ALBEMARLE. 57 LL wlH. 1397. 2. Edward (Plantagenet), Earl of Rutland (so cr. 1390), s. and h. ap. of Edmund, Duke of York, the 5th s. of Edw. Ill, was (v.p.), <>n 2U Sep. 1397, cr., in Pari., DUKE OF ALBEMARLE.(') This was iu the li/Hime of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester [and query, Duke of Albemarle in Normandy '.] aboTOnamed. He, together with the Duke of Surrey and Duke of Exeter, was adjudged by Pari., ti Oct. 1399, " to lose and forego from them these names that they now have as Dukes and the worship and the dignity thereof." — (Rot Pari., vol. iii, p. 452.) On 1 Aug. 1402 he sue. his father as Duke op York, and hi 2 Hen. V (1414) was fully restored to all the estate, name, fame and honour he enjoyed before the judgment of 1399. He </. s.p., being slain at Agincourt, 25 Oct. 1415, when all his honours became ex. — See " Yohk," Dukes of, under the 2nd Duke. Earls. &c. 1, Thomas ( Plantagenet ), 2nd s. of Henry IV T 14.11 was on 9 July 1411 cr. EARL OF ALBEMARLE and DUKE OF At. 1 CLARENCE. He d. s.p., 22 March 1421, being slain at the battle of Beauge, when his honours became cr.( b )— See " ClaKENCE," Duke of, cr. 1411. XII. 1421 1 1. Richard (Buauchamt), xivth Earl op Warwick, was, in 1423, or previously, cr. EARL OF ALBEMARLE for life.(«) He d. 30 April 1439, when this Earldom became ex.— See "Waiiwick," Earls of, under the xivth Earl. Dukes. 1. George Moxck, 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Monck, of III i iv IT. Potheridge, Devon, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Smith, of Made- ira worthy, in that co., was 4., 6 Dec. 100S, at Potheridge. His military achievements and general career are a matter of history. He was one of the (62) members of Cromwell's House of Lords, being styled therein "George Monke. Genera] in Scotland." For the active Dart he took in effecting the restoration of Charles II hernia num. bv that Kins K.G.. 26 Mav 1600; and on 7 duly 1600 was er. BARON MOXCK OF POTHERIDGE, BEAUCHAMP AND TEYES; EARL ( a ) This, considering the mode of its creation, must, undoubtedly, be considered as an English (»».<. a Xorman) Peerage. ( b ) The " Honor of Albemarle," consisting, inter alia, of the extensive Lordship of lioldcrness, &c, was, since it came (on the extinction of the old line of Albemarle} in 1274 into the hands of the Crown, held, under Royal Grant, by Piers Gaveston (1307- -12) ; by Isabel, Countess of Bedford, da. of Edw. Ill (1300-79) ; by Anne the Queen Dowager, who d. May 1394 ; by Thomas (Plantagenet), Duke of Gloucester and Albemarle, as above ; by Edward (Plantagenet), Duke of York and Albemarle, as above ; and by Thomas (Plantagenet), J)uke of Clarence and Earl of Albemarle, as above ; after whose death (1421) it was recovered by Anne, Countess of Stafford (as da. and h. of Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Albemarle, above named), who d. seized thereof. Until 1421 there was not one of the holders of the title of Albemarle who was not "Iso entitled to the Lordshij) of lioldcrness. After that date, however, all such con- nection was at an end. The Lordship of Holderness was held by the family of Stafford. Earls Stafford, and Dukes of Buckingham (excepting for a short, interval), till 1521, when it again reverted to the Crown. It was granted finally (for the Crown never uflcrmmts recovered the possession thereof) 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, to Henry (Nevill), 5th Earl of Westmoreland, who granted it to his s. -in-law, Sir John Constable of Burton Constable, whence it came to the family of Clifford-Constable, inasmuch as the h. gen. of the family of Constable had devised it to Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford (afterwards Clifford-Constable), Bart., whose great aunt, Elizabeth Clifford, had m. (though she did not have any issue by him)William (Constable), 4th Viscount Dunbar [S.], a former owner of the Lordship. _ l») He styled himself, 14 March 1423 (Pat. Roll., 25 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 15) " Riatrdm de JJcllo C«mpo, Comes WarrewicMe et Albemarle, dominus dc Insula, Capitnnius Rothomagi et Calesie:" the enrolment of the patent of the Eauldom op Albemarle is not to be found."— See " Courthope."
