Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Richard, Earl of Cornwall


Related Topics

  
  Richard, earl of Cornwall. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1227, following an expedition to Gascony and Poitou, Richard forced Henry to grant him the land and wealth he regarded as his right, as well as the title of earl of Cornwall.
Richard refused (1252) Pope Innocent IV’s offer of the Sicilian crown (which Henry later accepted for his son Edmund), but in 1257 he had himself elected king of the Romans (i.e., emperor-elect of the Holy Roman Empire).
Richard was crowned at Aachen and made three visits to Germany, but was never more than nominal ruler there.
www.bartleby.com /65/ri/RichardeC.html   (334 words)

  
 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg135   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Richard Earl of Cornwall [Parents] was born 5 Jan 1208/1209 in Winchester, Castle, England.
Richard married Beatrix of Falkenburg on 16 Jun 1269 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Beatrix married Richard Earl of Cornwall on 16 Jun 1269 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
members.tripod.com /drewspen/genealogy/aqwg135.htm   (431 words)

  
 Richcorn
Shield-The Lion of Poitou and a border of Cornwall as earl of Cornwall.
Richard therefore offered his heir a number of manors in exchange, and such an offer from the Kings brother being little short of a command or even a threat the offer had to be accepted.
The earls steward, John Beaupre, subsequently acknowledged his part in the attacks, the damage done to the park and also the seizure and gaoling of master John de Esse, chancellor of the diocese and official- principal.
homepages.tesco.net /~k.wasley/Richcorn.htm   (2152 words)

  
 Edward III of England - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edward, the son of Edward II of England and Isabella of France, daughter of King Philip the Fair, was born in Windsor Castle.
Richard II designated as his heir presumptive his cousin Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, senior heir in female line, the grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, but this succession never took place as Richard II was eventually deposed and succeeded by another of Richard's cousins: Henry IV, "Bolingbroke", who was senior heir in male line.
He had two sons: Edward, Duke of York, killed fighting alongside Henry V at the battle of Agincourt, and Richard, Earl of Cambridge, executed by Henry V for treason (involving a plot to place heir presumptive Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Cambridge's brother-in-law and cousin, on the throne).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Edward_III_of_England   (1989 words)

  
 Cornwall County Council - 'Voices From Cornwall's Past'
Cornwall's involvement in national events is represented by letters relating to the closure of Tywardreath priory and to Henry VIII's intended marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Cornwall's strategic position gave its merchants advantages of communication with Europe - Richard Daniell's account book of the 1590s is extraordinarily detailed, listing cargoes, prices, ships and dates of delivery - but also enabled enemy fleets to threaten its coast.
Innovation and improvement were the characteristics of the 18th century in Cornwall, with developments in mining, the discovery of china clay, and a lively correspondence between local families who discussed politics, religion, antiquities, travel, geology and fine arts with enthusiasm and knowledge.
www.cornwall.gov.uk /index.cfm?articleid=12132   (917 words)

  
 Berkshire History: Biographies: Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall & King of the Romans (1209-1272)
Richard was the second son of King John and his second wife, Isabella of Angouleme.
In domestic life, Richard married Isabella, daughter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, in 1231.
His capture in a windmill after the defeat of the Royalist army at the Battle of Lewes, is commemorated in the earliest of English vernacular satires; and, from then on, he remained a prisoner till the fall of the rebel leader.
www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/rplantagenet_eofc.html   (483 words)

  
 Wallingford Timeline - 13th Century
Ranulph III de Blundeville Le Meschines, the Earl of Chester, (c1172-1232,) holder of the honour of Wallingford and the castle, dies at Wallingford and his heart is buried at the castle.
The castle and honour is given to Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother to Henry III, and son of John I 'Lackland'.
Richard of Corwnall goes to Germany, and later that year Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester is thought to have taken Wallingford Castle along with other royal castles.
uk.geocities.com /david.hemming1@btinternet.com/13C   (815 words)

  
 Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs to 1516: Cornwall
In 1290, this grant was confirmed by Edmund, son of Richard K of Almain and earl of Cornwall.
The borough of Grampound was established before 1296 by the earl of Cornwall in the parish of St Creed, at the manor of Tybeste (Beresford, pp.
Matilda, who was the wife of Richard de Hewysh and Richard son of Richard de Hewysh claimed their rights as the assigns of Robert son of Walter de Wodeham and from Robert’s ancestors.
www.history.ac.uk /cmh/gaz/cornwall.html   (7059 words)

  
 TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With R
Ranulf, the Earl of Chester witnessed the foundation of the new Savigny abbey in the Midlands.
Richard was the wealthiest land owner of his time, having inherited estates from Edmund of Langley and from his mother, he inherited the powerful estates of the Earl's of March.
Richard's elder brother was called Edward who became king of England as Edward V in April of 1483 after the death of their father.
www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprr.htm   (3586 words)

