BORN_SHORT ‎5 jan 1209, DIED_SHORT ‎apr 1272 Berkhamsted Castle, Great Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England‎, 63 years, BURIED_SHORT ‎ Hailes Abbey, Hailes, Gloucestershire, England
KINSHIP: 2nd son.

MILITARY: Took the Cross, 1236; Commander in Chief of the Crusaders, 1240-1241, when he entered into a truce with the Soldan of Babylon.
CHURCH: Property> Founded Hailes Abbey, co. Gloucester {Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England}, 1251.
CHURCH: Property> Founded Rewley Abbey, Oxon {Rewley Abbey, Oxfordshire, England}.
OFFICE: Constable of Wallingford Castle, 1216.
OFFICE: Lieutenant of Guienne, 1226-1227.
OFFICE: Chief Commissioner for making a truce with France, 1230.
OFFICE: Keeper of the Honour of Wallingford, 1230-1231; of the Honour of Knaresborough, 1235.
OFFICE: Lord of the forest of Dartmoor, 1239.
OFFICE: [P.C.] Privy Councillor, 1253.
OFFICE: Joint Guardian of England, 1253-1254.
ASSIGNMENTS: On an Embassy to the Emperor Friedrich, 1237.
ASSIGNMENTS: Joint Plenipotentiary to France.
ASSIGNMENTS: Ambassador to Pope Innocent IV, 1250; to Pope Alexander IV, 1259.

HONORS: Knighted, 1224/1225.
TITLES: Birthright> Prince of England.
TITLES: Assumed to have become Earl of Cornwall in or shortly before 1227.
TITLES: Count of Poitou, before 18 Aug 1225.
TITLES: Elected by the Princes of the Empire, King of the Holy Roman Empire, 13 Jan 1256/1257; crowned at Aachen, 17 May 1257; soon dispossessed and returned to England.

PROPERTY: Granted the county of Cornwall, , 1224/1225.

POLITICS: Faithful adherent of the King, his brother, against the rebellious Barons, and both were taken prisoners at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264.
FINANCES: Acquired vast estates and great wealth by farming the Mint, the Jews, etc.

DEATH: Cause> Bled for Ague
DEATH: Date> 2 or 3 Apr 1272.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION: A noble "pyamis" was erected over him at Hailes, by his widow, but has naturally long perished; tiles, however, bearing the eagle of his arms, and others bearing the "paly" coat of his 2nd wife, have been found in the Abbey: see 'The Complete Peerage', vol. 3 p. 431-432 fn. g.