<g>Earldom.</g>--“There have been divers Earls of Pembroke,” says Camden, “out of sundry houses. As for <g>Arnulph</g> of Montgomery, who first wonne it, and was afterwards outlawed, and his castellan <g>Girald</g>, whom King Henry the First made afterwards president over the whole country, I dare scarcely affirm that they were <g>Earles</g>. The first that was styled Earle of Pembroke was Gilbert, surnamed ‘Strongbow,’[367] son of Gilbert de Clare, in the time of King <g>Stephen</g>. This Gilbert, or Gislebert, de Clare, let it unto his sonne, the said Richard Strongbow, the renowned conqueror of Ireland, and descended, as Gyraldus informs us, “ex clara Clarenium familia”--the noble family of Clare, or Clarence. His only daughter, <g>Isabel</g>,[368] brought the same honour to her husband, William, surnamed the <g>Mareschal</g>, for that his ancestours had beene by inheritance mareschals of the King’s palace, a man most glorious in war and peace,[369] and protector of the kingdome in the minority of <g>K. Henry</g> the Third,[370] concerning whom this pithie epitaph is extant in Rodburne’s Annales: ‘Sum quem Saturnus,’[371] &c., which is thus done into English-- ‘Whom Ireland once a Saturn found, England a sunne to be; Whom Normandie, a Mercury, and France, Mars,--I am he.’” “After him,” continues our authority, “his five sons were successively, one after another, Earles of Pembroke; namely, William, called the younger; Richard, who, after he had rebelled against King Henry the Third, went into Ireland, where he was slain in battle; Gilbert, who, in a tournament at <g>Ware</g>,[372] was unhorsed, and so killed; Walter and Anselm, who severally enjoyed the honor but a few daies; and all dying without issue, the King invested in the honor of this earldome William de <g>Valentia</g>, his brother by the mother’s side, who had to wife Joan, daughter of Gwarin de <g>Montchensi</g>, by the daughter of the foresaid William the Mareschal.” Of this Earl Valence we read, shortly after this, that the King, solemnizing the festival of St. <g>Edward’s</g> translation, in the church at Westminster, with great state, sitting on his royal throne in “a rich robe of Baudekyn,” and the crown on his head, caused this William de Valence, with divers other young noblemen, to be brought before him, and so girt him with the sword of knighthood.