504 COMPLETE PEERAGE consanguineo nostro totum Comltatum daumarle una cum terra de Pleville in quantum se extendunt tarn in feodis nobilibus quam in membris cum pertinenciis et dependenciis suis quibuscumque infra ducatum nostrum predictum habendum et tenendum totum Comitatum et terram predicta cum omnibus pertinenciis et dependenciis suis predictis prefato consanguineo nostro et heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus de nobis et heredibus nostris imperpetuum adeo plene integre quiete et honorifice sicut Johannes nuper Comes de Harcourt eundem Comitatum daumarle et terram habuit tenuit et possedit per homagium nobis et heredibus nostris predictis faciendo et reddendo nobis et eisdem heredibus nostris unam cerotecam de plata pro dextra manu et unum vantbras pro dextro brachio ac unum gladium primo die Augusti per manus suas proprias nisi obstante impedimento sive causa racionabili et tunc vice et nomine suis per quendam militem tam ortu quam gestu nobilem et potentem singulis annis imperpe- tuum Proviso semper quod idem consanguineus noster et heredes sui predicti decem homines ad arma et viginti sagittarios ad equitandum nobiscum seu heredibus nostris aut locumtenente nostro durante presenti guerra ad custus suos proprios invenire teneantur finitaque guerra hujus- modi onera et servicia in hac parte debita et consueta faciant imperpetuum Et quod competens et sufficiens stuffura hominum ad arma et sagittariorum in castris et villis firmatis Comiti predicto pertinentibus ad ea contra hostiles invasiones et incursus tempore eminenti munienda et defendenda semper habeatur In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Castrum nostrum de Vernon super Sayne xix die Maii anno regni nostri septimo Ita signatum per ipsum Regem Sturgeon Note. — When Aumale was besieged and taken by Henry V in 141 9, Jean d'Harcourt VIII (only legitimate son of Jean VII, Count of Harcourt), was Count of Aumale and Mortain. He was slain at the battle of Verneuil, 17 Aug. 1424, aged 28, being then "Lieutenant et Capitaine General pour Monseigneur le Roy es pais de Normandie danjou et du Maine." He d. s.p. legit. Aumale was captured by the French under the Sire de Longueval in 1429, but was shortly afterwards recaptured by the Earl of Suffolk. Jean d'Harcourt VII d. s.p.m. legit., 18 Mar. 1452/3, aged 82. His elder da. (the only legitimate child who left issue), Marie, m. Antoine de Lorraine, Count of Vaudemont. The comti of Aumale was erected en diiM Pairie in July 1547 in favour of their great-great-grandson, Fran9ois, styled Monsieur d'Aumale, eldest son of Claude de Lorraine, Duke of Guise. END OF VOLUME ONE
