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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cantelupe, George de

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1321683Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 08 — Cantelupe, George de1886Henry Richards Luard

CANTELUPE, GEORGE de (d. 1273), son of William, the third Baron Cantelupe (d. 1254) [q. v.], is styled Baron of Bergavenny. He was knighted by Henry III in 1272, on the occasion of the marriage of Edmund of Cornwall. He was put into possession of his lands on 23 April 1273, but died the following November. His sister Joanna married Henry of Hastings.

[Dunstable Annals (Annal. Monast. iii.), 257, 259; Wykes, Id. iv. 251.]