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CHESTER. 225 coheirs or their descendants,^) wlulo the Earldom apparently lapsed to the Crown. His widow survived him 20 yews and d. 1252. YIII. 1232, .Tony (Le Scot), Earl of Huntingdon and Cambridge to (nephew of William the Lion, Sing of Scotland) being 3d and yst. but 1237. °"'y sllrv - s ' an d • °f David, Earl op Huntingdon, &e., by Mabel, eldest sister and coheir of Randolph (db Blundeville), Earl of Chester abovenamed, was b. about 1207 ; Stic, his Father as Earl of Huntingdon, &c.,12 June 1219, having livery of his lands 25 April 1227 ; was Knighted by Alexander Ul [S.] 30 May 1227 ; and, after the death of the Earl of Chester, his uncle, tho' apparently in the lifetime of his mother (who d. Epiphany 1233) having inherited the whole County Palatine of Chester, was cr. at Northampton, 21 Nov. 1232, EARL OF CHESTEH. At the coronation of Queen Eleanor, 20 Jauy. 1235, he bore the " Curtana," one of the three Swords of State. He took the Cross about 8 June 123G. He m. 1222, Helen, da. of Llewellyn af Jouweth, Prince of North Walks, and by her is suspected to have been poisoned. He d. s.p. at Darnal, 7 June 1237, and was bur. next day at St. Werburg, Chester, leaving his four sisters('>) as his coheirs, but in 1240 (41 Hen. III.) the Earldom of Chester was annexed to the Crown "lest so fair (pncclara) a dominion should be divided (inter colos fasminamn) among women." His widow at, Robert de Quincy (yst. s. of Saher, Earl of Winchester) who d. s.p.m., Aug. 1257. IX. 1254, Edward Plantagenet, sti/led u Long shanks,"(°) s. and to h. ap. of King Henry III. by Eleanor, da. and coheir of Raymond 1272. (Bekenger), Count of Provence, was b. at Westminster, 17 June 1239. and was bap. 4 days later by Otho, the Pope's legate.( d ) On 14 Feb. 1253/4 he was cr., by his Father, " EARL OF CHESTER," and " received seisin of the Earldom of Cltester by [the hands of] the Lord Bartholomew de ri'clie"(") on the 20 March 1254. When, however, he and the King, his Father, were taken prisoners at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 12G4, by the rebellious Barons under Simon (do Montford), Earl of Leicester, the King "had no other means to make his peace, but by delivering the said Earldom of Chester into Earl Simon's hands, by letters patent, dat. 24 Dec. (1264) 49 Hen. III. at Woodstock," but, some 8 months after- wards, on tho death i Aug. 1265, and attainder of the said Earl Simon, "came the Earldom of Chester back again to young Edward." He took tho Cross, 24 June 126S, becoming a Crusader May 1271. He »!. (while Earl of Chester) at Bures, in Spain, 1255, Eleanor, da. of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, his only child by his 2nd wife Joane, da. and h. of John, Count of Pontiiieu. She, who was his first wife, was living when her husband, on 20 Nov. 1272, succeeded to the throne as Edward I. (post conqucstum) wheuaM his honours ma-ged in the Crown. ( a ) These were (1) Maud, Countess of Huntingdon, b. 1171, d. Epiphany 1233 (a few mouths after her br. the Earl) leaving a s. and h. John (of Scotland), Earl of Huntingdon, who in Nov. 1232 was cr. Earl of Chester. (2) Hugh (de Albini), Earl of Sussex, surv. s. and h. of Mabel (wife of William, Earl of Sussex) the second of the four sisters. This Hugh sue. to Coventry (as his chief seat), to Leeds co. York, &c. He d. s.p. 7 May 1213 leaving his foursisters nig coheirs. (3) Alice, wife of William (de Ferrers). Earl of Derby, who had the manor of Chartley co. Stafford, all the lands between the rivers Ribbleand Mersey, &c. (4) Hawise, suojure, Countess of Lincoln, who in 1221 had m. Robert de Quincy, by whom she had Margaret, her da. and h., wife of John Lacy, cr. Earl of Lincoln 1232. Hawise inherited the Castle and Manor of Bolingbroke and other large estates in co. Lincoln. (") These were (1) Margaret in. Alan, Lord of Galloway, whose da. and h., Devorgil, was mother of John Baliol, King of Scotland, 1292-96 ;'(2) Isabel m. Robert Bruce, whose great grandson, Robert Bruce, was King of Scotland, 1306 ; (3) Matilda d. num. (4) Ada, m. Henry Hastings, being ancestress of the Lords Hastings. ( c ) " From the tallness of his stature." See " Sandford," p 127. I 4 ) The name Edward was " given him in memory of the glorious King and Confessor St. Edward, whose corps lieth magnificently deposited in the Abbey of St. Peter, in the city of Westminster [the birth place of this Prince], whom King Henry III. ever honoured as his titular Saint." See " Sandford,' p. 127. C) See " Annales Ccstricnsis" as alluded to, ante, p. 223, note Q