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NOTE ON ROHESIA DE LA POMERAI. 

 By THOS. BOND. 



In collecting evidence for my notice of Eohesia De la 

 Pomerai, sister of Reginald Earl of Cornwall, which is printed 

 in this Journal, Vol. I, 1864, pp. 31-32, I met with repeated 

 mention of " Eohesia, wife of Henry De la Pomerai" at no 

 great distance from each other in point of time. It was there- 

 fore natural to conclude that all such notices related to the same 

 person, for Eohesia is not a very common name. Nevertheless, 

 I felt, as I have before stated, that there was some obscurity 

 which required to be cleared up, because there was great difficulty 

 in determining who was Eohesia's father. The evidence showed 

 that Pohesia, wife of Henry De la Pomerai, was sister of 

 Reginald Earl of Cornwall, and it was equally proved that 

 Rohesia wife of Henry De la Pomerai was sister of Doun 

 Bardolf. Trustworthy evidence also established that Reginald 

 Earl of Cornwall and his sister Rohesia had the same mother, 

 viz., a daughter of Sir Robert Corbet, whom Dugdale* names 

 Adela. There seemed every reason to believe that Rohesia was 

 not a daughter of the king, and the only alternative therefore 

 appeared to be that her mother, who is known to have married 

 Herbert the King's chamberlain, also married Thomas Bardolf, 

 the father of Doun Bardolf. The mother of Doun Bardolf, 

 however, was undoubtedly a daughter and heir of Ralph 

 Hanselin, and it seemed therefore that Thomas Bardolf must 

 have had another wife, namely the above-mentioned daughter 

 of Sir Robert Corbet, though no mention of such is met with 

 elsewhere. 



With a view to clear up the difficulty I have again investi- 

 gated the subject, and from additional evidence which I have 

 procured, as well as from a careful calculation of dates, and 

 by weighing probabilities, I have come to the conclusion that 

 there were two Rohesias, the first being sister of Earl Reginald, 



* His addition to the Baronage in " Collectanea Topographica," p. 219-20. 



