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Earl Cornwall is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically.
There have been six creations of Earl Cornwall:
1st. 1072. Brian Penthièvre 1st Earl Cornwall 1040-1084. Extinct. 1084.
2nd. 1072. Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall 1031-1090. Forfeit. 28th September 1106. Battle of Tinchebray.
3rd. 1141. Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall 1110-1175. Extinct. 1st July 1175.
4th. 1225. Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall 1209-1272. Extinct. 25th September 1300.
5th. 6th August 1307. Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall 1284-1312. Extinct. 19th June 1312. Capture, Trial and Execution of Piers Gaveston.
6th. 1330. John of Eltham 1st Earl Cornwall 1316-1336. Extinct. 30th September 1336.
Earl Cornwall is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
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1072. Brian Penthièvre 1st Earl Cornwall created.
1084. Brian Penthièvre 1st Earl Cornwall extinct.
In 1072 Brian Penthièvre 1st Earl Cornwall (age 32) was created 1st Earl Cornwall.
After 1084 Brian Penthièvre 1st Earl Cornwall (deceased) died. Earl Cornwall extinct. He may have resigned the title before this date when he returned to live in Brittany.
Earl Cornwall is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Forfeit Earldoms of England.
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1072. Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall created.
1090. Son William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall succeeded.
28th September 1106. William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall forfeit. See Battle of Tinchebray.
In 1072 Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall (age 41) was created 1st Earl Cornwall.
In 1090 Robert Mortain Count Mortain 1st Earl Cornwall (age 59) died. His son William (age 6) succeeded Count Mortain Mortagne, 2nd Earl Cornwall.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Before 1106 William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall (age 22) forfeit 2nd Earl Cornwall for having attacked the Normandy castles of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 37).
On 28th September 1106 King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 38) defeated his older brother Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 55) at the Battle of Tinchebray at Tinchebray, Orne.
William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan (age 66). Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine commanded the reserve. The following fought for Henry:
William "Brito aka Breton" D'Aubigny (age 20).
Alan Canhiart IV Duke Brittany (age 43).
Raoul Tosny (age 26).
William "Pincerna aka Butler" D'Aubigny (age 42).
Robert Grandesmil (age 28), and.
William Normandy I Count Évreux.
Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy was captured and spent the next twenty-eight years in prison; never released.
William Mortain Count Mortain 2nd Earl Cornwall (age 22) was also captured. He spent the next thirty or more years in prison before becoming a monk. Earl Cornwall forfeit.
King Edgar Ætheling II of England (age 55) was captured and subsequently released; Henry had married to Edgar's niece Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England (age 26) in 1100.
Robert II Belleme 2nd Count Ponthieu 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (age 50) escaped.
Robert Stuteville was captured.
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Earl Cornwall is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
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1141. Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall created.
1st July 1175. Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall extinct.
In 1141 Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall (age 31) was created 1st Earl Cornwall.
On 1st July 1175 Reginald de Dunstanville Fitzroy 1st Earl Cornwall (age 65) died at Chertsey, Surrey. He was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire [Map]. Earl Cornwall extinct. His son appears to have predeceaseed him by months.
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1225. Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall created.
2nd April 1272. Son Edmund "Almain" 2nd Earl Cornwall succeeded.
25th September 1300. Edmund "Almain" 2nd Earl Cornwall extinct.
In 1225 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 15) was created 1st Earl Cornwall.
On 30th March 1231 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 22) and Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford (age 30) were married at Fawley, Lambourn. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke and Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke. He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England (age 43). They were fifth cousins.
On 23rd November 1243 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 34) and Sanchia Provence Queen Consort Germany (age 15) were married at Westminster Abbey [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of Raymond Berenguer Provence IV Count Provence (age 45) and Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence (age 45). He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England (age 55). They were fourth cousins.
On 16th June 1269 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 60) and Beatrice Falkenburg Countess Cornwall were married at Kaiserslautern [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England.
On 2nd April 1272 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 63) died at Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire [Map]. He was buried at Hailes Abbey [Map]. His son Edmund (age 22) succeeded 2nd Earl Cornwall.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 6th October 1272 Edmund "Almain" 2nd Earl Cornwall (age 22) and Margaret Clare Countess Cornwall (age 22) were married at the Ruislip [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford and Maud Lacy Countess Gloucester and Hertford (age 49). He the son of Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall and Sanchia Provence Queen Consort Germany. They were half fourth cousin once removed. He a grandson of King John of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
On 25th September 1300 Edmund "Almain" 2nd Earl Cornwall (age 50) died. Earl Cornwall extinct. He was buried, heart and flesh, at Ashridge, Hertfordshire [Map]. His bones were interred at Hailes Abbey [Map] during a service attended by King Edward I of England (age 61).
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6th August 1307. Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall created. See Return of Piers Gaveston.
19th June 1312. Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall extinct. See Capture, Trial and Execution of Piers Gaveston.
On 6th August 1307 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 23) was created 1st Earl Cornwall by King Edward II of England (age 23); Earl Cornwall usually reserved for the heir. The earldom gave Gaveston substantial landholdings over great parts of England, to the value of £4,000 a year. These possessions consisted of most of Cornwall, as well as parts of Devonshire in the south-west, land in Berkshire and Oxfordshire centred on the honour of Wallingford, most of the eastern part of Lincolnshire, and the honour of Knaresborough in Yorkshire, with the territories that belonged to it.
On 5th August 1309 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 25) was restored 1st Earl Cornwall.
On 19th June 1312 Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 28) was taken to Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire [Map] where he was beheaded. Earl Cornwall extinct. Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire [Map] being outside of the lands of Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl of Warwick (age 40). Gaveston's body was left where it lay eventually being recovered by Dominican friars who took it to King's Langley Priory, Hertfordshire [Map].
Earl Cornwall is also in Earldoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Earldoms of England.
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1330. John of Eltham 1st Earl Cornwall created.
30th September 1336. John of Eltham 1st Earl Cornwall extinct.
In 1330 John of Eltham 1st Earl Cornwall (age 13) was created 1st Earl Cornwall.
On 30th September 1336 John of Eltham 1st Earl Cornwall (age 20) died at Perth [Map]. Earl Cornwall extinct. He was buried at the east side of the doorway to the Chapel of St Edmund, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His monument comprises a head of the statue encircled by a coronet of large and small leaves, remarkable for being the earliest specimen of the kind. The details of plate-armour, surcoat, gorget, coroneted helmet, with other accessories, give great antiquarian interest to this work. It was formerly surmounted by a canopy, of which, however, no traces are now visible.