vestri, una cum representatione presentium, in nostro locali capitulo nuntiatus fuerit, ut fiat pro vobis idem quod pro nobis confratribus, fieri consuevit. Datum in domo nostrâ capitulari, sexto die Januarii, sub nostro sigillo communi, Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo quarto.

THE EARLS, EARLDOM, AND CASTLE OF PEMBROKE. No. VII.

(Continued from p. 97.)

THE DIVISION OF THE INHERITANCE.

UPON the death of the two last Earls of Pembroke, in 1245, such of the inheritance as did not, upon the failure of heirs male, revert to the crown, was divided between the sisters, and was the subject of a formal deed of partition in that same year, to which deed reference is occasionally made in the public records.

These sisters, coheirs, were five in number, and their immediate descendents, next to be described, were very

numerous.

I.-Maud Mareschal, married, first, Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and had issue, Roger and others. She married, secondly, William Earl Warren and of Surrey, ob. 1240, by whom she had Earl John, who married Alice le Brun, half sister to Henry III.

Maud survived her brothers and two husbands, and had Catherlow or Carlow, in Ireland, and HampstedMareschal, Berks, said by Milles to have carried the mareschalship. 3rd October, 1245, she had her share in her brother's lands, saving the dower of Ela? the earl's widow; and, in the same year, the custody of the castle of Cumburg (Dug. Bar. i. 77); and, 30 Henry III., on the death of her last brother, she had, as "marescalla," from the king in person, livery of the mareschal's rod, and power to sit by deputy in the Exchequer. (H. of E. i. 47.) She delivered the rod to her son Roger.

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Hib. 33.) She also had custody, until her death, of the castle of Striguil.

Milles gives her a third husband, Walter, Lord Dunstanvill, who died 1269.

Maud died 27th March, 32 Henry III., 1247-8, and was buried, and had an obit at Tintern. Her four sons, Roger, Hugh, Ralph, and John, bore her corpse into the choir. Roger had respite, 19th July, 1249, of £40, due as his share of the dower of Alianor, Countess of Pembroke. (Rot. C. R. ii. 57; and Exc. e R. F. ii. 33, 57.) In 1252 he claimed, as Earl Mareschal, the palfrey of the King of Scotland, knighted at his marriage with the daughter of Henry III. at York. This was disallowed, because the king was of rank to knight himself. Roger died 1270, and was succeeded as Earl Mareschal, and Lord of Catherlow, by his nephew Roger, who died s. p.

1306.

From Maud Mareschal also descended Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, who died 11 Henry VI., seized of the castle, manor, and borough of Striguil, and the manor of Todenham. He also had Carlow. (Dug.

Bar. i. 131; Milles.)

II.--Joan Mareschal, married Warine de Munchensy. Her descendents had the Earldom of Pembroke and Lordship of Wexford.

III. Isabel Mareschal married, first, in 1214, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, who died 14 Henry III., leaving Earl Richard, who had Kilkenny, and died 1262. A daughter, Isabel, married Lord Braose, of Gower; and another, Susan, married Gwenynwen, Lord of Powis, and was mother of Griffith, Prince of Powis, and of Gilbert de la Pole. (Milles, 355.)

Kilkenny remained in the De Clares, and was granted by patent, 1296, to Ralph de Monthermer, who married Joan, Countess Dowager of Gloucester. (Lib. Hib. 33.)

Isabel Mareschal married, secondly, in April, 15 Henry III., Richard, Earl of Cornwall, a younger son of King John. She was his second wife, and was mother of John, Henry, assassinated at Viterbo, 56 Henry III., Richard,

and Nicholas, all of whom seem to have died s. p., since his successor, Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, was son to Saunchia, the earl's third wife, who died 1272. (Dug. Bar. i. 765.)

Isabel died, in childbed, at Berkhampstead, 1239-40. While dying she cut off the tresses for the beauty of which she was so celebrated, and confessed her sins. Her child, Nicholas, according to M. Paris, died with its mother, and both were buried at Beaulieu, a Cistercian abbey in Hampshire, founded by King John.

IV.-Eve Mareschal married William de Braose, of Bergavenny, Lord of Brecknock, who was put to death by Llewelyn, 14 Henry III., in which year she had her dower. The wife of a De Braose, notwithstanding their episcopal relative of Hereford, could scarcely expect a peaceable life, and she shared the royal displeasure with her brother Richard. However, 18 Henry III., she was in favour; and, 24 Henry III., her brother Gilbert was directed to surrender to her children the barony of St. Clere. She probably had died in that year, and thus did not share in the wealth that flowed in upon her children.

She had five daughters, Mareschal and Braose coheirs. They had, besides much other property, the castle of Haverford, and the Irish lordship of Ossory. (L. Hib. 33; and Dug. Bar. i. 182.)

The daughters of Eve Mareschal were

(A.) Isabel Braose, who married David, son of Prince Llewelyn, and died s. p.

(B.) Maud Braose, who married Roger Lord Mortimer, of Wigmore, (Plac. de Q. W. 273,) son of Lord Ralph by Gwladys Ddu, daughter of Prince Llewelyn. He was Lord of Melyenydd, jure uxoris (Jones's Brecon, iii. 135); and, 31-2 Henry III., had livery of certain Mareschal lands in England and Ireland. He died 10 Edward I., 1282. Maud was alive, and appears as a Mareschal coheir, 21 Edward I. Jones says she finally married Brian de Brampton.

(c.) Eve Braose, who had Totnes, (Pole's Devon, 44,) Abergavenny, and Kilgerran, and the service of Meredith