  
 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard of Cornwall (5 January 1209 2 April 1272) was Count of Poitou (bef.
Richard opposed Simon de Montfort, and rose in rebellion in 1238 to protest against the marriage of his sister, Eleanor, to Simon.
Richard's claims to Gascony and Poitou were never more than nominal, and in 1241 King Louis IX of France invested his own brother Alphonse with Poitou.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard,_Earl_of_Cornwall   (995 words)

  
 Richard, earl of Cornwall - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
RICHARD, EARL OF CORNWALL [Richard, earl of Cornwall] 1209-72, second son of King John of England and brother of Henry III.
A Place of Legends - Rumored to be the birthplace of a factual King Arthur, the windswept ruins of Tintagel castle on England's Cornwall coast mystify and intrigue historians and true believers in the Arthurian legend.
THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND THE EARLS OF MARCH: GARTER KNIGHTS AND SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-richardec.html   (515 words)

  
 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Richard England CORNWALL ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
Richard of Cornwall, who came back from his crusade in January, 1242, was persuaded that he had another chance of realizing his vain title of Count of Poitou.
Romeo saw to it that a copy was sent to Richard of Cornwall (who might be expected to see a compliment in it to himself), written in Eleanor's own fair hand and with a note from her as well.
Richard saw to it that the order was recinded and then sent word to his sister that it would be wise for her to leave the city at once...
www.geneal.net /1208.htm   (3882 words)

  
 Blomefield 4:697:
VCH Oxford he is incorrectly identified with one Sir Richard de Cornwall, who owned the manor and the advowson of the church there, at least from 1323 [A2A BCM/B/2/7/1].
Peter de Cornwall (Edmund, Richard, Earl Richard): in 1354 acquired manor of Hampton, Lovett, Worcestershire, from mother Elizabeth [A2A 705:349/12946/475234]; in 1365 acquired Robert de Harleye’s lands in the same and in Birlingham, Worcs.
Richard de Cornubia, parson of the church of Walsoken, for life, the manors of Est Wynch, Est Walton, Wygenhale and Thyryngton, a messuage and a carucate of land in South Wotton and North Wotton and 4l.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~battle/cornwall.htm   (4069 words)

  
 woodgate - pafg127 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Richard Earl of Cornwall [Parents] was born on 5 Jan 1209 in Winchester,Castle,England.
She married Richard Earl of Cornwall on 16 Jun 1269 in Kaiserslautern,Germany.
Richard I Coeur de Lion King of England [Parents] was born in 1157 in Beaumont Palace,Oxford,England.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~woodgate/pafg127.htm   (441 words)

  
 Launceston
It was made a free borough by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and the townsmen hired the site of their guildhall from him at the rent of an annual pound of pepper.
After the death of Earl Robert's son, the property reverted to the Crown, but was always given afterwards with the title, from which it was never detached.
During the civil war the castle was garrisoned for King Charles by Sir Richard Grenville, and was one of the last strongholds of the royal cause in this pact of the country; it surrendered to Fairfax in 1646.
www.mspong.org /picturesque/launceston.html   (765 words)

  
 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans
Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans
Richard Plantagenet (1st son of Earl of Cornwall and Sancha)
Richard Plantagenet (3rd son of Earl of Cornwall and Sancha)
www.royalist.info /execute/biog?person=136   (198 words)

  
 26th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Richard Gloucester de Clare, Seventh Earl of Gloucester, Eighth Earl of Clare, and Sixth Earl of Hertford was born 4 Aug 1222 in Mellent, Gloucestershire County, England.
In 1259, however, he quarreled with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; the dispute, begun in England, was renewed in France, and he was again in the confidence of the king.
In 1248, Earl Richard founded Clare Priory, the first house of Austin Friars in England, and after his death Maud continued his generosity with several grants of land to the priory.
www.boazfamilytree.com /edebeauchamp/aqwg08.htm   (859 words)

  
 (Richard - Robert II )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Richard I the (Duke of Normandy) (____ - 0996)
Richard II (Duke of Normandy) (____ - 1026)
Richard III (Duke of Normandy) (____ - 1027)
home.comcast.net /~smcdonald91/genealogy/index/ind0035.html   (155 words)

  
 BU Law | Our Faculty | Scholarship | Legal History: The Year Books : Report #1274.002ss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edmund 'of Almaine' was Earl of Cornwall from 2 Apr. 1272 to 25 Sep. 1300.
Edmund, styled of Almaine, Earl of Cornwall, 1250-1300, son of s.v.
Richard, Earl of Cornwall, 1209-1272, second son of King John, in Cokayne, Complete Peerage, vol.
www.bu.edu /phpbin/lawyearbooks/display.php?id=14   (323 words)

