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
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
de Burgo or de Burgh Lord Chamberlaine to K. Iohn Steward of Poytow and Lord Chiefe-Iustice of England was created Earle of Kent by Letters Patents bearing date the 10. of December in the 13. yeare of king Henry the 3. and had the keeping of Douer Rochester and Canterbury granted to him during life by a Charter bearing date the 16. of Hen. the 3. At last he procured himselfe great hatred of all the Nobility for causing the said king to breake his word and deed for the restitution of those lawes and auncient customes which before he had granted to the Subiects which did greatly agrauate the hate of the Commons He married three wiues the first was Margaret daughter of Sir Robert Arsike knight the second was Isabell daughter and one of the heyres of William Earle of Glocester the repudiate wife of king Iohn His third wife was Margaret daughter of William and sister of Alexander king of Scots he had issue by his first wife Iohn de Burgo who married Hawis Lamale and dyed before his Father leauing his sonne Iohn Baron of Lamale his heyre This Hubert dyed at his Castle of Barkhamsted in Hartfordshire the 27. of king Henry the third and was buried at the Fryars Predicants in London where now White-Hall standeth Et portoit gueulles sept lozengies vairé 3.3.1 EDmond Plantagenet sur-named of Woodstocke the place of his birth third sonne of king Edward the first by his second wife Margaret daughter of Philip king of France in the 15. yeare of king Edward the second his brother was created Earle of Kent And after at a Counsell held at Winchester the 5. of Edward the third 1330. the morrow after S. Gregories day he was arrested and on the Vigill of S. Cutbert adiudged to dye for high treason for abetting many of the Nobility to plot the deliuery of king Edward the second out of prison for which by the malice of Queene Isabell the then Kings Mother and Roger Mortimer her Sweet-heart he was beheaded at Winchester in the yeare aforesaid He married Margaret daughter and heyre of Iohn Lord Wake of Lidell and Burne and had issue two sonnes Edmond and Iohn and one daughter named Ioane the two sonnes were both Earles of Kent one after the other and dyed without issue Ioane their onely sister and heyre sur-named the Faire Maide of Kent was first married to William Monta-cute Earle of Salisbury from whom she was diuorced and after married to Sir Thomas Holland knight and lastly she was married to Edward the Blacke Prince Father of K. Richard the 2. Et portoit d'engleterré au bordure d'argent EDmond Plantagenet eldest sonne and heyre of Edmond of Woodstocke aforesaid succeeded his Father in the Earldome of Kent and dyed the Kings Ward without issue the sixt of king Edward the third leauing Iohn his brother to succeed him in the Earledome of Kent Et portoit les armes de son peré IOhn Plantagenet second sonne of Edmond of Woodstocke was after the death of his elder brother Earle of Kent by that title of honour sate in Parliament the 25. of King Edward the third and dyed the yeare after without issue He married Elizabeth daughter of the Duke of Iuâ—iers who after was married to Eustace Dampreticourt second sonne of the Lord Dampreticourt in Henault by whom she had issue Sanchius Dampreticourt knight of the Order of the Garter in king Edward the thirds time and one of the first Founders of the said Order Et portoit les armes de son peré SIr Thomas Holland knight and one of the first Founders of the Noble Order of the Garter sonne of Sir Thomas Holland of Lancashire knight was Steward of the house to William Monta-cute Earle of Salisbury and in right of Ioane his wife sister and heyre of Iohn Earle of Kent aforesaide was by king Edward the third created Earle of Kent and Lord Wake of Lidell and had issue Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Duke of Surrey Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and Duke of Excester by king Richard the second and a daughter named Ioane married to the Earle of S. Pole He dyed in the 34. yeare of king Edward the third 1360. Et portoit d'azur au leopard rampant le Champ fleurette d'argent THomas Holland halfe brother by the Mother to King Richard the second was after the death of Thomas his Father Earle of Kent and Lord Wake of Lidell He married Alice daughter of Richard Eitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue Thomas Earle of Kent Edmond Iohn and Richard 6. daughters Elianor first maried to Roger Mortimer Earle of March and after to Edward Charlton Lord Powes Margaret married first to Iohn Beauford Marquesse Dorset and Earle of Somerset and after to Thomas Duke of Clarence sonne of king Henry Ioane the 3. daughter was first married to Edward Duke of Yorke and after to William Lord Wiloughby of Eresbie and thirdly to Henry Lord Scroope and lastly to Sir Henry Bromflet knight Alice the fourth daughter was wife to Thomas Mountague Earle of Salisbury Elizabeth the fift daughter was married to Iohn Lord Neuill sonne of Ralphe first Earle of Westmerland and Bridget the sixt daughter was a Nunne at Barking This Thomas Holland dyed the 20. of King Richard the second Et portoit les armes d'engleterre au bordure d'argent THomas Holland Earle of Kent and Lord Wake sonne of Thomas aforesaid married Constance daughter of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke widdow of Thomas Lord Spencer but by her had no issue after he tooke to wife Ioane daughter of Hugh Earle Stafford by whom he had no issue This Thomas was created Duke of Surrey the 21. of King Richard the second 1398. And in the yeare 1400. he with the Earles of Huntington and Salisbury intending vnder colour of a Maske or Mummery at the Castle of Windesorre to haue surprized king Henry the fourth and to haue restored King Richard againe and so by that meanes to haue gotten restitution of their former titles of honour with their possessions which they had lost by iudgment of the last Parliament a little before But this their conspiracy being discouered to the King and he fled to London they were driuen to flye to Cicester where the rude Townesmen and others set vpon them tooke them and in the Market-place stroke off their heads his body was buried at Cicester but after taken vp againe and enterred in the Priory of Montgrace which was of his Fathers foundation This Thomas Duke of Surrey did beare for his Armes King Edward the Confessors Armes within a border ermyne impaled with the Armes of England within a border argent as by his Seales is manifested EDmond Holland second sonne of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and brother to the last Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Duke of Surrey slaine at Cicester was after the death of his said Brother Earle of Kent and Lord Wake of Lidell and by king Henry the 4. was made Lord high Admirall
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
homage three yeares after he married Mary the daughter of Foulk Earle of Aniou and the same yeare was made Duke of Normandy for which he did homage to King Lewis the Grosse of France and after was drowned comming out of Normandy into England the 26. of Nouember 1120. beeing then eighteene yeares of age leauing no issue of his body Mauld the only daughter of king Henry the first by Mauld his first wife was borne the fourth yeare of her Fathers Reigne and was married to the Emperour Henry the fourth for his second wife being but seuen yeares olde at her espousing and married and crowned at eleuen at Mentz in Germany in the yeare 1114. with whom she continued twelue yeares and out-liued him but had no issue by him After she married Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Aniou son of Foulke king of Ierusalem in the yeare 1127 and had issue Henry after King of England Geffrey Earle of Nantes in Britaine and William Earle of Poytou She was his wife 23. yeares and a widdow 17. yeares and after dyed in Roan 1167. and was buried at Bec Abbey in Normandy His Issue by Concubines Robert of some Writers called the Consull of Glocester base sonne of King Henry the first begotten of Nest the daughter of Rice ap Teuder the great Prince of South Wales who was after married to Girald de Windsore Constable of the Castle of Penbroke This Robert married Mabell daughter of Robert Fitz-Hamond Lord of Glamorgan by whom he had issue William Earle of Glocester and others as in the Title of Earles of Glocester is more at large Reginald base sonne of King Henry the first begotten of the daughter of Robert Corbet of Alencester in Warwickshire had issue foure daughters his heires as in the Title of Earles of Cornwall is more at large Henry slaine in Anglesey in North Wales without issue Richard Mary and Margaret were drowned with their brother William comming out of Normandy into England 1120. Elizabeth base daughter of King Henry the first begotten of Elizabeth sister of Walleran Earle of Meulan and Robert Bossue Earle of Leicester was wife to Gilbert Strongbow Earle of Penbroke and Mother to Richard Earle of Penbroke as in the Title of Earles of Penbroke Iulian Countesse of Passy King Stephen STephen Earle of Mortaine and Bolloigne in Picardy third Son of Stephen Earle of Bloys and Champaigne begotten of Alice the third daughter of William the Conqueror and Queene Mauld was crowned King on S. Stephens day by William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at Westminster 1135 by the plotting of his younger Brother Henry who was Bishop of Winchester and Abbot of Glostenbury and who had drawn vnto his Faction William Archbishop of Canterbury the very first man that before had sworne fealty to Queene Mauld the Empresse and to stir vp the Nobility of the Realme against the saide Mauld protesting that it was basenesse for so many great Peeres to be subiect vnto a womā And further to helpe forward this mischieuous plot another of the same brood Roger Bishop of Salisbury the late Kings Treasurer protested that the Nobility were free from the Oath they had before made to Mauld the Empresse by reason that she had married Geffrey Plantagenet without their priuity and consent as though free Princes could not marry without the consent of their Subiects which false instigations of these wicked Bishops made the Nobility to forswear themselues in swearing fealty vnto King Stephen a Vsurper And these were the fruites of these honest Churchmen who were the cause and losse also of many a mans life This Stephen married Mauld daughter of Eustace Earle of Bolloigne Brother of Godfrey and Baldwyn kings of Ierusalem by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters he reigned eighteene yeares ten moneths and odde dayes and dyed at Douer the 25. of October 1154. being 49 yeares olde and was buried at Feuersham in Kent where his Queene and Sonne were also buried She dyed at Heningham Castle in Essex the third of May 1151. It is said that King Stephen entring this Realme the signe being in Sagittarius and obtayning great victory by the helpe of his Archers assumed the Sagitarius for his Arms. Et portoit gueulles a Sagitarius d'or Their Issue Baldwyn the eldest sonne dyed in his infancy and was buried at London in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate founded by Queen Mauld wife to king Henry the first Eustace second sonne was by his Father created Earle of Bolloigne and married Constance sister of Lewis the seuenth King of France and dyed without issue the tenth of August 1152. and was buried at Feuersham William the third sonne married Isabell daughter and heyre of William the third Earle Warren and Surrey in whose right he was Earle Warren and Surrey Lord of Norwich and Peuensey Earle Mortaine and Lord of the Egle in Normandy He dyed in his returne from Tholouz in the yeare 1160. Mauld the eldest daughter of King Stephen dyed young and was buried at London in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate cald Christ-Church now the Dukes place Mary second daughter of King Stephen was Abbesse of the Nunnery at Rumsey in Hampshire after she forsooke her habite and married Mathew Brother of Philip Earle of Flanders who in her right was Earle of Bolloigne and had issue Ida and Mauld King Henry the second HEnry the second of that Name sur-named Short-mantle borne in France Son of Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Antou and Mauld the Empresse daughter of King Henry the first began his Reigne ouer this Realme of England the twentieth day of October 1154. His first comming was to Winchester where the Nobles of the Realme came vnto him of whō he tooke homage and fealty then comming to London he was crowned at Westminster by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury the 17. of December 1154. being then 23. yeares of age He chose to be of his Counsell the grauest and wisest he could finde such as were best experienced in the Lawes of the Land He expelled by publike Proclamation all strangers out of the Land who had swarmed into England in the time of variance betweene king Stephen and him amongst whom William of Ypers Earle of Kent was also compelled to be gone taking into his hands all such lands and possessions as pertained to the Crowne which had bene before alienated and made away to any person of what degree soeuer From Hugh Mortimer he took the Castles of Clebery Wigmore Bridgnorth He maried Elianor daughter and sole heyre of William Duke of Aquitaine Earle of Poictiers and Tholouze the fift of that name begotten of the daughter of Raymond Earle of Tholouse This Elianors Title was the cheefe cause of those bloody warres betwixt England and France yea and the Bellowes that blew that vnnaturall discord betwixt the Father and his Sonnes She ouer-liued her husband and did see three of her sonnes to be kings and dyed the third of the Kalends of Aprill 1204. This Henry dyed
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
March in the fourth yeare of King Edward the fourth his Nephew Elianor the tenth daughter was borne at Winchester the 6. of May 1306. dyed young without issue and was buried in S. Peters Church at Westminster King Edward the second Heereupon they assembled together in a Parliament time at the New Temple in London and there agreed that the said Pieres should depart and be banished the Realme againe the second time and not to returne againe at any time after To this the King but sore against his will agreed and made his Letters Patents to the saide Lords to witnesse the same and the Archbishop of Canterbury did pronounce the said Pieres accursed if he tarried any longer then the time appointed him and likewise all those that should ayde helpe or maintaine him Whereupon Pieres was constrained to ship himselfe at Bristow for Ireland though sore against the Kings will threatning the Lords to bee reuenged But not long after Pieres returned againe into England and came to the King at Yorke at whose comming the King greatly reioyced and lying in the Bishops Pallace caused Pieres to be lodged in the Castle not farre from him Not long after the King was willing for his recreation to take the Sea leauing Pieres of Gaueston at Yorke The Barons pursued Gaueston who fledde to Scarborough where the Barons tooke him and carried him to a place called Blacklow and there the 9. of Iune caused his head to be stricken off Afterwards the young Prince the Queene and Nobility finding fault with the two Spencers Hugh the Father and Hugh the sonne for misleading and abusing the King State in like manner as Gaueston had done caused them likewise to be taken put to death without any triall or answer Which done the Queene with her Sonne and the Nobility called a Parliament wherin King Edward was iudged not worthy to beare or weare the Crowne but for diuers causes was to be deposed and Prince Edward his sonne to bee chosen in his place This beeing agreed on King Edward being all this while prisoner in Kenilworth Castle was taken and carried from thence by night to Corffe Castle and from thence to Barkely Castle where he was most cruelly murdered by Thomas Gorney Iohn Maltreuers and others his keepers He was deposed the 25. of Ianuary 1326. when he had reigned almost twenty yeares and was murdered the 21. of September 1327. and his body was buried at Glocester He married Isabell daughter of Philip the faire King of France and sister and heire of her three Brothers Lodowike Hutin Philip the long and Charles the faire She was married in our Lady Church at Bolloigne the 22. of Ianuary 1308. being but twelue yeares olde and was his wife twenty yeares and his widdow thirty and dyed at Rising neere London and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London Et portoit les armes de son peré His Issue Edward sur-named of Windsore eldest sonne borne in Windsore Castle the 13. of October 1312. the sixt of his Fathers Reigne He was first created Prince of Wales and Duke of Aquitaine in a Parliament held at Yorke 1322. and was made Lord warden of England vnto whom all the Lords swore fealty and receiued the oath of allegiance He was after King of England by the name of King Edward the third Iohn sur-named of Eltham second sonne was borne at Eltham in the yeare 1315. and at twelue yeares of age was created Earle of Cornwall at a Parliament held at Salisbury 1327. and after dyed in Scotland at S. Iohns Towne vnmarried 1333. and lyeth buried at Westminster Ioane eldest daughter was borne in the Tower of London and was married at Barwicke being very young the eighteenth day of Iuly 1329. to Dauid Prince of Scotland sonne and heyre of Robert Bruse being but seuen yeares of age This Dauid was after King by the name of Dauid the second She was his wife 28. yeares and comming into England to visite her brother King Edward the third dyed without issue 1353. and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London Elianor second daughter was married to Reginald second Earle of Gelders for his second Wife and had giuen her in marriage 15000. pounds 1332. Who being Vicar general of the empire to the emperor Lewis of Bauaria created him the first Duke of Gelders She had issue Reginald and Edward both Dukes after their Father and dyed without issue leauing his Dutchy and his Wife to his Nephew William Duke of Gulike his halfe sisters sonne King Edward the third And because he was but 14. yeares of age and not able to gouerne of himselfe it was decreed that twelue of the greatest Lords within the Realme should haue the rule and gouernment vntill hee came of more yeares which were the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and Yorke the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford Henry Earle of Lancaster Thomas of Brotherton Marshall of England Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Rent Iohn Earle Warren Thomas Lord Wake Henry Lord Percy Sir Oliuer Ingham and the Lord Iohn Ros who were sworne of the Kings counsell and charged with the gouernment as they would answere the same In the first yeare of this Kings Reigne dyed Charles King of France the third Brother of Queene Isabell Mother of King Edward the third by whose death the Kingdome of France did descend to King Edward by Isabell his Mother the onely sister and heyre of her three Brothers Kodowike Hutin Philiple Long and Charles the faire Kings of France But the said Kingdome was vsurped and possessed by Philip de Valois Vnckle to the saide Charles who did intrude himselfe by force In the yeare 1339. King Edward going to make his clayme to the Kingdome of France praied ayde of the Flemings who before had sworne and bound themselues in a bond of a Million of golde in the Popes Chamber that they should alwayes helpe the King of France and fight vnder his Ensigne for release whereof King Edward by the perswasion of Iaques D'Artuell of Gaunt did quarter the Armes of France with the Armes of England and proclaimed himselfe King of France By which acte the Flemings held themselues discharged of their band and oath After Charles the sixt French King of that Name enuying greatly that the Kings of England should beare the Armes of France which was semie de luces changed the same vnto three De luces of which thing King Henry the fift of England tooke example and bare the like By reason whereof the Kings of France haue euer since ceased to make any further change of their Armes He married Philip daughter of William Earle of Henault and Holland and sisters daughter of Philip of Valoys King of France afore mentioned This marriage was at Yorke the 24. of Ianuary and she was crowned at Westminster the first Sunday in Lent following 1327. She was his Wife 42. yeares and dyed the 15. of August 1369. and was buried at Westminster King Edward her husband dyed at Sheene now called Richmond
