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KENSINGTON— KENT. cr. a P.«r [U.K.] -23 Mar h 1886* as BARON KENSINGTON of Kensington, oo. Middlesex. He m. 19 Sep. 18'i7, at St. Colnmba's, Griaff, Grace Elizabeth. 1st da. of Robert Joiixstonk Dutini.As. of Lockerbie, in Scotland, l>y Jane Margaret Uary, 5h da. and coheir of Charles (Douolas), 5th Marquess op Quehnsbkiiuy [Si] She was bur. 2S Jan. 1343. Principal elates.— These, in 1SS3, consisted of 6.537 acres in Pembrokeshire, 301 in Radnorshire, 3:'.7 iu Carmarthenshire, ami 203 in Cardiganshire. Tft->t, 7.171 acres, worth £5,370 a yeai :1 ). Principal residence— St. Bride's, near Haverfordwest, co. Pembroke. KENT( b ) (county of.; Earldom. Odo, Bishop of Bateux in Nwmandy, one of the two ] 1067 sons(^ uf Herluin BE GoOTKVIU.8, by Herleve, mother of Wii.i.iam to ' TBI CoxQiiKitni!, was h. about lo30( a ) and (by the influence .if his inss s: "" utur ' nH then Duke uf Normandy), was consecrated Bishop of Kayenx in 1019 ; is said to have contributed 100 vessels towards the invasion of England, distinguishing himself, armed with a nigged clnb(') or "boston," at the battle of Hasting*, 1066. He received in reward the W.irdenship of Hover Castle ami a grant of 48° manors (of which 181 were in Kent) being "nude EARL OK KENT, 1067, of which county he possessed I tit* third pemg of the pleas as would appear from a charter (Seidell's Titles of honour, p. 527), of his brother to the Abbey of Battle.( f ) This Earldom has been sometimes claimed as a Palatine llnnnnr.i^) From Marcli to Dec 10<>7 anil again 1073-71 he was Joint Guardian of the Realm, being, in 1075, Chief Justiciar thereof. In 1071 he took part in suppressing a rebellion of the Karls of Hereford and Norfolk, as also, in 1078, one in Northumberland. He appears to have been scheming for his election as Pope and was arrested in the Isle of Wight by the King himself^) in the autumn of 10S2 and imprisoned at Rouen for five years. In Sep. 1087 he was restored to this Earldom (but not to the office of Chief Justiciar) by William II. whom, however, he betrayed, joining (with his br., Robert, Earl of Cornwall), in a rebellion in favour of Robert Courthouse, to whom (as Duke of Normandy) he became in 10S8 Chief Minister, but having been defeated by t'-e King at Rochester in .May 1088 he was again deprived of hit Earldom. He joined the Crusade and d. num. at Palermo in Sicily Feb. 1O96/70) where he was buried under a splendid tomb.( k ) ( a ) The value of this property would read very dilierently if that possessed in or near London was included, such having been excluded in the return of 1S73. See vol. ii, p. 51, note " a " (circa fincm) for some remarks on this subject. ( b ) See " Nutices of the Earls of Kent, post Conquest," by J. R. Planche, which appeared in the " Brit. Arch. Assoc." (1853), vol. ix, p. 361, &c. ( c ) The other son was Robert, Couite de Mortain in Normandy, c>: Earl of Cornwall, in England, whom see. ( d ) See Planches " The Conqueror and his companions " (vol. i, p. 15), us to this date (in lieu of one after 1031 suggested by Professor Freeman) and (vol. i, pp. 88-107), for a general account of this Earl. ( e ) Probably to evade "the edict of the council of Rheims, 1019, prohibiting the bearing of anus by the clergy." [Plauchc's "Conqueror," &c] C) Courthope. (S) See vol. i, pp. 221—222, sub " Chester," for some remarks thereon by Mr. J. Horace Round. ( h ) As an Earl cr. by the King and as the King's Vice Regent, not as a Clerk or Biskop. [Ord. Vit. (') According to " William of Malmesbury " he d. at the siege of Antioch iu 1098. ( k ) " If posterity is indebted to Odo for anything it is probably for the origin of that curious and valuable record of the Norman invasion known as the Jlai/eux tapestry," inasmuch as he, " as Bishop of Bayenx, alone had the power to deposit and display the representation of a subject from profane history in a sacred edifice." [Phinche's " Conqueror," Ike, where, also, the author alludes to a paper read by him in 1866 «t Hastings, to the Brit. Arch. Jssoc. summing up the various opinions, &c, pub. (luring the last 100 years on the subject of this historic tapestry.]