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In the Warblington design the double headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, bearing on its breast a shield charged with a lion rampant, relates to and is commemorative of Richard King of the Romans, Earl of Cornwall and Poitou, younger brother of Henry III. Whether the lion is intended to note the arms of the Earldom of Poitou. viz.argent, a lion rampant crowned, or those of Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, viz per pale, or and vert, or lion rampant gules, as Isabel first wife of Richard, and widow of Gilbert de l. Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford was daughter and eventually coheiress of William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke.
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