the 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
to bee imprisoned with Humfrey sonne and heyre of Thomas of Woodstocke in the Castle of Trime in Ireland but in the first yeare of King Henry the 4. they were both deliuered and comming into England Humfrey dyed of the plague at Chester Thomas second sonne was created Duke of Clarence in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the 4. and in the 8. yeare of King Henry the 5. he was made Lieutenant Generall of France and Normandy and in the yeare after was slaine at Bangy-Bridge in France by the Duke of Orliance He married Margaret daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Widow of Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset as is more at large in the Title of the Dukes and Earles of Clarence Iohn third sonne was made Duke of Bedford the 11. yeare of King Henry the 4. his Father and in the fift yeare of Henry the 5. his brother he was by Parliament made Regent of England and Head of the publike Wealth He knighted King Henry the 6. his Nephew at a Parliament held at Leicester in the 4. yeare of his Reigne And in the first yeare of the said King Henry the 6. being made Regent of France Charles King of France dying the most part of France was deliuered to him by the Nobility there to the vse of King Henry the sixt His marriages and death is more at large in the Title of Bedford Humfrey fourth sonne of King Henry the 4. was by his Brother King Henry the 5. made Duke of Glocester and in the first yeare of Henry the 6. he was made Protector of the Kingdome of England for 15. yeares during the said kings minority and was stiled Humfrey by the grace of God Sonne Brother and Vnckle to Kings Duke of Glocester Henault Holland Zeland and Penbroke Lord of Friezland great Chamberlaine of England Protector and Defender of the Kingdome and Church of England He had two Wiues His first Wife was Iaquet daughter and heyre of William Duke of Bauaria and Earle of Holland who was before betrothed to Iohn Duke of Brabant and was therefore after diuorced from this Humfrey without issue His second Wife was Elianor daughter of Reginald Lord Cobbam of Sterburgh in Surrey who for witchcraft and poysonings was much defamed Queene Margaret Wife to King Henry the sixt enuyed greatly his estate gouernment and practised with others his ouerthrow and destruction for after he was found murdered in his bed at Bury in Suffolke and was after buried at S. Albons in Hertfordshire Blanch eldest daughter was married at Collen to William Duke of Bauaria sonne and heyre of Lewis of Bauaria After she married the King of Arragon and thirdly she married the Duke of Barre but had no issue by any of them Philip second daughter of King Henry the 4. was married to Iohn King of Denmarke and Norway and dyed without issue King HENRY the fift This King following his Father vsed euery day when no state was kept after dinner to haue a Cushion laid on the cupboord there to leane a whole houre or more to receiue Petitions and heare complaints of whosoeuer would come And in those dayes when the King dyned in his Chamber the Steward of the Houshold sate alwayes in the Hall vnder the Cloth of Estate the same being rolled vp aboue his head and such Knights with him as waited that time vpon the King He dyed in the Castle of Boys de Viscenne not farre from Paris the 13. day of August 1422 when he had reigned nine yeares fiue moneths and odde dayes being 36. yeares old and was buried at Westminster He married Katherine daughter of Charles the sixt King of France at Troyes in Champaigne the third of Iune 1420. and the 14. of February after she was crowned at Westminster and was his Wife two yeares and three moneths She was after married to a Noble Gentleman named Owen Theodor of Wales by whom she had issue three sonnes Edmond Iasper and Owen Edmond was made Earle of Richmond and married Margaret daughter and sole heyre of Iohn D. of Somerset and had issue King Henry the seuenth Iaspher the second sonne was Earle of Penbroke and after Duke of Bedford This Queene Katherine dyed at Bermondsey in Southwarke the second of Iune 1436. and was buried at Westminster leauing issue by King Henry the fift her husband King Henry the sixt This King left Seme de lices and bare three Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre King HENRY the sixt Hee espoused Margaret daughter of Reyner Duke of Aniou and titulary of Cicily Naples and Ierusalem by Proxy at the Citty of Towers in Touraine in Saint Martyns Church by William de la Pole his Procurator in the presence of the French King and Queene which King was Vnckle to the Brides Father and the French Queen Aunt to her Mother She being conueyed to the Abbey of Tichfield was there solemnly married to King Henry the sixt the 22. of Aprill 1445. and was crowned at Westminster the 30. day of May after In the 33. yeare of this Kings Reigne he lost the battaile at S. Albons and was tataken prisoner at the battaile of Northampton by the Earle of Warwicke the 38. yeare of his Reigne and the yeare after was deliuered againe by Queen Margaret his Wife after the second battaile of S. Albons but in the same after the battaile at Mortimers Crosse the King and Queene fled to Yorke and the Earle of March comming to London with his power was proclaimed King of England And in the fourth yeare of his Reigne hee tooke King Henry neere the Abbey of Selby in Lancashire and brought him prisoner to the Tower of London And in the ninth yeare of his Reigne King Henry the sixt was againe deliuered by the Duke of Clarence and the Earle of Warwicke King Edward flying into Flanders was proclaimed a Vsurper but the next yeare after King Edward returning againe into England and comming to London tooke king Henry in the Bishops Pallace and after gaue battaile to the Earle of Warwicke at Barnet where the said Earle with his brother Iohn Neuill Marquesse Mountague were slaine And in the same yeare 1471. he also gaue a great ouerthrow to Queene Margaret at Tewkesbury in which battaile the saide Queene with Prince Edward her onely sonne were taken prisoners Prince Edward being first stricken by King Edward Richard Duke of Glocester stabbed him to the heart with his Dagger The Queene his Mother was conuayed to London where she remained in prison vntill Reyner her Father purchased her deliuerance with great summes of money who after returning to her owne Country there dyed After this battaile at Tewkesbury King Edward the fourth came to London on the 21. of May 1471. with thirty thousand men and the same night King Henry was murdered in the Tower of London and the morrow after brought into S. Paules Church in London in an open Coffin bare-faced where hee bled From thence he was conuayed to the Blacke-Fryars and there
also bled Lastly his body was conuayed to Windsore and there buried King Edward the fourth Philip Commines writing of the death of this King Edward the fourth saith The late King Edward the 4. of England being heyre of the House of Yorke vtterly destroyed the House of Lancaster vnder the which both his Father and he had liued many yeares And although the said King Edward had done homage to King Henry the 6. being of the house of Lancaster did he not afterwards hold him prisoner many yeares in the Tower of London where in the end he was murdered Haue wee not seene also saith hee the Earle of Warwicke principall Gouernour of all the said King Edwards Offices after he had put to death all his enemies especially the Duke of Somerset in the ende became deadly enemy to the king his Master gaue his daughter in marriage to Edward Prince of Wales sonne of King Henry attempted againe to set vp the house of Lancaster past with the said Prince into England discomfited in the field and slaine both he and his brother with many other Noblemen their kindred and others who in time past had done the like to their enemies After all this the children of these when the world turned reuenged themselues and caused in like manner the other to die For after King Edward was quiet in his place and Realme and receiued yearely out of France 50000. Crownes paide him in the Tower of London and was growne so rich that richer he could not be he dyed sodainly as it were of melancholy because of the French Kings marriage with the Lady Margaret the Duke of Austriches daughter For so soone as hee was aduertised thereof hee fell sicke and began then to perceiue how he had bene abused touching the marriage of his daughter whom he had caused to be called the Lady Dolphinesse then also was the pension which he had receiued out of France taken frō him which he called Tribute c. He married Elizabeth daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers and Iaqueline his Wife Dutchesse of Bedford and Widdow of Sir Iohn Grey slaine at S. Albons where he was knighted the day before his death by King Henry the sixt After whose death she was priuatly married to King Edward the fourth the first day of May at his Mannot of Grafton in Northamptonshire 1464. and the next yeare after was crowned Queene at Westminster the 26. day of May. She was his Wife 18. yeare eleuen moneths and nine dayes and in the beginning of King Edward the fift her sonnes Reigne she was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster and after hauing all her lands and possessions seized vpon by King Henry the seuenth liued in meane estate in the Monastery of Bermondsey in Southwarke where not long after she dyed and was buried at Windsore by King Edward her husband who dyed before at Westminster the 9. day of April 1483. at the age of 41. yeares when he had reigned 22. yeares one moneth and odde dayes His Issue Edward eldest sonne of King Edward the fourth borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster the 4. of Nouember 1471. the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reign at that time King Edward was expulsed the Realme by the Earle of Warwicke but Fortune changing the Father was restored and the Sonne created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester the first of Iuly Richard second sonne of King Edward the fourth borne at Shrewsbury and being but a childe was created Duke of Yorke He was betrothed vnto Anne daughter and heyre of Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle Marshall Warren and Nottingham but he enioyed neither wife nor life long for he was with his brother Edward murdered in the Tower of London which place euer since is called The bloody Tower George third sonne was also borne at Shrewsbury and being very yong died and was buried at Windsore Elizabeth eldest daughter borne at Westminster the 11. of February 1466. she was promised in marriage to Charles the Dolphin of France wooed and courted by Richard Duke of Glocester her vnhappy Vnckle after he had murdered her two Brothers and he then King but after she was married to King Henry the seuenth Cecily second daughter was motioned to marry Iames Prince of Scotland Duke of Rothsay but it tooke no effect and so she was married after to Iohn Viscount Welles whom she out-liued and married againe to one Kyme of Lincolneshire and dyed without issue Anne third daughter married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke Earle Marshall and Lord Treasurer of England and had issue two sonnes who died very young She dyed without issue and was buried at Framingham in Norfolke Bridget fourth daughter was borne at Eltham in Kent the tenth of Nouember 1480 and was a Nunne at Dartford where she remained till she dyed Mary fift daughter was promised in marriage to the King of Denmarke but she dyed before marriage in the Tower of Greenwich 1482. and was buried at windsore Margaret sixt daughter dyed in her Infancy Katherine seuenth daughter married William Courtney Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of Ochampton and had issue Henry Earle of Deuonshire whom Henry the eight created Marquesse of Excester 1525. His Bastards Arthur Plantagenet base sonne of King Edward the fourth begotten of Elizabeth Lucy was created Viscount Lisle at Bridewell in London the 26. of Aprill 1533. in right of his Wife Elizabeth sister and heyre of Sir Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle the Widdow of Edmond Dudley This Arthur had issue three daughters Bridget Francis and Elizabeth as is more at large in the Title of Viscounts Elizabeth base daughter of King Edward the fourth married to Sir Thomas Lumley Knight who dyed before his Father George Lord Lumley and had issue Richard Lord Lumley that dyed the second of King Henry the eight George Lumley a second sonne King EDVVARD the fift THis young King being vnder the protection of Richard Duke of Glocester his vnnaturall Vnckle at the death of his Father beeing in Wales was brought and lodged in the Bishops Pallace of London the 4. day of May 1483. The Queene his Mother with his yong brother the Duke of Yorke being in the Sanctuary at Westminster Richard the then Protector sent the honest Lord Cardinall to the Queene for the deliuery of the saide Duke of Yorke out of the Sanctuary who by his sweet and poysoned words and protestations to his Mother that it wold be for all their good to deliuer him This yong Prince was deliuered and brought to the King his Brother in the Bishops Pallace of London and from thence conuayed to the Tower of London with shew of preparation for the day of Coronation where they remained some two months At which time the saide Protectour sent one Greene a trusty seruant of his vnto Sir Robert Brakenbury then Constable of the Tower to murder the said two Princes who stoutly denying to doe so foule an acte Sir Iames Tirrell a seruant of the said Protectors was sent to Brakenbury
the day after to haue the keyes of the Tower and custody of those two Infants deliuered to him Which being done accordingly the young King and his brother were shut vp together and al company remoued from them sauing that miscreant dog that was to execute that bloody and butcherly acte who about midnight brought a rout of Runnagates into their Chamber who suddenly lapping them vp amongst the cloaths of their bed smothered these two sweete Babes the Lords Annointed This young King was at his Fathers death eleuen yeares fiue moneths fiue dayes old King Richard the Third This Richard was honored with the Title of Glocester a title and name euer ominous all of them dying violent and vntimely deaths which hee regarded not his destiny enforcing his aspiring minde gaue him no rest vntill his restlesse body found it lastly in the graue He was slaine at a battaile fought at Redmore neere Bosworth the 22. of August 1485. when he had reigned two yeares two moneths and fine dayes The slaine body all tugged and torne naked and not so much as a clout left to couer his shame was trussed behind Blanch Sengler his Pursuiuant of Arms like a Hog or Calfe his head and armes hanging on the one side of the horse his legs on the other side all besprinkled with mire and blood was so brought to Leicester and there for a miserable spectacle the space of two daies lay naked and vnburied his remembrance being as odious to all as his person deformed and loathsome to be looked vpon Lastly his body was buried at Leicester without any Funerall pompe He married Anne second daughter and co-heyre of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury and had issue Edward their onely childe created by King Edward the fourth Earle of Salisbury and by his Father Prince of Wales as in the Earles of Salisbury is set foorth King HENRY the Seuenth HEnry earle of Richmond borne in PeÌ„broke Castle sonne of Edmond of Hadham Earle of Richmond and Margaret his wift daughter and onely heyre of Iohn Beaufort D. of Somerset which Edmond of Hadham was sonne and heyre of Owen Tudor begotten of Queene Katherine Widdow of King Henry the fift and daughter of Charles the sixt French King This Henry fledde into Britaine in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth and in the second yeare of king Richard the third he arriued and landed at Milford Hauen in Wales and with a small power came to Leicester and at a little Towne thereby called Bosworth where a cruell battaile being fought King Richard was slaine in the Field and his Crown which he ware being found was by the Earle of Derby and others put vpon this Henries head and presently proclaymed King of England in the Field 1485. He married Elizabeth eldest daughter of King Edward the 4. the 18. day of January 1485. shee being nineteene yeares olde whereby was vnited the two Families of Yorke and Lancaster to the great ioy of all English Subiects betwixt whom infinite contentions and mortall warres had formerly consumed and destroyed many thousands of noble and valiant Gentlemen Shee was crowned at Westminster the 25 of Nouember 1487. the third of her Husbands Reigne and continued his Wife 18. yeares and 24. dayes and dyed in Childe-bed in the Tower of London the eleuenth of February being the day of her birth 1503. and was buried at Westminster His Issue Arthur eldest sonne and heyre borne at Winchester the 20. day of September 1486 who by his Father was created Prince of Wales in the fift yeare of his Reigne Duke of Cornâ—ill and Earle of Chester who vpon the 14 day of Nouember 1501. being fifteene yeares old married Katherine daughter of Ferdinando King of Spainâ— she being then about eighteene yeares of age This marriage was solemnized in â—he Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London and within 4. moneths and 19. dayes after he dyed at Ludlow the second of Aprill 1502. he being then 15. yeares 6 moneths and 13. dayes olde and was buried at Worcester in S. Maries Church Henry second sonne borne at Greenwich in Kent the 22. of Iune 1491. In his infancy he was created Duke of Yorke and Marshall of England and after King of England Edmond third sonne was borne in the yeare 1495. and was created Earle of Somerset and dyed young at Bishops Hatfield being not sine yeares olde 1499. and was buried at Westminster Margaret eldest daughter borne the 29. of Nouember 1489. and being 14. yeares olde was married to Iames the fourth King of Scotland 1503 and had issue Iames the fift King of Scotland Arthur and Alexander and one daughter all which but the eldest dyed without issue yong Shee married to her second husband Archibald Douglas Earle of Anguish 1514. by whom she had issue Margaret married to Mathew Earle of Lenox who had issue Henry Lord Dernley after King of Scotland in right of Mary Queene of Scotland his Wife by whom he had issue Iames King of great Britaine 1618. Elizabeth second daughter borne the second of Iuly 1492. and dyed the 14. of September 1495. and was buried at Westminster Mary third daughter was first married to Lewis King of France who liued not long with her but dyed without issue After whose death she married for her second husband Sir Charles Brandon a Noble Knight and after Duke of Suffolke as in the Title of Earles of Suffolke is more at large Katherine fourth daughter borne vpon Candlemas day 1503. in the 18. yeare of her Fathers Reigne who dyed young King HENRY the Eight KIng HENRY the eight borne at Greenwich the 22. of Iune 1491. and at the age of twelue yeares was by his Father created Duke of Yorke and after his Brother Arthurs deth Prince of Wales And in the 18. yeare of his age he began his Reigne of King of England the 22. of Aprill and on the 25. day of Iune after was crowned with his Wife Queen Katherine at Westminster 1509. And in the fourth yeare of his Reigne hee wonne Turwin and Turney hauing vnder his Banner the Emperor Maximillian with most of the Nobility of Brabant Planders and Holland And in the 37. yeare of his Reigne the Towne of Boloigne was yeelded vnto him hee being there in person at the winning thereof Hee married sixe Wiues and died on Thursday the 28. of Ianuary 1547. when he had Reigned King 37. yeares and ten moneths His Wiues KAtherine the first Wife of King Henry the eight was daughter of Ferdinando the sixt King of Spaine and the Widdow of Prince Arthur his brother and was married to King Henry the eight the third of lune 1509. and was crowned with him the 25. day of Iune after And twenty yeares after was diuorced from him by the Bishop of Canterbury She dyed at Kimbalton in Huntingtonshire the 8 of Ianuary 1535. and was buried in Peterborough Church ANNE the second Wife of King Henry the eight was second daughter of Sir Thomas Bullen Earle of
