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CLARE. 227
" consumed with a lingering disease, he departed this life at Alba
Pompeia, " 1368."
Philippa, at whose baptism John Thoresby, Archbishop of York, had
stood godfather, was, at the death of her father, thirteen years of age,
and was married by the King to Edward Mortimer, third Earl of March,
who enjoyed, with her, the earldom of Ulster and the lordships of Clare,
Connaught, and Trim. His daughter Elizabeth was the wife of the famous
Hotspur ; and his son, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, who on his seal
styled himself also Earl of Clare, married Eleanor Holand, daughter of
Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent.
The Earl of March died in the prison at Trim, where he had been confined
for almost twenty years, on suspicion, by Henry IV., leaving no issue.
His sister, Anne, had married Richard of Coningsboro, Earl of
Cambridge, second son of Edward Langley, Duke of York, fifth son of
Edward III.
He was made Earl of Cambridge by Henry V. in the second year of
his reign; but the next year (1414) he conspired with Henry, Lord Scrope
of Masham, then Lord Treasurer, and Sir Thomas Grey, to plot the King's
death, and make his brother, Edward, Earl of March, King and
;
was
beheaded in consequence, with his fellow-conspirators, at Southampton,
and his head and body interred in the chapel of God's house. He carried
as arms : France and England quarterly, a label of three points charged
with three torteaux, within a border argent, charged with ten lions rampant,
purple marking his descent from the house of Castile and Leon.
;
By him Philippa had issue :
Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who married
Cecily Nevill, and succeeded his uncle Edward, slain at Agincourt, as Duke
of York. He was slain at the battle of Wakefield, his head placed on the
walls of York, and his titles descended to his son Edward, Earl of March,
who eventually became Edward IV., and were thus merged in the Crown.
His arms seem to have consisted of France and England quarterly,
without any border, and label of three points charged with nine torteaux.
There is a significance worth noticing in the assumption by Lionel
Plantagenet of the title of Clarence, and not Clare, for the family of Clare
used that name as their surname, and never as their title.
They became
Earls of Hereford, Gloucester, and Pembroke, but never took any rank or
title from the honour of Clare, which gave them their name. If any one
of the family was called "Comes Clarensis" (e.g.
William de Warren, Earl
of Surrey, was called " Comes Warrensis "), this meant " the Earl residing
" at Clare," and not "the Earl of Clare." Lionel of Antwerp, having married
in 1354 Elizabeth, heiress of Clare, from her grandmother Elizabeth, in 1362,
was created, probably at Edward III.'s jubilee, not Duke of Clare, but Duke
of Clarence, Dux Clarentiae, or Dux Clarensis. And the word Clarence or