CHESTER 171 EARL OF CHESTER, and receiving, 4 Jan. 1264/5 (by proxy of his first son, Henry), the homage of the Nobles and Freeholders thereof. He was slain at the battle of Evesham, 4 Aug. 1265, his honours being forfeited, and the Earldom of Chester reverting to its former owner, as above- mentioned. See fuller particulars under "Leicester," Earldom of, 1230-65. XL 1284. AlphonsOjC) 1st surv. s. and h. ap. of Edward I, by his ist wife, Eleanor, da. of Fernando III, King of Castile, b. at Bordeaux, 24 Nov. 1273, is said to have been designated EARL OF CHESTER, in 1284. He d. an infant, 19 Aug. 1284, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey, aged 10, when his Peerage dignity, if any, became extinct. XIL 1301 Edward,(^) styled ^^oy Carnarvon," ist surv. s. and to h. ap. of Edward I, by his ist wife, Eleanor, above- 1307. named, b. 25 Apr. 1284, at Carnarvon, had a grant of the Principality of Wales and County of Chester by charter, 7 Feb. 1301, and is styled^Q') in a charter of 10 May following. Prince of Wales C) and EARL OF CHESTER, by which titles he was sum. to Pari, from 2 June 1302 to 3 Nov. 1306. He was also Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, and in May 1306 was cr. Duke of Aquitaine in France. On 8 July 1307 he ascended the throne as Edward II {post conquesMnt), when all his honours merged in the Crown. I3I2.? to 1327. XIII. 1312. EdwarDjC) styled "of Windsor," ist s. and h. ap. of Edward II, by Isabel, da. of Philippe IV, King of France, b. 13 Nov. 13 12, at Windsor Castle, is stated to have been cr. EARL OF CHESTER, 24 Nov. I3i2,('») and (*) As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet," see vol. i, p. 183, note "c." C") " We have no account of any ceremony attendant upon the creation of Edward of Carnarvon to be Prince of Wales, and Earl of Chester, but it is probable that the grant of the Principality was immediately preceded by investiture with circlet, ring, and rod for the Principality of Wales, and by the girding on of the sword for the Earldom of Chester, as we find to have been done in the case of the Black Prince; this would agree with the statement made by Matthew of Paris, that in or about the year 1300-1 the King gave to his son Edward the Principality of Wales, and also bestowed upon him the Earldom of Chester." (See Courthope, sub " Wales," p. 8). if) The Principality of Wales was, by a statute, passed at Rhuddlan, in 1284 (12 Edw. I), united to England, the Earldorn of Chester remaining entirely distinct therefrom. In 1398 (21 Ric. II) that Earldom was (as hereafter mentioned) erected into a Principality, and, though this last named act was revoked by Henry IV, the said Earldom of Chester has ever since been granted in conjunction with the Principality of Wales. if) " No record of such creation appears either upon the Patent or Charter Rolls of that year; the King, his father, however, by two several charters of that date, gave to him, by the description of 'our son Edward' {only), the counties of Chester etc. . .
