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
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
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
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
England but the youngest who was first married vnto William de Romare Earle of Lincolne and after to Peter de Brus who dyed in the Holy-Land in the sixe and twentieth yeare of King Henry the first Et portoit Gueulles a vn Croix patee vaire VVIlliam surnamed le Gros sonne of Stephen was after the death of his father Earle of Abemarle and Lord of Holdernesse he married Cicely daughter of William Fitz Duncan sonne of Malcolme King of Scots by Alice de Rumely Lady of Harwood with whom he had in marriage the Honour and Lands of Crauen in Yorkeshire and had issue Hawis his onely daughter and heire first married to William de Magnauile Earle of Essex and after to William de Fortibus or de Forts Baron of Olem by whom she had issue William de Forts Earl of Albemarle father of Aueline wife of Edmond first earle of Lancaster sonne of King Henry the third lastly the said Hawis married Baldwin de Betun This William le Grosse founded the Abbey of Melsa Anno one thousand one hundred and fiftie and dyed the seauen and twentieth yeare of King Henry the second and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton which was of his owne foundation Et portoit les armes de son Pere ' VVIlliam Magnauile Earle of Essex and Lord of Plesse and in right of Hawis his wife daughter and heire of William le Grosse was also Earle of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred seuenty and nine and died at Roane in the second yeare of King Richard the first without issue Et portoit escartelle d'or gueulles WIlliam de Fortibus Baron of Olem second husband vnto Hawis Countesse of Albemarle Daughter and heire of William le Grosse in whose right he was Earle of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse by whom hee had issue William Earle of Albemarle father of Aueline wife of Edmond Earle of Lancaster This William de Forts by the name of Earle of Albemarle in the sixt yeare of the reigne of King Richard the first was a witnesse to the saide Kings Charter of Lands that hee gaue to Reginald de Argentyne and died in the seuenth yeare of King Richard the first Et portoit d'argent au le chef d'gueulles BAldwine de Betun by consent of King Richard the firâ—â— married and was the third husband to Hawis Counteâ— of Albemarle Daughter of William le Grosse in whose right 〈◊〉 was Earle of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse by whoâ— he had issue one only daughter his heire named Hawis whiâ—â— was married to William sonne and heire of William Marshâ—â— Earle of Penbrooke and died without issue Maister Lambert in his Perambulation of Kent page 533. saith That this Baâ—â—â— wine de Betun liued and was a Testie in the seauenth yeare 〈◊〉 King Iohn and therefore I holde him the third husband to Hawis Countesse of Albemarle and not the second as Maâ—ster Camden and Maister Milles haue set him downe to be her other two hâ—â—bands being dead long before This Baldwine dyed in the thirteenth yeare oâ— King Iohn and was buried in the Abbey of Meaux whereof he was the Founder Et portoit d'argent bande de six d'argent de gueulles au chef d'or WIlliam de Fortibus sonne of William de Forts by Haâ—â— Countesse of Albemarle aforesaide after the death of his mother and her three husbands was the sixt Earle of Aâ—bemarle and Lord of Holdernesse He maried Auelyne daughter of Richard Lord Montfichet and by her had issue William which was after Earle of Albemarle This William died in the six and twentith yeare of King Henry the third and was buried in the Abbey of Meaux Et portoit d'argent au chef de gueulles VVIlliam de Fortibus the last of that name and Familie was the seauenth Earle of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse c. He married to his first wife Christian daughter of Alan Earle of Galloway in Scotland who died without issue the 30. yeare of King Henry the third and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton His second wife was Isabel daughter of Bauldwine the fourth of that name Earle of Deuon and sister and heire to Baldwine the fift and last Earle of Deuon of the surname of Riuers by whom he had issue two sonnes and two daughters Thomas the eldest sonne died without issue and was buried at Stamford William the second Sonne died at Oxford without issue and was buried by his brother Auice the eldest sister died also without issue and was buried in the Abbey of Melsa and Aueline the second sister and co-heire of Baldwine aforesaid was married in the fifty foure yeare of king Henry the third to Edmond Crooke-backe Earle of Lancaster second sonne of the said king Henry the third This Countesse of Albemarle and Deuon and Lady of the Isle of Wight for so she writ her selfe ouer liued her husband and in her widdow-hood sold the Isle of Wight and a great part of the Earledome of Deuon and counselled her daughter Aueline to giue her whole inheritance after her death from the Courtneis her next heires to Lord Edmond her husband and his heires which she accordingly did This William died in the fortith yeare of king Henry the third and was buried in the Abbey of Meaux Et portoit les armes de son pere ' THomas of Woodstocke sixt son of King Edward the third was by King Richard the second created Earle of Albemarle he was also Earle of Buckingham and Northampton Duke of Glocester and Constable of England and married Elianor daughter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England and had issue Humfrey Earle of Buckingham and Anne married to Edmond Earl Stafford This Thomas of Woodstock was taken by force out of his Castle of Plessy in Essex by Thomas Mowbray Earle Marshall of England and conueied secretly to Callis and there most cruelly murthered his body beeing brought ouer into England was buried at Westminster the xxij of King Richard the second 1398. Les armes de france seme D'engleterre escartelle a la bordute d'argent EDward Plantagenet sonne and heire of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke in the thirteenth yeare of King Richard the second was Earle of Rutland and Corke his father then liuing and in the one and twentith of the said Kings reigne hee was created Duke of Albemarle from which Dukedome he was deposed by Parliament in the first yeare of King Henrie the fourth He married Phillip daughter and co-heire of Iohn de Mohun Lord of Dunsten and was slaine at the battell of Egencourt 1415. and was buried at Fotheringale without issue Et portoit france seme D'engleterre escartelle a lambell de trois points perpale gueulles d'argent charge ' de six chastells d'or six lions rampant gueulles THomas Duke of Clarence second sonne to King Henrie the fourth in the thirteenth yeare of his Fathers reigne was created
escartelle France seme D'engleterre au lambell d'argent RIchard of Burdeaux sonne and heire of Edward the black Prince was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and after king of England by the name of king Richard the second Et portoit les armes de son pere HEnry of Monmouth sonne and heire of king Henry the fourth was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester and after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift as more at large is set downe in the Title of Cornwall This Henry was dismissed of being President of the kings priuy Counsell for striking the then Lord chiefe Iustice Et portoit escartelle France seme D'engleterre au lambell d'argent HEnry Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the fift was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ster and after king of England by the name of 〈…〉 the sixt Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the 6. was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester This young Prince was murdred at Tewkesbury 1471. there buried as in the title of Cornwall is more at large Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Edward the fourth was borne Duke of Cornwall and after in the yeare 1470. was by Parliament created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and was after king of England by the name of king Edward the fift and was murdered in the Tower of London Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Richard the third was also Duke of Cornwall and in the first yeare of his fathers Reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and after dyed without issue ARthur sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth vvas Duke of Cornwall and in the fifte yeare of his Fathers reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and dyed without issue being but 14. yeares of age Et portoit escartelle D'engleterre au lambell d'argent HEnry second son to King Henry the seauenth was Duke of Yorke and after the death of Arthur his brother was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester in the 19. yeare of his Fathers reigne and was after king of England by the name of king Henry the eight Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambel d'argent EDward sonne and heire of king Henry the eight was D. of Cornwall and after created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester he was after King of England by the name of king Edward the sixt Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambel d'argent HEnry Frederick sonne and heire of Iames King of Great Britaine France and Ireland the fourth of Iune 1610. was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester and died without issue 1612. Et portoit les armes d'engleterre an lambell d'argent CHarles second sonne of Iames King of Great Britaine France and Ireland being Duke of Albany Marques of Ormount Earle Ros and Lord of Ardmanoch was Created Duke of Yorke at White-hall the sixt of Ianuary 1604. and afterwards at the same place the 4. of Nouember 1616. he was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles and Dukes of Cornwall their Armes Wiues and Children RObert Earle Mortaigne sonne of Harlowyn de Comitis Villa and Herlot his wife Mother of William Conqueror who coming into England with the said Conqueror had giuen him the Earledome of Cornwall and made Earle thereof He maried Mauld daughter of Roger Montgomery Earle of Shrewsbury and Arundell by whom he had issue William Earle Mortaigne and Cornewall and Mauld wife to the Earle of Tolouse who had issue a daughter named Helen married to William Duke of Aquitame This Robert was slaine in Northumberland in the yeare 1087. WIlliam Earle Mortaigne in Normandy sonne of Robert aforesaide was after his Father the second Earle of Cornwall who with Robert de Bellismo William Estoteuile and William Crispin did aide Robert Curthose Duke of Normandy against king Hen. 1. his brother at the battell of Trenchbray in Normandy where they were taken prisoners in the eight yeare of the said kings reigne the said William being before disinherited and his Earldome giuen vnto Stephen sonne of the Earle of Champaigne who was after King of England and were sent ouer sea into England to be kept in perpetual prison Robert Duke of Normandy being sent to the castle of Cardiffe in Wales had his eyes put out and this William became a Monke at Bermondsey in Southwarke and there dyed without issue His Armes as Glouer Sowerset hath is d'hermines au chief endented de gueulles REginald base sonne of king Henry the first begotten of his Concubine the daughter and co-heire of Robert Corbet Lord of Alencester in the County of Warwick was made the third Earle of Cornwall in the fift yeare of king Stephen He maried Beatrice had issue 4. daughters his heires Hawis the eldest was married to Richard de Riueris the third Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of the Isle of Wight Matild married Robert Earle of Mellent Vrsulâ— the third daughter was wife to Walter Dunstanuile Baron of Castlecombe and Sarah the fourth daughter was married to the Viscount of Lymocense He had also issue by his Concubine Beatrix de Vannes a sonne sur-named Henry filius Comitis who dyed in Gasconie without issue This Reginald died at Cicester in the yeare 1176. as Robert Montencis hath and was buried at Redding Et portoit gueulles à deux lions passant gardant d'or à baston sinester d'azur RIchard Plantagenet sur-named Cuer-de-Lyon the third sonne of king Henry the second was Earle of Poictiers and the fourth Earle of Cornwall as doth appeare by the Corporation of the Towne of Helleston in Cornwall He was after the death of Henry his brother Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and writ himselfe king of Ierusalem He conquered Cipers and died of a shot out of a Crosse-bow at the fiedge of Limosin in Britaine in the yeare 1199. He married Berengaria daughter of Sanchius King of Nauarre but by her had no issue he had a base sonne named Philip. I haue his Seale of Armes to a Charter wherein is a Lyon rampant onely IOhn sur-named Without Land fourth sonne of king Henry the second first married Alice daughter and one of the heires of Hubert Earle of Moriton in Anno 1172. In whose right his father made him Earle of Moriton and after Lord of Ireland this Alice died without issue after whose death he married to his second wife Isabell third daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocester from whom he was diuorced without issue He was also Earle of Glocester and after king of England and by king Richard the
belonging and not by birth He was after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift Et portoit France seme D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent HEnry Plantagenet sonne and heire of king Henry the fift was borne Duke of Cornwall and being not full 〈◊〉 moneths of age was proclaimed king of England in the yeare 1422. by the name of king Henry the sixt and on the 6. of Nouember 1429. being the eight yeare of his reigne he was crowned king of England at Westminster and in the yeare 1431. he was crowned king of France in Paris in our Ladie Church there and after was murdred in the Tower of London 1470. by Richard Duke of Glocester as the report then commonly went The body of this king was conueyed from the Tower to the Church of S. Paul in London and there laide on a Beere bare-faced which did bleed in the sight of all the beholders From thence by boate it was carried vnto the Monastery at Chertsey fifteene miles from London and there was first buried and after remoued to Windsore and there in a new Vault entoombed Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward sonne heire of king Henry the sixt being borne Duke of Cornwall in the 32. yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester by Acte of Parliament This young Prince at the battell of Tewkesbury 1470. was taken prisoner by Sir Richard Crofts and after murdered by the Dukes of Clarence and Glocester and by Thomas Marquesse Dorset the Lord Hastings This Prince married Anne second daughter and co-heire of Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury but had no issue by her she was after married to Richard Duke of Glocester after king of England Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent EDward eldest sonne to king Edward the fourth borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster the 49. yeare of king Henry the sixt was created Prince of Wales by authority of Parliament and Earle of Chester in the eleuenth yeare of his Fathers reigne being before Duke of Cornwall who with his young brother the Duke of Yorke was murdred in the Tower of London by the wicked practise of Richard Duke of Glocester his Vnckle who after vsurped the Crowne of England Et portoit France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent Edward the onely sonne of king Richard the third was Duke of Cornwall and in the first yeare of his Fathers reigne he was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and died being but ten yeares of age without issue Et portoit escartelle France D'engleterre an lambell d'argent ARthur Duke of Cornwall sonne and heire of king Henry the seuenth in the fift yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester and married Katherine daughter of Ferdinando Duke of Austria and king of Spaine when he was but fourteene years of age dyed in the next yeare after 1501. without issue at Ludlow and lieth buried at Worcester France D'engleterre escartelle au lambell d'argent HEnry Duke of Yorke second sonne of king Henry the seuenth after the death of Arthur his brother was D. of Cornwall and in the nineteenth yeare of his Fathers reigne was created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester after he was king of England by the name of king Henry the eight Et portoit les armes de son frere HEnry Stewart sonne and heire of Iames king of great Britaine France and Ireland was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester the fourth of Iune 1610. and died after at S. Iames neere Charing-Crosse without issue and was buried in the Abbey at Westminster the seuenth of December 1612. A Catalogue of the Earles of Carlile their Armes Wiues and Children RAndolphe Meschines sonne of Randolphe Viscount of Baieulx and Alice his wife base daughter of Richard the third Duke of Normandy came into England with William the Conquerour who gaue him the Earledome of Carlile He married Margaret sister of Hugh Lupus the first Earle of Chester after the Conquest and Aunt and heire of Richard the second Earle of Chester by whom he had issue Randolphe the third Earle of Chester William Meschines Lord of Egremont and Geffrey Lord of Gillesland and died Anno Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de gueulles la cowe estant Andrew de Harcla of Westmerland knight for his good seruice in vanquishing and taking prisoner Thomas Earle of Lancaster and other his abetters the kings enemies disloyall subiects was by king Edward the second in the 14. yeare of his reigne girt with a sword and had giuen him the Title and Earledome of Carlile for this was the vsuall making of Earles in those dayes But afterwards this Andrew proued vngratefull to his King and Country in his warres in Scotland receiuing secretly from the Scots a great sum of money for a bribe to betray his Master for which his offence he being apprehended and taken was degraded first of his knight-hood and after of all honourable Titles by cutting off his Spurs from his heeles then by disgirding of him breaking his sword ouer his head and lastly by tearing his Coate of Armes off his body by a Herald This done he was drawne and hanged beheaded and quartered the last day of October 1322. Et portoit les armoiries de seint George au primier quanton à marlette de sable IOhn Plantagenet third sonne of king Henry the fourth was in the second yeare of king Henry the fift his brother created the first Duke of Bedford Earle of Richmond and Lord of Kendall and in the fift yeare of the said kings reigne hee was made Protector of the Realme of England as in the Title of Bedford is more at large and Earle of Carlile which diuers late Writers deny for thus do I finde him written in his owne Deeds and Charters Iohn Regent of the Realme of France Duke of Bedford Aniou and Alanson Earle of Mayne Harecourt Drux Richmond and Carlile and Viscount Beaumont He married in the yeare 1433. Iaquelline daughter of Peter of Lucemburge Earle of S. Paul but by her had no issue He dyed in France the tenth of September 1435. and was buried in the Cathedrall Church in the Citty of Roane in Normandy in a very stately Toombe Et portoit semé de France D'engleterre à vn lambell de cinq ermyn d'azur neuf fleurs de liz d'or RIchard fourth sonne of Richard Duke of Yorke and brother of king Edward the fourth was in the first yeare of the said kings reigne 1460. created Duke of Glocester and Earle of Carlile and after was made Constable and Lord Admirall of England And lastly when hee had caused his two Nephewes king Edward the fift and Richard Duke of Yorke his brother to be murdered in the Tower of London He vsurped the Crowne and was
