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360 CORK — CORNWALL . 1860 ; Lieut. -Col. North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, 1862; Lord Liout. of Somerset, 1864 ; P.C., 1866 ; Master of the Buekhoimds, Jan. to July, 1866, 1868-74, and 1880- 85 ; Master of the Horse, Feh. to Aug. 1886. He 7H. 28 July 1853, Emily Charlotte, da. of Ulick John (de Burgh), 1st Marquess at Clanhicakde [I.], by Harriet, da. of the Right Hon. George Canning, and Joan, mo jure Viscountess Canning. Shu was b. 19 Oct. 1828. [George Spencer Canning Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan, s, mid h. ap., 6. 24 Feb. 1861, in Grafton Street, Midx. ; ed. at Eton.] Family estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of 3.398 acres in Somersetshire, worth £5,094 a year, besides, in Ireland, 20,195 acres in co. Cork ; 11,531 in co. Kerry, and 3,1S9 in co. Limerick, worth £12,249 a year. Total 38,313 acres, worth £17,343 a year. Principal residence, Marstou House, near Frome, Somerset. CORN BURY. i.e. "Cornbury, co. Oxford," Viscountcy, cr. 1661, with the Earldom of Clarendon, which see ; ex. 1753. CORNWALL. Earldom. £, Robert, Count of Mortein in Normandy, one of I. 1068 1 t ' le two sons ( :l ) °f Herluin de Conteville, by Herleve, mother of ' William the Conqueror, was 6. about 1031, and, in 1051, was cr. COMTE DE MORTEIN in the Coteutin,( b ) by his uterine br., William, then Duke of Normandy, whom he accompanied in the invasion of England, where he was in command of the chivalry of the Cotentin at the battle of Hastings, 1066. His share of the spoil was probably one of the greatest, as, with the exception of the lands of the King and the Church, he received nearly the whole of the county of Cornwall, and is, consequently, usually considered EARL OF CORNWALL, though only known as " Comes Moritonicnsis." At the time of Domesday he was possessed of 797 manors in various counties, besides the borough of Pevensey in Sussex, &c. In 1069 he, with Robert, Comte d'Eu, defeated the Danes in the parts of Lindsey with great slaughter. He joined his br. the Earl of Kent in 1088 in a rebellion against William II in favour of Robert Courthose, but was subsequently pardoned. He to. before 1066, Maud, da. of Roger (de Montgomery) Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife Mabel, da. of William, Count op Belesme. He was living in 1088, but probably d. before 1097, being possibly slain in Northumberland in Mowbray's rebellion of 1095. ( c ) II. 1095 ? 2. William (Fitz-Robert, or de Mortein), Eabl of to Cornwall, also Count op Mortein in Normandy, s. and h. He 1106. appears to have been b. before 1084, and to have coveted the Earldom of Kent, held by his uncle, Odo, 1067-97, and, being disappointed thereof, to have rebelled, with Robert de Belesme, against the King in Normandy, in an endeavour to recover that Kingdom for Robert, the King's elder (») Odo his br., Bishop of Bayeux, was in 1067 cr- Earl of Kent, and d. unmar. Feb. 1097. ( b ) " Not to be confounded with Mortagne in La Manche." See Blanche's "The Conqueror and his Companions," (vol. i, p. 107), whero a good account is given of this Robert, a man (according to William of Malmesburyi "of a heavy and sluggish disposition." Here, also, the strange anecdote related by " Dugdale" is given at length, of the " very great black goat," (an " evil spirit") carrying the King " to judgment," which appeared to the Earl, or hits son, at the very hour William Rufus was slain in the New Forest, 2 Aug. 1100. ( c ) This is Mr. Planche's conjecture founded upon a statement in " Brooke" that Earl Robert " was slain in Northumberland in 1087. Vincent in his Discemcrie points out the error of the date, but is silent respecting the account of the death, which ho certainly would not have been could he have contradicted it."