GLENTWORTH— GLOUCESTER. 37 II. 1794. 2. Edmond Henry (Pery), Baron Glentworth op Mallow [1.], only b. h., by 1st wife, b. 8 Jan. 1758 ; sue. to the peerage [l.], 4 July 1794, and was, on 29 Dec. 1800, cr. VISCOUNT LIMERICK of the city of Limerick [I.], and on 22 Jan. 1803, cr. EARL OF LIMERICK [I.] See that dignity. GLENYLA. i.e., "Lochow and Glenyla," Viacountcy [fit] (Campbell), cr. 1701 with the Dukedom ok Argyll [S.], which see. GLERAWLY [rcctius Glenawley.] Viscountcy [I.] /. V ILL iam Annesley, b. about 1710, was cr. I 1766 20 Sep. 1758, BARON ANNESLEY OF CASTLEWELL AN, co. Down [I.], and on 14 Nov. 1766, VISCOUNT GLERAWLY, co. Fermanagh [I.] See sub Annesley of Castlewellan," Barony [I.], cr. 1758 ; Earldom [I.], cr. 1789. GLISLAND, see Gillesland. GLOSSOP. See " Howard of Glossop, co. Derby," Barony (Fitzalan-Howard), cr. GLOUCESTER. ( a ) [Sweyn, the last Saxon "Eorl" of Gloucester died 1053, and "what was called the honour of Gloucester was enjoyed by a Saxon named Bithric," at the time of the Norman Conquest, after which it was conferred on Matilda, the Queen Consort, who d. possessed of it in 1088. About 10 years later, her s. and h., King William II., appears to have conferred the Earldom (and probably the honour) as under.] Earldom. " "William Fitz-Eustaoe, Earl op Glouciester "( b ) was I. 1093 presumably, William, s. of Eustace, Count op Boulogne (and br. to to ' Godfrey of Boulogne, King of Jerusalem), by his first wife Goda, da. of ■■ nQ , Ethelred II., King of England, which William was not improbably WJi - or. in the Spring of 1093, EARL OF GLOUCESTER. He was, about 1094, "slain between Cardiff and Brecknock by the Welsh- men," when his honours reverted to the crown. ( n ) The Earldom of Gloucester (" in all probability " says Mr. Round " almost the only Earldom created in the course of the reign, 1100-1135, of Henry I "), has been treated of both by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A., in 1851 (Archceol Institute [Bristol proceedings] 1853, pp. 65—79), by J. R. Planch6 (Somerset Herald) in 1869 (Arcnceol. Association [Glouc. proceedings] vol. xxv. pp. 26—42), and, as to the date of creation of the first Earl by J. Horace Round, in Selby's " Genealogist" (1887) vol. iv. pp. 129 — 140 and 204—213. Mr. Nichols observes that its " descent is chiefly remarkable for the number of families thro' which the dignity passed in dependance upon the rights or pretensions of female inheritance, for in the course of 2£ centuries, it was transferred either seven or eight times in consequence of such claims." (t>) See Dr. Powell's continuation of Lloyd's "Description of Wales" pub. 1584, and confirmed (.quoad hoc), by Vincent as quoted by Mr. Planche in his "Earls of Gloucester," where the arguments in favour of the existence of this Earl are fully gone into and are very fairly conclusive, notwithstanding that be is said to have been a leader in the first crusade in 1096 {i.e., two years after the date assigned to his death), so that either such date of death, such leadership or possibly such identity of this William, with William, the son of Eustace, Count of Boulogne must be erroneous.