king of England by the name of king Richard the third Et portoit France escartelle D'engleterre d'lambell ermyn charge à trois cantons de gueulles A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Cumberland their Armes Wiues and Children HEnry Clifford Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescie was by king Henry the eight created Earle of Cumberland at Bridewell the eighteenth of Iune 1525. the 17. year of the said kings reigne and married Margaret daughter of Henry Lord Percy fift Earle of Northumberland by whom he had issue Henry Earle of Cumberland and Sir Ingram Clifford knight and foure daughters Katherine the eldest was married to Iohn Lord Scroope of Bolton Matilda was wife to Iohn Coigniers of Hornby and Elizabeth was married to Sir Christopher Medcalfe knight and Iane was married to Sir Iohn Hudleston knight This Henry dyed the 22. of Aprill in the 34. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit eschequette d'or d'azur à la face de gueulles HEnry Lord Clifford sonne and heire of Henry aforesaide after the death of his Father was the second Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescy married to his first wife Elianor daughter and co-here of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by his wife Mary Queene of France second daughter to king Henry the seuenth by whom he had issue Margaret married to Henry Stanley Earle of Derby by whom he had issue Ferdinando Earle of Derby that dyed without issue Male and William now Earle of Derbie 1618. This Henry maried to his second wife Anne daughter of William Lord Dacres of Gillesland and by her had issue George Lord Clifford the third Earle of Cumberland Francis the fourth Earle of Cumberland and three daughters Frances the eldest daughter was married to Philip Lord Wharton Elianor and Mary dyed both young This Henry dyed in Anno 1569. the 12. of Queene Elizabeth Les armes de son peré GEorge Lord Clifford after the death of Henry his father was the third Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland and Vescy and Sheriffe of Westmerland by inheritance a most Noble and Martiall man both by Sea and Land and honoured with the honorable Order of the Garter 1592. He married Margaret daughter of Francis Lord Russell and Earle of Bedford the 25. of Iune 1577. and had issue Francis Lord Clifford and Robert that died young and a daughter named Anne married to Richard Sackuile Baron of Buckhurst and Earle of Dorset This George dyed in the Strand at Landon in the yeare 1605. without issue Male. Et portoit eschiquettee d'or d'azur à la face de gueulles FRancis Clifford brother of George aforesaid succeeded and was the fourth Earle of Cumberland Lord Clifford Skipton Westmerland Vescy now liuing 1618. he maried Grizell daughter of Hughes of Vxbridge Esquire and widdow of Henry Neuill Father of Edward Neuill now Baron of Abergauenny 1618. and hath issue Henry Lord Clifford Margaret and Frances Et portoit les armes de sonperé A Catalogue of the Earles of Cambridge their Armes Wiues and Children WIlliam Meschines sonne of Randolphe Earle of Chester and second brother of Randolphe Gernonijs Earle of Chester was the first Earle of Cambridge by that name and title I finde him a Witnesse to the Charter and guift of Alexander Bishop of Lincolne of the Island of Hafreholme which the said Alexander gaue to the religious holy Nuns of the order of Sister-sences bearing date the fourth of king Stephen 1139. Whom hee married or what issue hee had I finde not WIlliam Marquesse of Iuliers or Iuliac vnto whom king Edward the third on the seuenâ— day of â—ay in the 14. yeare of his reigne did giue the Earl 〈…〉 bridge with the Towne and Castle and twenty pounds by yeare in fee to him and the heires of his body begotten and inuested him into the said Earledome at Westminster by the girding of him with a sword and besides gaue him by letters patents a thousand pounds of yearely rent He maried Mary sister and heire of Edward Duke of Gelderland Nephew to king Edward the third and had isssue Mary married vnto Iohn sonne and heire of Iohn Duke of Cleeue Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de sable IOhn of Henault Vnckle to Queene Philip wife to king Edward the third a younger sonne of the Earle of Henault was in the sixteenth yeare of the said kings reigne 1342. created Earle of Cambridge which honour Earledome soone after he lost by reuolting to the French king Et portoit d'or au lion rampant de sable arme lampasse de gueâ—lles escartelle d'or au lion rampant de gueulles EDmond of Langley so called of the kings Mannor house of Langley where he was borne fift sonne of king Edward the third was created Earle of Cambridge in the 36. yeare of his Fathers reigne he was also Lord of Tyndall after Duke of Yorke and married Isabell daughter and one of the heires of Peter king of Castile and Lions and had issue as in the Title of Yorke He dyed in the third yeare of king Henry the fourth 1401. and was buried at Langley by Isabell his wife Et portoit France seme D engleterre au lambell d'argent neuf â—orteaux RIchard of Conesburgh second sonne of Edmond of Langley aforesaid was created Earle of Cambridge at a Parliament held the second yeare of king Henry the fift and in the yeare after by the procurement of the Dolphine of France he with Henry Lord Scroope of Masham then Lord Treasurer of England and Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland knight did conspire the kings death at Southampton as the said king was shipping his men for France for which their treason they were beheaded there He married Anne sister and heire of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March and Vlster and had issue Richard Earle of Cambridge and Duke of Yorke and Isabell married to Henry Lord Bourchier and Earle of Essex Et portoit les armes de son pere ' RIchard Plantagenet sonne of Richard of Conesbourgh in the fourth yeare of king Henry the sixt was created D. of Yorke Earle of Cambridge and Rutland and Lord of Tyndall he was also Earle of Marche and Vlster Lord of Wigmore and Clare by his Mother He married Secily daughter of â—alphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Edward who was after king by the name of king Edward the fourth Edmond Earle of Rutland and Richard D. of Glocester and after king of England by the name of K. Richard the 3. diuers daughters as in the title of Yorke This Richard with his Son Edmond was slaine at the battell of Wakefield 1460. Et portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Deuon and Marquesses of Exeter their Armes Wiues and Children RIchard de Riparijs sonne of Baldwine Riuers to whom M Camden saith king Henry the first gaue the Towne of Tiuerton and the honour of plimpton and created him Earle of
of his Father was Earle of Hereford and Essex c. Hee married two wiues as in the Title of Earles of Hereford but had no issue He dyed in the 9. yeare of king Edward the third 1336. and was buried in the Abbey of Stratford neere London Et portoit d'azur à la band d'argent à deux cottices entre six lions rampan d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the ninth of that name sonne of Humfrey the eight and brother and heire of Iohn aforesaide was also Earle of Hereford and Essex c. He ouer-liued his younger brother William Earle of Northampton one yeare one moneth and fiue dayes and dyed at Plessy in Essex the 36. of king Edwird the third 1361. and is buried in the Augustine-Fryars in London Les armes de son frere Ieane HVmfrey de Bohun the tenth of that christen name son and heire of William de Bohun Earle of Northampton and Nephew and heire of Iohn de Bohun the eight and Humfrey the ninth his Vnckles was after their deaths Earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England He married Iane daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue two daughters his heires Elianor the eldest was married vnto Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester with the Earledome of Essex and Constableship of England and Mary the second daughter was married to Henry Plantagenet Earle of Derby after king Henry the fourth with the Earledomes of Hereford and Northampton the Lordship of Brecknock and the Patronage of Lanthony This Humfrey dyed and was buried at Walden the 46. yeare of king Edward the third 1371. Et portoit d'azur à la band d'argent à deuz cottizes entre 6. lions rampant d'or HEnry Bourchier sonne of William Bourchier created Earl of Ewe in Normandy the fift of king Henry the fift and of Anne his wife daughter and heyre of Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester of Elianor his wife eldest daughter and co-heyre of Humfrey de Bohun the last Earle of Hereford and Essex of that name in his Charter bearing date the eleuenth of king Henry the sixt writ himselfe Earle of Ewe and Lord Bourchier and in the 25 yeare of the saide Kings Reigne by another Charter he writ himselfe Earle of Ewe and Viscount Bourchier lastly in the 27. yeare of king Henry the sixt Richard Duke of Yorke did confirme certain lands vnto him in marriage with Isabell his sister by the name of Henry Viscount Bourchier giuing her also an anuity of a hundred pounds per annum So that it seemeth that when Charles the French King had recouered Normandy all Titles of honour of English-men ceasled for of right no man can carry a title of dignity of another mans land or inheritance In the 35. yeare of the said K. Henry the 6. this Henry was created Viscount Bourchier And lastly in the first yeare of K. Edward the 4. he was created Earle of Essex in right of Elianor de Bohun his grand-mother wife of the foresaid Thomas of Woodstocke This Henry Bourchier married Isabell daughter of Richard Earle of Cambridge and sister of Richard D. of Yorke and had issue William Bourchier who married Anne daughter one of the heyres of Rich. Wooduile Earle Riuers dyed before his father Henry Bourchier 2. Son married Elizabeth daughter and heire of Thomas L. Scales Humfrey Bourchier 3. Son married Ioane cousin heire of Ralph L. Cromwell of Tatershall in Lincolnshire Thomas Bourchier 4. Son married Isabell daughter heire of Sir Iohn Barry knight Iohn Bourchier 5. Son maried Elizabeth daughter heire of Henry L. Ferrars of Groby Edward 6. Son was slaine at Wakefield Fouke the 7. son died yong This Hen. Earle of Essex died in the 23. of K. Edw. the 4. 1482. Porter d'argent a la creix engreflee de gueulles entre quatre busleuz de sable HEnry Bourchier sonne and heyre of William Bourchier that dyed before his Father and grand-childe to Henry Earle of Essex next before mentioned was after the death of his said Grand-father Earle of Essex and Viscount Bourchier He married Anne daughter and heyre of Sir William Say knight and had issue one onely daughter named Anne married to William Lord Parre of Kendall who in her right was Earle of Essex This Henry brake his necke with the fall from his horse the 31. yeare of King Henry the eight 1539. Et portoit d'argent à la Croix engreslee de gueulles entre quatre busseux de sable THomas Cromwell sometimes seruant to Cardinall Wolsey was created Baron Cromwell of Okeham in Rutlandshire the 28. of King Henry the eight and on the 14. day of Aprill the 31. of King Henry the eight he was created Earle of Essex at which time the king deliuered him a Patent for the Lord Chamberlainship of England He writ in his stile Earle of Essex Vicegerent great Chamberlaine of England Keeper of the priuy Seale Chancellor of the Exchequer Iustice of the Forrests and Chases from the Riuer of Trent Northward He maried one of the daughters of one Williams of Wales and had issue Gregory Cromwell who was created Lord Cromwell the same time his Father was created Earle of Essex This Thomas being in the Counsell Chamber the 9. of Iuly in the 31. of Henry the eight was arrested and the 19. of the same Moneth was attainted by Parliament neuer comming to answere and the 27. of Iuly after was beheaded at the Tower Hill Et portoit d'azur seu vne fees entre trois lion ceaux rampant d'or vne Rose gueulles entre deux cornish choughes propre WIlliam Parre created Baron of Kendall the ninth of March in the 31. yeare of king Henry the eight and in the 25. yeare of the said kings Reigne he was created Earle of Essex at Hampton-Court in regard hee had married Anne the daughter heire of Henry Bourchier late Earle of Essex from whom afterwards he was diuorced for her incontinency He was lastly created Marquesse of Northampton in the first yeare of king Edward the sixt and married to his second wife Elizabeth daughter of George Brooke Lord Cobham and after her decease he tooke to his third wife Ellen daughter of George Saueburgh a Swedian borne which yet liueth 1618. He dyed without issue and was buried at Warwicke in the yeare 1571. leauing Anne his sister and heyre married to William Herbert Earle of Pembrooke Et portoit d'argent à deux faces d'azur à la bordure engreslee de sable WAlter Deuereux Viscount Hereford and Lord Ferrars of Chertley sonne of Richard sonne of Walter sonne of Iohn Deuereux and Cecily Bourchier the sister of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex and cousin and heire of Anne Bourchier late wife of William Parre Marquesse of Northampton was created Earle of Essex by Queene Elizabeth in the yeare 1571. and after made Marshall of Ireland He married Lettice daughter of Sir Francis Knolles knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the said Queenes houshold
and sister of William Lord Knolles Baron of Grais and Viscount Wallingford by whom he had issue Robert Earle of Essex Sir Walter Deuereux slaine at the siedge of Lisbon Penelope married to Robert Lord Rich and Dorothy first married to Sir Thomas Perrot knight and after to Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland This Walter dyed at Dublyn in Ireland 1575. and was buried at Carmarden in Wales where he was borne Et portoit d'argent à la face de gueulles trois torteaux en le chef RObert Deuereux sonne of Walter was Earle of Essex and Earle Marshall of England Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourchier and Louaine Master of the Horse and Ordenance to Queene Elizabeth Knight of the Garter one of her Maiesties priuy Counsell and Chancellour of the Vniuersity of Cambridge married Frances daughter and heyre of Sir Francis Walsingham principall Secretary to Queene Elizabeth being the widdow of Sir Philip Sydney knight by whom hee had issue Robert now Earle of Essex This Robert was attainted of high treason and for the same was beheaded within the Tower of London the 25. of February 1601. Et portoit les armes de son pere RObert Deuereux sonne and heyre of Robert after the death of his Father was by king Iames restored in blood and liuing and is now 1618. Earle of Essex Viscount Hereford c. A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes Marquesses and Earles of Excester their Armes Wiues and Children IOhn Holland knight second Son of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent was created Earle of Huntingdon in the eleuenth yeare of king Richard the second and in the 21. of the same Kings reigne he was created Duke of Exeter And because Aubrey de Vere Earle of Oxford who held the Office of Lord Chamberlaine of England had released his right therein the said King Richard bestowed that great Office vpon this Iohn and the heyres male of his body begotten by Letters Patents bearing date the 21. of the said Kings reigne He married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and Blanch his wife and had issue Richard that dyed young Iohn Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntingdon Edward that dyed without issue and Constance a daughter first married to Thomas Mowbrey sonne heyre of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolke banished by King Richard the second and after to Iohn Lord Grey of Ruthyn This Iohn Holland in the first yeare of King Henry the fourth was deposed by Parliament from being Duke of Excester and after in the same yeare he was beheaded at Cicester Et portoit D'engleterre à la bordure de France THomas Beauford sonne of Iohn of Gaunt begotten of the lady Katherine Swyneford his third wife was created Earle of Perch in Normandy and made Lord Chancellour of England the 12. of king Henry the fourth and in the foureteenth yeare of the said kings Reigne hee was created Earle of Dorset and lastly in the fourth yeare of king Henry the fift he was created Duke of Excester and made Knight of the Order of the Garter He had the leading of the Rereward at the battell of Edgincourt and the gouernement of King Henry the sixt at his Coronation committed vnto him during his minority He married Margaret daughter of Sir Thomas Neuill of Horneby-Castle but by her had no issue He dyed at his house of East Greenwich in Kent and was buried at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolke the fift of Henry the sixt leauing the King his heire Et portoit escartellé France D'engleterre au bordure gobonne d'argent d'azur IOhn Holland sonne of Iohn aforesaid was Earle of Huntington and of Iuory in Normandy Lord of Sparre Lieutenant generall of the Dukedome of Aquitaine Admirall of England and Constable of the Tower of London whom King Henry the sixt created Duke of Excester in the yeare 1443 at Windsore He married two wiues the first was Anne daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford by whom hee had issue Henry Holland Duke of Excester And to his second wife he married Anne daughter of Iohn Mountacute Earle of Salisbury and by her had issue a daughter named Anne first married to Iohn Lord Neuill sonne and heire of Ralphe Neuill the second Earle of Westmerland by whom she had no issue Secondly she married Sir Thomas Neuill knight brother of Ralphe Neuill the second Earle of Westmerland and Vnckle to Iohn her former husband by whom she had issue Ralphe Neuill the third Earle of Westmerland the said Anne the 4. yeare of Edw. 4. married to her 3. husband Iames Earle Douglas This Iohn Holland died in the 26. yeare of K. Henry the 6 and lyeth buried by his two Wiues in S. Katherines Church by the Tower of London Et portoit les armes de son pere HEnry Holland onely sonne of Iohn Holland Duke of Excester aforesaid by his first wife the Lady Anne Stafford was after his Fathers death Duke of Excester Earle of Huntington who in the first yeare of king Edward the 4. was disinherited by Acte of Parliament with Henry Duke of Somerset and Thomas Earle of Deuonshire and in the 13. yeare of the said kings Reigne he was found dead in the Sea betweene Douer and Calice He married Anne daughter of Richard Duke of Yorke and sister to king Edward the 4. but by her had no issue She was after married to Sir Thomas sainto Leodegario or S. Leoger knight and had issue by him a daughter named Anne married to George Mannors Lord Ros of Hamlake This Henry Holland so found drowned was buried at Westminster on the South-side of the Chappell with these Armes on his Toombe and Targe Et portoit les Armes D'engleterre au bordure de France HEnry Courtney Earle of Deuon Lord of Ochampton and Knight of the Garter sonne of William Courtney Earle of Deuonshire and Katherine his wife daughter of King Edward the fourth was created Marques of Excester at Bridewell the 8. of Iune 1525. in the seuenteenth of King Henry the 8. He maried two wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter and heire of Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle who dyed without issue His 2. wife was Gertrude daughter of William Blount L. Mountioy and heire to Elizabeth her mother who was daughter and heire of Sir William Say knight by whom he had issue Edward the last Earle of Deuonshire who dyed without issue This Henry Marquesse of Excester was attainted of high treason for ayding of Reginald Poole Cardinall and a fugitiue with money c. as in the Title of Deuonshire and was beheaded with Henry Poole Lord Mountague and Sir Edward Neuill knight in the thirtieth yeare of king Henry the eight His last wife Gertrude was also attainted of high treason the same yeare but not executed she dyed afterward and was buried at Wynborne Mynster in Dorsetshire in the yeare 1557. Et portoit escartelleé France D'engleterre à vne bordure escartelleé de lun en l'autre escartelle Courtney qui est d'or trois torteaux
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
name of King Edward the fourth Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à vnlambell d'argent charge de neuf torteaux A CATALOGVE OF THE Marquesses Montague their Armes Wiues and Children IOhn Neuill brother of Richard Neuil sur-named the great Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury was in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth created Lord Mountague and in the fourth yeare of the said Kings Reigne hee was created Earle of Northumberland at Yorke at which time Henry Percie Earle of Northumberland liued in banishment attainted but afterward obtayning the Kings fauour he returned into England and was restored to his Earledome of Northūberland againe in the eight yeare of king Edward the fourth And in the tenth yeare of the said Kings Reigne the saide Iohn hauing surrendred his grant of the said Earledome was created Marques Mountague and in the yeare after was slaine at Gladmore Heath at the battell of Barnet and being brought to London in one Coffin with his brother the Earle of Warwicke was set in S. Paules Church in London with their Faces bare to be seene three dayes and then carried to the Priory of Bisham and there both buried in one graue This Iohn married Isabell daughter and heyre of Sir Edmond Engelesthorp knight and had issue George Neuill created Duke of Bedford the tenth of king Edward the fourth and fiue daughters who after the death of the saide George without issue were his heyres Anne the eldest was married to Sir William Stoner knight Elizabeth married to the Lord Scroope of Vpsale Margaret married to Sir Iohn Mortimer knight and after to _____ Horne Lucy was first married to Sir Thomas Fitz-Williams of Aldwarpe Father of Williā Fitz-Williams Earle of Southampton and after to Sir Anthony Browne knight and Isabel the 5. daughter was maried to Sir William Hudleston knight Al which fiue daughters had issue This Iohn Marquesse Mountague and George Duke of Bedford his sonne were by Acte of Parliament the 17. of Edward the 4. degraded of all honourable Titles in these words Where afore this time the King our Soueraigne Lord for the great zeale and loue he bare to Iohn Neuill late named Marquesse Mountague and other considerations him mouing did erect and make George Neuill the eldest sonne of the saide Marquesse to bee Duke of Bedford and at that time for the great loue his saide Highnesse bare to the saide Iohn Neuill purposed and intended to haue giuen to the saide George for sustentation of the same dignity sufficient life-lode And for the great offences vnkindnesse and mis-behauing that the saide Iohn Neuill hath done and committed to his saide Highnesse as is openly knowne he hath not cause to depart any life-lode to the saide George And for asmuch as it is openly knowne that the saide George hath not nor by inheritance may haue any life-lode to support the saide Name Estate and Dignity or any name of Estate And oft-times it is seene that when any Lord is called to high Estate and hath not life-lode conueniently to support the saide Dignity it induces great pouerty and indigence and causes oft times great extortion embracery and maintenance to be had to the great trouble of all such countrtes where such estate shall hap to be inhabited Wherefore the King by the aduice and assent of his Lords spirituall and temporall and the Commons of this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same or dained established and enacted that from henceforth the saide Erection and making of Duke and all the names of Dignity giuen to the saide George or to the saide Iohn Neuill his Father be from hence-forth voide and of no effect And that the said George his heires from hence-forth be no Dukes nor Marquesse Earle nor Baron for no erection or creation afore made but of that name of Duke and Marquesse Earle and Baron in him and his heires ceasse and he voide and of none effect the saide Erection or Creation notwithstanding This haue I thought good to mention heere that Noblemen and others may be warned how they sell and consume their auncient Liuings and Patrimonies left them by their Ancestors least wanting where-with-all to maintaine their Estates the King degrade and disable them from bearing any honorable Title as he did these two Noblemen the Father and the Sonne Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argen au lambell gobonne d'argent d'azur A CATALOGVE OF THE Earle of Mountgomery his Armes Wife and Children PHilip Herbert second sonne of Henry Herbert Earle of Penbroke and brother of William now Earle of Penbroke 1618. was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames and on Satterday beeing the fourth day of May 1605. he was created at Greenwich first Baron of Sherland and the same day Earle of Mountgomery and lastly he was made Knight of the Garter 1608. He married Susan daughter of Edward Vere Earle of Oxford and hath issue Anne Sophia Et portoit per pale d'azur de gueulles au trois lyons rampant d'argent à vn bordur gobonny d'or de gueulles au cressant pur la difference A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Northumberland their Armes Wiues and Children COpso was made Earle of Northumberland by William the Conqueror and was after slaine by Osculph the late disinherited Earle of Northumberland as hee was entring into the Church of Newburne MOrchar sonne of Algar Duke of Mercia and brother to Edwyn as witnesseth Ingulph fol. 511. was made earle of Northumberland by William Conqueror after the death of Copso This Morchar with his brother Edwyn others misliking of the gouernment of king William fled the Realme and returning againe fortifyed the Isle of Elie and seated themselues in a place called Thorney But after long siedge of that place Morchar was taken prisoner and so kept all William Conquerors dayes and dyed in prison in the second yeare of William Ruphus He had a sister named Lucia first married vnto Iuo Talboys a great Baron of Angeo and after to Roger Romara Lord of Bullingbroke by whom she had issue William Romara Earle of Lincolne and the third time she married Randall Meschines the third Earle of Chester and had issue another Randall sur-named Gernonijs the fourth Earle of Chester Et portoit de sable à l'aigle d'or membrè beque de gueulles Gospatricke sonne of Maldred and Aldgith his wife Sister of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland was after the depriuation of Earle Morchar the next Earle of Northumberland and because he suffered Malcolme King of Scotland with a power to enter England was by the Conquerour depriued of this Earledome in the yeare 1072. and after dyed in banishment Of this Gospatricke did descend the Noble Families of Neuils of Midelham Branspath Raby Et portoit de gueulles au Saulteur d'argent VVAltheof sonne of Syward the great Earle of Northumberland by Alfleda his wife daughter of Aldred sometime Earle of Northumberland was the next earle of
Northumberland and Huntington after Gospatricke This Waltheof in the yeare 1074. at Exningham in Cambridgeshire at the marriage of Raphe Earle of the East Angles Norfolke and Suffolke with the daughter of William Fitz-Osbert and sister of Roger Earle of Hereford conspired with the said Roger and Raphe and many others to expell driue Will Conqueror out of England againe For which conspiracy this Waltheof was taken and beheaded at Winchester and was buried without the walles of the Citty in a place where two high-wayes meete but afterwards his body was taken vp againe and with great honour carried to Crowland and there buried in the yeare 1076. He married Iudith Niece to William Conquerour and daughter of Lambert Earle of Lens in Artoys with whom the said Conqueror did giue in marriage the Earledome of Huntington he had issue by her three daughters Mauld the eldest was married first to Simon S. Lize Earle of Northampton and had issue another Simon after shee married Dauid king of Scots and had issue Henry Iudith the second daughter was married to Ralphe de Tony sonne of Roger Tony Baron of Flamsted in Hartfordshire and had issue Gohilda wife to Robert de Newborough younger sonne of Henry Earle of Warwicke Alice the third daughter was married to Robert Fitz-Richard Sewer to King Henry the first sonne of Richard Fitz-Gilbert Lord of Tunbridge Clare and had issue Walter of whom is descended the now Earle of Sussex 1618. Et portoit d'argent au lyon rampant d'azur au chef de gueulles VVAlcher Bishoppe of Durham borne in Loraine bought of William Conquerour the Earledome of Northumberland and for a time was Earle thereof after the death of Waltheof He was a proud and an insolent Prelate couetous and rich was slaine by the Commons at Goats-head on the Riuer of Tyne 1079. for denying to do them Iustice vnlesse they would first pay vnto him foure hundred pounds of currant money as Mathew Paris more at large setteth downe I pray God wee haue no such Bishops Iusticers in this our age for the said Mathew further saith That there were aboue a hundreth persons slaine about this matter RObert Mowbray an honourable Englishman after the death of Walcher obtayned of William Conqueror the earledome of Northumberland And after hauing slaine Malcolme king of Scots and his sonne neere to Anwike in the yeare 1092. demanded reward for the same which beeing neglected he was so moued that when king William Ruphus sent his Letters for him he denyed not only to come to him but combyned with diuers other Noblemen of the Realme how to depriue the said King of his Crowne which being reuealed he was driuen to flye to the Monastery of S. Owin from whence hee was taken by force and carried to prison and after by the Kings Commandement was brought before his owne Castle of Bamborough and there willed to haue his eyes put out vnlesse his Wife and Moreall her kinesman who were within the saide Castle would yeeld vp the same which being surrendred this Robert was sent to be imprisoned in the Castle of Windesore 1096. Houeden fol. 267. During which time king William Ruphus held the Earledome of Northumberland in his owne hands and disinherited all the said Roberts Progeny He was after shorne a Monke at S. Albons where he dyed the seuenth of king Henry the first 1106. The most of his honours and lands were giuen to Lord Nigell de Albeney Chamberlaine to King William Ruphus for his good seruice done at the battaile of Tenarch-bray where he slew the horse of Robert Duke of Normandy tooke him prisoner brought him into England and there deliuered him to the king his brother who sent him to prison to the Castle of Cairdiffe in South Wales where he had both his eyes put out and pined to death with sorrow in the 35. yeare of king Henry the first and was buried at Glocester Et portoit gueulles au lion rampant d'argent HEnry sonne of Dauid king of Scots begotten of Mauld eldest daughter and co-heyre of Waltheof Earle of Northumberland and Huntington was by king Stephen made Earle of Northumberland as M. Camden citeth out of Poly Chronicon of Durham and that William his sonne did also write himselfe Earle of Northumberland But I rather think that if they did assume that title of Honor it was done more vpon their owne wils then by any iust title or right they had to the same but see more of this in the Earles of Huntington Et portoit d'or à trois peuz ioynantz au point de gueulles HVgh de Pudsey or Putiaco Nephew to king Stephen as Glouer Somerset hath Bishop of Durham a very ambitious proud and couetous man bought of king Richard the first the Earledome of Northumberland for terme of his life and was girt with the Sword of the Earledome as then the custome was At the doing whereof the king vsed these words Am not I a good craftesman that haue made a new Earle of an olde Bishop And to make his ambition more manifest he gaue the king one thousand Markes to bee made Chiefe-Iustice of England But afterwards perceiuing the King to frowne and be angry with him voluntarily did resigne the saide Title and Earledome againe to the King and remained onely Bishop all his life time after This Stone Priest dyed in the yeare 1195. leauing issue three bastard sonnes Et portoit party per saulteur d'or d'argent à la croix patee d'azur HEnry Lord Percie of Alnwick in Northumberland sonne of Henry Lord Percy and of Mary his wife sister of Henry Duke of Lancaster was created the first Earle of Northūberland of that sur-name at the Coronation of king Richard the second 1377. and that day was Deputy for Margaret Dutchesse of Norfolke and Countesse Marschall of England and did execute the Office of Earle Marshall This Henry in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth had giuen him the Isle of Man to be holden of the King by seruice to beare the the Sword which he wore when he entred England Also this Henry and Henry Hotspurre his sonne fought the battaile of Hallidowne Hill against the Scots 1402. and hauing the victory tooke these Earles prisoners Mordake Earle of Fiffe Archibald Earle Duglasse Thomas Earle of Murrey and Robert Earle of Angus And after the battaile of Shrewesbury he was committed to the Tower of London and being from thence deliuered in the ninth yeare of king Henry the fourth he with the Lord Bardolphe came out of Scotland with a power against the King and at Bramham More was encountred by Thomas Rookeby then Shireffe of Yorkshire where the said Earle was taken prisoner the Lord Bardolphe wounded to death and brought to Yorke where they were both beheaded in the yeare 1408. He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter of Ralphe Lord Neuill of Raby by whom he had issue Henry sur-named Hotspur slaine with Thomas Percie Earle of Worcester his Vnckle at
