This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

* Alphonso, Earl of Chester, first son of Edward I of England, who died at the age of ten.

The great figures of reformist Whiggery were Charles James Fox ( died 1806 ) and his disciple and successor Earl Grey.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.

His son Robert Dowland was also a musician, working for some time in the service of the first Earl of Devonshire, and taking over his father's position of lutenist at court when John died.

She married Edmund Mortimer, son of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, and died in 1413.

) He appointed as regents Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, and William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex — who soon died and was replaced by Richard's chancellor William Longchamp.

* Rhys Gryg ( died 1233 ) married a daughter of the Earl of Clare.

By Elizabeth he had four children: David II, John ( died in childhood ), Matilda ( who married Thomas Isaac and died at Aberdeen 20 July 1353 ), and Margaret ( who married William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland in 1345 ).

# Matilda ( died before 1141 ), married Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester

* William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle ( died 1179 )

* Uilleam I, Earl of Ross ( died 1274 )

* William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey ( died 1088 )

* William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey ( died 1138 )

# Ada ( died 1200 ), married Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar ( 1152 – 1232 )

In England, Earl Godwin died in 1053 and his sons were increasing in power ; Harold succeeded to his father's earldom and another son, Tostig, became Earl of Northumbria.

They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer ; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England ; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

* July 25 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician ( died 1461 )

* September – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby ( died 1594 )

* September 24 – Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, British writer ( died 1797 )

** Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman ( died 1576 )

The 7th Earl of Ormond died in 1515, leaving his daughters, Margaret Boleyn and Anne St Leger, as co-heiresses.

The establishment of the bank was devised by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, in 1694, to the plan which had been proposed by William Paterson three years before, but had not been acted upon.

He served briefly in the Northern Rebellion ( 1569 – 1570 ), and in 1585 he joined the Earl of Essex in Flanders during the Anglo-Spanish War and commanded a cavalry company, but he quit the field before seeing action.

The Earl of Oxford carrying the Sword of State before Elizabeth I in his official capacity as Lord Great Chamberlain.

* The Masque of Flowers ( performed by Gray's Inn before the King at Whitehall to honour the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard, Countess of Essex ) ( 1614 )

Both Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick were too dangerous to keep around even in captivity, and Henry had to execute them in 1499 before Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain would allow their daughter Catherine to come to England and marry his son Arthur.

The first Scottish Liberal to become prime minister was the Earl of Rosebery, from 1894 – 95, like Aberdeen before him a product of the English education system.

The saga of Harold Hardrada narrates his expedition to the East, his brilliant exploits in Constantinople, Syria, and Sicily, his skaldic accomplishments, and his battles in England against Harold Godwinson, the son of Earl Godwin, where he fell at Stamford Bridge in 1066 only a few days before Harold himself fell at the battle of Hastings.

* 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

' before falling have been that during the battle Richard was abandoned by Baron Stanley ( made Earl of Derby in October ), Sir William Stanley, and Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland.

In April, Bruce won a small victory over the English at the Battle of Glen Trool, before defeating Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke at the Battle of Loudoun Hill.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

Colts quarterback Earl Morrall threw three interceptions before being replaced by Johnny Unitas, who then led Baltimore to its only touchdown during the last few minutes of the game.

The ball bounced to Yepremian's right and he reached it before holder Earl Morrall.

The son of James II planned to invade England, but before he could do so, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, launched an invasion from Scotland, which was easily defeated.

William therefore attempted to install Robert Comine, a Norman noble, as the Earl of Northumbria, but before Comine could take up office, he and his 700 men were massacred in the city of Durham.

The British forces were led at first by the turncoat Benedict Arnold, and then by William Phillips before General Charles, Earl Cornwallis arrived in late May with his southern army to take command.

After her husband's death, Edith is said to have fled for refuge to her brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria but both men made their peace with King William initially before rebelling and losing their lands and lives.

Thirty thousand the Earl of Warren had, but he did then as wisdom did direct, all the first army being sent over before him.

He had already received Gascony as early as 1249, but Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, had been appointed as royal lieutenant the year before and, consequently, drew its income, so in practice Edward derived neither authority nor revenue from this province.

A further provocation came in a case brought by Macduff, son of Malcolm, Earl of Fife, in which Edward demanded that Balliol appear in person before the English Parliament to answer the charges.

The Essex Rebellion of 1601 has a dramatic element as just before the uprising, supporters of the Earl of Essex, among them Charles and Joscelyn Percy ( younger brothers of the Earl of Northumberland ), paid for a performance of Richard II at the Globe Theatre, apparently with the goal of stirring public ill will towards the monarchy.

Hugh Despenser the younger and Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel | Edmund Fitzalan brought before Isabella for trial in 1326 ; the pair were gruesomely executed