BEDFORD. 293 Dukedom. 2 John (Plantagenet), " of Lancaster," 3rd s. T .111 of King Hanry IV, by his first wife Mary, da. and coheir of
- , Humphrey (de Bohln), Earl of Hereford, &c, was b 20 June
iinrl 138ft BLB. 11 Oct. 1899, and KG-., prdbahlj immediately after his father's accession to tlie Grown in 1399, but possibly not till 1402. (») to_ Warden of the East Marches and Capt. of Berwick, 1103-1414. On 1435. 10 Sep. (1403), 4 Hen. IV, he was made Constable of England, which oilice was afterwards (11 Hen. IV) confirmed on Iiim for life. Joint Ambassador to Scotland, 1411. In the Pari, held at Leicester 16 May (1414), 2 Hen. V, he was a: EARL OF KENDAL and DUKE OF BEDFORD /or /i/c, which dignities, on surrcnder,( h ) were regranted to him and the heirs male of his body hia two daughters, by his 1st wife, by agreement in 1101 between the sisters, whereby the eldest, Mary (/'. April 1360 at I'hateau de Coney), had the French estates. This Mary in. in 1393 Henri, Due de Bar, and </. 1404. The inheritance of the De Coney family finally passed, with her only da. Joanna, to the family of Luxembourg and so to the House of Bourbon and the Crown of France, in the person of Henri IV. The Sire de Coney had also a da. (by his second wife) who was named Isabella, and who m., in 1409," Philip of Burgundy, Count of Nevers, by whom she had one child who d. s.p. ( a ) See notes t.) pp. civ and elvi in Beltz's " Order of the Garter." ( b ) The surrender of a Peerage in England (so frequent in Scotland) whether to the Crows itself, or to a Subject with subsequent continuation by the Crown, was by no means unusual up to the time of Charles I. The following is a list, chronologically arranged, of some such surrenders. 1230 Leicester, Earldom, confirmed tu Simon de Montfort ; on the rest;/ nation of his elder br. Almaric. 1233 Lincoln, Earldom, confirmed to John de Laey, on the resignation of [his wife's mother] Hawisia de Quincy, to whom her br. Ranuljih, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, had by charter resigned the said Earldom of Lincoln. 1302 Norfolk, Earldom, together with the Marshalship of England, resigned by Soger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, &c, to Ed. I. 1309 Hereford ash Essex, Earldom. Kecital in a charter (18 May, 2 Ed. II) that Humphrey de Bohun did lately by charter surrender all his lands, &e., "with the name of Earl in the counties of Hereford and Essex," to the late- King Edward I. 1372 Richmond, Earldom, resigned to Ed. Ill by the grantee's son John, Duke of Laucaster, King of Castille and Leon, Arc. 1377 Bedford, Earldom, resigned to Kic. II. by the grantee, Ingelram de Couci, together with all his English honours, on his devoting himself to the service "i I 'ranee. 1433 Bedford, Dukedom, and Kendal, Earldom. These dignities which had been er. for life only by Hen. V, were resigned in 1433 to Hen. VI, who granted a fresh patent thereof, 8 July 1433, with rem. to the heirs male of the body, „ Gloucester, Dukedom, and Pembroke, Earldom cr. for life only, were resigned and regranted on the same date and in the same mauner as " Bedford." 147S Pembroke, Earldom. Recital in the creation of William Herbert, to be Earl of Huntingdon, that the said Earl had restored the charter (146S) creating the Earldom of Pembroke (which he had inherited) to be remedied. 1500 Winchester, Earldom. Letters patent creating the same (13 Oct. 1472) delirered to Hen. VII at Calais (15 Hen. VII), to be cancelled and were cancelled accordingly. 1514 Surrey, Earldom surrendered to the Crown by Thoinas (Howard), Duke of Norfolk 1 Feb. 1513-1, "pro termino vitee filii'." 1523 De Lisle, Viscountcy. Letters patent creating the same (15 May 1513) surrendered to the King to be cancelled, and were cancelled accordingly. 1640 Stafford, Barony. Surrender to the Crown for £S00 by "Roger Stafford, Esq.," whereby he acknowledges "the Honor, Estates, Grade, Dignity, Title and Name, of Baron of Staffoiib " to be the right of the King as had " of the surrender of the afsd. Roger." The King regranted the Barony shortly afterwards with the ancient precedency, and "no question relating to the validity or effect of the Fine was ever raised"
