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320 DEVON select.('*) The King took his homage and he had livery of his father's lands and of the rest of his inheritance, 29 Jan. 1256/7. (*) He accompanied the King to France in July 1262. (*) He w., in 1257, C") Margaret (niece of the said Pierre and first cousin of the Queen), da. of Count Thomas de Savoie,(') sometime (1237-44) Count of Flanders and (») Pattnt Rolls, 36 Hen. Ill, m. 3; 46-47 Hen. Ill, m. 7: Clost Roll, 41 Hen. Ill, «. II. C") " MccLvii. Baldewinus de Ripariis, domina Regina procurante, quandam alienigenam ducit in uxorem, Sabaudiensem, ipsius Regine consanguineam." (M. Paris, vol. v, p. 616). (') In UArt de Vh'tfier Us Dates, torn, iii, p. 61 5, it is stated that Thomas, Count of Savoy (who d. in 1233), had two daughters, " Marguerite, laquelle ^pousa, par con- trat du I Juin 121 8, Hartman, fils d'Ulric, Comte de Kibourg . . . et Avoie, femme de Baudouin de Riviere, Comte de Devonshire." Stapleton (Preface to Liher de Antiquis Legihus, p. 31), knowing that Baldwin's wife was named Margaret, boldly alters this statement to " Margaret, Countess of Devon, . . . was a daughter of Thomas Comte of Savoy and sister of Beatrix . . . mother of Alienora, wife of King Henry III, espoused first to Herman, Comte of Ribourg [j;V] in June 1218, and secondly in 41 Hen. Ill, 1257, '^° Baldwin, Earl of Devon," adding, out of the fulness of his information, or by way of proof, that " Herman Comte of Ribourg was deceased without issue at the time when Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was Emperor of Germany, who bestowed his succession upon Peter, Comte of Savoy, as to all which was held of the Empire " — this is true enough. The absurdity of marrying the Queen's aunt, in 1257, to a man of 21, and adding that she — who had been married as long before as 12 18 — had a son by this second marriage, does not appear to have occurred to Stapleton. Unfor- tunately for his credibility, the pedigree of the Counts of Kyburg is perfectly well known. There were two Count Hartmanns at the time: they both outlived Earl Baldwin. On 17 Oct. 1263 Richard conferred on Pierre, Count of Savoy, castra oppida villas terras et feoda quecumque Hartmannus quondam Comes junior de Kiburg obitus sui tempore ah imperio possidehat. This Hartmann junior had died, s.p.m., 3 Sep. 1 263, according to the Necrology of Wettingen. It would seem, however, that he died between 7 Nov. and 28 Dec. 1262. But the husband of Marguerite of Savoy was Hartmann senior, who occurs with her in a great number of documents up to 10 June 1 264, and who died 27 Nov. following, according to the same Necrology {Pontes Rerum Bern., tom. ii, nos. 525, 527, 532, 543, 548, 564, 569). And his wife, Marguerite, died in 1273, according to the Chronicle of Hautecombe: "Anno domini mcclxxiii pridie nonas Septembris obiit illustrissima domina Margarita comitissa de Quiborch in Allemania soror comitum filia domini Thome sexti comitis Sabaudie " {Monumenta Hist. Patriae, Scriptores, tom. ii, col. 674). Stapleton also asserts that a writ on the Patent Roll of 52 Hen. Ill — from which it appears that the King had given to the daughter (unnamed) of Thomas, sometime Count of Savoy, consanguinee Regis, 500 marks for her marriage — refers to the widow of Earl Baldwin. As to which it is to be observed that this Thomas was assuredly not the Count who died in 1233, but his son, who died in 1259, and who is frequently and more correctly described elsewhere on the Rolls as sometime Count of Flanders, or as Count Thomas of Savoy (he was never reigning Count): also that, though it is almost certain that the wife of Earl Baldwin was daughter of the last-named Thomas, It is quite impossible that this wife, in her widowhood, could have been described as above, or in any way save as Margaret de Reviers, Countess of Devon (or of the Isle);