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The title of Earl of Cornwall was created several times in the Peerage of England before 1337, ... Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (1209–1272), ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Edward of Windsor, Earl of Chester (1312–1327) Earl of Cornwall. Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1308–1312) Earl of Derby. Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (1296–1322) Earl of Essex. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, 3rd Earl of Essex (1298–1322) John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, 4th Earl of Essex (1322–1336) Earl of ...
Since the 1603 Union of the Crowns, the title has descended alongside the Dukedom of Cornwall. Earl of Carrick and Baron of Renfrew – Other titles of the Scottish peerage inherited by the heir ...
Campbell, S. (1962), "The Haveners of the medieval Dukes of Cornwall and the organisation of the Duchy ports", Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, 4: 113– 44, ISSN 0968-5936. Haslam, G. (1980), An Administrative Study of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1500–1650, PhD thesis, Louisiana State University, pp. 303– 05.
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.
Reginald was born in Dénestanville in the Duchy of Normandy, an illegitimate son of King Henry I (1100–1135) by his mistress Sybilla Corbet of Alcester [1] who was a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Corbet, lord of the manor of Alcester, Warwickshire, and wife (at some point) of "Herbert the King's Chamberlain".
Richard of Cornwall was elected but only after a highly partisan election. On May 27, 1257, Konrad von Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne himself crowned Richard "King of the Romans" in Aachen; [4] Like his lordships in Gascony and Poitou, his title of Germany never held much significance, and he made only four brief visits to Germany between 1257 and 1269.