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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.
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
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 ...
Richard Edgcumbe (1640–1688) Richard Edgcumbe (died 1562) Peter Edgecumbe (died 1539) Piers Edgecumbe; Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall; Charles Edward-Collins; Edward the Black Prince; John Samuel Enys
Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) Knight Banneret, of Lanherne, St. Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, was Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall. [1] Called "the most important man in the county", Sir John's monumental brass in the church at St. Columb Major in Cornwall was described by Dunkin (1882) as "perhaps the most elaborate and interesting ...
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
As Sheriff of Cornwall in 1497, Sir John was a target for the Cornish rebels under Richard Pendyn of Pendeen who attacked and 'dismantled' Tehidy, the family home.. He was created Knight of the Bath by King Henry VII in November 1501 at the time of the marriage of his son and heir, Prince Arthur to Katherine of Aragon.