  
 GENUKI: Lanteglos by Camelford
This is in an area of north-east Cornwall with moorland streams, woodland and narrow valleys.
Cornwall FHS Library from which it can be purchased.
Cornwall Legacy have published on CD baptisms (1863 to 1900) of the Camelford United Methodist Circuit.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/Cornwall/LanteglosbyCamelford/index.html   (1653 words)

  
 CORNISH ANCESTRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This 'CORNWALL' family was of the ancestral House of Cornwall which descended from the Kings of England, namely Henry I, King John, and Richard, King of the Holy Roman Empire.
Isabella was the sole daughter and heir of John de Cornwall and as such brought to the Hender family the Manor of Court of Brannel by inheritance.
The Coat of Arms held by the Hender family of Court is described as being that of Hendower, a Welsh family and surviving heirs of Cornwale of Court in Brannel, the heirs of Hendower in Trewarthian cir.
www.xmission.com /~hunter/cornwall.html   (963 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : The Manor of Isleworth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Henry had granted his younger brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall the manor of Isleworth, which then included Twickenham, in 1227.
Richard fought in this battle and had to take refuge in a nearby windmill where he too was captured.
The barons were led by the king's brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=23   (271 words)

  
 The Twickenham Museum : Richard Earl of Cornwall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Richard, created Earl of Cornwall by his older brother Henry III, was the second son of King John and named after his uncle King Richard I, the Lionheart.
His son, Henry, by his first wife Isabella, daughter of William Marshall 1st Earl of Pembroke, was murdered in Viterbo by two sons of his late brother-in-law Simon de Montfort in 1271.
Richard is buried at Hayles Abbey near Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, beside Sanchea.
www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=5   (315 words)

  
 Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - German links with Westminster Abbey
Richard, Earl of Cornwall (1209-1272), brother of Henry III of England, was crowned King of the Romans at Aachen in 1257.
He is buried at Hayles Abbey in Gloucestershire but his carved shield of arms (a lion within a border) is one of a series on the wall of the south choir aisle.
Richard’s son Henry of Almayne was murdered in 1271 and his heart was buried in the chapel of St Edward the Confessor.
www.westminster-abbey.org /library/links/german.htm   (591 words)

  
 Tintagel ~ Cornwall
In 1233 CE, Earl Richard of Cornwall, the brother of King Henry III, was persuaded to build a medieval castle in this isolated, windswept spot.
By Earl Richard's time, the story had been elaborated: Tintagel was now where Arthur had been born and possibly where he had lived.
Some speculate that Richard built Tintagel because he hoped to benefit from the tales of chivalry and heroism attributed to the site, presenting himself as a successor to King Arthur.
www.grisel.net /tintagel.htm   (1727 words)

  
 Combs &c. Families of Cornwall, England
The manor and honour of Launceston, which had a very extensive jurisdiction, belonged from time immemorial to the Earls of Cornwall, who had their chief seat at Launceston castle: it was given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother, Robert, Earl of Montaigne, whom he made Earl of Cornwall.
Stoke­Climsland is a parish and Duchy­of­Cornwall manor in east Cornwall, south of Launceston [Cornwall], and near the Devon­Cornwall border.
Lezant, a parish 4½ miles SE of Launceston, the living a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Bishop of Exeter.
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/con   (1766 words)

  
 Medieval Tintagel
Richard, Earl of Cornwall, younger brother of Henry III, obtained Tintagel in 1233.
Cresswell, Beatrix F. The north coast of Cornwall from Constantine Bay to Crackington Haven: Wadebridge, Padstow, Tintagel, Boscastle, etc. A handbook for visitors and residents.
The north coast of Cornwall from Bude to Tintagel Dearman, W.
vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu /medart/image/England/Tintagel/main-tintagel.html   (505 words)

  
 Camelford - Cornwall
The town lies on the edge of Bodmin Moor and is about six miles inland from the rugged North Cornwall coast, with the delightful villages of Boscastle and Tintagel within easy reach.
Legend has it that King Arthur and his Knights are a part of North Cornwall history, and that Camelford was the Camelot, of legend.
Further afield is the quaint fishing village of Port Isaac, to the north the seaside resort of Bude and, to the east, historic Launceston.
www.cornwalls.co.uk /Camelford   (805 words)

  
 Cornwall Cricket Club
In 1952, the Cornwall Park Trust Board granted the Auckland Cricket Association (ACA) a ten acre block known as the Olive Grove adjoining the Greenlane Hospital to be used by the Ponsonby-Balmoral Cricket Club.
Cornwall has developed a reputation for being the 2nd best cricket venue in Auckland after Eden Park and because of this the Park often hosts fixtures of the highest level.
The roundels originated in the arms of King John’s second son Richard, The Earl of Cornwall and the Count of Poictou.
www.cornwallcricket.co.nz /about/history.html   (533 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.