Wiltshire and Ormond She was first created Marchionesse of Penbroke hauing one thousand pounds a yeare giuen her to maintaine her estate and was married to him in the Closet at White-Hall the 25. of Ianuary 1533. and was crowned at Westminster on Whitsunday the first of Iune She was his Wife three yeares three moneths and 25. dayes and after was beheaded in the Tower of London the 19. of May 1536. and was buried in the Chappell within the said Tower IAne the third Wife was daughter of Sir Iohn Seymour Knight and sister of Edward Earle of Hartford and Duke of Somerset She was married vnto King Henry the eight the 20. day of May which was the very next day after the beheading of Queene Anne This Iane was his Wife one yeare fiue moneths and 24. dayes and dyed in childe-bed of King Edward the sixt the 14. of October 1537. and was buried at Windsore ANne of Cleue the fourth Wife of King Henry the 8. was sister of William Duke of Cleue and was married vnto him at Greenwich the 6. of Ianuary 1540. in the 31. yeare of the said Kings Reigne and was his Wife sixe moneths and the yeare after was diuorced and by Acte of Parliament decreed that she should be no more called nor taken for Queene but should be called the Lady Anne of Cleeue She remained in England long after King Henries death was marshalled with the Lady Elizabeth going through London to the Coronation of Queene Mary 1553. KAtherine Howard the fift Wife of King Henry the 8. was daughter of Lord Edmond Howard brother of Thomas Howard the third Duke of Norfolk of that Family was married to the said King the 8. of August 1540. at Hampton-Court and was his Wife one yeare sixe moneths and 4. dayes She was conuicted of adultery and by Parliament adiudged to bee beheaded in the Tower of London the 12. of February and was buried in the Chappell there by Queene Anne Bullen 1542. KAtherine Parre widdow of Iohn Neuill Lord Latimer and daughter of Sir Thomas Par of Kendall Knight and sister of William Par Marquesse of Northampton was sixt Wife to King Henry the eight and was married to him at Hampton-Court the 12. of Iuly in the yeare 1543. She was his Wife 3. yeares 6. moneths and 5. dayes She was after King Henries death married to Thomas Seymour Lord Admirall and after his decease she married Edward Burgh sonne of Thomas Lord Burgh She dyed in child-bed 1548. Issue by his first Wife Henry first sonne of King Henry the eight begotten of Queene Katherine his first Wife was borne at Richmond in Surrey the first of Ianuary 1509. who liued not full two moneths and dyed the 22. of February after and was buried at Westminster Another sonne whose name is not well knowne borne of Queene Katherine his first Wife in the sixt yeare of his Reigne who dyed very young The death of these two Princes King Henry tooke as a punishment from God for begetting them of his Brothers Wife Mary the third childe and first daughter begotten of Q. Katherine was borne at Greenwich in Kent the 18. of February 1518. who out-liuing her yonger brother King Edward the sixt and being then Queene and 36. yeares olde married Phillip King of Spaine to the great dislike of many her louing Subiects and small content to her selfe as more at large in place conuenient will be shewed Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth second daughter of Henry the eight begotten of the Lady Anne Bollen his second Wife was borne at Greenwich vpon Sunday the seauenth of September 1534. and was christned of Doctor Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury c. She succeeded her Sister Queene Mary as Queene of England and was for wisedome vertue piety and iustice not onely the mirrour of her Sexe but a patterne for Gouernment to all the Princes of Christendome Another man-childe had Queene Anne but still borne the 29. of February 1535. to the great greefe both of the Father and Mother Issue by his third Wife Edward the sixt and last childe of King Henry the eight begotten of Iane Seymour his third Wife was borne at Hampton-Court the 12. of October 1537 being cut out of his Mothers wombe as Iulius Caesar is saide to haue beene Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury and Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke were his Godfathers and Lady Mary his sister his Godmother Hee was first created Prince of Wales and after the death of his Father crowned King of England A base Sonne by his Concubine Henry Fitz-Roy base sonne of King Henry the eight begotten of Elizabeth daughter of Sir Iohn Blount Knight then Lady Talboys and borne in the Mannour of Blackmore in Essex in the yeare 1518. who beeing eightene yeares of age was created Earle of Nottingham at the Kings Pallace of Bridewell as in the Title of Nottingham is set foorth King EDVVARD the Sixt. The sixt of February after the Lord Protector knighted King Edward in the Tower of London which done King Edward presently after knighted Sir Henry Hoblethorne then Lord Maior of London and Sir Henry Portman one of the Iudges of the Kings Bench. The 17 of February the Lord Protector was created Duke of Somerset and the 20. of February King Edward rode through London to Westminster and was there crowned In the life time of King Henry the eight a marriage was treated of between Mary late Queene of Scotland Vnto which a Parliament at Edenburgh had consented in the yeare 1543. but that tooke not effect for she was after married to the Dolphin of France This Noble Prince dyed at Greenwich the 6. of Iuly 1553. being the seuenth yeare of his reigne and the seuenteene yeare of his age and was buried at Westminster the 9. of August after Queene Mary MARIE eldest daughter of K. Henry the eight by Katherine his first Wife was borne at Greenwich the 18. of February 1518. and began her Reigne the 6. of Iuly and was proclaymed Queene the 17. day of the said Moneth in the yeare 1553 In her young yeares shee was sued vnto to be married to the then Emperour the King of Scots and the Duke of Orleance in France But all these failing at thirty sixe yeares of age shee married Phillip King of Spaine to the great dislike of her Subiects and small content of her selfe She was crowned at Westminster the last of September in the yeare aforesaid and dyed at S. Iames by Charing-Crosse the 17. of Nouember 1558. whē she had reigned fiue yeares foure moneths and eleuen dayes being 42. yeares olde and was buried at Westminster leauing no issue of her body Queene ELIZABETH Shee dyed at Richmond the 24. of March 1602. being 69. yeares sixe moneths and 17. dayes olde when she had Reigned 44. yeares foure moneths and seuen dayes Her body being brought to White-Hall and her Statue made very like in her Parliament Robes with a Crowne Imperiall on her head and a Scepter in her hand was on Thursday the
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
Warren conducted Mauld the daughter of King Henry the first into Saxony to be married vnto Duke Henry after Emperor in the yeare 1114. He founded the Priory of Bockenham and dyed in the third yeare of King Henry the second and was buried in the Priory at Wymondham by his Father leauing issue by his wife Queene Adeliza two sonnes and a daughter viz. William Godfrey and Alice which Alice was married to Iohn Earle of Angie WIlliam de Albeney the sonne of William and Queene Adeliza was the second Earle of Arundell of that name he was alwayes faithfull vnto King Henry the second and ayded him against Henry the young King his sonne tooke prisoners at the battaile fought at Saint Edmundsbury 1173. Robert Earle of Leicester Hugh Earle of Chester and Hugh de Chasteles a Frenchman with many others and sent them into Normandy to King Henry the second who imprisoned them in the Castle of Faloys He married Mauld daughter and heyre of Iames de Santo Hillary and the widdow of Roger Earle of Clare by whom he had issue William the third Earle of Arundell and Alan and after dyed at Wauerly the 4. Ides of October 1177. and was buried at Wymondham as Mathew Paris hath page 127. Et portoit de gueulles au lion rampant d'or arme lampasse d'azure WIlliam de Albeney the third Earle of Arundell vnto whom as Roger Houeden hath page 320. King Henry the second in the yeare 1177. did giue the Earledome of Sussex At which time he restored to Robert Earle of Leicester and Hugh Earle of Chester all their Lands which they were seized of fifteene dayes before the warre began He married Mabell daughter of Hugh Keuilioc Earle of Chester and second sister and co-heyre of Randoll Blundeuile the sixt Earle of Chester and had issue two sonnes foure daughters viz. William and Hugh both Earles of Arundell Sussex who died without issue Mabell the eldest daughter was married vnto Sir Robert Tatesall Knight Isabell the second daughter was married to Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre Nicholea the thirde daughter was Wife to Roger Lord Somery and Cecily the fourth daughter was married to Roger Lord Monthault of Hawarden in Flintshire This William dyed in the yeare 1196. and was buried at Wymondham Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam de Albeney the fourth Earle of Arundell and second Earle of Sussex of that name dyed without issue in his returne from Ierusalem in the yeare of our Lord 1221. and was brought into England and buried at Wymondham Leauing his rich patrimony to his Brother Hugh who being vnder age Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent and Chiefe-Iustice of England had his Wardship Et portoit gueulles au lion rampant d'or armé lampasse d'azure HVgh de Albeney second sonne of William the third and Brother and heire of William de Albeney the fourth Earle of Arundell was the fift and last Earle of Arundell and third Earle of Sussex of that Family He married Isabell daughter of William Earle Warren and Surrey and dyed without issue and was buried at Wymondham by his Ancestours in the yeare of our Lord 1243. the 28. of King Henry the third leauing his foure sisters his heyres who made partition of his Lands in the yeare aboue said Mabell the eldest sister had the Mannor of Bockenham Isabell the second sister had the Castle and honour of Arundell Nicholea had the Mannor of Barrow and Cecily the fourth sister had the Mannor of Rising in Norfolke with diuers other Lands and were married as aforesaid Et portoit les armes de son freré RIchard Fitz-Alan Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre in Wales sonne and heire of Iohn Fitz-Alan grandchilde of another Iohn Fitz-Alan and Isabell d' Albeney his wife by their sonne Iohn was the first Earle of Arundell of that surname This Isabell being the second sister and co-heire of Hugh de Albeney had the Castle and Lordship of Arundell by partition allotted to her for her part Which Castle and Seigneury of Arundell being now descended vnto this Richard he claimed the Title and Name of Earle of Arundell and by reason of the possession thereof only was without any other creation Earle of Arundell and had place and voyce in Parliament by the name and tytle of Richard Earle of Arundel as more at large is sette downe in an Acte of Parliament made the eleuenth of King Henry the sixt by occasion of that memorable competition betweene Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke and Iohn Fitz-Alan Lord Maltreuers for the saide Earledome of Arundell as heereafter is set foorth This Richard married Alizon daughter of the Marquesse of Saluce in Italy by whom he had issue Edmond Earle of Arundell Isabell wife to Hugh Lord Spencer Earle of Winchester Mauld married to Phillip Lord Burnell Margaret the third daughter was married to William Boteler second Baron of Wemme Hee dyed in the 30. yeare of King Edward the first his wife dyed in the yeare 1292. the 21. of Edward the first Et portoit gueulles au lion rampant d'or armé lampasse d'azure EDmund Fitz-Alan sonne and heire of Richard aforesaid was after the death of his Father Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre and second Earle of Arundell of that surname He married Alice daughter of William and sister and heire of Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey by whom he had issue Richard a sonne and two daughters Alice the eldest daughter was married to Iohn de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Essex and Constable of England Iane the second daughter married Warren Lord Lisle This Edmund was borne in the Castle of Malborough he was very hatefull to Queene Isabell who by the meanes of her Minion Roger Lord Mortimer was taken at Shrewsbury and brought to Hereford there beheaded in the twentieth yeare of King Edward the second Et portoit les armes de son pere RIchard Fitz-Alan sonne of Edmond afore-said was the third Earle of Arundell of that sur-name Lord of Clun and Oswaldstre and by his Mother Earle Warren and Surrey Lord of Bromfield Yale Chircland and Dinas bran in North Wales He was restored in bloud by King Edward the third and entailed the Castle Honour and Lordship of Arundell in the 21. yeare of king Edw. the third to himselfe for terme of life the remainder to his heires male of his body begotten and to bee begotten of the body of Elianor his Wife Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earle of Lancaster and Sister of Henry Duke of Warwicke by whom hee had issue three sonnes and foure daughters viz Richard after Earle of Arundell Sir Iohn of Arundel knight that married Elianor daughter of Iohn Lord Maltreuers and sister and heyre of Henry Baron Maltreuers in whose right he was after Lord Maltreuers and sayling into little Britaine was drowned neere vnto the Coast of Ireland the fifteenth of December 1379. Leauing issue Iohn Lord Maltreuers others And Thomas the third sonne of the said Richard was Archbishop
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
throughout all France and was driuen to flye into England to King Edward the third who kindly receiued him and created him Earle of Richmond in the 16. yeare of his Reigne This Robert was the first that mooued King Edward to make his title and claime to the Crowne of France in the right of Queene Isabell his Mother he was Admirall of the English Fleet and Generall of the wars in France and was after hurt in the head at the siedge of the Citty of Vannes in Britaine and being conuayed to London for the cure of his hurts shortly after died there in the yeare 1342. and was most honourably buried in Saint Paules Church in London the King being at his Funerall did weare blackes Et pertoit seme ' de France ou lambell de gueulles chastelle ' d'or IOhn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster fourth sonne of King Edward the third was by his Father in the yeare of our Lord 1342. made Earle of Richmond and in the 46. yeare of his said Fathers Reigne he surrendred the said Earledome of Richmond againe He married Blanch daughter and co-heire of Henry Duke of Lancaster and had issue King Henry the fourth as in the Title of Lancaster is more at large Et portoit escartelle France seme ' D'engleterre à vne lambell d'ermyn IOhn Breno third sonne of Arthur Duke of Britaine begotten of his second wife Ioland Countesse of Mountford Daughter and heire of Almericke Earle Mountford whome Phillip de Valoys King of France did confiscate in his Earledome of Mountford because hee ayded King Edward the 3. In consideration whereof King Edward the third gaue vnto this Iohn the Earledome of Richmond in England He sate in Parliament held at Westminster in the 34. yeare of the sayde Kings reigne by the name and Title of Iohn Earle of Richmond He was bound by Indenture bearing date 1373. to serue King Edward the third in his warres in France and Britaine against Phillip of Valoys in which Indenture he is stiled Iohn Duke of Britaine Earle Mountford and Richmond He married Ioan daughter of Charles King of Nauarre after married to King Henry the fourth of England This Iohn had issue Iohn Mountford surnamed the Valiant and a daughter named Ioan wife to Rafe Basset of Drayton This Iohn was taken prisoner at Nantes by the Earle of Bloys and dyed after in prison at Paris in France IOhn Mountford surnamed the Valiant sonne and heire of Iohn Breno after the death of his Father was Duke of Britaine and Earle of Richmond which Earledome hee was deposed of by Acte of Parliament the fourth of King Richard the second He married Mary daughter of King Edward the third and had issue Iohn Duke of Britaine sur-named the Sage who had issue Peter and Frances both Dukes of Britaine that dyed without issue Richard Earle of Estamps and Arthur the third of that name who was also Duke of Brittaine and Earle of Richmond after his two Nephewes Peter and Frances This Iohn Mountford slew the Earle of Bloys Et portoit esche quettee d'or d'azur vne border D'engleterre a' quanton de Britaine RAphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland was made Earle of Richmond for terme of life by King Henry the fourth and dyed the fourth of King Henry the sixt as in the title of Westmerland is more at large Gueulles au saulteur d'argent IOhn D. of Bedford third son of King Henry the fourth was Regent of France Duke of Bedford Aniou and Alawson Earle of Mayne Harecourt Dreux Richmond and Carlell and Viscount Beaumont He died the xiii of Henry the sixt as in the Title of Bedford is more at large EDmond of Hadham the place of his birth sonne of Owen Teuder by Queene Katherine and halfe brother by the mother to King Henry 6. was created Earle of Richmond at Reading in the 31. yeare of the said Kings reigne notwithstanding that Arthur Duke of Britaine was then liuing and did vse that Title He married Margaret daughter and heire of Iohn Beaufort Duke of Somerset Granchilde to Iohn of Gaunt by his sonne Iohn and by her had issue Henrie Earle of Richmond after King of England by the name of King Henry the seuenth This Margaret in the yeare 1491. by the commandement and authority of King Henry the seuenth her sonne made the Orders yet extant for great Estates of Ladies and Noblewomen for their precedence Attires and wearing of Barbes at Funerals ouer the chin vpon the chin and vnder the same which Noble good Orders at this day is greatly profaned and abused by euerie meane and common woman to the great wrong and dishonour of honourable Estates This Edmond dyed in the yeare 1456. was buried in the Gray Friars church in Carmarden in Wales 35. of Hen. 6. And Margaret his wife died in the yeare 1509. and was honorably buried in the Abbey of Westminster Et portoit escartelle France D'engleterre a'vne bordur d'azur seme ' stâ—urs de liz Marlettes d'or RIchard Duke of Glocester brother to King Edward the fourth did stile himselfe Earle of Richmond And Mills in Glouer Somersets booke page 614. sayeth That this Richard had the saide Earledome of Richmond giuen vnto him and the heyres of his body the twelfth day of August in the second yeare of King Edward the fourth Hee bare for his Armes Escartelle France d'engleterre a vne lambel ermyn charge au trois quantons de gueulles HEnry Earle of Richmond sonne of Edmond of Hadham and Margaret his wife Countesse of Richmond in the 11. yeare of King Edward the fourth fledde with his Vnckle Iasper Earle of Penbroke into Britaine where they remained vntil the third yeare of the reigne of King Richard the third and then returning again landed at Milford Hauen in Wales and fought a battaile with the said King Richard at Bosworth Field where he slew the said Richard and after was crowned King of England by the name of King Henry the seauenth He married Elizabeth daughter and heyre of King Edward the fourth and had issue Prince Arthur that dyed without issue and Henry Duke of Yorke who was after King of England by the name of king Henry the eight Et portoit les armoiries de son pere ' HEnry Fitz-Roy base sonne of King Henry the eight begotten of the Lady Talboys daughter of Sir Iohn Blount Knight was in the 17. yeare of his Fathers reigne created Duke of Richmond c. He married Mary daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke but by her had no issue Hee dyed at S. Iames house beyond Charing-Crosse beeing but 16. yeares of age and was buried at Thetford in Norfolke the 28. of King Henry the eight as Grafton hath Others haue that he lyes buried at Framingham in Norfolke He bare for his Armes France D'engleterre ' a' bordur escartelle ' ermyn compone d'argent d'azur abatun sinester d'argent a' vne Eschutcheon de pretence escartelle ' guculles varrey d'or
