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Earls of Westmorland - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | WESTMORLAND Ralph Neville, 4th Baron Neville of Raby, and 1st earl of Westmorland (1364-1425), eldest son of John, 3rd Baron Neville, and his wife Maud Percy (see Neville, Family), was knighted by Thomas of Woodstock, afterwards duke of Gloucester, during the French expedition of 1380, and succeeded to his father's barony in 1388. |
 | | The earl died on the 21st of October 1425, and a fine alabaster tomb was erected to his memory in Staindrop church close by Raby Castle. |
 | | Charles, 6th earl (1543-1601), eldest son of the 5th earl by his first wife Jane, daughter of Thomas Manners, ist earl of Rutland, was brought up a Roman Catholic, and was further attached to the Catholic party by his marriage with Jane, daughter of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. |
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