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CAMBRIDGE 493 of, where the origin of the ancient Earldom held by the family of De Veer is discussed. On 23 May 1205, David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, was in receipt of the third penny of the county of Cambridge, and thus was recog- nised as EARL OF CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDON (see Close Rolls of that year). He was br. to William the Lion, the King of Scotland above mentioned, and former owner of those Earldoms. See "Hunt- ingdon," Earldom of. The holders of the Earldom of Cambridge, as distinct from that of "Huntingdon and Cambridge," appear to have been as under. EARLDOM. I. William of Juliers, Count of Juliers, ^. about 1299, s. and h. of Gerhard, Count of Juliers, by Eliza- I. 1340 beth, da. of Godefroy de Brabant, Seigneur d'Aerschot to et de Vierzon,^) sue. his father Apr. 1329, was cr., 2 1 Aug. 1361. 1336, Marquis of Juliers and Prince of the Empire, was Lieut., Capt., and Vicar Gen. in France to King Edward III (to whose wife, Philippe, his own wife was sister), and was cr. by him, 7 May 1340, EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. He was Joint Commissioner to France, Sep. 1340 and Aug. 1341, and Chief Com. Oct. 1346 ; Ambas- sador to the Emperor, Dec. 1345 and Feb. 1349. In 1357 he was cr. Duke OF Juliers. He ;«., in 13 13, Jeanne, da. of WilHam the Good, Count of Hainault and Holland, by Jeanne, da. of Charles, Count of Valois, s. of Philip, King OF France. She i/. 1374. He -3'. Feb. 136 1, leaving male issue, but his English Earldom was surrendered by his s. and h., William, Duke of Juliers, on 15 June 1366 to Edward IILC") charter is printed and fully discussed in Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville, where it is suggested that the title Cambridge was chosen because there was already an Earl of Essex, where de Veer had his chief estates. V.G. (') This is proved by Butkens [Trophies de Brabant, vol. i, preuves, p. 2lo), con- futing Teschenmacher's statement that her father was Dietrich, Count of Cleves. He is carelessly called "Sire de Brabant et Aerschot" (an impossible designation) in U Art de verifier les Dates, (ex inform. G. W. Watson). (^) The following remarks are in Courthope: "All writers have asserted that he surrendered this Earldom into the King's hands, who bestowed it about 1340 upon John of Avesnes, Lord of Beaumont, the Queen's uncle, who was deprived of the dignity in 1340 upon his going over to France. This statement is altogether incor- rect, as the Marquess of Juliers is named in various state documents as Earl of Cam- bridge so late as 1353, when in mutual letters of acquittance between him and King Edward III his rights to the Earldom of Cambridge are preserved ; he was probably therefore possessed of it at his death in 1 36 1. Camden states in his 'Britannia' that John de Hainault [the abovenamed John of Avesnes] came to England and claimed this dignity in Pari, about 1366, but 'returned satisfied at last.' No notice of such claim is found in the Rolls of Pari."