him in the Earledome of Chester Et portoit d'gueulles crusuly d'or a'un teste de Lou craze d'argent RAndolphe sur-named Meschines sonne of Randolphe Meschines Earle of Carlell by Margaret the sister of Hugh Lupus the first Earle of Chester was the third Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest He married Lucy daughter of Algar the Saxon Earle of Leicester and sister to Edwin Earle of Mercia and Mocar Earle of Northnmberland who before was the Wife of Roger Romara and Mother of William Romara Earle of Lincolne This Randolphe surrendred Carlell his Fathers Earledome to King Henry the first and dyed in the yeare 1129. and was buried at Chester in the 30. yeare of the saide Kings Reigne leauing issue Randolphe sur-named Gernonijs the fourth Earle of Chester and William Earle of Cambridge and a daughter named Adeliza married to Richard Fitz-Gilbert Lord of Tunbridge Auncestor to the Earles of Clare Glocester and Penbroke as William Gemiticensis affirmeth Et portoit d'or a'vn Lion rampant de gueulles la cowe estant RAndolphe sur-named Gernonijs sonne of Randolphe Meschines was after his father the fourth Earle Palatine of Chester after the Conquest hee with his Brother William Earle of Cambridge was Witnesse to the Charter of Alexander Bishop of Lincolne of his gift of the Island of Hafreholme to the religious Nuns of S. Maries of the order of Sister-sences 1139. the fourth of King Stephen And in the yeare 1141. this Randoll and Robert Earle of Glocester tooke the saide King prisoner at Lincolne He married Mauld daughter of Robert Earle of Glocester base sonne of King Henry the first by whom he had issue Hugh the fift Earle Palatine of Chester and Richard and died poysoned by the practise of his Wife and William Peuerell Lord of Nottingham in the yeare 1156. Et portoit de gueulles au Lion rampant d'argent à la cowe estant HVgh sur-named Kiuilioc sonne of Randolphe Gernons was the fift Earle Palatine of Chester he married Bertrade daughter of Simon Earle Mountford and Eureux in Normandie and had issue Randolphe Blundeuile the fixt Earle Palatine of Chester and Earle of Lincolne and foure daughters Mauld the eldest was married to Dauid Earle of Anguish Gallaway and Huntington Mabell the second daughter was married to William de Albenieo Earle of Arundell Agnes the 3. daughter was married to William Ferrers Earle of Derby Lord of Chartley and Hawis the fourth daughter was wife to Robert Quincy Earle of Winchester had issue Margaret married to Iohn Lacie Earle of Lincolne and Mabell wife to Hugh Lord Audley This Hugh died the 27. of King Henry the second 1180. Et portoit d'azur à six garbes d'or RAndolphe sur-named Blundeuile sonne heire of Hugh Kiuilioc was the 6. Earle Palatine of Chester as also Earle of Lincolne whom K. Hen. the 2. made knight in the 33. yeare of his reigne and gaue him in marriage Constance the onely daughter and heire of Conan Duke of Little Britaine Earle of Richmond in England the widdow of Geffrey his son with the Dutchy of Britaine Earldome of Richmond and in the second yeare of K. Iohn this Randolph was diuorced from the said Constance and after married Clemence daughter of William de Fengeres and sister of Geffrey He had also a third wife which was Margaret daughter of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Constable of England but had no issue by any of them This Randolph was restored to the Earldome of Lincolne in the 3. yeare of K. Hen. 3. as Cousin and next Heire of William Romara Earle of Lincolne and in the 9. yeare of the said kings reigne he was a Witnesse to the kings charter of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of Peterborow by the name of Randolphe Earle of Chester Lincolne and after his returne out of the Holy-Land he died at his Castle of Wallingford in the 17. yeare of K. Hen. the 3. and was buried at Chester leauing his foure sisters his heires before mentioned This Randolph was of great fame and esteeme in the times of King Henry the second King Richard the first King Iohn King Henry the third In which time he built the Castles of Beeston and Chartley and the Monastery of de la Croix Et portoit d'azur à trois garbes d'or IOhn by the place of his birth sur-named the Scot was Earle of Huntingdon and Cambridge by his Father Dauid Earle of Anguish and Huntingdon aforesaid which Danid was brother to William king of Scots and by Mauld his Mother eldest sister and co-heire of Randolphe Blundeuile Earle of Chester he was also the seuenth Earle Palatine of Chester Also in the 21. yeare of king Henry the third he was restored to the Earledome of Northampton as cousin and heire of Simon Seintlize Earle of Northampton and in the 22. of the said Kings reign he died at Darnall was buried at Chester without issue hauing married Helyn the daughter of Llewellyn ap Iorworth Prince of North-Wales Which Earldome of Chester King Henry the 3. 1238. assumed into his owne hands and gaue other lands to the saide foure Sisters of Iohn surnamed the Scot afore named the issue of whom after claymed the kingdome of Scotland in King Edward the firsts time since which time the Princiality of Chester hath beene vnited to the Principality of Wales by Acte of Parliament held at Westminster the 21. of King Richard the second at which time as Somerset Herald hath the King created William Brugs Chester Herald by his Letters Patents sealed with his Seale of the said Principality Et portoit d'or à trois pens d'gueulles EDmond sur-named Crowch-backe second sonne of king Henry the third was by his Father created Earle of Chester which Title and Earledome hee surrendred to his Brother Prince Edward and was after made Earle of Lancaster and after the attaindore of Simon Mountford Robert Earle Ferrars he was also made Earle of Leicester and Derby as in the Title of Lancaster is more at large Et portoit les armes D'engleterre au lambell de France EDward first sonne of King Edward the first was Prince of Wales Earle of Cornwall and Chester and after King of England by the name of King Edward the second This Prince Edward in Anno 1298. vpon complaint made by Doctor Langton then Byshop of Chester was committed to prison and Pierce of Gaueston banished England and not to returne againe vpon paine of death Et portoit D'engleterre au lambell d'argent EDward first sonne and heire of king Edward 〈…〉 was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and 〈◊〉 of Chester and Flint and after king of England by the name of king Edward the third Et portoit D'engleterre au lambell d'argent EDward sur-named the blacke Prince sonne and heire of king Edward the third was Duke of Cornwall and Aquitaine and Earle of Chester and Flint This Edward died before his Father 1376. and was buried at Canterbury Et portoit
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
first his brother Earle of Cornwall Lancaster and Somerset Lord of the honours of Wallingford Tikell Marlesborough and Ludgarshall Lastly this Iohn married to his third wife Isabell daughter of Aimer Earle of Engolesmi by whom he had issue king Henry the third Richard Earle of Cornwall c. Et portoit gueulles à trois leopards d'or à baston d'azur RIchard second sonne of King Iohn in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the third his brother was created Earle of Poictou and Cornwall and in the twelfth yeare of the said Kings reigne the king gaue him all the Lands in England which were Reginald Dampmartins Earle of Bologines And in the yeare 1257. he was by the Princes of Germany chosen king of the Romaines and crowned at Aquisgrane Hee did write himselfe Richard King of the Romaines and alwayes Augustus and married to his first wife Isabell sister and one of the heires of William Marshall the younger Earle of Penbroke and had issue Iohn that dyed young Henry slaine by Guy and Simon sonnes of Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester in the Church of S. Siluester in Viterbium in Italy 1272. in reuenge of their Fathers death that was slaine in the Barons wars in England and Richard that died without issue His second wife was Sanchia daughter and one of the heires of Reymond Berengar Earle of Prouince and sister to Queene Elianor by whom he had issue Edmond Earle of Cornwall and Richard that dyed at the siedge of Barwicke with an Iron shot in his head 1296. He had also Richard a base sonne who was the Father of Sir Geffrey Cornwall knight of whom is descended the Family of Cornwalles of Burford This Richard dyed at his Castle of Barkhamsted neere London 1272. and was buried in the Abbey of Hales in Glocestershire which was of his foundation Et portoit d'argent à vn lion rampant de gueulles Corone d'or au bordure sable besantee EDmond Plantagenet Earle of Cornwall sonne and heire of Richard King of Almaine and Earle of Cornwall with Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester had the gouernement of England in the absence of king Edward the first beyond the Seas He married Margaret daughter of Richard de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford and dyed without any lawfull issue at Ashbridge in Buckinghamshire the 29. of king Edward the first where he had built an Abbey of Bonhommes Order and was buried by his Father in the Abbey of Hales 1300. Et portoit les armes de son pere EDward first sonne of king Edward the first In the 27. yeare of his Fathers reigne 1298. Doctor Langton then Byshop of Chester complained grieuously to the King vpon this Prince Edward who by the lewd aduice of Pierce Gaueston his gracelesse companion brake forcibly into his Parke and made hauocke of his game for which this Prince was committed to prison Gaueston was banisht the land and commanded not to returne againe vpon paine of death This Prince in the thirteenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne 1301. came to Chester and receiued homage of the free-holders of Wales in which yeare he was created Earle of Cornwall and after King of England by the name of king Edward the second Et portoit les armes D'engleterre au lambell d'argent PIerce Gaueston a Gascoigne borne was made Baron of Wallingford and after in the first yeare of king Edward the second was created Earle of Cornwall and Lord of the Isle of Man and in the third yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee married Isabell second sister and co-heire of Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester and Hartford and in the sixt yeare of the said Kings reigne after he had bin banished England twice he was taken by Guy Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke and beheaded at a place neere vnto Warwicke called Gauershiâ—â— or Blacklow and was after buried in the Fryars at Langley without issue Et portoit Sinope six aigles d'or membrez becquez d'gueulles IOhn of Eltham so named of the place where he was borne second sonne of King Edward the second and brother to King Edward the third in the second yeare of his said Brothers reigne was made Earle of Cornwall and in the ninth yeare of the said Kings reigne he died at S. Iohns Towne in Scotland without issue and was buried in the Abbey of Westminster 1334. After whose death king Edward the third in the 12. yeare of his reigne made the Earledome of Cornwall a Dukedome and gaue it to his Sonne Edward the blacke Prince with the Earledome of Chester since which time the Kings eldest sonnes haue bene Dukes of Cornwall Et portoir d'argent à lion rampant de gueulles corone d'or au bordure sable bezanteé EDward sur-named the Blacke Prince sonne and heire of King Edward the third in the eleuenth yeare of his Fathers reigne was created the first Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester and in the 17. yeare of the said Kings reigne hee was created Prince of Wales and in the 36. yeare he had giuen him the Principality of Aquitaine and in the 42. yeare of of king Edward the third he sate in Parliament by the name and title of Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine he tooke Iohn the French King prisoner at the battaile of Poictiers in the yeare 1356. He married Ioane the repudiat wife of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury and daughter of Edmond of Woodstock Earle of Kent by whom he had issue Edward that dyed yong Richard sur-named of Burdeaux who was after king of England by the name of king Richard the second This noble Prince Edward died at Canterbury the 8. of Iune 1376. and was buried in Christ-Church there Et portoit France seme D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent RIchard sur-named of Burdeaux sonne and heire of Edward the blacke Prince was after the death of his Father Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and after created Prince of Wales at Hauering at Bowre in the â—0 of King Edward the third his grand-father He married Anne daughter of Weselaâ—us king of Bohemia who died and was buried at Westminster in the 17. yeare of his reigne without issue And to his second wife he married Isabell daughter of Charles the French King being very young but by her had no issue hee was after King of England by the name of king Richard the second and was deposed from the kingdome and she sent into France againe the first of king Henry the fourth and married vnto Charles sonne of Lewis Duke of Orleance Et portoit lez armes de son pere HEnry sur-named of Monmouth the place of his birth sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth was in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne created Prince of Wales he being Duke of Cornwall before for the eldest sonne and heire apparant of the king of England is Duke of Cornwall by birth but he is Prince of Wales by speciall creation inuesture and donation of the lands thereunto
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
Elianor second daughter and one of the heyres of Richard Beauchamp Earle of Warwick by whom he had issue Henry Duke of Somerset and Edmond Duke of Somerset and Iohn slaine at the battell of Tewkesbury and fiue daughters Margaret wife to Humfrey Earle Stafford Elizabeth wife to Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Anne wife to Sir William Paston knight Iane first married to the Lord Hoth of Ireland and after to Sir Rich. Fry knight Elianor first married to Iames Butler Earle of Wiltshire and after to Sir Robert Spencer knight Et portoit les armes de son pere HEnry Beaufort sonne of Edmond aforesaid was Duke of Somerset Marquesse Dorset and Earle of Moritaine Lord of Chirke and Chirkland in the Marchesse of Wales He left king Henry the sixt and took part with Edward of Yorke who had then obtayned the Crowne But afterwards he reuolted againe to king Henry and fought the battell of Exham where he was taken prisoner and by Parliament held the fourth of king Edward the fourth was attainted and lost his head leauing no lawfull issue of his body after whose death his brother Edmond tooke vpon him the Title of Duke Marquesse and Earle but he taking part with the Faction of Lancaster against the house of Yorke was also taken prisoner at the battel of Tewkesbury in the yeare 1471. by king Edward the fourth and two dayes after was beheaded leauing no issue of his body begotten This Henry Beaufort ☜ by his Concubine Ioane Hill had a sonne named Charles Somerset whom king Henry the eight in the 5 yeare of his reign created Earle of Worcester and Lord Herbert of Gower of whom Edward now Earle of Worcester 1618. is descended Et portoit escartelle France D'engleterre à la bordure gobonne d'argent d'azur THomas Grey Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter and halfe Brother by the Mother to king Edward the fift was in the fifteenth yeare of king Edward the fourth created Lord Harington and Bonuile and in the same yeare he was also created Marquesse Dorset He married Cicely daughter and heire of William Bonuile Lord Harington and had issue seuen sonnes and eight daughters viz. Edward and Anthony dyed young Thomas the third sonne was Marquesse Dorset after his Father Richard Iohn and Leonard dyed also young without issue George the seuenth sonne was a Clarke Dorothy the eldest daughter was first married to Robert Willoughby Lord Brooke and after to William Blount Lord Mountioy Cecily married to Iohn Sutton Baron of Dudley Elianor wife to Iohn Arundell of Lanheron in Cornwall Esquire Elizabeth was married to Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earle of Kildare in Ireland Mary was married to Walter Deuereux Lord Ferrars of Chertley Viscount Hereford Margaret married to Richard Wake of Blisworth Esquire Bridget dyed young and Anne was a Nunne This Thomas dyed in the tenth yeare of king Henry the seauenth Anno 1494. Et portoit burelle de six d'argent d'azur trois torteaux en le chef à vne lambell de hermines THomas Grey Marquesse Dorset Lord Harington and Bonuile sonne and heire of Thomas Grey Marquesse Dorset and Cicely Bonuile married Margaret the widdow of William Medley and daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of Bocton in Kent knight and had issue Henry Grey Duke of Suffolke and Lord Iohn Grey who married Mary sister of Sir Anthony Browne Viscount Mountague and had issue Sir Henry Grey of Pergo after made Baron of Groby by king Iames 1603. Edward Grey the third sonne and Thomas the fourth sonne he had three daughters also which were thus married Elizabeth was married to Thomas Lord Audley of Walden and Chauncellour of England Katherine was wife to Henry Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and Anne the third daughter was married to Henry Willoughby of Wollerton in Nottinghamshire Esquire This Thomas Marquesse Dorset dyed in the 22. yeare of king Henry the eight Anno 1530. Et portoit burelle de six d'argent d'azur trois torteaux en le chef a vn lambell de hermines HEnry Grey the third Marquesse Dorset Baron of Groby Bonuile Harington and Astley sonne of the second Thomas Marquesse Dorset and Margaret Wotton married Lady Frances eldest daughter and one of the heyres of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Mary Queene of France his wife by whom he had issue Henry Lord Harington that dyed without issue Iane married to the Lord Gilford Dudley who were both beheaded and Katherine the second daughter said to be maried to Edward Seymour Earle of Hertford Mary the third daughter maried Martyne Keys Serieant Porter This Henry was by king Edward the sixt created Duke of Suffolke 1551. and after was beheaded for treason at the Tower-Hill neere London the first of Queene Mary 1553. Et portoit les armoiries de son pere THomas Sackuile sonne and heire of Richard Sackuile of Buckherst knight Chancellour of the Exchequer who in his youth was a Scholler in the Vniuersity of Oxford and there profited so well that he became an excellent Poet leauing many of his labours both in Latine and English to the world After he became a Student in the Temple where hee proceeded Barrester from thence hee was called by the Queene and State and created Baron of Buckherst the ninth of Queene Elizabeth and after the 13. of March 1603. by King Iames was created Earle of Dorset in the Tower of London He was also Lord high Treasurer of England Knight of the Garter and Chancellor of the Vniuersity of Oxford and married Cecily daughter of Sir Iohn Baker knight of the priuy Counsel to Queen Mary by whom he had issue Robert Lord Buckhurst after Earle of Dorset Henry the second sonne Sir William Sackuile knight third sonne and Thomas fourth Son and three daughters Anne married to Sir Henry Glemham of Suffolke knight Ioane married to Anthony Browne Viscount Montague Mary married to Sir Henry Neuill knight sonne heyre of Edward Baron of Abergauenny This Thomas dyed sodainly of a dead Palsie sitting in Counsell at White-Hall in the yeare 1608. Et portoit escartelle d'or de gueulles au baston de vaire RObert Sackuile sonne and heire of Thomas was after his Father Earle of Dorset and married Lady Margaret onely daughter of Thomas late Duke of Norfolke by whom he had issue Richard Sackuile the third Earle of Dorset of that Family and Edward Sackuile knight of the Bath at the creation of Prince Charles hee had issue also two daughters Cecily married to Sir Henry Compton knight of the Bath and Anne married to Edward Seymour sonne and heyre of Edward Seymour and grand-childe to Edward Earle of Hartford This Robert founded at East Griensted in Sussex a Colledge for thirty and one poore people and gaue to their maintenance 330. pounds yearely to the worlds end and dyed in the same yeare his Father dyed at Dorset house in Fleetstreete and was buried by his Father in Sussex 1608. Et portoit les armes de son pere RIchard Sackuile
