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Chwiliwch trwy dros 450 o deitlau a 1.2 miliwn o dudalennau

Irrjamifi Camhr^eli THIRD SERIES, No. XXIV.—OCTOBER, 1860. THE EARLS, EARLDOM, AND CASTLE OF PEMBROKE. No. VIII. THE HOUSE OF VALENCE. (Continued from p. 195.) The last section of this history described the division of the inheritance of the Mareschals, Earls of Pembroke, and the consequent destruction of a great baronial power; we are next to see by what successive steps even a larger estate was established in the descendants of their second coheir, by the successive absorption of the houses of Valence, Munchensy, Fitz-John, Vesci, Flamvile, Bani¬ ster, Huntingdon, Braose, Briwere, Cantelupe, Leybourn, Manny, and Brotherton, and their accumulation upon the family of Hastings. This estate, however, from the frequent minorities of its owners, was never obnoxious to the crown, down to the time when it also in turn was dismembered upon the extinction, in 1390, of the eldest of the many lines of the house of Hastings. Upon the death of Earl Anselm Mareschal, in 1245, and the dispersion of his inheritance, the elder coheirs were favourably regarded, as has been shown, in the distribution of the dignities, Maud having the office of Mareschal, and the husband of the daughter of Joan Mareschal the earldom of Pembroke. Before, however, we reach this event, it will be proper ARCH. CAMB., THIRD SERIES, VOL. VI. 2 L