174 CHESTER and Earl of Chester." On 21 Mar. 1412/3 he ascended the throne as Henry V, when all his honours merged in the Crown. XVII. 1454 Edward, Duke of Cornwall, only s. and h. ap. of to Henry VI, Q b. at Westminster, 13 Oct. 1453, was, 1 47 1. by charter, dat. at Westm. 15 Mar. 1454, and con- firmed the same day in Pari., cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, " sibi et heredibus suis Regibus Anglie." He d. s.p., 4 May 147 1, when his Peerage dignities lapsed to the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1453. Richard (Plantagenet), Duke of York (whose son, in Mar. 1 460/ 1, ascended the throne as Edward IV), having obtained possession of the person of King Henry VI, was, on 25 Oct. 1460, declared by consent of Pari., heir apparent to the Crown, and, on 8 Nov. fol- lowing, Protector of the Realm, and was granted in Dec. of that year, for the King's life,() the Principality of Wales, the Counties of Chester and Flint, and the Duchy of Cornwall. It has been supposed that he thus became Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, but there was no creation of such titles, the lands being granted to him as an appanage, worth 10,000 marks />.«., to support his position as heir to the Crown. He d. 30 Dec. 1460. For fuller particulars see "York," Dukedom of, cr. 1385, under the 3rd Duke. XVIII. 1 47 1 Edward (Plantagenet), Duke of Cornwall,(') s. to and h. ap. of Edward IV, b. 2 Nov. 1470, was, by 1483. charter, 25 June 147 1, cr. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, being invested, by charter 17 July following, with the Principality of Wales and the Counties of Chester and Flint, at which latter date he was also cr. DUKE OF CORNWALL in Pari. On 9 Apr. 1483 he ascended the throne as Edward V {post conquestum), when all his honours merged in the Crown. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1470 and 1471. XIX. 1483 Edward (Plantagenet), Duke of Cornwall and to Earl of Salisbury, s. and h. ap. of King Richard III, 1484. was b. 1473, and was cr. by charter 24 Aug., and inv. 8 Sep. 1483 (under the name of " Edward, eldest son of (") Henry VI, who ascended the throne when but 9 months old, was never cr. Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. (•") Not for his own life, as stated by Courthope, and by Ramsay in his Lancaster and York, but "ad terminum vite ipsius regis." {Rot. Pari., vol. v, pp. 380-1). V.G. ("=) He was, apparently, such at his birth, both under the original creation of that Dukedom in 1337 and also by act 9 Henry V. See some explanation as to his subsequent creation by that title, under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1470.