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
mentioned was after his Father Earle of Huntington and in right of Mauld his Mother eldest sister and co-heyre of Randoll Bloundeuile Earle of Chester he was also Earle of Chester and after in the one and twentieth yeare of king Henry the third hee was restored to the Earledome of Northampton and married Helyn daughter of Lewellyn Prince of North-Wales and dyed without issue at Darnhall the two and twentieth of king Henry the third as is more at large in the Title of Earles of Chester and was buried at Chester after whose death the saide King resumed and tooke into his hands the saide Earledome and Principalitie of Chester and gaue other lands and signeuries to the said Iohns Sisters aforesaid who after their brothers death challenged the kingdome of Scotland Et portoit les armoiries les son Peré VVIlliam de Clinton sonne and heyre of Iohn de Clinton and Mauld his wife daughter of Lewis Viscount Beaumont and grand-childe to another Iohn de Clinton and Idona his wife daughter and one of the heyres of Sir William Odingselles knight was created Earle of Huntington in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third and three yeares after he was made Lord Admirall of England and was taken prisoner in France for which he was forced to sell most part of his lands for to pay his ransome Hee married Iulian daughter and heyre of Sir Thomas Leyborne knight but by her had no issue He founded the Priory at Marstock and dyed without issue in the yeare 1353. leauing Iohn Lord Clinton his Nephew by his Brother Iohn to be his heyre Et portoit d'argent six croix au pied fiché d'or au chef d'azur chargeé de deux molettes d'or perce de gueulles GViscard de Angolisme or Guichard d' Anguillem a French man borne in Gascoigney a very expert man in warlike affayres was made Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter by king Edward the third and set in the eight Stall of the Souereignes side After in the first yeare of king Richard the second whose Tutor he was hee was created Earle of Huntington and had giuen him a thousand Markes yearely out of his Treasury He married one Constance but I finde not any issue that he left behinde him He dyed in the third yeare of the reigne of King Richard the second 1379. Et portoit d'or seme de billettes au lion rampant d'azur IOhn Holland Knight second sonne of Sir Thomas Holland knight Steward of the house to William Mountague Earle of Salisbury who marrying his Mistris Ioane daughter of Edmond of Woodstocke and sister and heyre of Iohn Earle of Kent was in her right Earle of Kent and sate in Parliament held at Westminster the 34. of king Edward the third by the name and title of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent the next yeare after dyed in the eleuenth yeare of king Richard the second was created Earle of Huntington and in the 21. yeare of the said kings reigne he was created Duke of Excester and made Gouernour of Callis and Alberick de Vere Earle of Oxford Vnckle of Robert Vere Duke of Ireland hauing resigned all his interest and right of the Office of Lord high Chamberlaine of England king Richard bestowed the same vpon this Iohn Duke of Excester by Letters Patents bearing date 1397. But after in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth this Iohn was deposed by Parliament from the title and dignity of Duke of Excester and in the same yeare was taken at Circester by the Townes-men and beheaded in the Market-place with the Duke of Surrey and the Earle of Salisbury for plotting king Henry the fourths death This Iohn Duke of Excester married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and sister to king Henry the fourth by whom he had issue Iohn Holland Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntington Sir Edward Holland knight and Constance first married to Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke and Earle of Nottingham by whom shee had no issue after she married Iohn Lord Grey of Ruthyn by whom she had issue two sonnes Edmond created Earle of Kent and Thomas Grey Lord of Rugemond Et portoit les armes D'engleterre au bordure de France IOhn Holland the second Earle of Huntington restored by Acte of Parliament the fourth of king Henry the fift hee was sonne of Iohn Holland Duke of Excester beheaded at Circester This Iohn when king Henry the fift was to go into Normandy was sent before to skoure the Seas who meeting with nine Carricks of Genoa which were going to aide the French King fought with them and sunke sixe of them and tooke the other three with great store of money and treasure and brought them with his prisoners to the King in the yeare 1416. And in the 22. yeare of king Henry the 6. this Iohn was restored to the Dukedome of Excester writ in his Stile Duke of Excester Earle of Huntington and of Iuory in Normandy Lord of Sparre Admirall of England Ireland and Aquitaine Lieutenant Generall of the Dutchy of Aquitaine and Constable of the Tower of London He married two wiues the first was Anne daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford by whom he had issue Henry Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntington his second wife was Anne daughter of Iohn Mountague Earle of Salisbury by whom he had issue a daughter named Anne first married to Iohn Lord Neuill sonne heyre of Ralphe the second Earle of Westmerland by whom she had no issue after she married Sir Thomas Neuill knight Vnckle to her former husband and had issue Ralphe Neuill the third Earle of Westmerland This Iohn Holland Duke of Excester died in the 26. of king Henry the sixt and was buried by his two wiues in S. Katherines Church neere the Tower of London Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Holland Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntington onely sonne of Iohn his Father in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth was disinherited by Acte of Parliament with king Henry the sixt his Queene and his sonne and others to the number of 140. And in the 13. yeare of the same Kings Reigne hauing long followed the Duke of Burgundies Camp in meane sort was found drowned in the seas betweene Douer and Callis He married Anne daughter of Richard Duke of Yorke sister to King Edw. the fourth which lady was after maried to Sir Thomas S. Leoger knight by whom she had issue a daughter named Anne married to George Mannours Lord Ros of Hamlake of whom the now Earle of Rutland is descended as more at lardge is set downe in the Duke of Excester THomas Grey sonne of Sir Iohn Grey knight and halfe brother by the mother to king Edward the fift was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the 14. day of August in the 12. yeare of king Edward the fourth created Earle of Huntington to him and the heyres male of his body And in the 15. of the said
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
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
issue This Edmond was Lieutenant of Gascoigne in the first yeare of king Edward the first being sent into Aquitaine with an Army dyed at Bayon in the yeare 1296. and his body being brought ouer Seas into England was buried at Westminster on the North-side of the high-Altar Et portoit gueulles au trois leopards passant d'or au lambell de cinq pointz seme de France Or thus d'engleterre au lambell de France THomas Plantagenet sonne and heire of Edmond Crouchbacke was after the death of his Father Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Derby and Lord Steward of England Hee married Alice daughter and heyre of Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne by the daughter and heyre of William Longspee Son and heyre of William Longspee Earle of Salisbury by whom he had no issue This Alice was held to be a very loose and vnchaste woman of her body for in the life time of this Thomas her husband she maintained Sir Richard S. Martyn for her Sweet-heart and after her husbands death she married two other husbands the first was Ebulo Lord Strange of Knocking and the second was Hugh de Frenes by whom she neuer had any issue Notwithstanding she gaue all her lands and inheritance to Thomas her first husband and to his heyres for euer This Thomas siding with the Barons against king Edward the second in hatred of the Spencers was taken prisoner at Burrough Brigge by the treachery of Robert Holland and Andrew of Hercley and brought to Pomfret a Castle of his owne and without the Walles thereof was beheaded in the 14. yeare of King Edward the second leauing Henry his Brother his heire Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry of Lancaster Lord of Monmouth brother and heire of Thomas Earle of Lancaster beheaded at Pomfret aforesaid was restored to the Earledome of Lancaster Leicester Derby with the Office of high Steward of England in the first yeare of king Edward the third He married Mauld daughter and heire of Sir Patrick Cadurcis or Chaworth knight Lord of Kidwelly and Ogmore in Wales and had issue Henry Earle of Derby and first Duke of Lancaster and sixe daughters Blanch the eldest was married to Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell Mauld the second was first married to William Lord Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland and after to Sir Ralphe Vfford knight Ioane the third daughter was married to Iohn Lord Mowbray of Axholme Isabell was Abbesse of Almesbury Elianor the fift daughter was first married to Iohn sonne of Henry Lord Beaumond and after to Richard Earle of Arundell and Mary the sixt daughter was married to Henry Lord Percy of Alnewike He dyed at Leicester and was there buried in the Monastery of the Channons in the yeare 1345. Et portoit les armes d'engleterre au band d'azur HEnry of Monmouth sur-named Tortcoll sonne heyre of Henry Earle of Lancaster and grand-childe of Edmond Crouch-backe aforesaid was created Earle of Derby in the tenth yeare of king Edward the third his Father being then liuing after whose death he was also Earle of Lancaster Leicester and Lord high Steward of England and at a Parliament helde at Westminster the 25. of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Lancaster and about two yeares after the saide King gaue him the Earledome of Lincolne He married Isabell daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont cousin-germane to Queene Isabell wife to king Edward the second by whom he had issue two daughters his heyres Mauld married William Duke of Bauarre Earle of Henault Holland Zeland and Frizeland Blanch the second daughter was married to Iohn of Gaunt fourth sonne of king Edward the third and after Duke of Lancaster This Henry for some disgracefull words supposed to be spoken by him against the Duke of Brunswicke was by the saide Duke challenged to a single combate before king Iohn of France which this Henry gladly accepted of and at the appointed time they beeing both prouided entred the listes with haughty courage for the triall of their cause but King Iohn reconciled them to the great contentment and honour of the Duke of Lancaster This Henry dyed of the plague and was buried in the Collegiate at Leicester which himselfe founded and placed therein a Deane twelue Maior Canons and so many inferior Brethren in the 35. yeare of king Edward the third Et portoit d'engleterre au band d'azur IOhn of Gaunt so named of the place where he was borne fourth sonne of king Edward the third was created Earle of Richmond in the yeare 1355. and in the 38. yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee sate in Parliament with the title of Duke of Lancaster and Earle of Richmond and did write in his stile Iohn sonne to the King of England Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster Earle of Derby Lincolne and Leicester high Constable of England and as some haue high Constable of France but of that I doubt For Robert de Morell Lord of Fiennes was then Constable of France And in the fiftieth yeare of King Edward the third he sate in Parliament by the name of Iohn King of Castile and Lions also in the 14. yeare of king Richard the second his Nephew he was made Duke of Aquitaine by deliuering him a golden Rod and putting vpon his head a rich Bonnet He married three wiues the first was Blanch daughter and co-heyre of Henry the first Duke of Lancaster by whō he had issue Henry after king of England Phillip wife to Iohn king of Portingall and Elizabeth married to Iohn Holland Duke of Excester His second wife was Constance daughter and one of the co-heyres of Peter king of Castile by whom he had issue Katherine married to Henry sonne of king Iohn of Spaine with the Title to the kingdomes of Castile and Lions His third wife was Katherine daughter of Payne Ruet alias Guien king of Armes and Widdow of Sir Otes Swynford knight by whom he had issue before marriage Iohn sur-named Beaufort Earle of Somerset and Marquesse Dorset Henry Beaufort Bishop of Winchester and Cardinall of S. Eusebius as also Chancellor of England Thomas Beaufort Earle of Dorset Duke of Excester and Chancellour of England Ioane Beaufort first married to Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and after to Robert Ferrars Lord of Ousley This last marriage with Katherine Swynford the legitimating of her children was made good by a Bull from Rome This great Duke and Prince dyed in the 22. of king Richard the second and lyeth buried in Paules Church in London Et portoit semé de France escartellé d'engleterre au lambell d'hermines HEnry Plantagenet borne at Bullingbroke sonne and heire of Iohn of Gaunt was created Earle of Derby in the life time of his Father 1385. by king Richard the second and in the 21. yeare of the said kings reigne he was made Duke of Hereford and by that name and title sate in the Parliament held at Westminster and after being accused of treason by Thomas Mowbray Duke of
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
and Pernell his wife eldest daughter and co-heyre of Hugh Grentmesnill which Roger Bigot Earle of Norfolke gain-said alledging that that Office belonged to him of right by Alice the other daughter of Hugh Grentmesnill to which this Simon answered That in King Iohns time this Controuersie was agreed That the Earle of Leicester that then was should giue to the then Earle of Norfolke tenne Knights Fees for which the Earle of Norfolke did release all his right and claime to the said Office of Lord high Steward of England Whereunto Earle Roger replied said That of those ten Knights Fees there were yet two a halfe vnpaid To which it was answered That by the Lawes of the Realme the saide Roger might recouer the remainder of those Knights Fees And so Simon was receiued to execute the saide Office at the Coronation of Queene Elianor Et portoit les armes de son pere EDmond sur-named Crouch-backe second sonne of king Henry the third in the fiftieth yeare of his Fathers reigne was made Earle of Leicester and high Steward of England and had also giuen him the Castle of Kenelworth and married Aueline daughter and heyre of William de Fortibus Earle of Albemarle as in the title of Earles of Lancaster is more at large He married to his second wife Blanch Queene of Nauarre daughter of Robert Earle of Arthoys and had issue Thomas Earle of Lancaster Henry and Iohn and after died at Bayon in France 1295. and was buried at Westminster on the North side of the Altar Et portoit d'engleterre au lambell de France THomas eldest sonne and heyre of Edmond Crouchbacke Earle of Leicester and high Steward of England married Alice daughter and heyre of Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne but by her had no issue He was beheaded at Pomfret in the yeare of our Lord 1322. as is more at large in the Title of Earles of Lancaster Et portoit d'engleterre an lambell de France HEnry of Lancaster Lord of Monmouth brother heyre of Thomas aforesaid was restored to the Earledomes of Lancaster Leicester and Derby with the Office of high Steward of England in the eighteenth yeare of king Edward the second and married Mauld or Matild daughter heyre of Sir Patrick Chaworth knight and had issue as in the Earles of Lancaster He dyed in the yeare 1345. and lyeth buried at Leicester Et portoit les armes d'engleterre à la band d'azur HEnry of Monmouth sur-named Tortcoll sonne heyre of Henry Lord of Monmouth and grand-childe of Edmond Crouchbacke was after the death of his Father Earle of Lancaster Leicester and high Steward of England and after created Duke of Lancaster in the yeare 1351. He married Isabell daughter of Henry Lord Bellomont or Beaumont and had issue two daughters his heyres Mauld the eldest married to William Duke of Bauary and Blanch the second daughter was married to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster He dyed of the plague and was buried at Leicester the 35. of king Edward the third Et portoit les armes de son pere WIlliam of Bauary Earle of Henault Holland Zeland and Frizland married Mauld daughter co-heire of Henry of Monmouth sur-named Tortcoll the first Duke of Lancaster by reason whereof he was Earle of Leicester in the 35. yeare of king Edward the third as doth appeare by his Charter bearing date 1360. He dyed withour issue Et portoit les armes de Bauary Perbendee lozengie d'argent d'azur IOhn of Gaunt so named of the place where he was borne fourth sonne of king Edward the third after the death of William of Bauary his brother by marriage was by his Father created Earle of Leicester Lincolne and Derby in the yeare 1361. as in the Earles of Lancaster is more at large He married Blanch the second daughter and co-heyre of Henry first Duke of Lancaster by whom he had issue King Henry the fourth and others He dyed in the yeare 1399. Et portoit France semé escartelle d'engleterre au lambell d'hermyns HEnry of Bullingbroke sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt was Duke of Hereford in the life time of his Father and after created Earle of Leicester and Derby as also Lord high Steward of England and lastly king of England by the name of king Henry the fourth Et portoit les armes de son pere RObert Dudley fift sonne of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland was created Earle of Leicester and Baron of Denbeigh in the sixt yeare of Queene Elizabeth 1564. at S. Imaâ—s house on Michelmas day He was Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter and of S. Michael L. Steward of her house and Master of the Horse and one of her Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell He married two wiues the first was Amie daughter and heyre of Sir Iohn Robsert knight who dyed without issue His second wife was Lettice daughter of Sir Francis Knolles Treasurer of the houshold to Queene Elizabeth and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter by whom he had a sonne named Robert Baron of Denbeigh who dyed young without issue This Robert dyed without any lawfull issue at Cornebury Lodge in Oxfordshire 1588. and was buried at Warwick leauing issue Robert a base sonne begotten of Duglasse Howard sister of Charles Earle of Nottingham Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant vert à la double queue ' RObert Sidney Lord Gouernour of Vlishing sonne of Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of the Counsell of the Marchesse of Wales and of Lady Mary his wife eldest sister and co-heyre of Robert Dudley Earle of Leicester fift sonne of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland was by King Iames the thirteenth day of May 1603. created Baron Sidney of Penshurst in the Tower of London and on the furth day of May 1605. he was created Viscount Lisle at Grienwich and lastly on Sunday the second day of August 1618. he was created Earle of Leicester at Salisbury he being then Lord Chamberlaine to Queene Anne and knight and companion of the Noble Order of the Garter He married Barbary the only daughter and heyre of Iohn Gamage Lord of Coytie in Glamorganshire by whom he hath issue now liuing Robert Lord Lisle who married Lady Dorothy eldest daughter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland Lady Mary married to Sir Robert Wroth Lady Phillip wife to Sir Iohn Hubert knight sonne heyre of Sir Henry Hubert knight Baronet and Lord Chiefe-Iustice of the Court of common Pleas and Lady Barbara Sidney the third daughter yet vnmarried 1618. Et portoit d'or à la pheon d'azur A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of March their Armes Wiues and Children ROger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore sonne and heyre of Edmond Lord Mortimer of Wigmore was created the first Earle of the Marchesse of Wales in the second yeare of king Edward the third at a Parliament held at Salisbury Vnto this Roger was committed the gouernment of Edward the third for that
