Between 1019 and 1023 he accompanied Cnut on an expedition to Denmark, where he distinguished himself, and shortly afterwards married Gytha, the sister of the Danish earl, Ulf, who was married to Cnut's sister, Estrid.

Clarence lost faith in the earl when Warwick defected to the Lancastrians and married off his other daughter, Anne, to their prince in order to cement his new allegiance.

Hersir was the name of a man in Rígsþula whose daughter Erna married Jarl, the first earl.

The next earl, Thomas, married the daughter of John of Portugal.

The FitzAlan line ceased when Mary FitzAlan, daughter of the nineteenth earl, married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

His son Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby (?– bef. 1160 ) became the next earl and was married to Margaret Peverel.

The earl resigned his lands to Edward upon agreeing to get them back when he married Joan, as well as agreed on a dower of two thousand silver marks.

The third creation was for Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford in 1239, whose father Henry had married Maud, sister of the sixth earl.

His wife survived him and married Henry Stafford, later earl of Wiltshire.

Geoffrey married Rohese de Vere ( c. 1110-1167 or after ), daughter of Aubrey de Vere II and sister of the first earl of Oxford.

Frances ( d 1859 ) married Samuel Holland, precentor of Chichester and rector of Poynings, Sussex ( a grandson of Frances and Samuel was Thomas Erskine Holland the jurist ); Elizabeth ( d 1800 ) married her cousin Captain ( later Sir ) David Erskine, the illegitimate son of the 11th earl of Buchan ; Mary ( d 1804 ) married lawyer Edward Morris.

Again, upon the sixth Earl's death, the barony and earldom were separated ( the earldom being inherited by a distant cousin, the great-nephew of the 2nd earl ), as the barony was inherited by the Earl's daughter Katherine, who had married George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

He married, on 16 October 1735, Rebecca Samborne Le Bas ( died 16 January 1765 ), daughter and heiress of Charles Samborne Le Bas, of Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters, Lady Elizabeth ( 18 June 1739-21 January 1811, buried at Hartwell ), married on 20 June 1763 Sir William Lee, 4th Baronet, of Hartwell ( 12 September 1726-6 July 1799 ) and Lady Anne ( 1741 – 1746 ), and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively.

The eighth earl had several illegitimate children ( see below ) but never married.

Robert's son William ( 1652 – 1732 ), who married a natural daughter of Charles II, was the second earl, and, like his father, was in high favour with the Stuarts.

Their son John succeeded his grandfather as earl of Surrey ; their daughter Alice de Warenne married Edmund Fitzalan, 9th Earl of Arundel.

She married first William of Blois, second son of king Stephen, and who became earl of Warenne or Surrey.

The son John ( 1231 – 1304 ) succeeded his father as earl, while the daughter, Isabel de Warenne ( c. 1228 – 1282 ), married Hugh d ' Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel.

Constance was three times married, and each of her husbands in turn assumed the title of earl of Richmond, in conjunction with that of Duke of Brittany.

His certain daughter Helena Sverkersdotter married ( earl ) Sune Folkason of the family of Bjelbo, justiciar of Västergötland.

When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria ; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, earl of Monmouth, and gave it to Carey's sons, Henry and Thomas, after their father's death.

( 1982 ) " Geoffrey de Clinton and Roger, earl of Warwick: new men and magnates in the reign of Henry I ," in Historical Research, 60 ( 1982 ).

The earl preferred to make his peace with Henry III, which he did in 1253, in obedience to the exhortations of the dying Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln.

The young earl became a close friend of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, who was three years Essex's junior.

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The earl later rebelled against King Henry IV and after defeating the earl in the Battle of Shrewsbury, the king chased him north to Alnwick.

A far reaching dispute between Rothesay and George Dunbar, earl of March occurred when Rothesay, rather than remarrying Elizabeth Dunbar as previously agreed, decided to marry Mary Douglas, daughter of the earl of Douglas — March, enraged by this wrote to Henry IV on 18 February 1400 and by July had entered Henry's service.

By late 1404 Robert, with the aid of his close councillors Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming and Henry Wardlaw, had succeeded in re-establishing himself and intervened in favour of Alexander Stewart, the earl of Buchan's illegitimate son, who was in dispute with Albany over the earldom of Mar.

King George II, thwarted in his own favourite schemes, made overtures in 1746 to Lord Bath, but his purpose was upset by the resignation of the two Pelhams ( Henry and Newcastle ), who, after a two-day hiatus in which Bath and Carteret ( now earl Granville ) proved unable to form a ministry, resumed office at the king's request.

To counter the earl's influence, Henry bestowed Geoffrey de Clinton with a position of power rivalling that of the earl.

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The title, which became extinct on the death of his grandson, the 3rd viscount, in 1725 ( when the family estate of Monasterevan, renamed Moore Abbey, passed to his daughter's son Henry, 4th earl of Drogheda ), was re-granted in 1756 to his cousin Nicholas Loftus, a lineal descendant of the archbishop.

The young earl fought in his cousin Henry V's 1419 campaigns in France.

The latter claimed, in right of his mother Frances Ratcliffe, daughter of Henry, third baron Fitz-walter, and second earl of Sussex, the barony of Fitz-walter, and his grandson Benjamin ( d. 1679 ), on 10 February 1670, was summoned to the House of Lords by that title.

The second earl was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, Henry, 3rd Earl Grey.

During this period the earldom and the Beauchamps were elevated to the highest levels until Henry, the 14th earl was created Duke of Warwick with precedence over all except the Duke of Norfolk.

He was elected as member for Bramber for the opening session ( 1640 ) of the Long Parliament ; and in that winter he drew up a letter addressed to Henry Jermyn, afterwards earl of St Albans, advising the king to disconcert the opposition leaders by making more concessions than they asked for.

Their son John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray ( d. 1361 ) was father, by Joan of Lancaster, a daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, of John, Lord Mowbray ( c. 1328 – 1368 ), whose fortunate alliance with the heiress of John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave, by the heiress of Edward I's son Thomas, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, crowned the fortunes of his race.

From this retreat Gavin Douglas was sent by the earl to the English court, to ask for aid against the French party and against the queen, who was reported to be the mistress of the regent.

Tressilian's servant then gained access to the secret countess Amy as a pedlar, and, having hinted that Elizabeth would shortly marry the earl, sold her a cure for the heartache, warning her attendant Janet at the same time that there might be an attempt to poison her mistress.

This book, which passed through seven editions, narrates the passion of the soldier-turned-clergyman James Hackman for Martha Ray, mistress of the earl of Sandwich, who was shot by her lover as she was leaving Covent Garden in 1779 ( see the Case and Memoirs of the late Rev.