of Geffrey Plantagenet from whom he was diuorced the second of king Iohn and after married Clemence daughter of William Fengeres and to his third wife he tooke Margaret daughter of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford but had no issue by any of them He was a Witnesse to king Henry the thirds Charter bearing date 1224. of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Peterborough by the name of Randoll Earle of Chester and Lincolne and after dyed at his Castle of Wallingford the 17. yeare of King Henry the 3. was buried at Chester leauing his foure sisters his heyres which were married as in the title of Earles of Chester Et portoit d'azur à trois garbes d'or IOhn Lacie Baron of Halton Lord of Ponfret and Blackeburneshire and Constable of Chester sonne and heyre of Roger was created Earle of Lincolne in the 17. yeare of king Henry third and married Alice daughter of Gilbert Lord of the Egle and Baron of Pimsey and to his second wife hee married Margaret daughter and one of the
two heyres of Robert Lord Quincy sonne and heyre of Saire Quincy Earle of Winchester by Hawis his wife the fourth sister and one of the heyres of Randoll Blundeuile Earle of Chester Lincolne by whom he had issue Lord Edmond Lacie that dyed before his Father in the yeare 1257. who before had maried Alice daughter of the Marquesse of Saluce in Italy and had issue Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne and Mauld maried to Richard de Clare Earle of Glocester This Iohn dyed in the 24. yeare of king Henry the third was buried in the Abbey of Stanloe Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de pourpâ—e HEnry Lacie grand-childe of Iohn Lacie Earle of Lincolne by his sonne Edmond was the second Earle of Lincolne of that Family Baron of Halton and Constable of Chester and Lord of Denbeigh by king Edward the first He writ in his stile Earle of Lincolne Constable of Chester Lord Ros and Roweniock and married to his first wife Margaret daughter and heire of William Lonspee grand-childe of William Longspee Earle of Salisbury by his sonne William by whoÌ„ he had issue Edmond Lacie drowned in a Well in Denbeigh Castle in the life time of his father Alice maried to Thomas Plantagenet Earle of Lancaster Leicester Derby This Henry married to his second wife Ioane daughter of William Martyne Lord Camoys but by her had no issue He dyed at his house now called Lincolnes Inne in Chancery-Lane in London 1311. and lyeth buried in Paules Church in London in S. Dunstans Chappell Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de purpre HEnry of Mounmoth sur-named Tortcoll sonne of Henry Earle of Lancaster and brother and heyre of Thomas Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Derby that married Alice Lacy aforesaid was created Earle of Derby in the life time of his Father after whose death which was in the yeare 1345. he was also Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Lord high Steward of England and in the 25. of king Edward the third he was made Duke of Lancaster and in the 27. yeare of the same Kings reigne he had the Earledome of Lincolne giuen him He married Isabell daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont and had issue two daughters his heyres Mauld the eldest was married to William Duke of Bauarre Earle of Henault Holland and Zeland Blanch the second daughter was wife to Iohn of Gaunt Earle of Richmont fourth sonne of king Edward the third who after the death of this Henry his Father in law was the second Duke of Lancaster This Henry dyed in the 35. yeare of king Edward the third Et portoit d'engleterre au band d'azur IOhn de la Pole sonne and heyre of Iohn de la Pole second Duke of Suffolke was created Earle of Lincolne in the seauenth yeare of king Edward the fourth and married Margaret daughter of Thomas Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell by whom he had no issue He was slaine in the life time of his Father at Stokefield taking part with Martine Swarth the 16. of Iune in the second of king Henry the seuenth 1487. Et portoit d'azur à la face à trois testes de leopards d'or au lambell d'argent HEnry Brandon sonne and heyre of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by Mary the French Queene being about twelue yeares of age was created Earle of Lincolne at Bridewell in the seuenteene yeare of king Henry the eight and then dyed without issue his Father liuing Et portoit burelle d'argent de gueulles de dix pieces au lion rampant d'or correné perpale gueulles d'argent au lambell d'argent EDward Clinton Lord Clinton was created Earle of Lincolne in the 14. yeare of Queene Elizabeth 1572. and made Lord Admirall of England He married three wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Iohn Blount the widdow of the Lord Talboys by whom he had issue Bridget wife to Robert Dymock of Lincolnshire Esquire Father of Sir Edward Dymock his Maiesties most worthy Champion Katherine wife of William Lord Borough Father of Thomas Lord Borough Lord Deputy of Ireland Margaret wife to Charles Lord Willoughby of Parham His second wife was Vrsula daughter of William Lord Sturton by whom he had issue Henry lord Clinton Edward Thomas which Tho had to wife Mary daughter of Iohn Terrell of Warley Anne Clinton maried to William Ascough sonne heyre of Sir Francis Ascough of Kelsey in Lincolnshire knight Francis married to Gyles Bruges Lord Shandos of Sudley Castle His third wife was Elizabeth daughter of Gerald Earle of Kildare in Ireland by whom he had no issue He dyed in the 26. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and was honourably buried at Windesore 1585. Et portoit d'argent six croiseletz de sable au pied fiche au chef d'azur chargé de deux molettes d'or HEnry Lord Clinton Son and heyre of Edward Earle of Lincolne and Lord high Admirall of England after the death of his Father was Earle of Lincolne and married Katherine daughter of Francis Hastings Earle of Huntington by whom he had issue Thomas Lord Clinton and Earle of Lincolne 1616. Sir Edward Clinton knight who married Mary daughter of Thomas Dighton of Sturton and Elizabeth Clinton wife to Sir Arthur Gorge knight THomas Lord Clinton and Earle of Lincolne now liuing 1618. married Elizabeth daughter and one of the heyres of Sir Henry Knyuet knight and hath issue Edward Lord Clinton knight of the Bath Henry and Thomas Clinton Katherine Elizabeth and Francis A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles Palatines of Lancaster their Armes Wiues and Children IOhn sur-named Without-Land brother of king Richard the first was by the said King created Earle of Lancaster and had giuen him also the Earledomes of Nottingham Deuonshire and Cornwall He married Isabell third daughter and one of the heyres of William Earle of Glocester by whom he had the said Earldome conditionally that he should giue yearely betweene the other two sisters foure hundred pounds but from the said Isabell he was diuorced in the first yeare he came to bee King as in the title of Earles of Glocester is more at large Et portoit les armes d'engleterré an baston d'azur brochant sur le tout EDmond sur-named Crouchbacke second sonne of king Henry the third borne in the yeare 1245. and created Earle of Lancaster by his Father in the yeare 1267. He had also giuen him the Earledomes of Leicester and Derby with the Office of high Steward of England after the attaindor of Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester slaine at the battaile of Euesham and the disinheriting of Robert Ferrars Earle of Derby Hee married two wiues the first was Auelina daughter of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle and sister and heyre of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle by whom he had no issue His second wife was Blanch Queene of Nauarre daughter of Robert Earle of Artoys by whom he had issue Thomas Earle of Lancaster Henry Lord of Munmoth and Iohn that dyed in France without
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
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
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
brothers Lands and Honours both in England and Ireland and for the same did his homage in the same yeare 1234. and was Earle of Penbroke and Marshall of England Lord of Longeuile in France Linester in Ireland and of Chepstow and Strighull in Wales c. He married Margaret daughter of William King of Scots but had no issue He miscarried at a Turnament held at Hartford by endeuoring to stay his horse from his swift running who being cast out of his Saddle the horse gaue him such a blow on the breast with his head backward that he died therof the same day in the Abbey of Hartford neere Ware in the yeare 1242. His body being conueyed to London was buried by his Father in the Temple Et portoit d'or party de vert au lion rampant de gueulles sur le tout armé lampasse d'azur WAlter Marshall fourth sonne of William Marshall the elder with whom King Henry the third after the death of his Brother Gilbert Marshall was greatly displeased denying him those Honours and Seigneuries belonging vnto him from his Auncestors saying That this Walters eldest Brother William did rescue Lewis the French Kings Son being in England that he was not taken prisoner Secondly that his Brother Richard was his enemy and was slaine in open field against him And thirdly that his brother Gilbert that dyed last had