Book 1.] THE EARL OF SURREY. 37 



him, with two hundred other persons of distinction, in the 34th 

 Edward I., when Prince Edward was also knighted with great 

 solemnity. In the last year of Edward I. his lordship was 

 in the expedition made into Scotland, wherein that victorious 

 prince died. In the 4th of the next reign, he was again in 

 Scotland, and so much in favour with Edward II. that he 

 obtained a free grant of the castle and honour of Peke, in 

 Derbyshire, with the whole forest of High Peke, to hold 

 during his life, in as full and ample manner as William 

 Peverel anciently enjoyed the same, before it came to the 

 kings of England by escheat. In the ensuing year we find 

 the Earl of Surrey, along with the Earl of Pembroke, 

 besieging Piers Gaveston, in Scarborough Castle, and forcing 

 him to surrender. He was, some years afterwards, one of 

 those who invested the castle of Pontefract, at that time held 

 by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and his adherents ; and he 

 subsequently sat in judgment upon that eminent personage. 

 In the reign of Edward III. the earl appears constantly 

 engaged in the wars of Scotland. He married ist, Joane, 

 daughter of Count de Barre, by whom he had no issue. In 

 the lifetime of this lady he cohabited publicly with Maud de 

 Nereford, a person of good family in Norfolk, but was at 

 length obliged, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to break 

 off the connection. He obtained a divorce, however, from his 

 countess, on the ground of a pre-contract with this Maud. 

 He married, subsequently, Johanna, eldest daughter and heir 

 of Malise, 7th Earl of Strathern, in Scotland, and had a 

 grant of that earldom from Edward Baliol. His wife was 

 forfeited by Robert Bruce, for marrying the Earl of Surrey. 

 He died June 30, 1347, aged sixty-one, when, as he left no 

 legitimate issue, his sister Alice, wife of Edmund Fitz-Alan, 

 8th Earl of Arundel, became his heir, and conveyed the great 

 estates of the Warrens (Plantagenets) to the Fitz-Alan family. 

 Her ladyship's son, Richard Fitz-Alan, 9th Earl of Arundel, 

 is considered to have succeeded to the Earldom of Surrey, 

 and so styled himself; but it is doubtful if he were ever 

 formally invested with that dignity. He died in 1375, and 

 was succeeded by his son and heir, Richard Fitz-Alan, Earl 