the battaile of Shrewsbury Sir Thomas Percie knight Father of Henry Percy Earle of Atholl in Scotland Sir Ralphe Percie third sonne slaine in battaile by the Sarrazins and Alan the fourth sonne dyed young This Henries second wife was Mauld daughter of Thomas Lord Lucy and sister and heyre of Anthony her brother by whom he had no issue notwithstanding she gaue all her lands to her husband conditionally that he and his heyres should for euer after quarter and beare her Armes next to his owne and before the Percies Armes which was granted and to this day is performed Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escarelle Percy qui est d'azur au cinq fizelles en face d'or HEnry Lord Percie grand-childe to Henry Lord Percy first Earle of Northumberland by his sonne Sir Henry Hotspur was restored and made the second Earle of Northumberland the third of King Henry the fift Hee was sent pledge into Scotland for his Grand-father who was taken prisoner at the battaile of Otterborne the 12. of King Richard the second 1388. and there continued vnto the yeare 1414. Who after taking part with King Henry the sixt against Richard Duke of Yorke was slaine at the first battaile of S. Albons in the yeare 1455. He married Elianor daughter of Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Henry the third Earle of Northumberland Thomas Lord Egremant slaine at the battaile of Northampton the 39. of king Henry the sixt William Percie Bishop of Carlell Anne married to Thomas Lord Hungerford Katherine wife to Edmond Grey Earle of Kent and Elizabeth was married to the Lord Clifford and diuers other children which dyed without issue Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escartelleacute gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent le tierce de Percy qui est d'azur cinq fizelles en face d'or le quart de la premier HEnry Lord Percy the third Earle of Northumberland of that Family taking part with King Henry the sixt was slaine on Palme-Sunday the 29. day of March in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth betweene Touton Saxton with the Earles of Shrewsbury and Deuonshire and the Lord Clifford He married Elianor daughter and heyre of Richard Lord Poynings Brian and Fitz-Payne by whom he had issue Henry the fourth Earle of Northumberland Elizabeth married to Henry Lord Scroope of Bolton Elianor married vnto Reginald West Lord Laware and Margaret married to Sir William Gascoine knight Et portoit d'or au lyon rampant d'azur armé lampassé d'gueulles escattelle Lucy qui est gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent IOhn Neuill Lord Mountague Brother to Richard Neuill Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury was created Earle of Northumberland by Letters Patents dated at Yorke the 28. day of May in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth by reason Henry Lord Percy sonne and heyre of Henry the third Earle of Northumberland was then fled into Scotland with King Henry the sixt and for a time remained there yet after returning againe and obtayning the Kings fauour was restored to the Earledome of Northumberland againe this Iohn Neuill surrendring his Grant of that Earledome was created Marquesse Mountague the eight of king Edward the fourth as in the title of Mountague is more at large Et portoit de gueulles au Saultier d'argent au lambell gobonne d'argent d'azur HEnry Lord Percie sonne and heyre of Henry Percy the third Earle of Northumberland after the surrender of Iohn Marquesse Mountague of the Earledome of Northumberland was restored to his Fathers Earledome in the yeare 1467 and was the fourth Earle of that name and Family Knight of the Garter who being with king Richard the third at the battaile of Bosworth neere Leicester against Henry Earle of Richmond where the said king was slaine was taken prisoner whom king Henry the seuenth after pardoned and tooke to fauour and made him of his priuy Counsell After all which 1488. a taxe being granted by Parliament of the tenth penny of all lands and goods to the ayde of the Duke of Britaine which those of the Bishopprick of Durham and Yorkshire did refuse to pay the king commanded this Earle Henry to distresse or otherwise to leuie the money which being made knowne to the rude people they with great violence set vpon the Earle and furiously slew him in a place called Cockledge by Thurske 18. miles from Yorke in the 4. yeare of king Henry the 7. was buried in Beuerley Minster with his wife He married Mauld daughter of William Herbert Earle of Penbroke by whom he had issue Henry Lord Percy the 5. Earle of Northumberland Sir William Percy knight Alan Percy a Clarke and Ioceline Percy and three daughters Elianor wife to Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham Anne married to William Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and Elizabeth which died young Et portoit d'or au lion rampant d'azur escartelle gueulles à trois Luces hauriant d'argent HEnry Lord Percy after the death of his Father was the fift Earle of Northumberland Lord Poynings Fitz Payne and Bryan knight of the honourable Order of the Garter married Katherine daughter and one of the heires of Sir Robert Spencer knight and of Elianor his wife daughter of Edmond Beauford D. of Somerset sister and co-heire of Henry Beauford Edmond Dukes of Somerset her brothers and had issue Henry Percy the 6. Earle of Northumberland of that name Sir Thomas Percy knight Sir Ingelram Percy knight Margaret married to Henry Clifford first Earle of Cumberland He died in the 18. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Lord Percy after the death of Henry the fift his Father was the sixt Earle of Northumberland of that surname and was made Knight of the Garter in the two and twentieth yeare of king Henry the eight he was sent by the saide King with a Commission vnder the great Seale of England to attache and arrest Cardinall Wolsey and to carry and deliuer him prisoner to the Earle of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle which he did although the Cardinall proudly checked him told him that he was a member of the Colledge of Cardinals in Rome and that neyther the King nor any other temporall Prince vnder Heauen could or ought to intermedle with him for any cause or matter whatsoeuer This Henry married Mary daughter of George Talbot Earle of Shrewesbury and dyed without issue at Hackney neere London the thirtieth day of Iune in the 29. yeare of king Henry the eight and was there buried His second brother Thomas being before executed for taking Armes against King Henry the eight in the first difference about Religion He gaue a great part of his Lands and Inheritance to the said King and others After this Henries death the Earledome of Northumberland lay vacant vntill King Edward the sixt made Iohn Dudley Viscount Lisle Duke of Northumberland Et porte it d'or au lyon
priuy Seale Chancellor of the Exchequer and Iustice of the Forrests Chases to the Riuer of Trent Northward He married three wiues the first was Anne daughter and onely heyre of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex from whom hee was diuorced His second wife was Elizabeth daughter of George Brooke Lord Cobham And his third wife was Helen daughter of George Suaueburgh a Swedian borne but had no issue by any of them He dyed in the yeare 1571. and was buried at Warwicke leauing Anne his sister married to William Herbert Earle of Penbroke his heyre Et portoit d'argent deux barres d'azur à la bordure engresleé de sable HEnry Howard Esquire second sonne of Henry Earle of Surrey beheaded in Anno 1546 and brother of Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke of that name was restored in blood by Queene Mary and by king Iames created Baron of Marnehill at the Tower of London the 13. day of March 1603 and the same day and time he was also created Earle of Northampton c. and died at his house by Charing-Crosse in the yeare 1614. His body was conueighed to Douer Castle and there buried without any solemnity Et portoit les armoiries de Howard à vec la cressant VVIlliam Lord Compton knight of the Bath sonne of Henry Compton knight who was made Baron Compton by writ the eight of May 1572. was created Earle of Northampton by king Iames at Salisbury the second day of August 1618. He married Elizabeth daughter and onely heyre of Sir Iohn Spencer knight sometime Alderman and Maior of London had issue Spencer Lord Compton knight of the Bath at the Creation of Charles Prince of Wales 1616. A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of NOTTINGHAM their Armes Wiues and Children RObert de Ferrars sonne of William Earle Ferrars and of Margaret his wife daughter of William Peuerell Lord of Nottingham disinherited by king Henry the second 1155. for consenting to the poysoning of Randall Earle of Chester was made the first Earle of Nottingham in the life time of his Father and Mother He gaue lands to the church of S. Oswalds by the name of Robert Earle of Nottingham and after died without issue and was buried in the Abbey of Lenton Et portoit vaire d'or de gueulles IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne and heyre of Iohn Lord Mowbray of Axholme and Elizabeth his wife daughter heyre of Iohn Lord Segraue and Margaret his wife daughter and heire of Thomas of Brotherton was created Earle of Nottingham at the Coronation of king Richard the second 1377. and after dyed at London without issue 1381. being but 18. yeares of age his Mother then being liuing After whose death king Richard bestowed the said Earledome of Nottingham vpon Thomas Mowbray this Iohns yonger brother who was after created Duke of Norfolke This Iohn was buried in the White-Fryars or Carmelites Fryars in London the sixt yeare of King Richard the second Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur THomas Lord Mowbray younger Brother of Iohn Lord Mowbray aforesaid was after his brothers death made Earle of Nottingham the sixt of Richard the second and by a Charter bearing date the 12. day of Ianuary the 9. of King Richard the second he had giuen him the name and honour of Earle Marshall of England to him and the heyres Male of his body Before which time they were but Lord Marshals And after in the 21. of the said Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Norfolke permitted to beare the Armes of S. Edward the Confessor impaled with the Armes of the Marshalshippe of England viz. Per pale d'or vert an lyon rampant Gueulles After al which fauours king Richard the second banished this Thomas with Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford Vpon which he tooke such exceeding griefe that he dyed at Venice and was buried there in the Abbey of S. George in the first yeare of king Henry the fourth He married Elizabeth sister and one of the co-heyres of Thomas Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue Thomas Iohn both Earles of Nottingham and Dukes of Norfolke Isabell married to Sir Iames Berkeley knight and Margaret married to Sir Robert Howard knight He writ in his stile Thomas Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Mowbray Segraue Bruse of Gower and Stuteuile Et portoit les armes de son peré THomas Mowbray after the death of Thomas his Father in banishment at Venice was Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England He married Lady Constance daughter of Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and Duke of Excester but by her had no issue He was after accused and found guilty of high treason and for the same was beheaded with Richard Scrope Arch-Bishop of Yorke in the sixt yeare of king Henry the 4. and his body was buried at Yorke Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur IOhn Lord Mowbray second brother of Thomas Mowbray beheaded at Yorke was Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England and in the fourth yeare of king Henry the sixt he was created Duke of Norfolke He married Katherine daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland had issue Iohn Lord Mowbray Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and Bruse of Gower c. and dyed at his Mannor of Epleworth in the Isle of Axholme and was buried in the Abbey or House of Carthusians there in the yeare 1432. Et portoit les armoiries de son frere IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne of Iohn aforesaid was after the death of his Father Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and Bruse of Gower He married Elianor daughter of William Lord Bourchier and sister of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex by whom he had issue Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey and after Duke of Norfolke and dyed in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth 1461. and lyeth buried at Thetford Et portoit de gueulles au lyon rampant d'argent armé lampasse d'azur IOhn Lord Mowbray sonne and heyre of Iohn and Elianor Bourchier in the life time of his Father was created Earle Warren and Surrey by king Henry the sixt after the death of his Father he was Duke of Norfolke Earle of Nottingham and Earle Marshall of England Lord Segraue and of Gower He married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Talbot first Earle of Shrewsbury of that name and had issue one onely daughter and heyre named Anne married to Richard Duke of Yorke second sonne of king Edward the fourth who dyed both without issue leauing all the Mowbrayes lands and liuings to be diuided betweene the two Families of Howards and Berkleys He dyed at Framingham Castle in the yeare 1475. and was buried with his Auncestors at Thetford Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam Lord Berkley of Berkley Castle in
buried in S. Paules Church in London in the yeare 1570. being the 73. yeare of his age Et portoit party per pale d'azur de gueulles au lyons rampant d'argent à la bordur gobonne d'or gueulles sur la gueulles bezants HEnry Herbert Earle of Penbroke Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe in Wales Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter Lord President of the Counsell of the Marchesse of Wales married two Wiues Katherine the first wife was daughter of George Talbot the sixt Earle of Shrewsbury by whom he had no issue His second wife was Mary daughter of Sir Henry Sidney knight of the Garter and of the priuy Counsell to Queene Elizabeth Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of the Counsell of the Marchesse of Wales and sister to Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle and Earle of Leicester Knight of the Garter and Chamberlaine to Queene Anne by whom he had issue William Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe and after his Father Earle of Penbroke Philip Herbert second sonne created Earle of Montgomery and Lady Anne that dyed young vnmarried at Cambridge and was there buried 1601. Et portoit per pale d'azur de gueulles au trois lyons rampant d'argent à vn bordur gobonny d'or de gueulles WIlliam Herbert sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of Penbroke Lord Herbert of Caerdiffe in Wales Fitz-Hugh Marmion and S. Quintine Lord Chamberlaine to King Iames Knight of the honorable Order of the Garter one of his Maiesties most honourable priuy Counsell and one of the Comissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England He married Mary eldest daughter and co-heyre of Gilbert Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewsbury but as yet hath no issue 1618. Et portoit per pale d'azur de gueulles au trois lyons rampant d'argent à vn bordur gobonny d'or de gueulles A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Rutland their Armes Wiues and Children EDward Plantagenet Son and heyre of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke fift sonne of King Edward the third was in the life time of his Father at a Parliament helde at London the 14. of King Richard the second created Earle of Rutland and of Corke in Ireland And in the 21. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was created Duke of Albemarle from which in the first yeare of King Henry the fourth hee was by Parliament deposed Notwithstanding after the death of his Father 1401. he was Duke of Yorke Lord high Constable and Admirall of England Lord of Tyndall and Knight of the Garter He married at Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire Philip third daughter and co-heyre of Iohn de Mohun Lord of Dunster Castle in Somersetshire by whom he had no issue He was after slaine at the battaile of Agin Court-Field the third of King Henry the fift 1415. and was buried at Fotheringhay leauing Richard his brother to succeed him Et portoit France semee escartelle d'engleterre au lambell d'argent brifé de neuf torteaux RIchard Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard Coningsborough Earle of Cambridge second brother of Edward aforesaid after the death of his Vnkle Edward without issue was restored to be Duke of Yorke Earle of Cambridge and Rutland and Lord of Tyndall in the fourth yeare of King Henry the sixt he was also Earle of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore and Clare in right of Anne his Mother sister heyre of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March c. He married Cecily youngest daughter of Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland by whom he had issue as in the title of Yorke Hee was slaine at the battaile of Wakefield by Queene Margaret in the 38. yeare of King Henry the sixt and was buried at Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire Et portoit France semee escartellé d'engleterre au bordur d'argent charge de lyons rampant purpre EDmond Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard Duke of Yorke aforesaid was the third Earle of Rutland in the life time of his Father who being with his saide Father at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. the 39. of king Henry the 6. and but 12. yeares olde fell downe vpon his knees desiring mercy was cruelly stabbed to the heart by Iohn Lord Clifford of Westmerland who did sweare that by that acte he would be reuenged for Thomas his Fathers death After he was thus murdered he was first buried at Pomfret and from thence remoued and brought to Fotheringhay Castle there buried by his Father Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre au lambell de cinque points d'argent chargeé à deux 2 lyons gueulles neuf torteaux Escartelle à vec Vlster Mortymer THomas Mannors Knight of the Garter Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut sonne and heyre of George Mannors Lord Ros and Anne his wife daughter and heyre of Sir Thomas S. Leoger knight and Anne Dutchesse of Excester his wife which Anne was sister of king Edward the fourth was created Earle of Rutland by king Henry the 8. at his Pallace of Bridewell in London by Letters Patents bearing date the 18. of Iune the 17. of the saide Kings Reigne King Henry the 8. did also augment vnto his ancient Armes in regard that he was descended of the sister of King Edward the fourth gold two barres azure a chiefe quarterly azur and gueulles on the first two Flour-de-lucesgold in the second a lyon passant gardant of the first the third as the second the fourth as the first He married Elianor daughter of Sir William Paston of Norfolke knight by whom he had issue fiue sonnes and sixe daughters Henry Mannors the eldest sonne was after his Father Earle of Rutland Sir Iohn Mannors knight Sir Roger Mannors knight Sir Thomas Mannors knight and Oliuer was the fift Son Gertrude married to George Talbot sixt Earle of Shrewsbury Anne married to Henry Neuill fift Earle of Westmerland Frances wife to Henry Neuill Lord of Aburgauenny and Mother to the Lady Vane of Kent Katherine wife to Henry Capell Esquire Elizabeth married to Sir Iohn Sauage knight and Isabell the sixt daughter dyed young This Thomas dyed in the 35. yeare of king Henry the eight and lyeth buried at Bosworth in Leicestershire HEnry Mannors Knight of the Garter sonne and heyre of Thomas aforesaid was the second Earle of Rutland of this Family Lord Ros of Hamelake Beluoir and Trusbut He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter of Raphe Neuill fourth Earle of Westmerland by whom he had issue Edward Mannors third Earle of Rutland of this Family and Iohn the fourth Earle of Rutland and a daughter named Elizabeth who was married to Sir William Courtney of Powderham knight Elianor married to Iohn Bourchier Earle of Bath His second wife was Bridget daughter of Iohn Lord Hussy of Lincolnshire the widdow of Sir Richard Morison knight but by her had no issue she was after married to Francis Russell Earle of Bedford He dyed in the fift yeare of Queene Elizabeth and was buried at
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
