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natequarter · 1 year ago

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medieval/early modern history is a fun game of "Where Did That Earldom Go?" where you have to follow a chain of biography citations, genealogical trees, and wikipedia pages for old men who died childless to figure out where the hell that earldom got to, and if it even remained an earldom

#🗡️#anyway #the earldoms of surrey and nottingham came free with the dukedom of norfolk!#in the early fifteenth century that is #they found their way into the hands of richard duke of yorfolk (york and norfolk)#but richard died young thanks to a certain richard iii who shall not be named #so the titles were given to the closest living relatives of richard (the younger)'s deceased wife anne de mowbray #of whom there were two: john howard and william berkeley #both were already barons #berkeley got the earldom of nottingham #howard got the dukedom of norfolk & earldom of surrey (generally conferred upon the son of the holder of the dukedom)#howard lost his life along with his estates at bosworth but his son (and grandson) later regained the dukedom #berkeley died childless and disinherited his brother so the title reverted to the crown #henry fitzroy was given the title of earl of nottingham #he also died childless!#the title eventually made its way into the hands of... guess who?#yeah it was the howards

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