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Richard married first, on 30 March 1231 at Fawley, Buckinghamshire, to Isabel Marshal (d. 1240) was the daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, by his wife Isabel de Clare, who in turn was daughter of Sir Richard "Strongbow" de Clare and Aoife MacMurrough.
The primitive travel capabilities of the day and the county's relatively large area contributed to the settlers' hardship in travel to the county seat to transact business, and became the primary reason for the county's division by an Act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1691 to form the two smaller counties. [2]
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
Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200 – 17 January 1240) was a medieval English countess. She was the wife of both Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 5th Earl of Gloucester and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (son of King John of England).
The Tri-Cities of Virginia (also known as the Tri-City area or the Appomattox Basin) is an area in the Greater Richmond Region which includes the three independent cities of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Hopewell and portions of the adjoining counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George in south-central Virginia.
Edmund de Cornwall, John's grandfather, was the eldest son of Sir Richard of Cornwall, an illegitimate son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, a very wealthy brother of Henry III who was also for a time King of the Romans. [4] Hence the entire Cornwall line could justly claim descent from King John. [5]
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]
In 1634, under the authority of Charles I of England, Virginia was divided into eight counties, or shires. [2] One of them was Elizabeth City Shire , later Elizabeth City County . [ 6 ] Originally the Shire included land on both sides of the James River but in 1636 the creation of New Norfolk County resulted in the loss of the land south of the ...