he was generally accounted a man of singular vertue and vnto him was ioyned Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent and Henry Plantagenet Earle of LaÌ„caster as assistants A Parliament being held at Northampton 1328 a dishonourable peace and marriage was made wherein the King by the directions of his Mother and this Roger Mortimer released to the Scots their homage fealty and seruice due to him for that kingdome and deliuered vp to them also the grand Charter called Ragman which vnder the hands and seales of their late King and of the Nobility of Scotland testified their tenure and subiection to the Kings of England This Roger in the fourth yeare of king Edward the third was taken at Nottingham Castle at midnight in Queene Isabell the Kings Mothers chamber with whom he had bene ouer familiar by William Lord Montague others and sent to the Tower of London and condemned of high treason at Westminster in presence of the whole Parliament and after drawne to the common Gallowes and there hanged two dayes and two nights and then taken downe and buried in the Grey-Fryars Church He married Ioane daughter and heyre of Peter Iamuile Lord of Mede Vaucolour and Trime in Ireland and had issue Edmond Mortimer knighted at the Coronation of King Edward the third with his Brother Sir Roger Mortimer and Geffrey Mortimer Lord of Cowich Iohn the fourth sonne of this Roger was slaine at a Iusting at Shrewsbury Katherine the eldest daughter was married to Thomas Beauchampe Earle of Warwick Ioane married to Iames Lord Audley Agnes married to Laurence Hastings Earle of Penbroke Margaret married to Thomas sonne and heyre of Maurice Lord Berkeley Mauld married to Sir Iohn Charlton Lord Powis Blanch wife to Peter Lord Grandison and Beatrix the seuenth daughter was married first to Edward sonne and heyre of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke and after to Thomas Brews Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer grand-childe to Roger Mortimer the first Earle of March aforesaid by his sonne Edmond was restored in the 29. yeare of king Edward the third to the Earldome of March and all other lands honours and possessions which his said Grand-Father was possessed of for that he was contrary to law as the Lawyers then saide put to death being neuer brought to answer which course of Iustice was vsed before at the triall of the Earles of Lancaster Winchester Glocester and Kent by the aduice of the said Roger and Queene Isabell This Roger was one of the first Founders of the Order of the Garter and married Phillip daughter of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury and had issue Roger Mortimer that dyed without issue before his Father and Edmond Mortimer that was the third Earle of March Margaret married to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford and Margery married to Iohn Lord Audley He dyed in Burgundy at a Towne called Roueray in the three and thirtieth yeare of King Edward the third and his body being brought into England was buried by his Auncestors at Wigmore Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent EDmond Mortimer second sonne and heyre of Roger Mortimer the second Earle of March was after the death of his Father the third Earle of March and Lord of Wigmore He married Phillip daughter and onely heyre of Lionell of Antwerpe Duke of Clarence Earle of Wiltshire and Vlster Lord of Conaught and Trime in Ireland by whom he had issue Roger Mortimer the fourth Earle of March and Sir Edmond Mortimer knight that married the daughter of Owen Glendour Sir Iohn Mortimer knight the third sonne was beheaded for treason the third of king Henry the sixt Elizabeth married to Henry Lord Percy sur-named Hotspurre Philip first married to Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke and after to Richard Earle of Arundell and lastly to Iohn Lord S. Iohn and dyed without issue This Edmâ—nd recâ—â—ered from William Mountague Earle of Salisbury the Castle and honour of Denbeigh which king Edward the third had giuen before to Roger Mortimer Earle of March this Edmonds Grand-Father This Edmond died at Corke in Ireland the fift of king Richard the second and was buried at Wigmore Et portoit burelle de six pieces do'r ' d'azur au chef de la primier deux paletts entte deux base equites de la second sur le tout à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer after the death of Edmond his Father was the fourth Earle of March of that sur-name whom king Richard the second nominated for his successour in the kingdome of England 1387. being descended of the body of Philip onely daughter and heyre of Lionell Duke of Clarence third sonne of king Edward the third He married Elianor daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent Lord Wake and Duke of Surrey and sister and co-heyre of Thomas her brother by whom he had issue two sonnes and two daughters Edmond the first sonne was the fift Earle of March Roger the second sonne dyed young Anne was married to Richard of Coningsbourgh Earle of Cambridge sonne of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and Elianor married to Edward Courtney Earle of Deuonshire He was writ and stiled Earle of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare and Conaught and was slaine by the wilde Irish being then Lieutenant of the Kings Forces in Ireland in the two and twentieth yeare of King Richard the second and bare the Armes of his Father EDmond Mortimer sonne and heyre of Roger aforesaide was after the death of his Father the fift Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare Conaught and married Anne daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford and dyed without issue in the Castle of Trime in Ireland the third of King Henry the fixt and was buried at Stoke neere Clare leauing Richard Duke of Yorke his Nephew and heyre to succeed him Anne his widdow was after married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington Les armes de Mortimer RIchard Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard of Conesburgh Earle of Cambridge by Anne his wife sister co-heyre of Edmond Mortimer the fift Earle of March after the death of his Father and Edmond Mortimer his Vnckle did write himselfe Duke of Yorke Earle of Cambridge Vlster March and Rutland Lord of Wigmore and Clare He married Cecily daughter of Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Edward Earle of March after king by the name of king Edward the fourth and others as in the title of Yorke This Richard was slaine at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. and the 39. of king Henry the sixt Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à bordure d'argent seme lyons rampant purpre EDward Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard Duke of Yorke aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore and Clare and lastly king of England by the
Hugh dyed in the yeare 1263. and was buried at Colne the 48. of King Henry the third Et portoit de gueulles escartellé d'or le premier brisé de vn molette d'argenâ— RObert de Vere the second of that christen name sonne heyre of Hugh aforesaid was the fift Earle of Oxford of that sur-name Lord Bulbec and great Chamberlaine of England who siding with the Barons in the ciuill dissentions against king Henry the third was taken prisoner by Prince Edward the kings sonne in a battaile neere Kenelworth in the yeare 1265. He married Alice daughter and heyre of Gilbert Lord Samford and Chamberlaine to Queene Elianor and had issue Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Hugh de Vere second sonne who married Dionisia daughter and heyre of William Montchensey Lord of Swanescamp knight and dyed without issue and Alphonsus de Vere knight third sonne who dyed before his other two elder brothers and was buried at S. Albons the second of king Edward the third Ioane the eldest daughter married William de Warren sonne of Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey Lora the second daughter was wife to Reginald Argentein with whom her Brother Robert as Milles hath pag. 682. did giue in marriage the Mannor of Ketlingham in Norfolke This Robert died in the yeare 1295 and was buried at Colne in the 24. yeare of king Edward the first Et portoit les armes de son peté RObert de Vere the third of that name sonne and heire of Robert the second was after the death of his Father the sixt Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England and was called The good Earle of Oxford He was sent by king Edward the first into Aquitaine with an Army to releeue his people against the French He married Margaret daughter of Roger Lord Mortimer and sister of Roger first Earle of March and dyed without issue in the yeare 1331. and was buried at Colne in Essex Et portoit gueulles escartelle d'or le premier beise de vn molette d'argent IOhn de Vere sonne of Sir Alphons de Vere knight and Nephew and heire of Robert and Hugh his Vnkles whom hee succeeded and was the seuenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England He married Mauld daughter of Bartholmew Badelismer Baron of Leeds in Kent and sister and one of the heyres of Giles Lord Badelismer her brother by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters viz. Thomas and Aubrey both Earles of Oxford and Iohn Vere third sonne dyed without issue Margaret the eldest daughter was first married to Henry Lord Beaumont and after to Sir Iohn Deuereux knight Isabell the second daughter was first married to Sir Iohn Courtney Grand-father of Hugh the first Earle of Deuonshire of that Family and after to Sir Oliuer Dynham knight This Iohn Earle of Oxford dyed in the 33. yeare of king Edward the third 1358. Et portoit de gueulles escattelle d'or le prinâ—ier brise de vn Molette d'argent THom as de Vere sonne and heyre of Iohn aforesaide after the death of his Father was the eight Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec Samford and Lord great Chamberlaine of England and married Matilda daughter and heyre of Sir Raphe Vfford knight Lord Chiefe-Iustice of England vnder King Edward the third and had issue Robert de Vere Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublin and Duke of Ireland and after died at Bentley in Essex the 18. day of September the 45. of King Edward the third Et portoit les Armes de son peré RObert de Vere the fourth of that name and 9. Earle of Oxford at eight yeares of age was Lord Bulbec Samford and great Chamberlaine of England and to augment his honour king Richard the second in the 9. yeare of his reigne created him Marquesse of Dublyn and gaue him a thousand Markes lands by the yeare with the Castle of Flynt in Wales also he gaue to him the sonne and heyre of Charles de Bloys theÌ„ a prisoner for whose redemption he had 20000. pounds and in the 10. yeare of the saide Kings reigne he was made Duke of Ireland After all which the King granted him by Letters Patents to hold the kingdome and Soueraignty of Ireland and to beare for his Armes Azure three Crownes gold within a bordure argent quartered before his owne Coate He was much hated of the Nobility for abusing the Kings eares to the hurt of the Sate Hee married Philip daughter of Ingelram de Guisnes Lord of Coucie and Earle of Bedford by Isabell his wife daughter of king Edward the third whom he diuorced and tooke to wife Lantegronia a meane woman that came with the Queene out of Bohemia but had no issue by eyther of them At last he was banished England by the Barons and went into France where about fiue yeares after being a hunting he was slaine by a wilde Boare King Richard hearing thereof out of his loue caused his body to be brought into England and to bee apparelled in Princely Ornaments and Robes and put about his necke a chaine of gold and Rings vpon his fingers and so was buried in the Priory of Earles Colne in Essex 1392. The king being thereat did weare blackes Et portoit les armes de son peré AVbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Milles which his Auncestors did hold in Fee he surrendred vnto king Richard the second who bestowed the same vpon Iohn Holland Duke of Excester his halfe brother by the Mother He married Alice daughter of Iohn Lord Fitz-Walter of Woodham Walter in Essex and had issue Richard Earle of Oxford and Iohn that dyed without issue the ninth of Henry the fift Alice a daughter was married to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis knight This Aubrey dyed in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earles Colne in Essex in the yeare 1400. Et portoit gueulles escartelle d'or le premier brise de vn Molette d'argent RIchard de Vere twenty foure yeares olde at the death of his Father Aubrey was the eleuenth Earle of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford and in the third yeare of King Henry the fift he was made Knight of the Garter He married Alice daughter and one of the heyres of Sir Richard Sergeaulx knight and widdow of Guy S. Albon by whom hee had issue Iohn Earle of Oxford and Sir Robert Vere knight who married Margaret daughter of Sir Hugh Courtney of Hacham knight and heyre to her Mother Phillip one of the daughters and heyres of Sir Warren Archdeacon knight and had issue Iohn who married Alice daughter and heyre of Walter Kilrington alias Colbroke by whom he had issue Iohn de Vere Earle of Oxford This Richard dyed in the 4. yeare of King Henry the fift Et portoit les armes de son pere IOhn de
de son peré LAurence Lord Hastings Weshford and Aburgauenny Son of Iohn Lord Hastings and Grand-childe of another Iohn and Isabell eldest sister and co-heyre of Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke was by Letters Patents dated at Mont-Martyn the 30. day of October the 13. of king Edward the third created Earle of Penbroke who being very young the King gaue his Wardship to the Lady Isabell de Burgo Lady of Clare who was Custos of Penbroke during the said Laurences minority He had two wiues the first was the earle of S. Paules daughter by whom he had no issue His second wife was Agnes daughter of Roger Mortuomary Lord of Wigmore and first Earle of March by whom he had issue Iohn Lord Hastings who was but two yeares olde at the death of his Father 1361. the 36. of King Edward the third Et portoit d'or à la Maunch de gueulles IOhn Lord Hastings sonne of Laurenc aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of Penbroke and being but 27. yeares of age was sent by King Edward the third to remoue the siedge at the Citty of Rochell in France where by the way as he was going hee was encountred vpon the Sea by Henry the Vsurper of Castile and taken prisoner with 160. others who were carried into Spaine where after two yeares imprisonment there he was solde to a Nobleman of France with whom hauing agreed for his ransome at his departure was poysoned at a banquet and died in France the 16. of Aprill in the yeare 1375. his ransome money beeing come to Callis to redeeme him He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter of King Edward the third by whom he had no issue His second wife was Anne daughter and heyre of Sir Walter Manny knight of the Garter by whom he had issue Iohn Lord Hastings and Earle of Penbroke three yeares olde at the death of his Father Et portoit les armes de son pere IOhn Lord Hastings sonne of Iohn Earle of Penbroke by Anne Manny his wife after the death of his Father was Earle of Penbroke Lord Hastings Weshford Abergauenny And because he was very yong king Edward the third made William Lord Beauchamp Custos of the County of Penbroke And after being with King Richard the second at Woodstock at a Christmas in running at a turnament was slaine by his good Friend Sir Iohn S. Iohn in the yeare 1389. after he had beene Earle 14. yeares He married Philip daughter of Edmond Mortimer the third Earle of March but had no issue He was buried in the Fryers Minorites within Newgate in London And his inheritance went to his Cousin Sir Edward Hastings knight who for some displeasure taken against him by the King was committed to the Fleet where he dyed without issue After whose death King Richard seized all his liuings into his hands although afterwards Reginald Grey of Ruthin made claime to the same as next heire and at the Coronation of King Henry the fourth carried the gilt Spurs which belonged of right for the Earle of Penbroke to do It is saide that since Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke who was one of the Peeres that condemned Thomas Earle of Lancaster to this Iohn none of the Earles of Penbroke did liue to see their sonnes so vntimely did they dye King Richard the second in the yeare 1397. did giue the Earledome of Penbroke to his Queene Isabell and vnder her Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester and Lord of Hauerford was made Custos of the Earldome which they enioyed vntill king Henry the fourth obtayned the Crowne who tooke the same then into his owne hands Et portoit d'or à la Maunch de gueulles HVmfrey Plantagenet fourth sonne of king Henry the 4. was by king Henry the fift his brother at a Parliament held at Leicester the second yeare of his Reigne created Earle of Penbroke and shortly after Duke of Glocester Hee writ in his stile Humfrey sonne and brother to Kings Duke of Glocester Earle of Henault Holland Zeland Penbroke Lord of Frisia great Chamberlaine of England and Defender of the Realme This was that Duke Humfrey who alwayes standing for the Commons being bountifull to the poore and seeing Iustice duely executed was commonly called The good Duke of Glocester I wish there were many such Duke Humfreys now liuing This great Duke and Protector for withstanding the insolent proceedings of Queene Margaret wife to King Henry the fixt at length by her meanes was strangled to death at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolke in the 25. yeare of King Henry the sixt and lyeth buried in the Abbey at S. Albons He married two wiues the first was Iaqueline daughter and heyre of William Duke of Bauare and the second wife was Elianor sister of Thomas Lord Cobham of Starborough but had no issue by eyther He had a base daughter named Antigone married vnto Henry Grey Earle of Tankeruile and Lord Powis Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre au bordur d'argent VVIlliam de la Pole Lord Wingfield c. was created Earle of Penbroke by Letters Patents bearing date at S. Edmonds-bury the third of March 1446. the 25. of king Henry the sixt which Title Dignity he enioyed not long for at the next Parliament after 1450. he was banished England and in his flying was taken and beheaded and his body being carried to Wingfield Colledge in Suffolke was there buried After whose death the Earledome of Penbroke reuerted againe to the Crowne where it remained two yeares This William married Alice daughter and heyre of Thomas Chaucer of Newelme in Oxfordshire Esquire as in the Title of Suffolke is more at large Et portoit d'azur à la face trois testes de Leopards d'or IAsper of Hatfield knight of the Garter sonne of Owen Tuder and Queene Katherine daughter of Charles the sixt French King and widdow of king Henry the fift of England was created Earle of Penbroke by King Henry the sixt his halfe Brother in the yeare 1452. But after when King Edward the fourth expulsed king Henry the sixt this Iasper was attainted and William Lord Herbert created Earle of Penbroke in his place in the yeare 1462. In whose Letters Patents mention is made that he had the said Earledome giuen him in consideration he had expelled the Rebell Iasper After that this William Herbert was slaine at Banbury his sonne William succeeded him in the said Earledome of Penbroke And after when King Henry the sixt was restored againe by the Earle of Warwicke this Iasper was also restored to be Earle of Penbroke in the yeare 1470. But in Aprill following 1471. Iasper was taken prisoner at Barnet Field and put from the Earledome of Penbroke againe which Earledome being surrendred by the second William Lord Herbert to King Edward the fourth he gaue it to Prince Edward his sonne who enioyed it during his life Afterwards King Richard the third held the same all his life time who being slaine by king
