Henry "Almain" Cornwall 1235-1271

In or before 1218 Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford [aged 37] and [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Countess Gloucester, Countess Hertford. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke [aged 71] and [his grandmother] Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke [aged 45]. He the son of Richard Clare 3rd Earl Hertford and Amice Fitzrobert Countess Hertford. They were third cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 30th March 1231 [his father] Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 22] and [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 30] were married at Fawley, Lambourn. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of [his grandfather] William Marshal 1st Earl Pembroke and [his grandmother] Isabel Clare Countess Pembroke. He the son of King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England [aged 43]. They were fifth cousins.

On 2nd November 1235 Henry "Almain" Cornwall was born to Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 26] and Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 35]. He a grandson of King John of England.

Before November 1237 [his half-brother] Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford [aged 15] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Burgh Countess Gloucester and Hertford [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Gloucester, Countess Hertford. She the daughter of Hubert de Burgh Count Mortain 1st Earl Kent [aged 67] and Margaret Dunkeld Countess Kent [aged 44]. He the son of Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford and [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 37]. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

After November 1237 [his half-brother] Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford [aged 15] and [his sister-in-law] Maud Lacy Countess Gloucester and Hertford [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Countess Gloucester, Countess Hertford. She the daughter of John Lacy Earl Lincoln [aged 45] and Margaret Quincy 3rd Countess Lincoln and Pembroke [aged 31]. He the son of Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford and [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 37]. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 17th January 1240 [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford [aged 39] died.

On 23rd November 1243 [his father] Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 34] and [his step-mother] Sanchia Provence Queen Consort Germany [aged 15] were married at Westminster Abbey [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. She the daughter of Raymond IV Count Provence [aged 45] and Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence [aged 45]. He the son of [his grandfather] King John of England and [his grandmother] Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England [aged 55]. They were fourth cousins.

In 1255 [his former brother-in-law] Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and [his half-sister] Amice Clare Countess Devon [aged 34] were married. She by marriage Countess Devon. She the daughter of Gilbert Clare 5th Earl Gloucester 4th Earl Hertford and [his mother] Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 23rd March 1260 Alfonso Barcelona [aged 31] and [his future wife] Constance Béarn were married. He died three days later. He the son of James I King Aragon [aged 52] and Eleanor Ivrea Queen Consort Aragon.

On 14th July 1262 [his half-brother] Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford [aged 39] died. His son [his nephew] Gilbert [aged 18] succeeded 7th Earl Gloucester, 6th Earl Hertford, 9th Lord Clare, 3rd Lord Glamorgan. Alice or Alix Lusignan Countess Gloucester and Hertford [aged 26] by marriage Countess Gloucester, Countess Hertford.

On 24th June 1268 King Edward I of England [aged 29] took the cross at Northampton [Map], along with his brother Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster [aged 23] and cousin Henry "Almain" Cornwall [aged 32], from Papal Legate Ottobuono Fieschi [aged 58].

On 5th May 1269 Henry "Almain" Cornwall [aged 33] and Constance Béarn were married at Windsor Castle [Map]. He the son of Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 60] and Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford.

On 16th June 1269 [his father] Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall [aged 60] and Beatrice Falkenburg Countess Cornwall were married at Kaiserslautern [Map]. She by marriage Countess Cornwall. He the son of [his grandfather] King John of England and [his grandmother] Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England.

In 1270 Henry "Almain" Cornwall [aged 34] repudiated [his wife] Constance Béarn.

Divine Comedy Canto 12. Then I turned me to the Poet, and he said, "Let him now be first, and I second." A little further on the Centaur stopped above some folk who far as the throat were seen to issue from that boiling stream. He showed to us at one side a solitary shade, and said, "He cleft, in the bosom of God, the heart that still is honoured on the Thames¹." Then I saw folk, who out of the stream held their head, and even all their chest; and of these I recognized many. Thus ever more and more shallow became that blood, until it cooked only the feet: and here was our passage of the foss.

Note 1. In 1271, Prince Henry, son of Richard of Cornwall, was stabbed during the mass, in a church at Viterbo, by Guy of Montfort, to avenge the death of his father, Simon, Earl of Leicester, in 1261. The heart of the young Prince was placed in a golden cup, as Villani (vii. 39) reports, on a column, at the head of a bridge in London.

After 13th March 1271 Henry "Almain" Cornwall [deceased] was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire [Map].

In 1310 [his former wife] Constance Béarn died.