all his dignities restored to him by the Kings fauour and that contrary to the saide Kings Commandement he went to the Tilâ—ing at Hartford which was held to the Kings disgrace But afterwards the King being well pacified this Walter was admitted to be Earle of Penbroke and Marshall of England and to haue all other the honours and lands his brothers held and enioyed before He married Margaret daughter and co-heyre of Robert Lord Quincy sonne and heyre of Sater de Quincy Earle of Winchester widdow of â—ohn Lacie Earle of Lincolne by whom he had no issue He dyed at Goderich Castle by Monmouth the fourth of December 1245. and was buried at Tynterne Abbey without issue in the 30. yeare of King Henry the third Et portoit les armes de son freré ANselme Marshall the fift sonne of William Marshall the elder was at the time of his Brother Walters death Dean of Salisbury and after admitted to be Earle of â—enbroke and Marshall of England He married Mauld daughter of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Constable of England and dyed without issue the 22. of December being the 18. day after the death of his Brother Walter leauing his rich Patrimony and Inheritance to be diuided amongst his fiue sisters and heyres before mentioned I finde this Earledome of Penbroke in ancient time to be a County Palatine had all Iurisdiction Regall And that the Earle had vnder him there Iustices of his owne a Shireiffe Steward Chancellour Chamberlaine Coroner Escheter and diuers other Officers necessary for a Regal Iurisdiction all made and appointed by himselfe He had Sâ—ssions County Courts Monethly in which County Courts were tried all Real Pleas whatsoeuer by originall Writ vnder the Seale and Name of the said Earle all fynes were leuied and recoueries passed and all Writs made in the Earles name and not in the Kings He had power to pardon all offences and had his Chancery court of Common Pleas and Exchequer holden within his Castle of Penbroke whereunto all the Inhabitants of that Country resorted for iustice and triall of all their causes He erected Townes and incorporated them with many large and ample liberties He had all manner of forfeitures and escheats whatsoeuer He had within his County 9. Castles of his owne and 12. Seigneuries or Mannors which were parcell of his County The Iurisdiction royall of this Earledome remained and was permitted in the Earles themselues from the time of the Norman Conquest vntill the 27. yeare of King Henry the 8. Whereas all other Earles of this Realme had lost their Iurisdictions many hundred yeares before and had but the bare names of their Earledomes Also the said Earles of Penbroke by Office at the Coronations of the Kings of England were to carry a paire of gilt Spurs To end this County is called Penbrokshire of the Towne so named for the word Pen in Welsh signifieth the head or chiefe part of a thing and Bro signifieth a Vale or plaine soyle fertile and fit to beare Corne c. Et portoit d'or party de vert au lyon rampant de gueulles sur le tout armé lampasse d'azur WIlliam de Valence so sur-named of the place where he was borne sonne of Hugh le Brun Earle of the Marchesse of Aquitaine and halfe brother by the Mother to King Henry the third was created Earle of Penbroke in the yeare 1247. He married Ioane daughter and heyre of Warin Lord Montchency and Ioane his wife second sister and co-heyre of Anselme Marshall Earle of Penbroke by whom hee had issue Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke and Iohn that dyed a childe and foure daughters viz. Isabell married to Iohn Lord Hastings of Aburgauenny one of the Competitors for the Crowne of Scotland Ioane the second daughter was married vnto Iohn Lord Comyn of Badzenoth sonne of Iohn Lord Comyn and Mary his wife daughter of Iohn Balliol Agnes the third daughter was first married to Maurice Fitz-Gerald and after to Henry Ballioll brother of Alexander Ballioll Lord of Chilham and dyed without issue Margaret was the 4. daughter This William de Valence and Ioane his wife gaue to the Towne of Tembie the first Charter of incorporating them licensing theÌ„ to chuse euery yeare Port-Reifes He granted likewise to the Burgesses free common yearely vpon al his grounds and Medowes from the time of mowing vnto the purification of Mary which to this day they enioy This William dyed in the yeare 1296. and was buried in a magnificent Toombe on the South-side of the Abbey at Westminster the 25. yeare of King Edward the first Et portoit burelle d'argent d'azur de dix pieces à l'otle de Marlettes de gueulles AYmer de Valence sonne and heyre of William de Valence aforesaid and Ioane his wife daughter of Warin Montchensey Lord of Swanscampe was after the