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lieu of the Yorkshire estates settled in dower upon her, which at the same time he granted to his son, Edmund de Langele. (Rot. Pat. 33⁰ Edw. III, p. 1, m. 1.) The remaining wealth and honours of the Warennes had passed away, and had been added by the last earl's sister, Alice, to those of the Fitz-Alans, by whom the Arundel earldom of the Albinis had been already acquired by another alliance. It was thus, under circumstances discreditable and inglorious, that the great name of Warenne became at length lost or at least overshadowed; — a name, originally derived from an obscure river in Normandy, raised to honour on its first transference to England by alliance with the Conqueror's daughter, and enriched by the spoils of his conquest, distinguished by martial prowess and its full share in the great events of English history during three centuries; — a name in many successive generations so interwoven with royalty, that two princes did not disdain to assume it, was thus finally destined to be obscured and made secondary, when death stilled the passions and the pride of John, the eighth earl of an heroic race.