of Anjou, on the Tuesday' next after the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, in the year of grace 1253, at Suthwyk, proposing to go into Gascony 3, make my will in form following. I will that my body be buried at the Church of the Blessed Edward of Westminster, there being no impediment, having formerly appointed my body to be buried in the New Temple of London. I commit the guardianship of Edward my eldest son and heir, and of my other children, and of my Kingdom of England, and of all my other lands of Wales and Ireland, and Gascony, to my illustrious Queen Eleanors, until they arrive at full age. Also, I bequeath the cross which the Countess of Kent

Son of King John; he was born in 1207, and succeeded his father October 19, 1216; he died at St. Edmond's Bury, November 16th, 1272, about nineteen years after the date of his will. 21st July.

3 “Anno 1253. The Gascon nobility were attached to the English government, because the distance of their sovereign allowed them to remain in a state of almost total independence, and they claimed some time after Henry's protection against an invasion which the King of Castile made upon that territory. Henry returned into Guienne, and was more successful in this expedition, but he thereby involved himself and his nobility in an enormous debt, which both increased their discontents, and exposed him to greater danger from their enterprises." Hume's England, vol. ii. p. 167. Suthwick, where Henry's will is dated, was probably Southwick in Hants, where formerly was a Priory of Black Canons, and which became of some notoriety from its having been the scene of the nuptials of Henry VI. and Margaret of Anjou. Its proximity to the sea renders it very likely to have been the place where Henry. III. sojourned immediately previous to his embarkation.

Afterwards King Edward I.

She was the daughter and heiress of Raymond Earl of Provence; married to Henry in 1236, and died in the Monastery of Ambresbury, to which she had retired, about the year 1292.

6 Margaret, daughter of William the Lion, and sister of Alexander, Kings of Scotland, who married Joan, sister of Henry III. She married Hubert de Burgh anno 5th Henry III. who in the 13th of that reign was created Earl of Kent, and died 1243; she died in the year 1259.

gave me, to the small altar of the aforesaid Church of Edward of Westminster, and I appoint my aforesaid Queen; Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury'; Aymer, elect of Winchester', and Richard Earl of Cornwall, my brothers3; Petri de Lebaudia, John Maunsell, "Præpositi Beverlye, "Peter Chiceporm, Archdeacon of Wales, John Prior of Newburgh, my Chaplains; John de Gray, my Steward; and Henry de Wengham, my Secretary, my executors *.

EDWARD I.

IN the name, &c. We, Edward, eldest son of the noble King of England, make our Will the Saturday 5 next after Pentecost, in the year of our Lord 1272. First, we bequeath our soul to God, to our Lady, and to all Saints; and our body to be buried where our executors, that is to say, Sir John de Bretagne, Sir William de Valence, Sir

Boniface of Savoy.

Aymer de Valence, Henry's half-brother. Isabel, the widow of King John, married, secondly, Hugh le Brun, Earl of March, in the confines of France and Poitou, and by him she had William de Valence and Aymer de Valence, so called from the place of their birth. William de Valence was a distinguished Baron temp. Hen. III. and afterwards became Earl of Pembroke. Aymer de Valence, who is styled in Henry's will" Adomari Wintoniæ electi," became Bishop of Winchester in 1249.

3 Richard, younger son of John and brother of Henry III. was Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans; he died in 1272. * Royal Wills, p. 15.

4" Clerici mei."

5 June 18th.

• Apparently John, eldest son of John first Duke of Britanny, and Earl of Richmond. in England. He was brother-in-law to Prince Edward, having married his sister Beatrix; and he accompanied him to the Holy Land in 1269. Dugdale, Bar. vol. i. p. 51; and Histoire de Bretagne, tom. i. p. 195. Dugdale, however, contains an erroneous statement on the subject of the Dukes of

Roger de Clifford, Sir Payse de Chautros', Sir Robert de Tiletot, Sir Otes de Graundison, Robert Burnett', and Anthony Bek, shall appoint; who are also to hold the profits of all our lands in England, Ireland, and Gascony, until our children become of age. And if it should so happen (which God forbid!) that our Lord the King, our

Britanny, for he manifestly confounds John de Bretagne, who married Beatrix, daughter of Henry III. with his father, John, first Duke of Britanny, surnamed le Roux. A reference to that work will be sufficient to show that this assertion is correct, whilst it is only necessary in this note to give the real facts of the case from the "Histoire de Bretagne," which unquestionably on this point is authentic. Peter de Dreux married in 1213 Alix de Bretagne, eldest daughter and coheir of Guy de Thouars, by Constance Duchess of Britanny, the daughter and heiress of Conan IV. Duke of Britanny, and widow, first, of Geoffrey Plantagenet, brother of King John; and, secondly, of Ralph Earl of Chester: by Peter de Dreux the said Alix, who died in 1221, had several children; John I. surnamed le Roux, Duke of Britanny, the eldest son, married in 1935 Blanch, daughter of Thibaud Count of Champagne, and died in 1286, leaving issue John II. Duke of Britanny, who married in 1259 Beatrix, sister of Prince Edward, and was the executor named in that Prince's will. Dugdale says that, by letters patent dated 6th July, 52 Henry III. 1268, that Monarch granted the Earldom of Richmond to John Duke of Britanny, son of Peter 4th Duke of Britanny; and goes on to state, that he buried Beatrix, his wife, daughter of King Henry III. in the Grey Friars, London, in 1275. The Earldom of Richmond was undoubtedly possessed by John le Roux, son of Peter de Dreux; and it appears that that Prince went to the Holy Land, as is [there

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Query? Payne de Chaworth, who was in that expedition to the Holy Land. Dugd. i. p. 517.