death of his Father Earle of Penbroke and Weshford and Lord of Montigniac he was Lord Gouernor of the Realme of Scotland vnder king Edward the first during the controuersie betweene Iohn Ballioll and Robert Bruse Hee married three wiues the first was Beatrix daughter of Raphe de Nele Constable of France The second was the daughter of the Earle of Barre and the third was Mary daughter of Guy de Chastillion Earle of S. Paule but had no issue by any of them He dyed in France in the yeare 1323 and his inheritance for want of heyres of his body was diuided betweene his sisters aforesaid and Laurence Hastings grand childe to Isabell his eldest sister succeeded him in the Earledome of Penbroke and Weshford Et portoit les armes
Iohn Duke of Northūberland who were both beheaded without issue Katherine the second daughter was married to Henry Lord Herbert from whom against her will she was diuorced Mary married to Martyn Kayes of Kent Esquire and dyed without issue This Henry Grey Duke of Suffolke was beheaded at Tower Hill the 23. of February in the first yeare of Queene Mary 1554. Et portoit burelle de six d'argent d'azur trois torteaux à lambell d'ermyn THomas Lord Howard second sonne of Thomas Howard late Duke of Norfolke and of Margaret his second Wife daughter and onely heyre of Thomas Lord Andley of Walden Lord Chancellor of England was by Summons of writ to the Parliament made Lord Howard of Walden he was Lord Chamberlaine to Queene Elizabeth and King Iames and knight of the Garter and after created Earle of Suffolke at Hampton Court on Thursday the 21. of Iuly 1603. and lastly made Lord Treasurer of England He married Katherine eldest daughter and one of the co-heyres of Sir Henry Knyuet of Chorlton in Wiltshire knight by whom he had issue Theophilus Lord Walden Sir Thomas Howard knight of the Bath Henry Howard Charles Howard Robert Howard William Howard and Sir Edward Howard all knights of the Bath Iohn the 7. sonne dyed yong Elizabeth the eldest daughter was married to William Lord Knolles of Greyes and Viscount Wallingford Francis second daughter wife to Robert Carre Earle of Somerset and Katherine the third daughter was married to William Cecill now Earle of Salisbury 1618. Margaret the fourth daughter dyed young and was buried at Walden in Essex Et portoit gueulles à la band entre six croix au pied fiche d'argent à croissant sable pur la difference A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Somerset their Armes Wiues and Children VVIlliam de Mohun or Moun the 3. of that name from the Norman Conquest grand-childe to William de Moun surnamed Sapell Lord of Dunster Castle in Somersetshire by his sonne William was made Earle of Somerset by King Henry the first and by that name and title did found the Priory and Conuent of S. Maries of Brinton gaue to the Cannons Regular of the same diuers Lands for their maintenance To which his Charter are witnesses William de Moyn his Son Henry Iuwe William de Brinton Hugh de Punchardon and others This William as Mathew Paris hath in the yeare 1138. did keepe and fortefie his Castle of Dunster against K. Stephen and William Talbot kept the Castle of Hereford William Louell the Castle of Ludlow and William Fitz-Alan the Castle of Salopesbury on the part of Mauld the Empresse and Henry Duke of Normandy her sonne This William de Moun Earle of Somerset married Luce daughter of _____ and had issue William de Mohun Lord of Dunster and Oodecombe Muneth and Culueton in Somersetshire Et portoit guculles au Manch mal taile d'ermyn le maine propre tenant à la flour de liz d'or REginald de Mohun Lord of Dunster sonne and heyre of Reginald de Mohun Lord of Dunster grand-childe of William de Mohun Earle of Somerset by his sonne William was the second and last Earle of Somerses of that Family did by that Name Title giue his Mannor of Aexministre with the appurtenances to found the Abbey of Newham To which his gift are witnesses Richard Earle of Cornwall the Kings brother Simon Earle of Leicester Henry Earle of Oxford Iohn Fitz-Geffrey Ran-Fitz-Hubert Hugh Tracy Hugh Peuerell of Ermington William Malherbe knights and others Prima pars Patent Anno 14 Edw. 3 m. 33. He married Isabell daughter of William Earle Ferrars and Derby co-heyre of her Mother Sibell sister and co-heyre of Anselme Marshall Earle of Penbroke by whom he had issue Iohn de Mohun Lord of Dunster c. This Reginald lost his Title of Earle in siding with the Barons against king Henry the third and dyed in the 43. yeare of the said Kings Reigne and was buried in the Abbey of Newham Et portoit les armoiries de son peré gueulles au Manch mail taile d'ermyn le maine propre tenant à la flour de liz d'or IOhn sur-named Beaufort of