Note 36 — FIFTH DISCOURSE (continued 2)

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◆Richilde, Countess de Hainaut, who died in 1091.

◆Hugues Spencer, or le Dépensier.

◆Jean de Hainaut, brother of Count de Hainaut.

◆Cassel and Broqueron.

◆Edward II. of Caernarvon, King of England, was the fourth son of Edward I. and Queen Eleanor. Ascended the throne 1307, and married Isabel of France the following year. A cowardly and worthless Prince, and the tool of scandalous favourites, such as Piers Gaveston. Isabel and Mortimer landed at Orwell, in Suffolk, in 1326, and deposed the King, who was murdered at Berkeley Castle, 1327.