part of Humfrey de Bohuns Lands which before were conueyed to Mary the second daughter they being then in the Crowne for that this Duke Henry was then the onely heyre both of Elianor and Mary At which clayme and demand King Richard the third was greatly offended and saide Will you Duke Henry challenge the right of king Henry the fourth by which hee wrongfully held the Crowne and so make way vnto it Which speech of the king went so neere to the Dukes heart that euer after he sought and plotted how he might work the returne of Henry earle of Richmond out of France and to depriue king Richard of his Crowne And to effect the same he raised diuers forces and entred into Armes which King Richard hearing of leuied a greater and went to Salisbury to meete him but the Dukes Army being too weake he was forced to flye for succour to the house of Humfrey Banister his seruant neere Shrewsbury who for hope of gaine betrayed him to Iohn Mitton Shireffe of Shropshire who tooke and conuayed him to Salisbury where without any arraignment or lawfull tryall he was beheaded the second of Nouember 1483. This Duke Henry married Katherine sister and one of the heyres of Richard Wooduill Earle Riuers and had issue Edward Earle Stafford and Duke of Buckingham Henry Earle of Wiltshire and Humfrey that died young He had also two daughters Elizabeth maried to Robert Radcliffe Lord Fitz-Walter and Earle of Sussex and Anne first married to Sir Walter Herbert knight and after to George Lord Hastings Earle of Huntington Et portoit France d'engleterre escartellé an bordur d'argent EDward Stafford sonne and heire of Duke Henry aforesaid was after the death of his Father restored the first of king Henry the seuenth to all his Fathers honours dignities and possessions which king Richard the third tooke from him and was Duke of Buckingham Earle Stafford Hereford and Northampton and Constable of England He married Elianor daughter of Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland by whom he had issue Henry Lord Stafford for after the death of this Edward the Family of Staffords neuer attained other title of honour then onely of Barons He had issue also three daughters Elizabeth the eldest was married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and Lord high Treasurer of England Katherine the second daughter was married to Raphe Neuill fourth Earle of Westmerland and Mary the third daughter married George Neuile Lord of Abergauenny This Edward was a Prince of high spirit and very ambitious daily plotting of treason against king Henry the eight by which hee ouerthrew himselfe and all his Noble Family and for the same was beheaded at the Tower-Hill by London the 17. of May 1521. in the thirteenth yeare of King Henry the eight Les armoiries de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Southampton their Armes Wiues and Children BEauois a Saxon and flower of Chiualry in his time was at the siedge of Yorke in the fourth yeare of William Conqueror and the yeare after fought the great battaile at Cairdiffe in South-Wales against the Normans he was made Earle of Southampton by the said Conqueror and was a Witnesse to his Charter of lands that he gaue to the Abbey of S. Edmonsbury in Suffolke by the name and title of Earle Beauois He dyed without issue knowne the tenth yeare after the Norman Conquest This is that Beauois of Southampton M. Camden in his Britannia pag. 272. saith That whiles the Monkes laboured to set out his fame with their faigned Fables they obscured his doughty and Martiall Actions in Armes VVIlliam Fitz-Williams knight of the Garter Treasurer of the houshold to king Henry the eight Lord Priuy Seale and Lord Admirall of England was created Earle of Southampton at Hampton Court the 29. yeare of the said Kings Reigne He married Mabell daughter of Henry Lord Clifford of Westmerland and sister and heyre of Henry first Earle of Cumberland and dyed without issue at New-Castle vpon Tine the 34. yeare of king Henry the eight Et portoit lozengie d'argent de â—ueulles THomas Wriothesley Knight of the Garter sonne of William Wriothesley Yorke Herald of Armes and grandchilde to Iohn Wriothesley alias Garter king of Armes was created Baron of Tichfield at Hampton Court the first of Ianuary the 35. of Henry the eight Anno 1543. and Lord Chancellor of England in May the yeare after in which Office he continued vntil the beginning of king Edward the sixt his reign when for his obstinacy in the Romaine Religion he was the sixt of March remoued and William Paulet Lord S. Iohn of Basing put in his place He was after created Earle of South-hampton the 17. of February in the first yeare of king Edward the sixt married Iane daughter and heyre of William Cheney by whom he had issue Henry the second Earle of Southampton of that name and foure daughters Mary the eldest was first married to William Shelley of Michelgroue in Sussex and after to _____ Lister sonne of Sir Michaell Lister knight Elizabeth was wife to Thomas Radcliffe Earle of Sussex Katherine married to Thomas Cornwallis Groom-Porter and Mabell the fourth daughter was wife to Sir Walter Sands knight He dyed at his house called Lincolne Place in Holborne the 30. day of Iuly in the fourth yeare of king Edward the sixt and was buried in S. Andrews Church in Holborne Et portoit d'azur à vn croix d'or enuironne de quatre faulcons close d'argent HEnry Wriothesley sonne and heyre of Thomas aforesaid was after the death of his Father the second Earle of Southampton and Baron of Titchfield He married Mary daughter of Sir Anthony Browne Viscount Mountague and knight of the Garter by whom he had issue Henry Wriothesly the third Earle of Southampton of that Family and Mary married to Thomas Arundell Baron of Warder He dyed at Ythell in Hampshire the fourth of October 1581. and was buried at Titchfield the 23. of Queene Elizabeth Et portoit les armes de son peré HEnry Wriothesley sonne and heyre of Henry aforesaid was the third Earle of Southampton of this Family and Baron of Tichfield Knight of the Garter and Captaine of the Isle of Wight He married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Iohn Vernon of Hodnet in Staffordshire and had issue Iames Wriothersley Thomas a second sonne Penelope Anne and Elizabeth 1618. Et portoit d'azur à vn croix d'or enuironné de quartre faucons d'argent A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Sussex their Armes Wiues and Children VVIlliam de Albeney the third of that Name grand-childe to William de Albeney and Queene Aelidise his wife the widdow of King Henry the first by his sonne William the second was in the life time of his Father created the first Earle of Sussex by King Henry the second and girded with the Sword thereof Roger Houeden pag. 320. a. line 36. 1177. He was faithfull to the said King in all his wars against Henry Courtmantell his sonne the
of Lancaster came from being a banished man to be King by the name of king Henry the 4. he tooke this William Lord Scroope Sir Iohn Bussie Sir Henry Greene King Richard the seconds Fauorites and beheaded them at Bristow in the yeare 1399. This William bought the Isle of Man of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury which Island after the said Williams attaindor King Henry the 4. did giue it to Henry Percy the first Earle of Northumberland in the first yeare of his Reigne to hold the same by the seruice of carrying the sword with which he entred England before him at his Coronation He dyed without issue leauing Roger his Brother to succeed him Et portoit d'azur à la band d'or IAmes Butler sonne and heyre of Iames Butler fourth Earle of Ormond was in the life time of his Father created earle of Wiltshire in the 27. yeare of King Henry the sixt and in the 37. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was made Knight of the Garter and the yeare after Lord high Treasurer of England And in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth he was beheaded at New-Castle without issue leauing Thomas his brother his heyre who after succeeded him and was Earle of Ormond Et portoit d'or au chef endenté d'azur IOhn Stafford second sonne of Humfrey Duke of Buckingham was made Knight of the Garter in the tenth yeare of King Edward the 4. and in the 12. yeare of the saide Kings Reigne he was created Earle of Wilishire He married Constance daughter and heyre of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in Northamptonshire Knight and had issue Edward Earle of Wiltshire and dyed in the 14. yeare of King Edward the fourth 1473. Et portoit escartellé France d'engleterre au bordure cressant d'argent EDward Stafford sonne and heyre of Iohn aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of Wiltshire and died without issue the 14. of King Henry the seuenth 1498. and was buried at Drayton in Northamptonshire which Lordship he had by his Mother Constance Greine Et portoit lez armoiries de son peré HEnry Lord Stafford second sonne of Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham and brother of Edward the third Duke of Buckingham beheaded at the Tower-Hill the 13. of Henry the eight was created Earle of Wiltshire in the first yeare of King Henry the eight 1509. He was made Knight of the Garter before in the 20. yeare of King Henry the seauenth and married Muriell sister and co-heyre of Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle but by her had no issue This Henry dyed the 6. of March the 14. of King Henry the eight THomas Bollen sonne and heyre of Sir William Bollen of Blickling in Norfolke Knight and of Margaret his wife daughter and one of the heyres of Thomas Butler Earle of Ormond Brother and Heyre of Iames Butler Earle of Wilt-Wiltshire afore mentioned was first created Viscount Rochford in the 17. yeare of King Henry the eight and in the 21. yeare of the said Kings Reigne he was created Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond and to haue the State Title and Dignity of Wiltshire to him and his heyres male and the State Title and Dignity of Ormond vnto him and his heyres for euer a president not to be sampled He was made Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Houshold to King Henry the 8 in the 15. yeare of his Reigne He married Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke and Earle Marshall of England and had issue George Bollen Viscount Rochford beheaded without issue and two daughters Anne the eldest was first created Marchionesse of Penbroke after married to King Henry the eight Mary the second daughter married to William Cary Esquire for the body to King Henry the eight This Thomas Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond dyed in the 30. yeare of the said Kings Reigne 1538. Et portoit d'argent au cheuron entre trois testes de Boef cope de sable armé d'or WIlliam Powlet Knight descended of a second Brother of the Powlets of Wiltshire was created Lord S. Iohn of Basing in the 30. yeare of Henry the eight and made Knight of the Garter the 35. of the same Kings Reigne and after in the third yeare of King Edward the sixt he was created Earle of Wiltshire and in the fift yeare of the said kings Reigne he was created Marquesse of Winchester as more at large doth appeare in the Title of Winehester Et portoit sable trois espees avec le points embas d'argent au cressant d'or IOhn Powlet sonne and heyre of William succeeded his Father and was Marquesse of Winchester and Earle of Wiltshire and Lord S. Iohn of Basing and dyed at his house at Chelsey 1576. and was buried at Basing the 19. of Queene Elizabeth as is more at large in the title of Winchester Et portoit les armes de son peré WIlliam Powlet sonne and heyre of Iohn was in the life time of his Father summoned to Parliament 1575. as Lord S. Iohn of Basing and after the death of his Father he was both Marquesse of Winchester and Earle of Wiltshire and dyed in the yeare 1598. as in the Title of Winchester Et portoit sable trois espees auec le pointz embas d'argent au cressant d'or WIlliam Powlet Lord S. Iohn of Basing Earle of Wiltshire and Marquesse of Winchester now liuing 1618. married Lucie daughter of Thomas Cecill Earle of Excester by whom he hath issue as aforesaid in the Title of Winchester Et portoit sable trois espees auec le pointz embas d'argent au cressant d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of VVestmerland their Armes Wiues and Children His second Wife was Ioane daughter of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by the Lady Katherine Swinford by whom hee had issue also eight sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Richard Neuill Earle of Salisbury William Neuill Lord Falconberg Edward Neuill Lord of Aburgauenny George Neuill Lord Latymer Robert Neuill Bishop of Duresme Cuthbert Henry and Thomas Neuill dyed without issue Katherine the eldest daughter was married to Iohn Mowbray second Duke of Norfolke by whom she had issue Elianor second daughter was Wife to Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland Anne the third daughter was married to Humfrey Stafford Duke of Buckingham Iane a Nun and Cicely the fift daughter was married to Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke who had issue King Edward the fourth and King Richard the third Which Richard Duke of Yorke by the greatnesse and the number of his Wiues kindred was able to bandy for the Kingdome of England against the House of Lancaster This Raphe dyed in the 4. yeare of King Henry the sixt 1425. Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit gueulles au Saulteur d'argent Et portoit les armoiries de son peré Et portoit de gueulles au Saulteur d'argent He married Anne daughter of Henry Howard Earle of Surrey and fifter
of Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke and had issue three daughters Katherine Neuill Elianor and Margaret A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles and Dukes of VVarwicke their Armes Wiues and Children Et portoit lozengie d'or d'azur Et portoit les armes de son peré Et portoit les armes de son bisayeul Et portoit lozengie d'or d'azur à la bordur gueulles Et portoit les armes de son peré This Henry married to his second Wife Phillip daughter of Thomas Lord Basset of Hedington in Oxfordshire Founder of the Priory of Bisseter by whom he had no issue He dyed in the second yeare of King Henry the third Les armes de son peré Et portoir eschiquettee d'or d'azur au cheumon d'hermines Et portoit de gueulles à la band fizelle d'or Et portoit d'argent à six annelletz de gneulleâ— 3â—2 1. Et portoit lozengie d'or d'azur à la bordur de gueulles He dyed without issue the 4. day of the Ides of Ianuary in the yeare 1268. and was buried honourably at Warwicke leauing Isabell his sister and heyre married to William Beauchampe Baron of Elmeley called the Blinde Baron Et portoit d'argent à deux barres de gueulles Et portoit gueulles à la face entre six croix croisettees d'or Hee married Alice daughter of Raphe de Toneio and sister and heyre of Robert Lord Toneio Baron of Flamsted had issue two sonnes Thomas and Iohn and a daughter named Elizabeth wife to Thomas Lord Astley Thomas was after his Father Earle of Warwicke and Iohn was Admirall of England Constable of Douer Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports Knight and one of the first Founders of the Noble Order of the Garter and dyed in the 34. yeare of King Edward the third and was buried in the body of the Church of S. Paul in London leauing Thomas Earle of Warwicke his heyre who was then found to be 40. yeares of age and aboue This Guy dyed in the yeare 1315. the 9. of King Edward the second and was buried at Brodesley in Worcestershire Et portoit gueulles à la face entre six croix croisettees d'or Et portoit de gueulles à la face entre six croix croisettees d'or Et portoit les armes deson peré Et portoit de gueulles à la face entre six croix croisettes d'or Et portoit les armes de son peré At what time this Richard was sent into France to treate a marriage for King Edward the 4. King Edward fell in loue and married Elizabeth daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Ryuers the Widdow of Sir Iohn Grey which procured great hatred betweene this Earle and the King Which disgrace this Richard beeing not able to digest plotted a confederacy with George Duke of Clarence King Edwards brother for to restore King Henry the sixt and assembling his Forces at Banbury he ouerthrew King Edward in battaile and tooke him prisoner But King Edward within a while after by the helpe of his Friends made an escape from out the Castle of Banbury wherein he was prisoner and began a new warre at Stamford where he was Conquerour and enforced this Earle Richard to flye into France But within sixe moneths after hee returned againe into England and enforced King Edward to flye into Flanders to Charles Duke of Burgundy who had married his sister setting King Henry at liberty after ten yeares imprisonment After all which King Edward by the assistance of his said Brother of Burgandy came into England againe and waging battaile against King Henries Faction at Barnet ten miles from London vanquished his enemies and slew this Richard and his brother Iohn Marquesse Mountague in the yeare 1471. beeing Easter day And this was the ende of this great Earle of Warwicke who pulled downe Kings and set them vp againe at his pleasure He had issue by his saide Wife two daughters his heyres Isabell married to Gearge Plantagenet Duke of Clerence Brother to King Edward the 4. And Anne first married to Edward Prince of Wales sonne of King Henry the sixt who was slaine at Tewksbury and after to Richard Duke of Glocester after King of England Et portoit gueulles 〈◊〉 faulteur d'argeiâ—â— au lambell gobonné d'argent d'azur Et portoit les armoiries de France escartellé d'engleterre au lambell d'argent chargeé de trois cantons de gueulles Et portoit les armes de son peré He married Anne daughter of Edward Guilford sister and heyre of Sir Henry Guilford Knight by whom hee had issue eight sonnes and fiue daughters Henry the eldest sonne married Wynefred daughter of Richard Lord Rich and dyed at the siedge of Bollen 1543. Thomas dyed young Iohn third sonne was Earle of Warwicke he married Anne daughter of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset and dyed without issue being 24. yeares olde Ambrose the fourth sonne was also Earle of Warwicke and dyed without issue Robert the fift sonne was Earle of Leicester married Lettice daughter of Sir Francis Knolles Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Houshold to Queene Elizabeth and had issue Robert Baron of Denbigh that dyed yong Guilford Dudley sixt sonne married the Lady Iane daughter of Henry Grey Duke of Suffoâ—ke who were all three beheaded in the yeare 1553. Henry the seuenth sonne married Margaret daughter and onely heyre of Thomas Lord Audley of Walden and was slaine at S. Quintins 1557. She was after married to Thomas Howard the last Duke of Norfolke Charles the eight sonne dyed young Temperance Margaret and Katherine dyed all three young Mary was married to Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland and President of Wales and had issue Sir Phillip Sidney knight and Robert Sidney Earle of Leicester 1618. and Katherine the youngest daughter was married to Henry Hastings Earle of Huntington This Iohn Duke of Northumberland was beheaded at Tower-Hill in the yeare 1553. Et portoit d'or au lyon ramparâ—â— vert à la queue nouee Et portoit lez armoiries comme son pere Et portoit gueulles au cheuron accompaigne de trois croix recroisettees d'or A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of YORKE their Armes Wiues and Children OTho sonne of Henry Leo Duke of Bauaria Saxom and Sardinia begotten of Mauld daughter of Henry the second King of England who was after Emperor by the name of Otho the 4. was girt with the Sword of the Earledome of Yorke in the first yeare of the Reigne of King Richard the first his Vnckle 1189. But afterwards King Richard made an exchange with Otho and gaue him the Earledome of Poictow for the Earledome of Yorke He married two wiues the first was Mary daughter of the Duke of Brabant the second was Beatrix daughter of Phillip the Emperour sonne of Fredericke the Emperour and dyed without issue in Saxony 1218. This Otho had a brother both by Father and Mother named William from whom are descended the Dukes of Brunswicke and Luneburgh
