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152 BERMINGHAM writ directed Wilklmo de Bermingham^ to attend the King at Newcastle- upon-Tyne with horse and arms, but such sum. did not constitute a writ of summons to Pari. 2. FuLK.oFBERMiNGHAM,s.andh.,servedintheFrenchWars 1340-56, and fought at Crecy and Poitiers. M.P. for co. Warwick and Bucks, in various Paris, between 1350 and 1373. He m. Joan. John of Bermingham, s. and h., a knight, and in the French Wars in 1373. M.P. for Bucks 1377 and 1380, and for co. Warwick 1380, 138 1, and 1384. He m., before 3 July 1356 (when she was aged 9), Elizabeth, da. and eventually sole h. of William de la Plaunche, of Haversham, Bucks, by Elizabeth, yr. of the 2 daughters and coheirs of Sir Roger Hillary, of Bescot, Staffs. He d. s.p. before 1393. His widow w., as his 2nd wife, Robert Grey [Lord Grey of Rotherfield], and 3rdly, as his 2nd wife, John Clinton [Lord Clinton], and 4thly, before 1402-3, Sir John Russell. She d. s.p., 1423, after i Sep., and was bur. at Haversham. Inq.p. m. (1423-4) 2 Hen. VL Elizabeth of Bermingham, niece and h., being only child of Thomas of Bermingham, () by Isabel Whitacre, which Thomas was yr. s., the only one who left issue, of Fulk of B. afsd. She m. Thomas de la Roche, of Castle Bromwich, co. Warwick.C") BERMINGHAM DE ATHENRY see ATHENRY BERNARD i.e. " Bernard Viscountcy," [I.] {Bernard)., see " Bandon," Earldom of [L], cr. 1800. BERNARD see also BARNARD (^) Dugdale writes (vol. ii, p. 108) "The collateral male heir continued much longer and possessed that fair Lordship of Bermingham until, towards the end of King Henry the Eighth's time, that Edward Bermingham, the last of them was oddly wrested out of it by John Dudley, a person of no small interest, afterwards Duke of Northumberland." C") Of her two daughters and coheirs, (i) Alienor m. Edmund (de Ferrers), Lord Ferrers (of Chartley), and was ancestress of the succeeding Lords, and (2) Elizabeth m. Charles Longueville, and was ancestress of the Lords Grey (of Ruthin).