An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . fpencer, her great-grandmother, daughter to Edmund ofLangley duke of York (u). As for Cicely duchefs of War-wick, fhe afterwards efpoufed John lord Tiptoft, earl of Wor-cefter, and dying in July, 1450, was buried in the abbey ofTewkefbury (x). Richard Nevill, fon and heir of Richard earl of Salif-bury, and grandfon of Ra
An historical and genealogical account of the noble family of Greville, : to the time of Francis, the present Earl Brooke, and Earl of Warwick : including the history and succession of the several Earls of Warwick since the Norman conquest; and some account of Warwick Castle . fpencer, her great-grandmother, daughter to Edmund ofLangley duke of York (u). As for Cicely duchefs of War-wick, fhe afterwards efpoufed John lord Tiptoft, earl of Wor-cefter, and dying in July, 1450, was buried in the abbey ofTewkefbury (x). Richard Nevill, fon and heir of Richard earl of Salif-bury, and grandfon of Ralph earl of Weftmorland, and Joandaughter of John of Gaunt duke of .Lancafter, married, as I before men-tioned, Ann, daughter of Richardearl of Warwick, and fifter to dukeHenry. Upon the death of theyoung countefs, he in right of hiswife aflumed the title of Warwick, .and obtained from king Henry VI. ^Je^i. letters patent, dated the 23d of Ear/of Hanvick. July, 1449, confirming to the faid Ann his wife, to him the faid Richard Nevill during hislife, to the heirs of this marriage, and to the heirs general ofthe faid Ann, the dignity and title of the Earldom ofWarwick, with all pre-eminences with which any of their anceftors,(j) Lehnds Itin. J. Rous. (x) r 54 ] anceflors, before the creation of Henry duke of Warwick.}had held it. After this the earl and his countefs levied a fine,XV. Trin. 28. Henry VI. by vi^hich they entailed the caftle ofWarwick, with divers lordfhips in that and fixteen othercounties, upon the ifllie of their bodies lawfully begotten,and in default thereof, upon the iffue of her, with remainderto Margaret, eldeft daughter of Richard Beauchamp late earlof Warwick, and her heirs. This Richard, now Earl of Warwick, and afterwards,on his fathers death, earl of Salifbury, is he who is fo wellknown in Englifh hiftory by the title of the Stout Earl ofWarwick, the King-maker. The power of the Warwickfamily, which had ever before been employed to mai
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