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
the 21. of Iune 1377. after hee had liued 65. yeares and reigned 50. yeares 4. moneths and 28. dayes His body was conuayed from Sheene by his foure sonnes Lionell Duke of Clarence Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Cambridge with others and was buried at Westminster His Issue Edward eldest sonne borne at Woodstocke the fifteenth of Iuly 1329. was created Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall and Earle of Chester and Earle of Kent in right of his Wife Ioane daughter of Edmond Earle of Kent brother by the Father to King Edward the second She had bin twice married before first to the Earle of Salisbury and after to Thomas Holland She had issue by Prince Edward two sonnes Edward borne at Angolesme who died yong and Richard borne at Burdeaux who was after King of England by the name of King Richard the second This Prince had issue also two bastard sonnes Sir Iohn Sounder and Sir Roger Claridon Knights the latter was attainted in King Henry the fourths time William second sonne was borne at Hatfield in Hartfordshtre 1335. and was sur-named William of Hatfield he had his christen name of William Earle of Henauls his grand father and dyed in his childhood and was buried at Yorke Lionell third sonne was borne in the Citty of Antwerpe the 29. of Nouember 1338. and was sur-named of Antwerpe He had two Wiues the first was Elizabeth daughter and heyre of William Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland in whose right he was first created Earle of Vlster And because he had with her the Honour of Clare in Norfolke as parcell of the Inheritance of her Grandmother Elizabeth sister and co-heyre of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester He was in Parliament 1362. created Duke of Clarence from which Dutchic the name of Clarenceux King of Armes of the South parts of England taketh his denomination He had issue by the saide Elizabeth one onely daughter named Phillip married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March Grand-father of Anne Countesse of Cambridge Grand-mother of King Edward the fourth He was after married at Millaine in Lumbardy to the Lady Violanta daughter of Galeazo the second Duke thereof as in the Earles of Clare is set forth Iohn fourth sonne borne at Gaunt in Flanders 1340. was first created Earle of Richmond which was surrendred to Iohn Duke of Britaine sur-named The valiant who had married Mary his sister to whose Dukedome formerly it had belonged This Iohn married three Wiues the first was Blanch daughter and heire of Henry Duke of Lancaster sonne of Edmond Croochbacke by whom he had issue King Henry the fourth Phillip Wife to Iohn the first King of Portingall and Elizabeth first married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington and after to Sir Iohn Cornwall Baron of Fanhope His second Wife was Constance eldest daughter of Peter King of Castile and Leon in whose right he intituled himselfe King of both those Realmes and had issue Katherine Wife to Henry the third sonne of King Iohn King of both those Realmes His third Wife was Katherine Swynford Widdow of Sir Otho or Otes Swynford Knight of Lincolnshire daughter and co-heyre of Sir Payn Roet alias Guien King of Armes a Gascoigne borne whose other daughter Anne was married to Sir Geffrey Chaucer Knight the Poet. By this Katherine Swinford he had issue before marriage and made legitimate by Acte of Parliament the 20. yeare of King Richard the second Iohn Earle of Somerset Thomas Duke of Excester Earle of Dorset Henry Bishop of Winchester and Cardinall and Ioane first married to Raphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and after to Robert Ferrars Baron of Ouesley These children begotten of Katherine Swynford were sur-named Beauforts of Beaufort Castle in France where they were borne Edmond of Langley fift sonne was created Earle of Cambridge in the 36. yeare of King Edward the third and after Duke of Yorke 1386. He married Isabell daughter and co heyre of Peter King of Castile and Leon as in the Title of Earles of Cambridge and Dukes of Yorke William sur-named of Windsore where he was borne dyed young Thomas the youngest sonne sur-named of Woodstocke where he was borne was by King Richard the second first created Earle of Buckingham and after D. of Glocester as in those Titles is more at large Isabell eldest daughter of King Edward the third was married at Windsore to Ingelram de Guisnes Lord of Coucy Earle of Soysons and Duke of Austria whom King Edward her Father made Earle of Bedford by whom she had issue two daughters Mary married to Henry of Barre and Philip Wife to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford Duke of Ireland and Marquesse of Dublyn who after forsooke her and married one Lancerona a Ioyners daughter who came into England with Queene Philip out of Bohemia Ioane second daughter married by Proxy to Alphons the eleuenth King of Castile and Leon. Blanch third daughter dyed young and was buried at Westminster Mary fourth daughter married to Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine Margaret youngest daughter was the first Wife of Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke King Richard the second He married two Wiues the first was Anne daughter of the Emperor Charles the fourth and sister of Wenceslaus Emperour and King of Bohemia who was crowned Queene the 22. of Ianuary 1384. hauing bene his Wife ten yeares and dyed at Sheene in Surrey 1394. and was buried at Westminster without issue His second Wife was Isabell daughter of Charles the sixt King of France whom he affianced in the 19. yeare of his Reigne she being then but 7. yeares olde by reason whereof he neuer had any company with her She was after the said Richards death sent back againe into France being then not full twelue yeares olde without any dowry because the marriage was neuer consumated The Lord Henry Percy had the conuaying of her in the yeare 1401. Et portoit France seme escarâ—elle d'engleterre King HENRY the Fourth He yeelded to God his spirit the 20. day of March 1412. the 46. yeare of his age when he had reigned 13. yeares sixe moneths lacking ten dayes His body being conueyed to Canterbury was there buried He married two Wiues the first was Mary second daughter and co-heyre of Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England who dyed in the yeare 1394. and was buried at Canterbury His second Wife was Ioane daughter of Charles King of Nauarre and Widdow of Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine who dyed at Hauering in the Bower in Essex without issue the tenth of Iuly 1437. and was buried at Canterbury His Issue by his first Wife Henry eldest sonne was created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall Earle of Chester in the first yeare of his Fathers Keigne This Henry in the time of his Fathers banishment was sent into Ireland and vpon hearing of his Fathers ariuall into England King Richard caused him
20. of August carried in a Chariot drawne with foure horses couered with blacke Veluet to S. Peters at Westminster and after all ceremonies performed was buried in a faire Toomb made by commandement of King Iames. King IAMES I Ames King of Scotland onely sonne and heyre of Henry Stewart late King of Scotland and of Queene Mary his Wife Dowager of France and daughter and heyre of Iames the fift King of Scotland was borne in Edenburgh-Castle the 19. of Iune 1566. and was proclaimed King of England France and Ireland at London the 24. of March 1602. being then 36. yeares of age And on the 25. of Iuly after 1603. was crowned with Queene Anne his Wife at Westminster by the hands of the most reuerend Father in God Iohn whitift Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the presence of the Nobility and States of the Realme Whose greatnes with all honour happinesse and peace God now sanctifie and encrease in him and his issue to all posterity This potent magnificent Monarch of Great Britaine married Anne daughter of Fredericke the second King of Denmarke Norway and Sister to Christian the 4. now King of Denmarke 1618. She was borne at Scanderburgh the 12. of December 1574. and at the age of 16. years was married by Proxy at Groningburg in Denmark the 20. of August 1590. vnto this most high and most mighty Prince by whom she hath had most royall Issue as followeth Their Issue Henry Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester was borne on Tuesday the 19. of February 1593. and dyed without issue at S. Iames House neere Charing-Crosse and was buried at West minster very Prince-like the 7. of December 1612. Robert Stewart second sonne dyed very young Charles Duke of Albany Marquesse of Ormond Earle of Ros and Lord of Ardmanoch third sonne of Iames King of Great-Britaine was borne the 27. of February 1600. and was created Duke of Yorke at White-Hall on Tuesday the 6. of Ianuary 1604. and after on the 4. of Nouember 1616. he was likewise at White-Hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester Lady Elizabeth borne the 19. of August 1596. was married to Fredericke Elector Palatine of the Rhyne and hath issue Henry Fredericke and Charles Lewis Margaret borne the 24. of December 1598. and dyed in Scotland young Mary borne in England and dyed an Infant and was buried at Westminster Sophia borne at Greenwich and dyed an Infant and was buried at Westminster A CATALOGVE OF THE Dukes and Earles of Clare and Clarence their Armes Wiues and Children RIchard Fitz Gilbert Earle of Aucencis and Brionniae in Normandy came into England with William the Conqueror who gaue him the Townes Castles of Clare in Suffolke and Tunbridge in Kent with diuers other great Seigneuries in England This Richard maried Roheisia daughter of Walter Gifford Earle of Longueuile in Normandy and had issue Gilbert Roger Lord of Clauering Walter a great Baron and Founder of Tinterne Abbey 1â—31 and Robert Lord of Woodham Water and was after slaine in Wales in the yeare 1136. GIlbert Fitz-Richard sonne and heyre of Richard aforesaid was the first Earle of Clare and married Adeliza the daughter of the Earle of Cleremont and had issue Iohn the second Earle of Clare who dyed without issue Richard Earle of Clare whom some say dyed before his Father Gilbert sur-named Strongbow Earle of Penbroke Walter and Heruy de Montmauritio and dyed in the yeare 1152. Et portoit d'or au trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard Fitz-Gilbert third Earle of Clare and Lord of Tunbridge in Kent married Adelize sister of Randoll Earle of Chester and had issue Gilbert that dyed without issue and Roger who was after Earle of Clare and Hartford This Richard dyed in the yeare 1156. Et portoit les armes de son pere Place this Catalogue of Clare and Clarence betwixt page 52. and 53. GIlbert Earle of Clare and Hartford after his Father He married as William Gemeticensis hath Elizabeth sister of Walleran Earle of Meullent and dyed without issue ROger de Clare brother and heyre of Gilbert aforesaide was Earle of Clare and Hartford He married Mauld daughter and heyre of Iames S. Hillary she married after William Earle of Arundell and had issue Richard Earle of Clare and Hartford and others and died in the yeare 1174. Et portoit d'or trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard Earle of Clare and Hartford sonne of Roger aforesaid married Amicia second daughter and one of the heyres of William Earle of Glocester and had issue Gilbert Earle of Clare Hartford and Glocester and Ioane wife to Rice Grig Prince of Demiciae and dyed in the yeare 1218. and was buried in the Priory of Tunbridge Et portoit les armes de son pere ' GIlbert Earle of Clare and Hertford and Earle of Glocester by his Mother Amicia after the death of his two Aunts without issue He was a witnesse to King Henry the thirds Charter of Lands that he gaue in the 9. yeare of his Reigne to the Abbey of Peterborough by the name of Gilbert Earle of Clare Hertford and Glocester He married Isabell third sister and one of the heyres of Anselme Marshall Earle of Penbroke and had issue Richard Earle of Clare Hertford and Glocester and William de Clare Isabell wife to Robert Bruse Amie wife to Baldwin Earle of Deuon and others He dyed at Penrose in Britaine as the Book of Teuksbury hath 1230. and lyeth there buried Et portoit d'or trois cheurons de gueulles RIchard de Clare the second Earle of Glocester sonne of Gilbert aforesaid married first Margaret daughter of Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent but by her he had no issue His second wife was Mauld daughter of Iohn Lacy Earle of Lincolne and Constable of Chester by whom hee had issue as the booke of Teukesbury mentioneth Gilbert the second Earle of Glocester c. Thomas de Clare that was Steward of the Forrests in Essex Beâ—es Treasurer of Yorke Mynster Isabell a Nun at Barking Margaret Wife to Edmond Earle of Cornwall Rose Wife to Roger Lord Mowbray This Richard dyed at Fsmeresfield in Kent 1262. and lyeth buried at Teukesbury but others haue he dyed in France and was brought into England and buried at Teukesbury Et portoit les armes de son peré GIbert de Clare sur named the Red after the death of Richard his Father was Earle of Clare Hertford and the third Earle of Glocester of that sur-name Hee married two Wiues the first was Alice daughter of Hughle Brun Earle of Angolesme and the Marchesse of Aquitaine and had issue Isabell Wife to Morris Lord Berkley This Alice fell lunaticke and was diuorced from this Gilbert After which he tooke to wife Ioane sur-named of Acres daughter of King Edward the first with whom the saide Gilbert had neyther lands nor money but onely the Kings fauour which before he had lost for refusing to goe with him the said King to the aid of Guy Earle of
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
after the death of his father was the tenth Earle of Deuonshire and married Margaret daughter of Humfrey de Bohun the eight Earle of Hereford and Essex and Constable of England by his wife Elizabeth daughter of K. Edward the first had issue Hugh Courtney that dyed without issue Edward that was after Earle of Deuonshire Sir Thomas Courtney knight Philip Courtney of Powderham William Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury and Humfrey and Peter that dyed young Hee had issue also three daughters Katherine the eldest was married to William Lord Harington Elizabeth to William Lord Moune of Dunster Castle and Margaret wife to Iohn Lord Cobham c. This Earle Hugh dyed at Tiuerton in the last yeare of king Edward the third 1376. and was buried at Exeter Et portoit d'or trois torteaux au lambell d'azur EDward Courtney sonne of Hugh Earle of Deuon aforesaid was the eleuenth Earle of Deuonshire and married Emeline daughter of Sir Iohn Dauney knight and had issue Edward Courtney the twelfth Earle of Deuonshire and Sir Hugh Courtney of Haccombe knight and dyed in the 16. yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second 1392. EDward Courtney sur-named the blinde sucâ—eeded Edward his father and was the 12 Earle of 〈◊〉 and sate in Parliament the sixt of king Henry the fift he married Elianor daughter of Roger Mortimer Earle of March and Vâ—ster and had issue Hugh the thirteenth Earle of Deuonshire This Hugh sur-named the blinde by his Deed bearing date the second of king Henry the fift did giue to Sir Hugh Courtney knight his brother the Mannors of Gotheringdon Stancombe-Dauney and Southalington in the County of Deuon dyed in the seuenth yeare of the said kings reigne 1418. Et portoit les armoiries de son peré HVgh Courtney sonne and heire of Edward sur-named the blinde after the death of his Father was the thirteenth Earle of Deuonshire and sate in Parliament by that Title the same yeare his Father dyed He married Anne daughter of Richard Lord Talbot and had issue Thomas Earle of Deuonshire and dyed in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Henry the fift 1421. Et portoit d'or à trois torteaux au lambell d'azut THomas Courtney sonne of Earle Hugh afore-said succeded his Father and was the fourteenth Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of Ochampton he married Margaret daughter of Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset and Marquesse Dorset by whom he had issue three sonnes and two daughters Thomas the eldest sonne beeing in the battell 〈…〉 with king Henry the sixt against king Edward the fourth was there taken prisoner and had his head smitten off Henry the second sonne was likewise beheaded at Salisbury the eight of king Edward the fourth and Iohn the third sonne was slaine at Tewkesbury in the tenth yeare of king Edward the fourth Ioane the eldest daughter was married to Sir Roger Clifford knight and Elizabeth the second daughter was wife to Sir Hugh Conwey knight This Thomas being at the battell of Touton 1460. was taken prisoner and beheaded at Yorke HVmfrey Lord Stafford of Southwike sonne of William Stafford of Hooke Esquire in the ninth yeare of king Edward the fourth was created Earle of Deuonshire 1460. and maried Isabell daughter of Sir Iohn Barry knight but had no issue by her This Humfrey became vngratefull