Henry the seuenth 1485. this Iasper was againe the third time restored to the Earledome of Penbroke in the yeare 1486. he was crcated Duke of Bedford Some haue that this Iasper married Katherine daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers the widdow of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham but howsoeuer he dyed without any lawfull issue the 11. of King Henry the seuenth leauing a base daughter named Hellen married to William Gardiner of London Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à la bordur d'azur semé de Merlottes d'or WIlliam Herbert Lord of Ragland Castle in Monmothshire descended from Henry Fitz-Herbert Chamberlaine to King Henry the first and Alice Corbet his wife Concubine to the said King and of whom he begot Reginald earle of Cornwall This William was Knight of the Garter and after the attaindor of Iasper of Hatfield was created Earle of Penbroke in the 8. yeare of king Edward the fourth and being sent by the said King to encounter Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and George Duke of Clarence who intended the setting vp againe of King Henrie the sixt was at Banbury field 1469. taken prisoner and beheaded the ninth of King Edward the fourth and buried at Tinterne Abbey the said King Edward being also taken prisoner by the Earle of Warwicke at the same time He married Anne sister of Sir Walter Deuereux knight Lord Ferrars of Chartley and had issue William Lord Herbert of Gower and after his Father Earle of Penbroke Sir Walter Herbert and Sir George Herbert of S. Iulians and sixe daughters Cicely was Baronesse of Grestoke Mauld was married to Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland Katherine wife to George Grey Earle of Kent Anne was married to the Lord Powis Isabell was married to Sir Thomas Cooksey Knight and Margaret the sixt daughter was first married to Thomas Talbot Viscount Lisle and after to Sir Henry Bodringham knight This William Earle of Penbroke had issue by Mauld daughter and heyre of Adam ap Howell Graunt his Paramore Richard Herbert of Ewyas Father of Sir George Herbert of Swansey knight and of William Herbert Earle of Penbroke Et portoit party per pale d'azur de gueulles au trois lyons tampant d'argent WIlliam Lord Herbert of Gower sonne and heyre of William Earle of Penbroke beheaded at Banbury aforesaid was after his Father Earle of Penbroke which earledome he surrendred to King Edward the fourth and in lieu therof the said King created him Earle of Huntington by his Letters Patents bearing date at Oburne the fourth of Iuly in the 19. yeare of King Edward the fourth who at that time gaue the said Earledome of Penbroke to his sonne Prince Edward This William married Mary the fift sister and co-heyre of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers and had issue one onely daughter his heyre named Elizabeth married to Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester This William dyed in the 6. yeare of King Henry the seuenth Et portoit les armes de son peré EDward Plantagenet sonne and heyre of King Edward the fourth was in the 19. yeare of his Fathers reigne vppon the surrender of William Herbert of the Earledome of Penbroke created Earle of Penbroke at the Kings Mannor of East Hampsted This Prince Edward was after King by the name of King Edward the fift and liued not long after who being dead King Richard the third held the said Earledome of Penbroke all his life time After whose death Iasper Tuder was restored againe to that Earledome and helde it to his death in the yeare 1495. And then did King Henry the seuenth giue the same Earledome to Prince Henry his sonne who held and enioyed it vntill he was King and long after and passed all things within the saide County vnder the Seale of the said Earledome and by the name of Earle of Penbroke and not as King nor vnder the great Seale of England and so it continued vntill the 27. yeare of his Reigne that Wales was reduced to sheere ground and the authority royall of all Lordships Marchesse in Wales was dissolued by Acte of Parliament and resumed into the Kings hands at which time the great and large authority and iurisdiction Royall of the Earledome of Penbroke being alwayes before a County Palatine was dissolued and the Earles that haue beene sithence haue onely had but the Name and Dignity as other Earles of England where before that time they were as absolute Princes of themselues Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre au lambell d'argent ANne Bollen eldest daughter and co-heyre of Thomas Bollen Viscount Rochford and Earle of Wiltshire was created Marchionesse of Penbroke at Windesore Castle on Sunday the first of September 1532. the 24. of King Henry the eight at which time the saide King deliuered vnto her two seuerall Letters Patents one of her said Creation the other of the guift of a thousand pounds a yeare to maintaine her Estate Afterwards the 25. of Ianuary 1533. King Henry married the said Anne Marchionesse of Penbroke and by her had issue the renowned and most famous Princesse Queene Elizabeth who reigned Queene forty foure yeares and died the 24. of March 1602. and lyeth honourably buried in the Abbey at Westminster This Queene was beheaded within the Tower of London the 19. of May 1536. and her body with the head was buried in the Quier of the Chappel of the Tower Et portoit d'argent au Cheuron entre trois testes de Beufs coupé sable WIlliam Herbert sonne of Richard Herbert of Ewyas Esquire and grandchilde to William Herbert Earle of Penbroke beheaded at Banbury was of the priuy Chamber to King Henry the eight and one of his Excecutors he was made Master of the Horsse and Knight of the Garter the third of King Edward the sixt and in the fift yeare of the said kings Reigne he was created Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe and Earle of Penbroke he was also of the priuy Counsell to king Edward the 6. twice Lord President of the Counsell established in the Marchesse of Wales Lieutenant generall ioyned with the Lord Russell and the Lord Grey for suppressing the Rebels in the West Countries and against Sir Thomas Wyat and Generall of all the English Forces at S. Quintins twice Gouernor of Callis of the priuy Counsell also to Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth grand Master of the Houshold to the late Queene Elizabeth He married two wiues the first was Anne daughter of Thomas Parre Baron of Kendall sister and co-heyre of William Parre Marquesse of Northampton Earle of Essex Lord Parre Ros of Kendall Fitz-Hugh Marmyon and S. Quintine by whom hee had issue Henry Lord Herbert after Earle of Penbroke Sir Edward Herbert of Red-Castle knight and Lady Anne married to Francis Lord Talbot Son and heyre of George the sixt Earle of Shrewsbury This William married to his second wife Anne daughter of George Talbot the fourth Earle of Shrewsbury but by her had no issue He dyed at Hampton-Court the 18. of Aprill and was
portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'or à la bordure endent de mesme GEorge Talbot the fourth Earle of Shrewsbury vpon whose Toombe at Sheffield he is stiled Earle of Shrewsbury Weshford and Waterford Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blakmer and Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter This George being but twenty yeares of age was at the battaile of Stoke where hee fought manfully in the behalfe of King Henry the seuenth who made him Knight of the Order of the Garter and after he was made Steward of the house to King Henry the eight and Generall of the Army at the siedge of Turwin 1513. He married two wiues the first was Anne daughter of William Lord Hastings Chamberlaine to king Edward the fourth by whom he had issue Henry Lord Talbot that dyed without issue and was buried at Calke Priory Francis Lord Talbot and Earle of Shrewsbury after his Father Iohn and Iohn both borne buried at Ashby de la Zouche William Talbot fift sonne borne at Sheffield Richard Talbot sixt sonne borne at Chelsey and fiue daughters Margaret married to Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland Anne and Dorothy both borne at Wingfield Mary wife to Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland and Elizabeth the fift daughter was married vnto William Lord Dacres of Gillesland This Georges second wife was Elizabeth daughter and one of the heyres of Richard Walden of Erith in Kent knight of whom he begot Iohn that dyed young and Anne married to Peter Compton sonne and heyre of Sir William Compton knight and after to William Herbert Earle of Penbroke This George dyed at Wingfield the 26. of Iuly 1538. and was honourably buried by his first wife at Sheffield Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'or à la bordure endenté de meâ—me FRancis Talbot sonne and heyre of George was borne in the Castle of Sheffield in the yeare 1500. the 16. of king Henry the seuenth and was the fift Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blakemer knight of the Garter He married two wiues the first was Mary daughter of Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillesland by whom he had issue George Lord Talbot and sixt Earle of Shrewsbury Thomas Talbot that dyed at Sheffield without issue the 25. of king Henry the eight and Anne first married to Iohn Lord Bray and after to Thomas Lord Wharton and dyed without issue His second wife was Grace daughter of Robert Shackerley of Derbishire Esquire He dyed the 21. of September the second of Queene Elizabeth and was buried at Sheffield in the yeare 15â—9 Et portoit les armoities de son pere GEorge Talbot sixt Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blakmer sonne and heyre of Francis aforesaid was made Knight of the Garter in the third yeare of Queene Elizabeth and at the arraignment of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke Lord Steward of England and presently after Earle Marshall of England He married two wiues the first was Gertrude daughter of Thomas Mannors Earle of Rutland by whom he had issue Francis Lord Talbot that dyed before his Father without issue Gilbert second sonne was after his Father Earle of Shrewsbury and dyed without issue male Edward the third sonne was after his Brother Gilbert also Earle of Shrewsbury and dyed without issue Henry Talbot the fourth sonne Katherine Talbot the eldest daughter was married to Henry Lord Herbert after Earle of Penbroke but had no issue Mary the second daughter was married to George Sauell sonne of Henry Sauell of Barraby in Lincolnshire and Grace the third daughter was married to Sir Henry Cauendish knight sonne and heyre of William Cauendish of Chattesworth knight This George his second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Hardwike of Hardwike in Derbishire Esquire by whom he had no issue He dyed on Wednesday the 18. of Nouember in the Castle of Sheffield and was buried the 13. of Ianuary at Sheffield 1590. Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'or à la bordure endente de me sme GIlbert Talbot the seuenth Earle of Shrewsbury of this Family Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blakmer succeeded his Father George and married Mary daughter of Sir William Cauendish of Chatsworth and had issue three daughters his heyres Mary the eldest was married to William Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe in Wales and Earle of Penbroke Elizabeth married to Sir Henry Grey Lord of Ruthin sonne and heyre of Charles now Earle of Kent 1618. Alithea the third daughter was married to Thomas Howard now Earle of Arundell 1618. This Gilbert dyed at his house in Broad-streete in London and was conuayed to Sheffield there most honourably buried being Knight and Companion of the Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell 1618. Et portoit les armes de son pere EDward Talbot second sonne of George and brother and heyre male of Gilbert aforesaid was the eight Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blackmer He married Ioane eldest daughter and co-heyre of Cuthbert Lord Ogle by whom he left no issue Hee dyed in London and his body was priuately buried at Westminster 1618. GEorge Talbot sonne and heyre of Iohn Talbot of Grafton Esquire by Ratherine his wife daughter of Sir William Peter of Ingerston in Essex Knight heyre male of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton knight of the Garter and Bannaret second sonne of Iohn Lord Talbot second Earle of Shrewsbury after the death of Gilbert and Edward Earles of Shrewsbury aforesaid without issue male was by King Iames 1618. admitted the ninth Earle of Shrewsbury Lord Talbot Furniuall Verdon and Strange of Blackmer Et portoit de gueulles â—u lyon rampant d'or à la bordure endente de mesme A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Salisbury their Armes Wiues and Children PAtricke de Eureux sonne of Walter de Eureux Earle of Rosemer and Sibill his wife Founders of the Monastery of Bradenstoke 1093. was Steward of the house to Mauld the Empresse by whose meanes the Earledome of Salisbury was confirmed vnto him in the 28. yeare of king Henry the second He married Ela the widdow of William the third Earle Warren and Surrey daughter of William Taluaise Earle of Pontine grand-childe to Roger Mountgomery by his sonne Robert de Mountgomery Earle of Shrewsbury by whoÌ„ he had issue William Fitz-Patricke Earle of Salisbury and Rosemer Patricke and Philip Cannons at Bradenstock This Patricke was a Witnesse to the Charter of pacification of the troubles betweene King Stephen and Henry Duke of Normandy 1152 and after was slaine in Aquitaine by Guy de Lusignan in comming as a Pilgrim from S. Iames de Compostella and as the Priory Booke of Lacok hath the 6. Kalend of Aprill 1168 and was buried at S. Hillaries the 15. of king Henry the second Doctor Powell in his description of Wales Fol. 154 saith that about the yeare 1094. Roger Montgomery William Fitz-Eustace
the Noblemen which conspired the death of king Henry the fourth at a Iusts held at Oxford but beeing disclosed diuers of them were put to death and this Iohn and Thomas Holland Earle of Kent flying vnto Circester were by the rude Townes-men there brought into the Market-place and there had their heads smitten off the first yeare of King Henry the fourth He married Mauld daughter and heyre of Sir Adam Francis of London knight and widdow of Sir Alan Boxhull knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had issue Thomas Mountacute Earle of Salisbury and Richard that dyed without issue three daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford after to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis knight and thirdly to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and Duke of Excester Margaret the second daughter was married to William Lord Ferrars of Groby and Elizabeth the third daughter was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresbie Et portoit d'argent au trois Lozengies en face de gueulles THomas Montacute Son of Iohn Earle of Salisbury slaine by the Commons at Circester was restored to be Earle of Salisbury in the tenth yeare of king Henry the fourth and after in the sixt yeare of king Henry the sixt hee was made Knight of the Garter and in the yeare 1423. he raised the siedge of Crauant in Burgoigne where he with the losse of 21. hundred men slew eight thousand of the enemies After he was substituted Vice-Regent of the Countries of France Bry and Champaigne and Sir Iohn Fastoffe Deputy in the Dutchy of Normandy And in the sixt yeare of king Henry the sixt he with William de la Pole Earle of Suffolke and Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury besiedged the Citty of Orliance in France where he and Sir Thomas Gargraue knight looking out of a high Window in a Tower at the Bridge ende to view the Towne was shot with a Bullet from the enemy which brake the Window and droue the shiuers thereof into his Face and Head vpon which wound hee dyed within eight dayes after Whose body being brought into England was honourably buried by his Auncestors at Bisham Abbey in Barkshire 1428. He married Eleonor daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and sister and one of the heyres of Edmond Earle of Kent and had issue one onely daughter and heyre named Alice married to Richard Neuill a younger sonne of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland This Thomas had a base sonne named Iohn Et portoit d'argent au trois Louzengies en face de gueulles RIchard Neuill third sonne of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland by Ioane his second wife daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was made Earle of Salisbury after the death of Thomas Montague his wiues Father and Knight of the Garter in the 15. yeare of king Henry the sixt and Lord Chancellor in the 32. yeare of the said kings reign He tooke part with Richard Duke of Yorke against king Henry the sixt and was taken prisoner by Queene Margaret at the battaile of Wakefield and beheaded at Pomfret and his head sent vpon the ende of a Speare to Yorke in which battaile was Richard Duke of Yorke also slaine 1460. This Richard Neuill married Eleanor daughter and heyre of Thomas Montague Earle of Salisbury and had issue foure sonnes and sixe daughters Richard the eldest sonne was after restored and made Earle of Salisbury and after Earle of Warwicke Iohn the second sonne was created Marquesse Mountague Thomas the third sonne married the widdow of the Lord Willoughby and dyed without issue George the fourth sonne was Arch-bishop of Yorke and Lord Chancellor of England Ioane the eldest daughter was married to William Pitz-Alan Earle of Arundell Cecily the second daughter was married vnto Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwicke Alice the third daughter was married to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh Baron of Rauenswath Eleanor the fourth daughter was married to Thomas Stanley first Earle of Derby of that name Katherine the fift daughter was wife to William Bonuill Lord Harington and Margaret the sixt daughter was married to Iohn Vere Earle of Oxford This Richards body was first buried in the Priory at Pontfret and after remoued to Bisham Abbey neere Windesore in Barkshire Et portoit gueulles au Saukeur d'argent au lambell gobonne d'argent d'azur RIchard Neuill sonne and heyre of Richard Neuill Earle of Salisbury aforesaid was restored to be Earle of Salisbury and in right of his wife he was Earle of Warwicke he was also great Chamberlaine and high Admiral of England Lord Warden of the North Marches toward Scotland and of the Cinque-Ports Captaine of Callis high Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster and knight of the Noble Order of the Garter This famous and great Earle of Warwicke did set vp and pull downe Kings at his pleasure First he set vp king Edward the 4. and put downe king Henry the 6. and after some breach and vnkindnes between them this Richard took Henry the 6. out of prison where he had bin ten yeares and placed him againe in his Regall Throne forcing Edward to flye into Flanders to seeke ayde of the D. of Burgundy his brother in law But Edward returning againe did encounter with this great Earle his brother Iohn Marquesse Montacute at Barnet field where they were both slain in the year 1471. This Earle Rich. married Anne daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke and sister and heyre of Henry Duke of Warwicke by whom he had issue two daughters his heyres Isabell the eldest was married to George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence and Anne the second daughter was first married to Prince Edward and after to Richard Duke of Glocester after king by the name of Richard the third Et portoit les armes de son pere GEorge Plantagenet borne at Dublin in Ireland third sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke and brother of king Edward the fourth was created Duke of Clarence in the yeare 1461. And by Letters Patents dated at Westminster the twenty fiue of March the 12. of King Edward the fourth he was created Earle of Salisbury and Warwicke This George married Isabell sister and co-heyre of Henry Duke of Warwicke and had issue Edward Earle of Warwicke who from his childe-hoode was kept in the Tower of London and in the ende beheaded by king Henry the seuenth leauing no issue and Margaret the daughter of the said George married Sir Richard Pole knight and was beheaded after her brother in the 33. yeare of king Henry the eight This George was secretly murdered in the Tower of London in the yeare 1477 and was buried at Tuekesbury Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre au lambell d'argent au trois cantons de gueulles EDward onely sonne of King Richard the third Queen Anne his wife was borne in the Castle of Middleham neere Richmond in the County of Yorke 1473 who beeing not foure yeares of age was created Earle of Salisbury the 17. yeare of the Reigne of king