Beaufort in France which came to the house of Lancaster by Blanch of Arthois wife to Edmond first Earle of Lancaster sonne of Iohn of Gaunt D. of Lancaster begotten of Ratherine Swinford before marriage who with his brothers and sisters were made legitimate by Acte of Parliament in the 21. yeare of king Richard the second and in the yeare 1396. he was made Earle of Somerset and the yeare after Marquesse Dorset from which king Henry the fourth depriued him leauing him onely Earle of Somerset He maried Margaret daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and sister and co-heyre of Edmond Earle of Kent by whom he had issue Henry Earle of Somerset that dyed young without issue and Iohn who by king Henry the fift was created the first Duke of Somerset and had issue one onely daughter named Margaret Mother to king Henry the seuenth Edmond the third sonne succeeded his Brother Iohn in the Dukedome of Somerset and was slaine at the first battaile of S. Albons Ioane the eldest daughter of this Iohn Beaufort was married to Iames the first king of Scots and Margaret the second daughter was married to Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuon He dyed in the eleuenth yeare of king Henry the fourth and was buried on the North side of Thomas Beckets Shrine at Canterbury Et portoit France seme escartellé d'engleterre au bordur gobonne d'argent d'azur IOhn Beaufort sonne of Iohn Earle of Somerset and grand-childe to Iohn of Gaunt after the death of his Father and his elder Brother Henry Earle of Somerset was created the first Duke of Somerset in the 21. yeare of king Henry the 6. He was taken prisoner before by the Duke of Orliance at Bangie-Bridge in France the ninth of the saide Kings Reigne and deliuered vpon ransome He married Margaret daughter of Sir Iohn Beauchampe of Bletso knight and sister heire of Iohn her Brother by whom he had issue one only daughter and heyre named Margaret who by Edmond of Hadham Earle of Richmond her husband had issue king Henry the seuenth Milles pag. 398. saith Edmond Beauford brother of this Iohn succeeded him in his Dukedome of Somerset which was thought to be a great preiudice to Margaret this Iohns daughter and heyre if according to the olde custome when the male issue fayleth the titles honours and dignities should not depend vpon the pleasure of the King to distribute the same to who he pleaseth The which in a word I answer thus That if King Henry the fift did giue the Dukedome of Somerset to Iohn the Father of this Margaret his heyres male as he did and as commonly all Kings vse to doe when they giue the like honours This Iohn dying without issue male what wrong doth the King to any in giuing his owne to whom and
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
but dyed the third of King Henry the fift without any issue at all Neither was there euer any such Hugh Audley that euer married anie such Woman Mil. pag. 347.  RObert base son of King Henrie the first was the first Earle of Glocester and married Mabell Daughter of Robert Fitz Hamon and Sibel his Wife daughter of Robert de Belesmo Earle of Shrewsbury RObert Fitz-Haman neuer married any Sibill daughter of Robert de Belesmo For Robert de Belesmo had his eyes put out and dyed in the Castle of Kardiffe in Wales without any issue And for Mabell the daughter of Robert Fitz-Hamon shee neuer married Nigell Lord Mowbray for that Mabell he married was daughter and co-heyre of William Fitz Patrich Earle of Salisbury who had giuen her in Marriage the Mannor of Bansted in Surrey as is manifested by the said Grant After this Roberts death Mabell his Wife married Nigell Lord and Baron of Mowbray  Milles pag. 359  ISabell daughter of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Hertford married William L. Bruse of Gower in Wales THis Isabell married Robert Brus of Annanderdale in Scotland and not William Bruse of Wales and so both the man and the matter quite mistaken Milles pag. 369.  ISabel daughter of William king of Scots married Robert Lord Ros of Hamlake Father of Robert Lord Ros father of William Lord Ros Competitor for the crown of Scotland RObert Lord Ros that married Isabell daughter of William King of Scots had issue William L. Ros who had issue Robert Lord Ros of Hamlake Father of another William that was one of the Competitors for the Crowne of Scotland So the the first William L. Ros is quite left out and by that means the second Robert is left without a father Mil. pag. 507.  