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Albini amongst ancestor ancient arms Arundel Baron Bart Bashall Battle Abbey Battle Abbey Roll battle of Hastings became Bohun branch Bray brother Camoys Castle chief co-heirs Conqueror Conquest daugh Derby derived descendants Devon died distinguished Domesday Book Dugdale Duke Earl of Essex Earldom Edward Edward III eldest Elizabeth England estates Ferrers feudal Fitz gallant George Gloucester grandson grant Hastings heir Henry II Hereford honours house of York Hugh illustrious Ireland Joan John Chandos Kent King King's Lady lands liam Lincolnshire Lord Lord Lovel lordship Lovel male line male representative manor marriage married Maud Nevill noble Norfolk Normandy Percy Pigot Plantagenet possessions Prince Ralph reign of Henry Robert Roger Roll of Battle royal scendants seated shire Sir John Sir Thomas Sir William sires sister soldier sons summoned to parliament surname Talbot temp Viscount Walter Warwick wife William de Mandeville William Peveril younger
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Page 107 - Before the Normans into England came, Bentley was my seat, and Tollemache was my name," seems to set the matter at rest. TOUKE. — Thoroton, in his "History of Nottinghamshire," states that the family of Toke was settled in that county as early as the reign of William Rufus. The pedigree given by that writer has the name spelled in seventeen different ways.
Page 42 - The narrow limits of his residence show that he had learned to despise the pomp of greatness, and that a small train of servants could suffice him, who had lived to the age of thirty a servant himself.
Page 50 - whereupon, as the chronicle relates, he yielded himself to Sir Dennis Morbeck, a knight of Artois, in the English service, and being afterwards forced from him, more than ten knights and esquires challenged the taking of the king. Among these...
Page 88 - This year also died John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England, and Cardinal. He was a wise man, and an eloquent, but in his nature harsh and haughty ; much accepted by the king, but envied by the nobility, and hated of the people.
Page 80 - Alianore, married Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, sixth son of Edward III., and was mother of Anne Plantagenet, the consort of William Bourchier, Earl of Ewe, in Normandy. Of this alliance, the son and heir, Henry Bourchier, Earl of Ewe, obtained a patent of the Earldom of Essex in 1461, and was succeeded therein by...
Page 42 - he retired to the solitude of Barden, where he seems to have enlarged the tower out of a common keeper's lodge, and where he found a retreat equally favourable to taste, to instruction, and to devotion. The narrow limits of his residence...
Page 99 - Gloucester, the celebrated poet, and author of the "Chase, representative of the English and elder branch of his lordship's family ; by which, in consideration of certain sums applied to the relief of burdens, the poet, who was unmarried, settled the reversions of his estates upon Lord Somerville ; and died in 1742, when the baron inherited accordingly. The present head of the family is Kenelm, LORD SOMERVILLE ; a younger branch is represented, in the female line, by JAMES SOMERYILLB SOMERVILLE,...
Page 47 - They were ranked among the chief of the barons of the realm ; nor was it till after a strenuous dispute, that they yielded to the fief of Arundel the first place in the parliament of England : their alliances were contracted with the noblest families, the Veres, Despensers, St.
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