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DUKE SHREWSBURY

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 1016 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE See also:SHREWSBURY  ,OF See also:Abbey in Io83 . His first wife was Mabel, daughter of the seigneur of See also:Belesme and See also:Alencon; hence his son See also:Robert, who, after the See also:death of another son, See also:Hugh, succeeded to the earldoms of See also:Shrewsbury and See also:Arundel, was generally known as Robert de Belesme (q.v.), one of the most celebrated of the feudal nobles in the See also:time of See also:Henry I . Robert having been deprived of all his See also:English estates and honours in 1102, the earldom of Shrewsbury was next conferred in 1442 on See also:John, 5th See also:baron See also:Talbot, whose descendants have See also:borne the See also:title to the See also:present See also:day .

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