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226 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
title was carried on, until his great-grand-daughter, on the death of her
nephew, carried the title by marriage to Richard Beauchamp, Earl of
Worcester and Baron Abergavenny, whose daughter carried it into the
family of Nevill.
Elizabeth, the third daughter,
retained the honour and castle of Clare
for her portion, from whence she was better known as " the Lady
of Clare."
She married John de Burgh, the god-son and heir of the Earl of Ulster,
and brother of Maud, the wife of her brother Gilbert. John died in 1313,
in the lifetime of his father, and soon after his eldest brother, leaving one
Elizabeth married, secondly, Theobald de Verdon, by whom
son, William.
she had an only daughter, Isabel, married to Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby ;
and thirdly, she married Roger Damory
or D'Amorie.
From the year 1313 to 1321, Elizabeth de Clare spent her life at
Clare Castle, and would seem to have been a lady of much culture and
beneficence, for she was a most munificent benefactress to the college at
Cambridge, which the Chancellor Richard Badow and the University
founded in 1326. She made numerous grants to it, provided
it with a code
of statutes, and changed its name from University Hall to Clare College.
Her son William, Earl of Ulster, married Maud, daughter of Henry
Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, younger brother and heir of Thomas Earl
of Lancaster, beheaded at Pontefract. The Earl of Ulster was murdered
(1333) by Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mandeville, and others, leaving by her one
daughter, Elizabeth de Burgh and his widow married Sir Ralph Stafford.
;
Elizabeth de Burgh married Lionel, the third son of Edward III.
Born at Antwerp in
1338, where the King was keeping his Court as Vicar
of the Empire and head of the Confederate League of Germany.
Of a Flemish mother, the Prince was a true Fleming, and in due
time grew to be nearly seven feet in height, and being athletic in
proportion, was a champion of which any country might be proud.
Sandford says that he was betrothed to Elizabeth de Burgh when he was
three years old, and that the marriage actually took place when he
was fourteen (1353). He was created Earl of Ulster in right of his wife,
who died in 1363, leaving him with one child, Philippa, and was interred
in the chancel of the Augustine Friars at Clare. His father also made
him custos of the kingdom of England during his
absence from the realm,
and in 1362 created him Duke of Clarence, on which occasion he distinguished
his arms by a label of three points argent, each charged with
a canton gules, the old coat of the Clares. Four years after the death of
his wife he married Violanta, daughter of Galasius II., Prince of Milan ;
and five months after, Sandford says,
" having lived with this new wife
" after the manner of his own country, forgetting or not regarding his
" change of ayre, and addicting himself to immoderate feasting, spent and