Edward the fourth And on the twenty foure day of August 1483 he being then about ten yeares olde was by his Father created Prince of Wales and dyed before his Father Et portoit les armes d'engleterre au lambell d'argent MArgaret Plantagenet daughter of George Duke of Clarence and sister and heyre of Edward Earle of Warwick beheaded as aforesaid was created Countesse of Salisbury by king Henry the eight in the fift yeare of his Reigne and in the 31. yeare of the said kings Reigne shee was attainted by Parliament of high treason together with Gertrude wife of Henry Courtney Marquesse of Excester Reginald Pole her sonne Sir Adrian Fortescue and others and after was beheaded in the Tower of London the 33. of king Henry the 8. She was married to Sir Richard Pole knight borne in Wales had issue Henry Pole Lord Mountague beheaded Reginald Pole Cardinall Geffrey Pole third sonne Arthur Pole fourth sonne and Vrsula married to Henry Lord Siafford sonne and heyre of Edward Duke of Buckingham Et portoit France d'englere tre escartelle au lambell d'ermyn trois cantons de gueulles RObert Cecill knight second sonne of William Cecill Baron of Burghley Lord high Treasurer of England and Knight of the Garter by his second wife Mildred was first created at the Tower of London the 13. of May 1603. Baron Cecill of Essenden in Rutlandshire And at White-hall the 20. day of August 1604. he was created Viscount Cranborne in Dorsetshire and lastly at Greenwich the fourth of May 1605 he was created Earle of Salisbury by King Iames. Hee was also Master of the Court of Wards Chancellor of the Vniuersity of Cambridge Lord high Treasurer of England and Knight of the Order of the Garter He married Elizabeth daughter of William Brooke Lord Cobham and had issue William Cicell Earle of Salisbury 1618. and a daughter named Francis married to Henry Lord Clifford sonne and heyre of Francis Earle of Cumberland He dyed at Marlborough on Sunday the 24. of May 1612. Et portrit burellee de dis d'argent d'azur sur le tout six eschuchons 3 2 1. sable charge de six lyons rampant à la premier au Cressand pur le difference VVIlliam Cecill Baron Cecill of Essenden Viscount Cranburne and Earle of Salisbury 1618. married Katherine youngest daughter of Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke and Lord high Treasurer of England and had issue Iames that dyed young and Frances a daughter A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes Marquesses and Earles of Suffolke their Armes Wiues and Children RObert de Vfford knight Son of Sir Robert Vfford knight Steward of the houshold to King Edward the second and of his wife Cecily daughter and co-heire of Robert de Valonijs Lord of Orford was created Earle of Suffolke in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third 1335 as also Knight of the Garter he was Lord of Eay and Framlingham in Suffolke Before this Robert did the Family of Bigots hold Norfolke and Suffolke together as one County This Robert and William Mountague Earle of Salisbury were Generals of king Edward the thirds Army in Flanders when he went to make his clayme to the Crowne of France descended to him by his Mother and kept from him by Philip de Valois the Vsurper 1338. He serued vnder the blacke Prince at the battaile of Poictow where Iohn the French King was taken prisoner 1359 and married Margaret daughter of Sir Iohn Norwich of Mettingham Castle in Suffolke and Aunt and heyre of Iohn her Nephew by Walter her Brother by whom hee had issue William Vfford Earle of Suffolke and three daughters Cecily married to Iohn Lord Willoughby Katherine married to Robert Lord Scales and Margaret married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby He dyed in the 43. yeare of King Edward the third Et portoit de sable au croix engresse d'or WIlliam de Vfford sonne and heyre of Robert aforesaid was the second Earle of Suffolke of that surname L. of Eye and Framlingham he married Isabell daughter of Thomas Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke and had issue Thomas William Edward who dyed all without issue This William Earle of Suffolke dyed sodainely in the Parliament house at Westminster the 15. day of February 1382. leauing his three sisters his heyres who were married as aforesaid Les armes de son peré MIchaell de la Pole knight sonne and heyre of Sir William de la Pole Knight Banneret Katherine his wife daughter of Sir Iohn Norwich knight and grand-childe to another Sir William Pole knight which Father and Grand-father of this Michaell doth disproue our late Writers who setteth him downe to bee of base Parentage and birth Hee was Lord Wingfield and Lord Chancellour of England and by King Richard the second he was created Earle of Suffolke in the yeare 1385. and had giuen him a thousand Markes by the yeare out of the Kings Treasury But when King Richard began to decline by reason of the discord of the Nobility the honour of this Michaell being newly raised decreased also For by a publike Decree he was banished England the 12. yeare of king Richard as a great corrupter of the King in which banishment he dyed with griefe at Paris 1389 and was after buried at Hull He married Isabell daughter of Sir Iohn Wingfield knight and sister and heyre of Sir Thomas Wingfield of Wingfield Castle in Suffolke knight and had issue fiue sonnes Thomas de la Pole borne 1366. William borne 1367. Michaell borne 1368. Richard borne 1369 and Iohn borne 1373. He had issue three daughters Margaret married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby Elizabeth and Anne Et portoit d'azur à la face entre trois testes de leopards d'or MIchaell de la Pole Lord Wingfield sonne of Michaell aforesaid was restored to be Earle of Suffolke after his Father in banishment the 22. of king Richard the second and married Katherine daughter of Hugh Earle Stafford and had issue sixe sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Michaell de la Pole Earle of Suffolke William second sonne was after the death of Michaell his elder brother Earle Marquesse and Duke of Suffolke Thomas was a Clarke Sir Iohn de la Pole knight Captaine of the Towne of Auerenges in Normandy Miles de la Pole and Alexander Isabell the eldest daughter was married to William Lord Morley Katherine was Abbesse of Berking Elizabeth dyed young Philip the fourth daughter was wife to the Lord Burnell and Margaret married Iohn de Foys Earle of Kendall in England sonne of Gaston de Foys Earle of Longeuile in France This Michaell dyed of the Flix at the siedge of Hareflew 1414. Et portoit les armoiries de son peré MIchaell de la Pole the third of that name Lord Wingfield and Earle of Suffolke was slaine at the battaile of Egen-Court with Edward Plantagenet Duke of Yorke the 25. of October 1414 leauing no issue of his body and was buried at Butley Et portoit d'azur à la face entre troâ—
testes de leopards d'or WIlliam de la Pole Lord Wingfield and Earle of Suffolk second sonne of Michaell the second Earle of Suffolke of that Family after the death of Michaell Earle of Suffolke his elder brother without issue being Captaine of the Castle and Citty of Auerenges in Normandy was in the 22. of king Henry the sixt created Marquesse of Suffolke and in the 25. yeare of the said kings reigne he was made Earle of Penbroke and lastly Duke of Suffolke in the 26. of Henry the sixt After all which honors giuen him in the yeare 1449 he was banished England for fiue yeares for being too familiar with Queene Margaret priuy and consenting to the yeelding and losse of Anioy and Mayne as also to appease the murmuring of the people for the murdering of the Duke of Glocester and as he was taking of Ship to paste for France he was surprized and taken on the sea by a Shippe of warre called the Nicholas belonging to the Duke of Excester then Constable of the Tower of London and there presently beheaded and his body cast into the Sea which was after found and taken vp againe at Douer and brought to the Colledge at Wingfield in Suffolke and there honourably buried He married Alice daughter and heyre of Sir Thomas Chaucer knight sonne of Sir Geffrey Chaucer the Poet by whom he had issue Iohn Duke of Suffolke and William Et portoit d'azur à la face entre trois testes de leopards d'or IOhn de la Pole sonne and heyre of William aforesaide being the fift of this Family was after the death of his Father Duke of Suffolke He was Founder of the house of the Carthusians at Kingston on Hull where the house of the saide Poles as yet remaineth like a Pallace He married Elizabeth daughter of Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke and sister of king Edward the fourth and had issue Iohn de la Pole created Earle of Lincolne the seuenth of king Edward the fourth who hauing no issue of his body was slain at Stokefield with Martyn Swarth who vniustly had taken vp Armes against King Henry the seuenth in the yeare 1487 the second of the said Kings Reigne Edmond the second sonne was Earle of Suffolke Humfrey was a Clarke Edward the fourth sonne was Arch-Deacon of Richmond and Richard the fift sonne was slain at Pauia in Italy at a battaile foughten in the yeare 1525. Katherine the eldest daughter was married to William Lord Sturton Anne the second daughter was a Nunne at Sion Dorothy was the third daughter and Elizabeth the 4. daughter was married to Henry Louell Lord Morley This Iohn dyed in the yeare 1491. and was buried at Wingfield of which he was Lord and Owner Et portoit les armes de son peré EDmond de la Pole second sonne and heyre of Iohn de la Pole Duke of Suffolke by Elizabeth his wife sister of king Edward the fourth was the last Earle of Suffolke of that Family a bold stout and couragious man but very intemperate in his anger This Edmond vpon a time killed a meane man which fact King Henry the seuenth pardoned notwithstanding he tooke it so ill that he was arraigned for the same As he shortly after without the Kings licence went into Flanders to his Aunt Margaret Dutchesse of Burgonay but after returning backe againe he excused himselfe so as hee obtayned the kings fauour and not long after while Prince Arthurs marriage with Katherine of Spaine and the peoples heads were occupied with delights he with his Brother Richard departed the second time into Flanders against the Kings will and knowledge where he remained as an exile hearing that some of his Friends were put to death and others committed to perpetuall imprisonment Hee wandered vp and downe both in France and Germany but finding no place of rest or safety at last yeelding himselfe into the hands of Philip Duke of Burgundy and Flanders was at length brought into England and beheaded at Tower-Hill for treason in the yeare 1513. being the fift of king Henry the eight He married Margaret daughter of Richard Lord Scrope had issue Anne a Nun in the Minnories at London Et portoit d'azur à la face entre trois testes de leopards d'or CHarles Brandon Son of Sir William Brandon knight was knight of the Garter and Master of the Horse to K. Henry the 8. by him created Viscount Lisle in the yeare 1513 and after Duke of Suffolke in the same yeare In which yeare there was a solemne triumph at Tilt Turney proclaimed in France by the Dolphin to which this Charles with the Marques Dorset and many other Noble Lords and Gentlemen went with the Kings licence And in the first dayes triumph the Marques Dorset bare himselfe so valiantly against Monsieur Grue an Almanois that with his Speare hee wounded him very dangerously in the head And Duke Charles at the Turney ouerthrew his aduersary bearing both man and horse to the ground This Duke Charles had foure wiues the first was Margaret daughter of Iohn Neuill Marquesse Montague widdow of Sir Iohn Mortimer knight by whom he had no issue The second was Anne daughter of Sir Anthony Browne knight Gouernor of Callis by whom he had issue before marriage a base daughter named Anne married to Edward Gray Lord Powis and another daughter after marriage named Mary married vnto Thomas Stanley Lord Montegle His third wife was Mary Queene of France widdow of Lewis the 12. and second sister to King Henry the eight by whom he had issue Henry Brandon Earle of Lincolne that died before his Father without issue and two daughters Francis married to Henry Grey Marquesse Dorset and after Duke of Suffolke and Eleanor the second daughter was married to Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland The fourth wife was Katherine daughter and one of the heyres of William Lord Willoughby of Eresbie by whom he had issue two sonnes Henry Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Charles who dyed young both in one day of the sweating sicknesse at Bugden the Bishop of Lincolnes house the 14. of Iuly 1551. This valiant Charles Duke of Suffolke departed this life at Guilford the 24. of August 1544. the 36. of king Henry the eight and was buried very honourably with a Hearse at Windesore Et portoit burâ—lle d'argent de gueulles de dix pieces à la lyon rampant d'or coronne per pale d'argent de gueulles HEnry Grey Marquesse Dorset and Baron Ferrers of Groby Huntington Wooduill and Asheley Iustice of the Forrests and Chases by South the Riuer of Trent and knight of the Garter was after the death of Henry Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Charles his brother created Duke of Suffolke the eleuenth of October the fift of king Edward the sixt He married Lady Francis daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by Mary the French Queene Dowager of France and had issue three daughters Iane the eldest was married to the Lord Guilford Dudley sonne of
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
neither whom he married or of any issue he left behind him HEnry Bourchier Knight sonne and heyre of William Bourchier created Earle of Ewe at Maunt in Normandy by King Henry the fift sate in Parliament the 15. of King Henry the 6. as Lord Bourchier and in the 25. yeare of the said kings Reigne he was in Parliament by the name and title of Viscount Bourchier and in the 27. yeare of King Henry the 6. Richard Duke of Yorke by his Charter did confirme certaine Lands vnto him in marriage with Isabell his sister with an annuity of one hundred pounds by the yeare by the name and title of Henry Viscount Bourchier He had issue 6. sonnes William that dyed before his Father Sir Henry Bourchier knight Humfrey slaine at Barnet-Field 1471. Iohn Thomas and Edward and dyed in the yeare 1483. Et portoit d'argent à vn croix engresleé de gueulles entre quatre bouces de sable IOhn Talbot second son of Iohn Talbot first Earle of Shrewsbury by Margaret his Wife eldest daughter and co-heyre of Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke was created Viscount Lisle in the 31. yeare of King Henry the 6. He married Ioane daughter and one of the co-heyres of Sir Iohn Chedder Knight and had issue Thomas Talbot who was also Viscount Lisle and was slaine at Wotton Vnderedge without issue and Elizabeth married to Edward Grey who in her right was also Viscount Lisle This Iohn was slaine with his Father in the wars in France in the yeare 1453. Et portoit gueulles au lyon rampant à la bordure engresleé d'or au croissant d'argent WIlliam Berkeley sonne of Sir Iames Berkely Knight of Elizabeth his Wife daughter of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke was created Viscount Berkeley the 20. yeare of King Edward the 4. and after Marquesse Barkeley and married two Wiues but had no issue by eyther He gaue most part of his Lands to King Henry the seuenth and dyed the seuenth of the said Kings Reigne and was buried in the Augustine Fryars in London leauing Sir Morris Berkeley Knight his brother his heyre Et portoit gueulles au cheuron accompaigné de dix croix patees d'argent FRancis Louell sonne of Iohn Lord Louell and Iane his Wife sister and heyre of William Viscount Beaumont was created Viscount Louell at Eltham in the 22. yeare of King Edward the fourth and in his stile did write himselfe Viscount Louell Baron Holland Deyncourt and Grey of Rotherfield He married Anne daughter of Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh and was after slaine at Stoke-field 1487. without issue leauing his two sisters Ioane and Friswold his heyres Ioane was married to Sir Bryan Stapleton Knight and Friswold to Sir Edward Norris Knight Et portoit burelle vndeé de six d'or de gueulles EDward Grey second sonne of Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Talbot Viscount Lisle and sister and heyre of Thomas her brother in whose right he was created Viscount Lisle by King Edward the 4. and had issue Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle who married Muriel daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and had issue Elizabeth married to Henry Courtney Earle of Deuon dyed without issue the saide Edward had also issue two daughters Elizabeth and Muriell Elizabeth was first married to Edmond Dudley of the priuy Chamber to King Henry the seuenth and had issue Iohn Dudley Viscount Lisle and after she was married to Arthur Plantagenet base sonne of king Edward the fourth who was also Viscount Lisle Muriell the second daughter was Wife to Henry Stafford Earle of Wiltshire but by him had no issue Et portoit burelleé de six d'argent d'azur trois torteaux en chef au lambell d'argent IOhn Lord Welles sonne of Lyonell Lord Welles and Margaret his Wife Dutchesse of Somerset daughter of Iohn Lord Beauchampe was created Viscount Welles by King Henry the seuenth and married Cecily daughter of King Edward the fourth by whom he had issue a daughter named Elizabeth which dyed without issue He dyed and was buried in the Augustine-Fryars in London Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant à la double queué sable armé lampasse de gueulles SIr Charles Brandon Knight created Viscount Lisle the 4. of King Henry the eight and Duke of Suffolke in the fift yeare of the saide Kings Reigne who at the request of the French Queene then his Wife resigned the Title and Dignity of Viscount Lisle to Arthur Plantagenet base sonne of King Edward the 4. who had married the daughter heyre of Edward Grey Viscount Lisle aforesaid and had issue as is more at large in the Title of Suffolke Et portoit burelle d'argent de gueulles de dix pieces à la lyon rampant d'or coronne per pale d'argent de gueulles armé lampasse d'azur ARthur Plantagenet base sonne of King Edward the 4. was after the surrender of Charles Brandon created Viscount Lisle at Bridewell the 26. of Aprill in the 15. yeare of King Henry the eight and married Elizabeth daughter of Edward Grey Viscount Lisle and sister and heyre of Iohn Grey her brother by whō he had issue three daughters his heires Bridget Frances and Elizabeth Bridget was wife to Sir William Carden Knight Frances married first Iohn Basset after Thomas Monke of Deuonshire Elizabeth the third daughter was married to Sir Francis Iobson Knight This Arthur dyed the third of March 1542. the 33. yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the eight Et portoit France d'engleterre escartellé au baston sinestre d'argent But most commonly he is made to quarter the Armes of Vlster and Mortimer as his Father did before he was King which I hold not good for a bastard hath no right to any Armes but his Fathers chiefe Coate to shew he was the naturall sonne of such a man IOhn Dudley Knight sonne of Edmond Dudley and Elizabeth his wife sister and heyre of Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle was created Viscount Lisle by King Henry the eight in the same yeare Arthur Plantagenet dyed 1542. and was after made Earle of Warwicke and lastly Duke of Northumberland as in those Titles is more at large Et portoit d'or au lyon ram pant à la double queué vert RObert Radcliffe Baron Fitz-Walter grand-childe of Sir Iohn Radcliffe Knight and Elizabeth his Wife daughter and one of the heyres of Walter Lord Fitz-Walter was created Viscount Fitz-Walter in the 17. yeare of King Henry the eight and after he was created Earle of Sussex He married three Wiues and had issue by them all as in the Title of Earles of Sussex is more at large He dyed in the 34. yeare of King Henry the eight 1542. Et portoit d'argent au band engreslee sable 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 in Ireland being Treasurer of the houshold to King Henry the