Richard’s son was earl of Ulster and lord of Clare in right of his mother. The sons of Edw. III.—Clarence, Gaunt, Edmund Langley, and Thomas of Woodstock—were all allied to founders of Cambridge colleges (see Tables I, II, III). Scrope’s brother Stephen was chancellor of the university; see p. 94, 94 n.
[427] “In all which time, you, and your husband Grey, were factious for the house of Lancaster.” Richard III. Act i. scene 3.
[428] Pembroke held by the Clares, Mareschalls, Valence, Hastings. Huntingdon by David of Scotland and Malcolm the Maiden, by Hastings, and Grey. Buckingham by Stafford and Villiers. Suffolk by Pole, Brandon, Grey, and Howard. Leicester passed from the Beaumonts to the de Montforts, from the earls of Lancaster to John of Gaunt, the Dudleys and the Sidneys (p. 42 n.).
[ [429] From her, her grandson Mortimer Earl of March derived the title of Earl of Ulster.
[430] Cowper was not himself at Cambridge, but he lived near by and frequently visited his brother a fellow of Benet College.
[431] Langley and Langham were both names known at Cambridge in early days.