RObert de Valonijs Lord of Orford married Cicely sister of William Blound and had issue Cicely de Valoniis wife to Robert Vfford steward of the houshold to King Edward the second RObert de Valoniis which marryed the Sister of William Blound had issue a sonne Robert who was Father of Cicely de Valoniis wife to Robert Vfford So that the right Father of Cicely Valonijs that married Robert Vfford is quite left out and not once mentioned and Robert de Valonijs Cicely Blound who was her Grand-father and Grand mother made to be her father mother Milles pag. 528.  MArgaret daughter of Sir Iohn Norwich Knight and sister and heyre of Thomas Norwich was wife to Robert Vfford Earle of Suffolke THis Margaret was Sister of Sir Walter Norwich Knight and Aunt and heyre to Iohn Norwich son of the sayde Sir Walter So that this discent is out of ioynt and greatly mistaken Mil. pag. 529.  RIchard Plantaginet sonne of King Iohn was created Earle of Cornwal in the yeare 1227. and died at Barkhamsted being very old in the yeare 1572. NOw surely I haue not read of any so olde since Christs time For by this accompt of 1227. and 1572. this Richard liued after his being Earl 345. yeares And then was hee a verie olde man indeed Mil. pag. 552.  RRobert Sackuile eldest son of Thomas was after his Father Earle of Dorset by Lady Margaret Howard sole Daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolke HOw this Robert Sackuile could be Earle of Dorset by Lady Margaret Howard his Wife is more then by my Bookes I can find considering his father was created Earle of Dorset to him and his heires male Mil. pag. 413.  ALan sur-named the redde or Fergant Earle of little Britaine married the daughter of Fulke Rechin Earle of Anioy and had issue Howell disinherited Bertha maried to Eudo Earle of Porhet and Constance wife to Geffrey sonne of Iuhell HEre is Howell Bertha Constance made to be Children to Alan Fargant when as they were the children of Conanle Grosse Earle of Britaine and so they fathered vpon a wrong father Milles pag. 588 589.  WIlliam the first Earle Warren Surrey married Gundred daughter of William Conqueror and had issue William and Reginald who marryed Adeliza Ladie of Wirmingay in Norfolk and had issue William de Warren  WIlliam the second Earle Warren and Surrey sonne of William the first married Isabel daughter of Hugh the great Earle of Vermandois and had yssue William the third Earle Warren Reginald de Warren who married Adeliza daughter of William de Wormegay and had issue William REginald de Warren mentioned in this place is made to haue two seuerall Fathers and Mothers as by this aforesaid it may appeare but the first is false His true Father was William the second Earle Warren and his mother was Isabel Sister of Rafe de Peronne Earle of Vermandois Mil. pag. 616 617 618 619.  WIlliam the third Earle of Arundell and Sussex maried Mabel sister and Coheire of Hugh Meschines surnamed Blundeuile the last Earle of Chester of that Family THere was neuer any Hugh Meschines Earle of Chester surnamed Blundeuile nor any Mabell his Sister But the trueth is there was a Mabell which was Sister and Co-heire of Randoll Blundeuile Earle of Chester Mil. pag. 642 643.  ISabell second Sister and Co-heyre of Hugh Earle of Arundell and Sussex married Iohn Fitz Alan Lord of Clun and Oswaldtre by whose right the Castle and honour of Arundell came to the Fitz Alans Their sonne Iohn Fitz Alan was Father of Richard first Earle of Arundel of that Family IT is true that this Isabell married Iohn Fitz Alan and had issue Iohn who by Mauld Verdon his wife had issue a third Iohn who marryed Isabell Mortimer and had yssue Richard the first Earle of Arundel which thirde Iohn is omitted and so the sayde Richards Grandfather made to be his father Mil. pag. 643.  HEnry Percy the ninth Earle of Northumberland Lord Percy Lucy Poynings Fitz-Payne and Brian and in his mothers right Lord Latymer HOw this Henry Earl of Northumberland can be Lord Latymer in right of his Mother is more then by my reading I could euer finde any proofe for Milles pag. 734. For I take it that all Daughters and heyrs of a Baron by Writ be they neuer so many are all interessed alike by their birth to their Fathers Dignitie which Dignity by no meanes can bee diuided therefore lost when there is more Daughters then one and to reuert to the King frō whence it came to bestow vppon which daughter hee will or other stranger whomsoeuer it shall please him LOra daughter of William Bruse Baron of Brecknocke wife vnto Robert Fitz Pernell Earle of Leicester and Sister of that William Bruse who was commonly called Earle of Brember Castle in Sussex Lord of Brecknock and Abergauenny she left siue daughters her heirs Isabel Ela Mauld Eua and Eleanor IT is true that this Lora did marry Robert Fitz Pernel Earle of Leicester But that she had fiue daughters is very vntrue for the saide Robert died without yssue And those fiue Daughters heere mentioned