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WARWICK. 63 the BaHdom of ITarwidfc, remained (aooordioff to the ffiant of 141(0), to hb widow, for her life, while m to his own hereditory titles, the Karldom of Saiiabury lamtd to the Crown, and the Baronia o/Moniacuie and Monihermer fell into a^tw. His widow, MO jure Counths of Warwick, having surriTod both her children, obtained an Act of Pari, in 1487 for her restoration to her family estates, but apparently only to enable her to settle them on the Crown. She if. shortly before 8 Feb. (1402/3), 8 Heu. VIi.,(*) and was sue in the Earldom of Warwick by Edward Plantagenot, her grandson and heir as hereafter stated. XVII. 1472, 1. Qkorok (Plantaobnbt), Dukb of Glarknoi, so to er. 27 June 1401, yr. br. of Edward IV*, h. 21 Oct 1449, haTing 1478. «»., 11 July 1469, Isabel, 1st da. and coheir of the abovenamed Richard (Nivill)* Earl op Warwick, and Earl op Sausburt, was, hj two separate patonti*, each dated 25 March 1472, er, EARL OP WARWICK(^) and EAKL OF SALISBURY. He was oUaintML 15 Jan. 1477/8, whereby aU JUf Aofumrs heeame forf€Ued.{^) See fuller particulars under " Clari or Clariroi," Dukedom, er. 1461 ; forJeUed, 1478. XVIIT. 1492 1 17, or £. Edward Plantaqbnst, styled (at his birth) to Earl op Warwick, being Ist s. and h. ap. of Qeorge, Durr op 1499. Clarrror, Earl op Warwick, Ac, by Isabel, his wife, both aboTe- named ; (. 21 or 25 Feb. 1474/6, at Warwick Castle ; was present (being s^led Karl of Warwick) at the coronation, 6 July 1483, of his uncle, Richard III., by whom he was KnighUd 8 Sep, following, tho' shortly afterwards imprisoned at Sheriff Hoton, co. York, whence on the accession of Henry VII., in 1485, he was removed to the Tower of London. By the death s.p.s., 16 March 1486, of the Queen Consort, Anno, hia mother's only aister, he became jure mairie EARL OP SALISBURY. LOUD MONTACUTIC [1209 and 13571, and LORD HON- THERMER [1809], tho* be appears to have still been known by his courtesy title of Earl of Warwick. Some 6 or 7 years lator, however, by the death of his matornal grandmother, Anne, mo jure Countrss op Warwick, shortlv before 8 Feb. 1492/S, to whom he was sole heir ;(<*) he became EARL OF WARWICK under the remainder of that dignity in the grant thereof in 1450. He was condemned for conspiring high treason with Perkin Warbeok(«) (a Fellow Prisoner) 21, was executed 24 Nov. 1499, on Tower Hill, aged 24 and unmarried, and subsequently (19 Jan. 1508/4) attainted. At his death all hie honoura became for/eiUd, his sistor Margaret,(^) afterwards (1518), restored as Countess of Salisbury, being his sole heir. He was 6ttr. (with his maternal ancestors) at Biaham abbey. With him ended the male line of the Royal house of Plantagenet(i() XIX. 1547. i. John (Dudley), Yisoount Lislb, b. and h. of Edmund Dudlst, by Elimbeth, mo jwe Barohisb Lrai.ii, da. (whose issue became coheir) of Bdward (Griy), Viboouiit Libui, by filisabeth, da. and nlttmatoly coheir of John (Talbot), Ist Visgount Liblk, who was yr. s. of John (■) At that dato she is spoken of as Intoly deceased. (**) It is to be noted that this Creation was made in the lifetime of his wife's mother, the nio jure Countess of Warwick. («) See vol. vii, p. 87, noto " e," iub. " Salisbury." (d) See p. 62, noto *' c** (•) *' Twss generally believed that Perkin was but the Bait to entrap this Earl *' [Sandford] and that his destruction was, in reality, because Ferdinand, King of Spain, was unwilling for the matoh of his da. with the Prince of Wales, while the heir male to the Crown was alive. (^ See vol. vii, p. 89, noto '*b** as^to the (erroneous) supposition that this Margaret, ntojure Countess of S^sbury, sue also to the Earldom of Warwick, (B) See voL vii, p. 88, noto " a,*' aub " Salisbury."