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Launceston was the caput of the feudal barony of Launceston and of the Earldom of Cornwall until replaced by Lostwithiel in the 13th century. [4] Launceston was later the county town of Cornwall until 1835 when Bodmin replaced it.
John Dingley (1829-1885) bought Eagle House soon after his marriage to Charlotte Shum in 1857. He was born in 1829 in Launceston. His father was Richard Dingley, who was an agent of Tavistock Bank and had served as Mayor of Launceston. [23] In 1855 - together with his father, Edward Pethybridge and George White - John formed the Launceston Bank.
Robert, Count of Mortain (d.1090). The barony was granted by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Robert, Count of Mortain (d.1090). [1]William, Count of Mortain (son), who sided with Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy against the latter's younger brother King Henry I of England, and was defeated at the Battle of Tinchebray in 1106 when his honours were forfeited to the crown.
Launceston was one of 21 parliamentary boroughs in Cornwall between the 16th and 19th centuries; unlike many of these, which had been little more than villages even when established and were rotten boroughs from the start, Launceston had been a town of reasonable size and importance though much in decline by the 19th century.
Launceston Castle is located in the town of Launceston, Cornwall, England.It was probably built by Robert the Count of Mortain after 1068, and initially comprised an earthwork and timber castle with a large motte in one corner.
Newport was a rotten borough situated in Cornwall. It is now the suburb of Newport within the town of Launceston, which was itself also a parliamentary borough at the same period. It is also referred to as Newport iuxta Launceston, [1] to distinguish it from other constituencies named Newport.
Cornwall's Early Medieval history, in particular the early Welsh and Breton references to a Cornish King named Arthur, have featured in such legendary works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, predating the Arthurian legends of the Matter of Britain (see the list of legendary rulers of Cornwall).
Brown, H. Miles (1982) Battles Royal: Charles I and the Civil War in Cornwall and the West Libra Books ISBN 0-9508009-0-2; Coate, Mary (1933) Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642–1660 Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2nd ed. 1963; Duffin, Anne (1996) Faction and Faith: politics and religion of the Cornish gentry before the Civil War.