Most likely Sir Robert Tibetot, who, Dugdale informs us, "was a trusty servant of Prince Edward's for divers years, and attended him into the Holy Land." Vol. ii. p. 38.

Query if Robert Burnell, who was also in that expedition, and was drowned at Nevyn, anno 1282. Dugd. ii. p. 61.

This Anthony Bek was afterwards Bishop of Durham from 1283 to 1311, and likewise Patriarch of Jerusalem, &c. Dugd. ii. 427. Heylyn.

father, die whilst our children be under age, we will that the realm of England, and all other lands which should descend to our children, remain in the hands of our executors before named, and also in those of our dear father the Archbishop of York, and Sir Rog. and other great men of the kingdom, until they become of full age. And for the dowry of our dear wife Eleanor', &c. In testimony of

there mentioned; but it is equally certain that his son John, afterwards Duke of Britanny, also went thither at the same time. Soon after the Earldom of Richmond was granted to his father, this John was styled "Comte de Richmond," and in the "Histoire de Bretagne" it is thus related:

"Le Duc de Bretagne, le Comte de Richemont, Alphonse Comte de Poitiers, Thibaud Roi de Navarre, et Gui Comte de Flanders, furent de nombre des Princes Croisés. Pierre de Bretagne auroit sans doute pris le même parti si la mort n'avoit enlevé à la fleur de son âge. Il mourut le 19 jour d'Octobre, de l'an 1268, et fut enterré aux Cordeliers de Paris. Le Comte de Richemont, son frère, passa en Angleterre pour demander au Roi Henri la permission de faire la voyage d'Outremer, et d'engager une partie du Comte de Richemont, pour la somme de deux mille marcs d'argent, qui étoit obligé d'emprunter, avant que d'aller à la Terre-Saint. Le Roi lui accorda toutes ses demandes, et lui promit en outre que s'il mouroit dans son voyage, ses exécuteurs testamentaires jouiroient du Comté de Richemont, jusqu'à ce que ses dettes fussent acquittées. Cette promesse est datée de Westminster, le 27 Janvier, 1269."

"Le Perte de ce Procès n'empêcha pas le Duc de partir pour Marseilles, le 17 Avril, de l'an 1270 Il étoit accompagné de la Duchesse Blanch son épouse, du Comte de Richemont son fils, et de Beatrix d'Angleterre sa belle fille." Tome i. p. 195.

In tom. i. p. 1002, of “ Memoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire de Bretagne," the grant alluded to by Dugdale is printed; as is likewise a letter from Henry III. on the restitution of the said Earldom; and p. 1018 of the same volume contains the promise alluded to above. Very extensive, and, it is presumed, authentic pedigrees of the houses of the different Dukes of Britanny, and of their various branches, will be found from p. xiii. to xxx. of tome i. of that extremely valuable work.

Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III. King of Castile, his first wife, she died in 1296.

which we have placed our seal to this Will, having requested John Archbishop of Sur, and Vicar of the Holy Church of Jerusalem, and the honorable fathers, Frere Hugh Revel, Master of the Hospital, and Frere Thomas Berard, Master of the Temple, likewise to place their seals in witness hereof. Dated at Acre, the Saturday before named, the 18th June, in the year of the reign of the King our father the 55th *.

EDWARD III.

In the name, &c. We, Edward, by the grace of God, who hold the sceptres of the Kingdoms of England and France, according to the custom of our ancestors, Kings of England, we appoint our royal burial to be in the Church of St. Peter of Westminster. We bequeath, &c. to found masses for our soul, and the soul of Philippa, our dear consort, late Queen of England'. We give to our future heir Richard, son of Edward Prince of Wales 3, our eldest son, an entire bed, marked with the arms of France and England, now in our palace at Westmin

* Royal Wills, p. 18. It is singular that Edward I. did not make another will after he succeeded to the Crown; he died July 7th, 1307, thirty-five years after the date of the above; in the date of which, however, there is a trifling discrepancy, for at the commencement we find, "le Samedis prochein apres la Pentecouste en le an de nostre Seynur mil deu cent septsaunt secund;" and at the end, "Done a Acre, le Samedy avaunt nome, le disutime jur de Juen, l'an du regne de nostre pere cinkaunt e sinc." Henry the Third ascended the throne 19th October, 1216, hence June 18th, 1272, must have been in the fifty-sixth year of that monarch's reign.

2

His father Edward II, died intestate.

Philippa, daughter of the Count of Hainault, whom he married in 1328; she died at Windsor in August 1369.

3 Afterwards King Richard II. son of Edward, the heroic Black Prince, who died v. p. Vide his will, p. 15.