Henry FitzCount
Male 1175 - 1222
Born, Cornwall, England.
Son of Rainald Dunstanville and Beatrice Vaux. Half-brother of Sarah FitzRoy, Maud FitzRoy, Beatrice Vaux, Joan FitzRoy, Margaret Briwere, Marjorie Briwere, Isabel Briwere, Grecia Briwere, Alice Briwere and Joan Briwere.
Henry Fitz-Count or Fitz-Earl ("filius Comitis"), bastard son of Reyno
ld de Dunstanville, Earl of Cornwall, by Beatrice de Vannes, b. before 117
5, was Constable of Totnes Castle 1209; Governor of Porchester Castle 121
1; Sheriff of Cornwall, Constable of Launceston Castle, and Warden of t
he Stannaries 1215, and had, in that year, a grant of the county of Cornwa
ll from King John, to farm till the realm should be at peace. This gra
nt was renewed by Henry III, by patent dated at Gloucester 7 Feb 1216/7, w
ith the words that he should hold the same sicut Reginaldus Comes Cornub
ie pater suus illum tennit, but though he is called Earl of Cornwal
l, in a charter to the Priory of St. Nicholas, Exeter, such a grant can ha
rdly be regarded as carrying with it the Earldom. He resigned the said Co
unty to the King in 1220, when he took the cross, and d. a Crusader in 122
2. [Complete Peerage III:430]
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