to king Edward and fell from him and after was taken by some of K. Edwards friends and carried to Bridgwater in Deuonshire and there had his head smitten off in the yeare 1460. hauing bene an Earle but three Moneths and odde dayes Et portoit d'or au Cheuron de gueulles à la bordure engreslee de sable EDward Courtney of Haccombe sonne of Sir Hugh Courtney of Bokonoke knight grand-father to Edward Courtney the eleuenth Earle of Deuonshire was after the death of Humfrey Stafford restored in blood and made the sixteenth Earle of Deuonshire in the first yeare of king Henry the seuenth he married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Philip Courtney of Molland knight and had issue William Courtney Earle of Deuonshire This Edward had foure sisters whose issue came after to be his heyres The first was Elizabeth married to Iohn Tretherfe of whom Viuian is descended the second was Mauld wife to Iohn Arundell of Taluerne Isabell the third sister was married to William Moune and Florence the fourth sister was married to Iohn Trelauny and thus are they set downe in the said Edwards Will. He dyed in the first yeare of king Henry the eight 1509. Et portoit WIlliam Courtney sonne of Edward was after his Fathers death the seuenteenth Earle of Deuonshire and Lord of Okhamton and married Katherine daughter of king Edward the fourth and had issue Henry Courtney Earle of Deuonshire and Marquesse of Exeter and dyed at Greenewich the ninth of Iune in the third yeare of the reigne of K. Henry the eight 1511. and was buried in the Blacke-Fryars in London Et portoit d'or trois torteaux au lambell de azur HEnry Courtney sonne of William aforesaid by Katherine his wife daughter of king Edward the fourth was after his Father the eighteenth Earle of Deuon Lord of Ochampton He was after created Marquesse of Exeter at Bridwell the eighteene of Iune 1525. and married to his first wife Elizabeth daughter and heire of Sir Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle by whom he had no issue after he married Gertrude daughter of William Blount Baron Mountioy begotten of Elizabeth the daughter one of the heyres of Sir William Say knight by whom he had issue Edward Courtney the last Earle of Deuonshire of this progeny This Henry Marquesse of Exeter Henry Poole Lord Mountague Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington in the County of Surrey knight were attainted and executed for high treason 1538. at the Tower Hill for being priuy with Cardinall Poole brother to the Lord Mountague to procure forraine power in the Popes aide to inuade this Realme Soone after this Gertrude Marquesses of Exeter Margaret Countesse of Salisbury with others were likewise attainted for the same treason but Gertrude was not executed but died and was buried in a faire Toombe in Wimborne Minister in the yeare 1557. Et portoit escartellé France D'engleterre au bordure escartellé de mesme escartellé Courtney qui est d'or à trois Torteaux Le tiers de mesme le quart Riuers qui est d'or au lion rampant d'azur arme lampasse de gueulles EDward Courtney sonne and heire of Henry Marquesse of Exeter and Earle of Deuonshire being long prisoner in the Tower of London was by Queen Mary in the first yeare of her reigne 1553. restored in blood and made Earle of Deuonshire at her Mannor of Richmond and three yeares after he dyed at Padua in Italy the fourth day of October 1556. without issue some haue he was poysoned He was the last Earle of that Name and Family of Courtneys Et portoit les Armoities de son Peré CHarles Blount Baron Montioy second sonne of Iames
of Derby and Henry that dyed young of the sweat Margaret the daughter married Robert Radcliff Earle of Sussex This Thomas dyed in the 13. yeare of king Henry the eight 1521. Et portoit les armoities de son pere D'argent à la bande d'azur chargee de trois testes du cerf dor EDward Lord Stanley of Lathum Strange of Knocking of Man Son of Thomas aforesaid was the 3. Earle of Derby of that Family who had three wiues the first was Dorothea daughter of Thomas Howard the second D. of Norfolke by whom he had issue three sonnes and foure daughters Henry who after his Father was the fourth Earle of Derby Sir Edward Stanley of Einsham in Oxfordshire knight and Sir Thomas Stanley knight who married Margaret daughter and one of the heyres of George Vernon of Derbyshire knight Anne the eldest daughter was first married to Charles Lord Sturton and after to Sir Iohn Arundell of Cornwall knight Elizabeth was wife to Henry Parker Lord Morley Iane married to Edward Lord Dudley and Mary the fourth daughter was wife to Edward Lord Stafford This Edward had to his second wife Margaret daughter of Ellis Barlow of Lancashire by whom he had issue George that dyed young Katherine wife to Sir Thomas Kniuet knight Margaret married to Iohn Iermyn of Rushbrooke in Suffolke Lastly the said Edward married to his third wife Mary daughter of George Cotton but by her had no issue He dyed at Lathum the 24. of October in the 14. yeare of the most happy Queene Elizabeth and was buried at Burscogh two miles from Lathum Et portoit les armoiries de son pere HEnry Lord Stanley of Lathum Strange of Knocking and of Man sonne and heire of Edward was the fourth Earle of Derby of that sur-name and knight of the Garter He married Margaret daughter of Henry Clifford Earle of Cumberland and Elianor his wife daughter and one of the co-heires of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke by Mary Q. of France his wife and had issue Edward that dyed young FErdinando and William both Earles of Derby one after the other He dyed in the yeare 1593 and was buried at Et portoit d'argent à la bande d'azur chargee de trois testes de cerf d'or FErdinando Lord Stanley Strange and of the Isle of Man Sonne and Heire of Henry Earle of Derby was after his Father the fift Earle of Derby Lord Strange and of the Isle of Man and married Alice daughter of Sir Iohn Spencer of Northamptonshire knight and had issue three daughters his heires generall Anne married to Grey Bruges Lord Shandos Frances the second daughter was married to Sir Iohn Egerton knight and after Earle of Bridgwater and Elizabeth the third daughter was married to Henry Lord Hastings Earle of Huntingdon He dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1594 and was buried at Et portoit d'es armes de son pere WIlliam Lord Stanley Strange and of the Isle of Man second sonne of Henry Earle of Derby and Brother and heire Male of Ferdinando was the sixt Earle of Derby and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter He married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Edward Vere late Earle of Oxford by Anne Cicell his wife daughter of William Lord Burleigh and Lord Treasurer of England and hath issue Iames Lord Strange Robert second sonne and Anne married to Sir Henry Portman of Orchard in Somersetshire Baronet 1618. Et Portoit les armes de son peré A CATALOGVE OF THE Marquesses and Earles of Dorfet their Armes Wiues and Children OSmond Earle of Seez in Normandy was by William Conqueror made Bishop of Salisbury after the first Earle of Dorset as M. Camden hath in his Britannia pag. 217◠But Milles in Somerset Glouers Booke of the successions of Earles pag. 392. hath that the said Osmond was Earle of Somerset and therefore to which I shall giue credite I leaue to the indifferent Reader IOhn Brother of king Richard the first was Earle of Morton Lancaster and Cornwall and Lord of the Mannour of Wallingford Marlesburgh and Tikell and in the right of Haw is his wife daughter and one of the heires of William Earle of Glocester Earle of Glocester and after by the guift of king Richard the first Earle of Somerset and Dorset and lastly King of England by the name of King Iohn Et portoit D'engleterre à la bande d'azur IOhn sur-named Beaufort sonne of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by the Lady Katherine Swynford his third wife was created Earle of Somerset at a Parliament held the 20. yeare of king Richard the second and in the 21. yeare of the said kings reigne he was created Marquesse Dorset and Lord Chamberlaine of England and in the first yeare of King Henry the fourth he was by Parliament deposed from the title of Marquesse Dorset and remained onely Earle of Somerset This Iohn with the rest of the Children which Iohn of Gaunt had before marriage of the said Lady Swynford were made legitimate by Parliament held at London in the yeare 1397. He married Margaret daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Duke of Surrey and one of the sisters and heires of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent and Lord Wake by whom he had issue Iohn Duke of Somerset and Edmond both Dukes of Somerset and Thomas a third sonne he had also two daughters Iane married to Iames the first king of Scots and Margaret which was married to Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuonshire This Iohn dyed in the 13. yeare of king Henry the fourth Et portoit escartellé France seme D'engleterre à la bordure gobonne d'argent d'azur THomas Beaufort third sonne of Iohn of Gaunt by the Lady Katherine Swynford was Earle of Perch and after created Earle of Dorset in the 13. yeare of king Henry the fourth 1412. And in the fourth yeare of king Henry the fift hee was created Duke of Exeter and had the leading of the Rereward at the battell of Egincourt and after dyed without issue at his house at Greenwich in the fift yeare of king Henry the sixt being Gouernor of the kings person He was buried at S. Edmonds-burie in Suffolke Et portoit escartellé France seme D'engleterre à la bordure gobonne d'ar gent de azur EDmond Beaufort second sonne of Beaufort Earle of Somerset and grand-childe to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was Earle of Moriton in Normandy Lord of Chirke Chirk-land in Wales by the gift of king Henry the fift and after was created Earle of Dorset in the 21. of king Henry the sixt 1442. And in the 23. of the said kings reigne he was created Marquesse Dorset and lastly in the 25. of king Henry the sixt he was created Duke of Somerset He was Regent of France and comming into England was slaine at the first battell of S. Albons on the part of king Henry the sixt against Richard Duke of Yorke and was buried in the Abbey at S. Albons He married
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
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
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
he was generally accounted a man of singular vertue and vnto him was ioyned Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent and Henry Plantagenet Earle of LaÌ„caster as assistants A Parliament being held at Northampton 1328 a dishonourable peace and marriage was made wherein the King by the directions of his Mother and this Roger Mortimer released to the Scots their homage fealty and seruice due to him for that kingdome and deliuered vp to them also the grand Charter called Ragman which vnder the hands and seales of their late King and of the Nobility of Scotland testified their tenure and subiection to the Kings of England This Roger in the fourth yeare of king Edward the third was taken at Nottingham Castle at midnight in Queene Isabell the Kings Mothers chamber with whom he had bene ouer familiar by William Lord Montague others and sent to the Tower of London and condemned of high treason at Westminster in presence of the whole Parliament and after drawne to the common Gallowes and there hanged two dayes and two nights and then taken downe and buried in the Grey-Fryars Church He married Ioane daughter and heyre of Peter Iamuile Lord of Mede Vaucolour and Trime in Ireland and had issue Edmond Mortimer knighted at the Coronation of King Edward the third with his Brother Sir Roger Mortimer and Geffrey Mortimer Lord of Cowich Iohn the fourth sonne of this Roger was slaine at a Iusting at Shrewsbury Katherine the eldest daughter was married to Thomas Beauchampe Earle of Warwick Ioane married to Iames Lord Audley Agnes married to Laurence Hastings Earle of Penbroke Margaret married to Thomas sonne and heyre of Maurice Lord Berkeley Mauld married to Sir Iohn Charlton Lord Powis Blanch wife to Peter Lord Grandison and Beatrix the seuenth daughter was married first to Edward sonne and heyre of Thomas of Brotherton Earle of Norfolke and after to Thomas Brews Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer grand-childe to Roger Mortimer the first Earle of March aforesaid by his sonne Edmond was restored in the 29. yeare of king Edward the third to the Earldome of March and all other lands honours and possessions which his said Grand-Father was possessed of for that he was contrary to law as the Lawyers then saide put to death being neuer brought to answer which course of Iustice was vsed before at the triall of the Earles of Lancaster Winchester Glocester and Kent by the aduice of the said Roger and Queene Isabell This Roger was one of the first Founders of the Order of the Garter and married Phillip daughter of William Mountague Earle of Salisbury and had issue Roger Mortimer that dyed without issue before his Father and Edmond Mortimer that was the third Earle of March Margaret married to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford and Margery married to Iohn Lord Audley He dyed in Burgundy at a Towne called Roueray in the three and thirtieth yeare of King Edward the third and his body being brought into England was buried by his Auncestors at Wigmore Et portoit barre d'or d'azur au chef palee les corners geronne à vn escuchon d'argent EDmond Mortimer second sonne and heyre of Roger Mortimer the second Earle of March was after the death of his Father the third Earle of March and Lord of Wigmore He married Phillip daughter and onely heyre of Lionell of Antwerpe Duke of Clarence Earle of Wiltshire and Vlster Lord of Conaught and Trime in Ireland by whom he had issue Roger Mortimer the fourth Earle of March and Sir Edmond Mortimer knight that married the daughter of Owen Glendour Sir Iohn Mortimer knight the third sonne was beheaded for treason the third of king Henry the sixt Elizabeth married to Henry Lord Percy sur-named Hotspurre Philip first married to Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke and after to Richard Earle of Arundell and lastly to Iohn Lord S. Iohn and dyed without issue This Edmâ—nd recâ—â—ered from William Mountague Earle of Salisbury the Castle and honour of Denbeigh which king Edward the third had giuen before to Roger Mortimer Earle of March this Edmonds Grand-Father This Edmond died at Corke in Ireland the fift of king Richard the second and was buried at Wigmore Et portoit burelle de six pieces do'r ' d'azur au chef de la primier deux paletts entte deux base equites de la second sur le tout à vn escuchon d'argent ROger Mortimer after the death of Edmond his Father was the fourth Earle of March of that sur-name whom king Richard the second nominated for his successour in the kingdome of England 1387. being descended of the body of Philip onely daughter and heyre of Lionell Duke of Clarence third sonne of king Edward the third He married Elianor daughter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent Lord Wake and Duke of Surrey and sister and co-heyre of Thomas her brother by whom he had issue two sonnes and two daughters Edmond the first sonne was the fift Earle of March Roger the second sonne dyed young Anne was married to Richard of Coningsbourgh Earle of Cambridge sonne of Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke and Elianor married to Edward Courtney Earle of Deuonshire He was writ and stiled Earle of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare and Conaught and was slaine by the wilde Irish being then Lieutenant of the Kings Forces in Ireland in the two and twentieth yeare of King Richard the second and bare the Armes of his Father EDmond Mortimer sonne and heyre of Roger aforesaide was after the death of his Father the fift Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore Trime Clare Conaught and married Anne daughter of Edmond Earle Stafford and dyed without issue in the Castle of Trime in Ireland the third of King Henry the fixt and was buried at Stoke neere Clare leauing Richard Duke of Yorke his Nephew and heyre to succeed him Anne his widdow was after married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington Les armes de Mortimer RIchard Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard of Conesburgh Earle of Cambridge by Anne his wife sister co-heyre of Edmond Mortimer the fift Earle of March after the death of his Father and Edmond Mortimer his Vnckle did write himselfe Duke of Yorke Earle of Cambridge Vlster March and Rutland Lord of Wigmore and Clare He married Cecily daughter of Ralphe Neuill first Earle of Westmerland and had issue Edward Earle of March after king by the name of king Edward the fourth and others as in the title of Yorke This Richard was slaine at the battaile of Wakefield 1460. and the 39. of king Henry the sixt Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à bordure d'argent seme lyons rampant purpre EDward Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Richard Duke of Yorke aforesaid was after the death of his Father Earle of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore and Clare and lastly king of England by the
