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As she is identified as ' countess ', her death presumably occurred after her husband's accession to the earldom.
Surely if he succeeds he suceeds to the earldom and barony, all the lot?
If you separate the dukedoms and the earldoms from those old families will they continue if one loses the male line descent?
The life peerage would merge in the hereditary earldom.
An earldom may come to him in due course.
Some of the very large tracts of land were lordships or earldoms.
If the fief were sold, the right passed to the purchaser, even in the case of an earldom.
But they did not have to give up the title of an earldom, marquisate or dukedom to which they might have succeeded.
In the old days, one was given a dukedom or an earldom.
He is not in fact out receiving his earldom; he is actually attending a wedding.
From-then on, all peerages were personal and ceased to be dependent upon the ownership of the lordship or earldom.
To lose a dukedom and a marquisate and to be left with only two earldoms seems like carelessness, even though it took a number of centuries to do it!
His earldom was not hereditary; it merely meant that he was the king's chief man in the county in the way that the sheriff later became.
The viscountcy was used as a courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom.
Upon his death in 1347, the earldom was extinct, and the barony became dormant.
