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Richard Cornwall (1493 – 14 June 1569) was an English politician. He was born in 1493, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cornwall of Burford, Shropshire and Anne Corbet. He succeeded his father as ninth Baron of Burford in 1537. [1] Cornwall was one of many English knights to accompany Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk in an invasion of France. [1]
He was born 5 January 1209 at Winchester Castle, the second son of John, King of England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême.He was made High Sheriff of Berkshire at age eight, was styled Count of Poitou from 1225 and in the same year, at the age of sixteen, his brother King Henry III gave him Cornwall as a birthday present, making him High Sheriff of Cornwall.
He was born the son of Sir Edmund Cornwall of Burford, Shropshire. He succeeded his father in 1489, was knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497, [ 2 ] and made a knight banneret in 1513. He was appointed High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1502–03 and 1514–15 and High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1505–06, 1515–16, 1519–20 and 1531–32.
He was the son of Sir Thomas Cornwall of Berrington, who he succeeded in 1501. He was made one of King's spears by 1510 and an Esquire of the Body by 1513. He accompanied Henry VIII to Calais in 1513 and was present at the meeting with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and the subsequent meeting with Charles V, Holy ...
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Roger Corbet and his brother Robert were listed as some of the most important tenants-in-chief of the king and the powerful Marcher Lord Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury [5] [6] Roger Corbet is generally believed to have been the first feudal baron of Caus in Shropshire, which was a barony within the marcher lordship of Roger de Montgomerie (died 1094).
Richard Cornwall (died 1569) (1493–1569), MP for Pembrokeshire and Much Wenlock Richard of Cornwall (1209–1272), King of the Romans Richie Cornwall (1946–2021), American basketball player
Sir Thomas Grenville II, K.B., (c. 1453 – c. 1513), [2] lord of the manors of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and 1486. [3] During the Wars of the Roses , he was a Lancastrian supporter who had taken part in the conspiracy against Richard III, organised by the Duke of Buckingham . [ 4 ]
Honor was a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, and lord of the manor of Bideford in North Devon, by his wife Isabella Gilbert, a daughter of Otes Gilbert (1417–1492) of Compton [7] in the parish of Marldon, Devon (whose effigy survives in Marldon Church [8]).