where he pleaseth and to speake truely I haue not seene but one Letters Patents otherwise which was by King Henry the sixt 1458. to Iames Butler who had the Earledome of Ormond to him and his heires male and the Earledome of Wiltshire to him and his heires generall And this I hope shall be sufficient to proue that King Henry the sixt did no wrong to this Margaret in giuing her Fathers title of honour to his brother nay had he giuen it to a meere stranger it had beene iustifiable This Iohn dyed in the 24. yeare of king Henry the sixt and lyeth buried in Winborne Minster in Dorsetshire Et portoit les armes de son perè EDmond Beaufort Earle Moriton in Normandy and Lord of Chirke and Chirkland in the Marchesse of Wales brother of Iohn Duke of Somerset aforesaid and grand-childe of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster was after the death of his elder brother without issue male created first Marquesse Dorset 1444. and in the 25. yeare of king Henry the sixt hee was made Duke of Somerset and after he with Henry Earle of Northumberland Humfrey Earle Stafford and Thomas L. Clifford were slaine at the battaile of S. Albons on the part of king Henry the sixt 1455. and the king himselfe taken prisoner brought to London This Edmonds death greatly greeued K. Hen. because in him he had put all his trust and confidence and for that also such a Chiefetain as he who had long gouernd in Normandy bin Regēt of France for his Countries sake had so valiantly borne himselfe against the French shold now be slaine at home by his owne countrimen He married Elianor daughter one of the heires of Richard Beauchamp earle of Warwick had issue foure sonnes and fiue daughters viz. Henry the eldest sonne was after his Father Duke of Somerset and was beheaded in the yeare 1463. Edmond the second sonne was also Duke of Somerset after his Brother Iohn the third sonne was slaine at the battaile of Teukesbury without issue 1470 and Thomas the 4. sonne dyed without issue Elianor the eldest daughter was first married to Iames Butler Earle of Wiltshire and after to Sir Robert Spencer knight Ioane the second daughter was first married to the Lord Hoth of Ireland and after to Sir Richard Fry knight Anne the third daughter was married to Sir William Paston knight Margaret the fourth daughter was first married to Humfrey Earle Stafford and after to Sir Richard Darell knight and Elizabeth married vnto Sir Henry Lewis knight This Edmonds body was buried at S. Albons in the Abbey there Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à vn bordur gobonne d'argent d'azur Henry Beaufort sonne and heyre of Edmond aforesaide was after the death of his Father Duke of Somerset Marquesse Dorset Earle Moriton Lord of Chirke and Chirkland and Lieutenant of Callis He by assaults tooke the Castle of S. Auian in Mayne and slew therein 300. Scots and hanged all the French he found therein He most disloyally fell from king Henry the sixt to Edward of Yorke who then had gotten the Crowne but when king Henry had obtained succour of the Scots and was entred the Bishopprick of Durham this Duke Henry reuolted from Edward and came to king Henry againe and sighting the battaile at Exham was with William Talboys the Lord Ros Molyns and Hungerford Sir Henry Neuill Sir Thomas Wentworth and Sir Richard Tunstall vnluckily taken prisoner by Iohn Marquesse Mountague and there beheaded in the yeare 1462. He had issue a base sonne named Charles Somerset begotten of Ioane Hill his Concubine who was after created Earle of Worcester of whom the now Earle of Worcester is descended Et portoit les armes de son peré EDmond Beaufort brother and heyre of Henry Duke of Somerset aforesaid and second sonne of Edmond Duke of Somerset slaine at S. Albons was the last Duke of Somerset of this Name and Family who taking part with the house of Lancaster was with Prince Edward sonne of king Henry the sixt taken prisoner at the battaile of Tuekesbury by King Edward the fourth 1471. and within two dayes after beheaded there without issue leauing his fiue sisters his heyres before mentioned Et portoit France escartelle d'engleterre à la bordur gobonne d'argent d'azur EDmond third sonne of King Henry the seuenth was born at Greenwich in Kent 1495. and was created Duke of Somerset and after dyed at Bishops Hatfield in Hertforashire in the yeare 1499 being not full fiue yeares olde and was buried in the Abbey at Westminster HEnry Fitz-Roy knight of the Garter and base sonne to king Henry the eight begotten of the Lady Talboys daughter of Sir Iohn Blount knight beeing a childe of sixe yeares olde was by his Father in the 17. yeare of his reigne created Duke of Somerset and Richmond at Bridewell and married Mary daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke but by her had no issue He dyed at S. Iames house by Charing-Crosse being but 16. yeares of age and was honourably buried at Thetford in Norfolke the 27. of king Henry the eight 1535. as Grafton hath Others hath that he lyeth buried at Framingham in Norfolke He bare for his Armes Escartellé France d'engleterre à bordur escartellé ermyn compone d'argent d'azur abatun sinestre d'argent à vn escutcheon de pretence escartellé gueulles varrey d'or vert sur la tout au lyon rampant d'argent au chef d'azur vn Chastel entre deux testes du cerf d'argent EDward Seymour knight of the Garter was created Viscount Beauchamp in the Whitson weeke 1536. and Earle of Hertford the 18 of October 1537. and lastly Duke of Somerset the 17. of February 1547. the first of king Edward the sixt He was Lord Protector both of the Kings person Kingdomes and to leade to war as wel by Sea as by Land all the Kings Armies as Lord Lieutenant Generall he was also Lord high Treasurer and Earle Marshall of England Gouernor of the Isles of Gernesey and Iersey He maried two wiues the first was Katherine daughter and co-heyre of Sir William Foliot of Woodland in Dorsetshire knight had issue Lord Edward Seymour of Berye Pomery in Deuonshire Iohn second Son His second wife was Anne daughter of Edward Stanhop Esquire by whō he had issue Edward Seymour now Earle of Hertford 1618. Lord Henry and Edward Anne the eldest daughter was married to Iohn Dudley Earle of Warwicke Iane was the second daughter Mary the third daughter was married to Andrew Rogers Katherine the fourth daughter and Elizabeth the fift daughter was married to Sir Richard Knightley knight This Edward was arraigned at Westminster Hall the first of December the fift of king Edward the sixt of high treason and was found guilty of Fellony for which the 22. of Ianuary after he was beheaded at the Tower-Hill Et portoit de gueulles à deux Ailes de l'agle en leuure
Peeres was found guilty of high treason and condemned to perpetuall imprisonment during his life where he dyed without issue And Waltheof Earle of Huntington notwithstanding his submission was taken and carried to Wynchester and there beheaded and his body buried in the fields without the Citty but after remoued to Crowland Et portoit les armes de son pete MIlo Fitz-Walter sonne of Walter Constable of the Castle of Glocester and of Emme his wife daughter of Drew de Balun Lord of Abergauenny succeeded his Father in the Constableship of Glocester and was by Mauld the Empresse made Earle of Hereford and Constable of her Court in the sixt yeare of king Stephen He married Sibell daughter and heire of Bernard Newmarch Lord of Brecknock by Nest his wife daughter of Griffith ap Lewellyn Prince of South Wales and had issue fiue sonnes and three daughters viz. Roger Walter Henry William and Mahell all Earles of Hereford and Constables of England sauing William onely who dyed before his elder brother Henry Margaret the eldest daughter married Humfrey de Bohun the third of that name who after the death of his wiues brothers was both Earle of Hereford and Constable of England Bertha the second daughter was married to Philip de Breus Lord of Brember Abergauenny c. Luce the third daughter was wife to Herbert sonne of Herbert and grand-childe to Henry Fitz Herbert Chamberlaine to King Henry the first and of his wife daughter of Robert Corbet Concubine of king Henry the first Lord of Alencester in Comit Warwick This Milo dyed the eight of king Stephen was buried by Sibell his wife in the Abbey of Lanthony by Glocester which he founded in the yeare 1135. Et portoit gueulles à la bande d or oue la autre bande d'argent ROger eldest sonne and heire of Milo vnto whom King Henry the second gaue the Mote of Hereford with the Castle and the third peny of the Reuennewes of Pleas of the whole County of Hereford wherof he made him Earle He was also Constable of England Lord of Brecknock Caer-went Gower and of the Forrest of Deane all which sayth Somerset Glouer were confirmed vnto him by King Henrie the second his Letters Patents bearing date at Warwicke the twelfth day next after the conclusion of peace between King Stephen and him This Roger dying without issue Walter Henry Mahell his brothers succeeded him in his lands and possessions and died also without issue Whereby their whole Inheritance was diuided betweene their three sisters who were maried as aforesaid Et portoit gueulles deus bands vne d'or la autre d'argent HEnry de Bohun sonne of Humfrey de Bohun the fourth and Grand childe to Humfrey the third and Margaret his wife daughter of Milo Earle of Hereford and Constable of England and sister and co-heyre of her fiue brothers was in right of the said Margaret his grandmother created Earle of Hereford by Letters patents bearing date the third of Nouember in the first yeare of king Iohn as also Constable of England He married Mauld daughter of Geffrey Fitz-Piers of Ludgarshall Earle of Essex and sister and heire of Geffrey and William sur-named Mandeuils her Brothers and had issue Humfrey de Bohun the fift He dyed in the 4. yeare of king Henry the third 1220. going to the holy Land and his body being brought backe into England was buried in the Abbey of Lanthony Et porteit d'azur à la band d'argent à deux cottices entre six Lions rampant d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the fift of that name sonne and heire of Henry aforesaid was after his Father Earle of Hereford and Constable of England and Patron of the Abbey of Lanthony and Earle of Essex in right of his mother To this Humfrey did king Henry the third in Anno 1241. release the remainder of a debt of 20000. Markes which Geffrey Magnauile Earle of Essex his Vnckle was to pay vnto him as a fine laide vppon him for marrying Isabell the repudiate wife of King Iohn daughter and heyre of William Earle of Glocester This Humfrey married two wiues the first was Mauld daughter and heire of Ralphe de Isondon Earle of Angy in Normandy by whom he had issue Humfrey de Bohun the sixt that dyed before his Father in the Castle of Bristew being taken prisoner at the battell of Eusham 1265. and two daughters Mauld the eldest was maried first to Anselme Marshall Earle of Penbroke and after to Roger Quincy Earle of Winchester and Alice the second daughter was married to the Lord Thony The said Humfreys second wife was Mauld de Auenesbury by whom he had issue Iohn de Bohun Lord of Haresfield Father of Edmond and then died in the third yeare of King Edward the first 1274. and was buried at Lanthony Les arme de son peré HVmfrey de Bohun the seuenth of that Christian name sonne and heire of Humfrey the sixt that dyed before his Father was after the death of Humfrey de Bohun the fift his grand-father Earle of Hereford and Constable of England and by his Mother Elianor daughter and co-heire of William de Breose he was Lord of Brecknocke He married Mauld daughter of Ingelrame de Fines a Frenchman had issue Humfrey de Bohun the eight and after dyed at Plaisie in Essex the 27. of king Edward the first 1298. and was buried with his wife at Walden Abbey Et portoit d'azur à la bande d'argent à deux cottices entre six Lions rampant d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the eight of that Christian name son and heire of Humfrey the seuenth was Earle of Hereford Constable of England Patron of Lanthony Abbey third Earle of Essex and Lord of Brecknock He married Elizabeth daughter of King Edward the first Widdowe of Iohn Earle of Holland with whom hee had no dowry but onely the Kings fauour which before he had lost by refusing to go with him into Flanders to the ayde of Guy Earle of Flanders against the French King by whom he had issue foure sonnes and two daughters Iohn the first sonne was after his Father Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England and died vvithout issue Humfrey the second son had all his brother Iohns honours aad dyed also without issue Edward William were twins borne at Caldecot in Wales Edward dyed drowned in Scotland before the death of his brother Humfrey and was buried at Walden William the 4. brother was a Martial man and by K. Edw. the third 1336. was created Earle of Northampton and did execute the Office of Constable of England for his brother Humfrey and dyed before him in the yeare 1359. Elianor the eldest daughter of this Humfrey the eight was married to Iames Butler Earle of Ormonde and Margaret the second daughter was wife to Hugh Courtney Earle of Deuonshire This Humfrey the eight was slaine with Thomas Earle of Lancaster at Burrowbridge by Andrew of Harcla Earle of Carlell the 15. of king Edward the second 1322.
and was buried in the Black-Fryars in Yorke and Elizabeth his wife dyed the 9. of king Edward the second and was buried in the Abbey of Walden in Essex Et portoit les armes de son pere IOhn de Bohun sonne and heire of Humfrey the eight was after his Father Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England He married two wiues the first was Alice daughter of Edmond Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell who dyed in childe-bed and was buried at Walden with her infant sonne His second wife was Margaret daughter of Ralphe Lord Basset by whom he had no issue He dyed at Kirby There 1334. the 9. of king Edward the third was buried at Stratford Abbey neere London Et portoit d'azur â la bande d'argent à deux cottices entre six lions rampant d'or HVmfrey de Bohun the ninth second sonne of Humfrey the eight and brother and heyre of Iohn de Bohun Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England succeeded his Father and Brother he ouer-liued his brother William of Northampton one yeare one moneth and fiue dayes and dyed without issue at Plaisie in Essex 1361. and was buried in the Augustine-Fryars in London leauing Humfrey de Bohun the tenth his Nephew by his brother William de Bohun Earle of Northampton to succeed him in all his Lands and Dignities Les armes de son pere HVmfrey de Bohun the tenth and last of that name was after the death of William his Father Earle of Northampton after the death of Humfrey his Vnckle Earle of Hereford Essex and Constable of England Lord of Brecknock Patron of the Abbey of Lanthony He married Ioane daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earle of Arundell and had issue onely two daughters his heires Elianor the eldest was married to Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester a younger sonne of king Edw. the third and Mary the second daughter was wife to Henry Plantagenet sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and after King of England by the name of king Henry the fourth He dyed in the 46. yeare of king Edward the third 1371. and was buried at Walden Et portoit d'azur à la band d'argent à deux cottices entre six lions rampant d'or HEnry Plantagenet or Henry of Bullingbroke Earle of Derby sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster married Mary second daughter and co-heire of Humfrey de Bohun the tenth of that name with whom he had the Earledome of Hereford and Northampton with the Lordship of Brecknock and the Patrionage of Lanthony and in the yeare 1397. he was created Duke of Hereford by King Richard the second and after the death of his Father hee was also Duke of Lancaster This Henry Duke of Hereford being accused of diuers points of high treason against king Richard the second by Thomas Mowbray then Duke of Norfolke for clearing himselfe thereof he challenged the saide Duke of Norfolke to a single combate which was by him accepted and allowed by the King But when the appointed day was come and the two Dukes within the lists in field ready to performe the same the king would not suffer them to proceed but banished the Duke of Norfolke the land for euer who shortly after dyed at Venice and the Duke of Hereford for sixe yeares But this Duke Henry returned backe againe the same yeare and by force tooke king Richard prisoner at Flynt Castle and brought him to the Tower of London where he was vniustly constrained to resigne his kingdome to this Henry who was after crowned king by the name of king Henry the fourth He had issue by his wife Mary Henry who was after king of England by the name of king Henry the fift and dyed the 20. of March 1412. Et portoit semé de France escartelié d'engleterre au baston de gueullce A CATALOGVE OF THE Earles of Huntington their Armes Wiues and Children VVAltheof sonne of Siward the great Earle of Northumberland married Iudith daughter of Lambert Earle of Lens in Artoys and Niece to William the Conqueror by Mauld his halfe sister by the Mother daughter of Herlwyn Comittis Villa and Arleta his wife with whom the said Conqueror gaue in marriage the Earledome of Huntington The said Waltheof and Iudith had issue three daughters onely Mauld the eldest was married first to Simon Saint Lize and had issue Simon the second Earle of Northampton after shee married Dauid sonne of Malcolme Makduncan and brother to the second Mauld Queene of England and had issue Henry Earle of Huntington Iudith the second daughter was married to Ralphe Lord Toney of Flamsted and Bertha the third daughter was wife to Robert Fitz-Richard Dapifer descended out of the Family of Clare This Waltheof at the marriage of Ralphe de Waiet with Emme the sister of Roger Bretiuile with diuers other great Lords did conspire together to turne William the Conqueror and his Normans againe out of England which conspiracy being reuealed by Waltheof and he submitting himselfe to the Kings mercy the said Conqueror notwithstanding caused him to be beheaded at Winchester 1075. and his body to be buried in the Fields neere the Towne which afterwards was taken vp againe and buried at Crowland in Lincolnshire Et portoit d'argent au lion rampant d'azur au chef de gueulles SImon Saint-Lize the first of that name sonne of Randoll sur-named the Rich a Norman borne with Warner le Rich his brother came into England to the ayde of William Ruphus who bestowed the Hundred of Falkeley valued then at forty pounds a yeare vpon him to shooe his Horses For the saide Simon and his brother Warner had brought with them to ayde the saide King forty knights King Henry the first entreated a marriage betweene the saide Simon and Iudith the Widdow of Earle Waltheof which she refused because the saide Simon was lame whereupon the King gaue him in marriage Mauld the eldest daughter and co-heyre of Waltheof Iudith with the Earledome of Huntington This Simon with Mauld his wife builded the Castle and Abbey of S. Andrewes in Northampton in the sixt yeare of king Henry the first and had issue Simon the second Earle of Huntington Waltheof Abbot of Melrose and after dyed in the yeare 1127. and was buried in the Abbey of Bourne Et portoit per pale endente d'argent gueulles DAuid sonne of Malcolme king of Scots and brother to king Alexander by the fauour of king Henry the first had to wife Mauld the eldest daughter and co-heyre of Earle Waltheof the widdow of Simon Saint-Lize Earle of Huntington and by that title of Earle of Huntington the said Dauid was a Witnesse to king Henry the firsts Charter of lands and liberties he gaue to the Citty of London But when Alexander his brother was dead without issue and he sent for to be king there was a peace made betweene King Stephen him with condition that the Earledome of Huntington should abide and remaine to Henry