Feb. 28. 1852.] 



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Strongbow, was eldest son of Gilbert de Clare, 

 first Earl of Pembroke : which last was second 

 son of Gilbert de Tonebrugge. That Strong- 

 bow's father's name was Gilbert is proved from 

 a charter in which he (the father) made a grant 

 of the church of Everton to the priory of St. 

 Neot, commencing " Gilbertus, filius G. Comes 

 de Penbroc," &c. (See Dugdale.) And I find 

 this confirmed by a valuable old pedigree in the 

 possession of a member of my family (date cir. 

 1620), which was admitted as principal evidence, 

 and examined, in a successful suit in the Court of 

 Chancery, in the latter half of the last century ; 

 in which pedigree the De Clares are introduced 

 among the " prseclarlssimse affinitates." An ex- 

 tract would be needless, and occupy your valuable 

 space to no purpose. 



To account for the singularity mentioned by 

 your correspondent in the charter of Strongbow, I 

 can make but these two suggestions : either the 

 reading is correct, — in which case the true name 

 of the first Earl of Pembroke was Richard Gilbert, 

 which, I need hardly say, is possible, notwithstand- 

 ing the existence of his elder brother Richard; 

 or, the reading is incorrect, in which case the mis- 

 take probably arose from the writer, notwithstand- 

 ing he had written " Comes Ric' " previously, by a 

 natural oversight inserting it again after " fil," 

 intending to write, " Comes Ric' fil Gisleb'ti." 



It may be an admission of ignorance on my part, 

 but I am unable to find in any of the authorities 

 I have at hand, that Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, 

 was, as your correspondent states him to have 

 been, also JEarl of Chepstow. Will he be kind 

 enough to give me a reference ? 



In the above-mentioned pedigree the arms of 

 the De Clares are given down to Strongbow — or, 

 three chevrons gzdes ; while the bearing of the latter 

 is or, Jim chevrons gtdes. Burke, in his Extinct 

 Peerage, gives the arms of both the De Clares, 

 Earls of Pembroke, or three chevrons gvles, a table 

 of Jive points az. ; while in another authority. 

 Berry's Encycl., I find for the two De Clares, 

 Earls of Pembroke, two widely different coats, viz. 

 ar. on a chief az. three crosses pattee fitchee of the 

 field; and or, three chevrons gvles, a crescent az. 

 Can any of your heraldic correspondents account 

 for these various bearings ? H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



ISABEL, QUEEN OF THE ISLE OF MAN. 

 (Vol. v., p. 132.) 



Mb. Wm. Sidney Gibson has correctly referred 

 to the authority for this designation ; but it may 

 be well, before pursuing the inquiry, to place befpre 

 the reader the very words of the register of the 

 Grey Friars of London ; 



" Versus quasi medium chori jacet dominus Wil- 

 lelmus Fitzwarryn Baro, et Isabella uxor sua quondam 

 Regina Man." — Collectanea Top. et Geneal. v. 278. _ 

 Mr. Gibson has also correctly added, that in my 

 note to this entry I have not afforded any inform- 

 ation about the lady Isabel. It is true that I 

 searched for such information in vain ; and the 

 information I gave in lieu was the date of the 

 death of William Lord Fitz-Warine, viz., the 35 

 Edw. III. (1361), and the name of the lady he is 

 known from record (Ex. 22 Edw. III. no. 39.), to 

 have married, namely, Amicia, daughter and heir 

 of Sir Henry de Haddon. As there is not the 

 slightest ground for imagining that this Amicia 

 was ever " Queen of Man," it must therefore be 

 concluded, supposing that the register of the Grey 

 Friars gives a faithful reflection of the epitaph, 

 that the Lord Fitz-Warine had a second wife. 

 I am not inclined to adopt Mb. Gibson's sugges- 

 tion that this lady was Sibilla, daughter of William 

 de Montacute, first Earl of Salisbury, because the 

 lordship of Man descended to the second earl, and 

 he possessed it until the 16 Ric. II. (1393). It 

 seems therefore that the only " Queen of Man" 

 that could be the wife of William Lord Fitz- 

 Warine, must have been the widow of the first 

 Earl of Salisbury, who died in 1343. The wife of 

 that earl and the mother of his heir was Katharine, 

 daughter of William Lord Granson, as Mr. Beltz 

 gives that name, correcting the more prevalent 

 form of Grandison. The question therefore to be 

 decided is — Did this lady survive him, or did he 

 marry a second wife named Isabella ? In either 

 case, I think it is clear that the lady buried at the 

 Grey Friars was the Dowager Countess of Salis- 

 bury. Mr, Beltz has given a memoir of Sir 

 William Fitz-Warine in his Memorials of the 

 Garter, but he was not aware of the baron's con- 

 nexion with " the Queen of Man." Dying of the 

 plague on the 28th Oct. 1361, it was probably in 

 haste that his body was interred in the church of 

 the Grey Friars, and the queen may have fallen a 

 victim to the same pestilence. There is an effigy 

 in the church at Wantage which is ascribed to 

 this Lord Fitz-Warine ; and it is accompanied by 

 one of a lady, probably Amicia Haddon, on whose 

 death, some time before his own, that monument 

 may have been erected. These effigies are en- 

 graved in the series by Hollis. There is a pecu- 

 liarity attending the barony of this AVilliam Fitz- 

 Warine. He was first summoned by writ in 1342 

 [qu. if 1343, and thus after his marriage with the 

 Dowager Countess of Salisbury ? J ; and though he 

 left a son and heir. Sir Ivo Fitz-Warine, that son 

 was never summoned to parliament. A similar 

 course has been observed In other cases where the 

 title to a barony was jure uxoris, in which con- 

 dition may be included the state of the second 

 husband of a countess, there being Instances of 

 men in that position being summoned to parliament 



