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From: Kay Allen AG <>
Subject: Re: Walter de Cornwall, son of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 17:34:42 -0700


R. Battle wrote:
>
> While we're on the subject of the Cornwall family, what is the current
> consensus (if there is one) on the validity of the Howard descent from
> the same Richard, Earl of Cornwall? The purported line is as follows
> (from RD500 p. 317):
>
> 1. Richard, Earl of Cornwall (son of John, k. of England)
> 2. Richard de Cornwall (illeg. by Joan de Valletort), m. Joan ___
> 3. Joan de Cornwall, m. Sir John Howard
> 4. Sir John Howard, m. Alice de Boys
> etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Battle

There is some discussion in the archives, probably 1999, which gives a
slightly different descent.

Kay Allen AG

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